Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis denied rumors that he is a teetotaler, drinking only mate tea, an herbal infusion typical of certain Latin American countries. “I’m not a teetotaler,” he said. “I drink a little wine from Italy and other countries from around the world. But just a little.” The Pope’s grandfather, in fact, was winemaker of Piedmontese origin.
(Reuters) – Pakistani security forces have arrested a man they believe is the commander of the Islamic State group in the country as well as two accomplices involved in recruiting and sending fighters to Syria, intelligence sources said on Wednesday.
Islamic State jihadists are using Sharia courts to dole out barbaric punishments against educated women, children, and other civilians, the United Nations (UN) human rights office has found.
(Reuters) – Splits within the Taliban, and doubts over whether its elusive leader is even alive, are driving a growing number of militant commanders in Afghanistan and Pakistan towards Islamic State (IS) for inspiration.
Leader of Germany’s anti-Muslim Pegida movement resigns over Hitler photo; Yemen’s president accepts Houthi demands, possibly resolving crisis
Jihadi terrorists are at a “high level of readiness” to attack Britain, the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said. Mr Hammond told BBC Radio 4 there was a “very high level of risk” to the country. He was speaking ahead
Israel’s Army Radio, via the Jerusalem Post, reports that local sources claim U.S. President Barack Obama arranged the leak of a Mossad report on the Iran nuclear talks as an act of revenge against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for agreeing to speak to Congress in February about radical Islam and the Iranian threat. The Mossad report allegedly suggests new sanctions would cause talks to collapse, and its release is calculated to suggest disagreement with Netanyahu.
A dozen former French soldiers have joined up with jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, a French official claimed this week, raising concerns about radicalisation of soldiers within the French Armed Forces. A source within the country’s ministry of defence
Kenyan police used tear gas on primary schoolchildren who were protesting in the nation’s capital city of Nairobi on Monday.
In a new video, a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau took responsibility for the massacre in Baga, Nigeria, in early January, claiming that God told them to do it. Local officials and human rights groups put the death toll at 2,000, but the Nigerian army reported only 150 deaths.
It’s possible Emerson was actually thinking of Bradford, where Muslims exercise cultural dominance and there have been controversies involving sharia law.
A recent controversy on FOX News following the Islamist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has rekindled a debate over the existence of “no go” areas in France and Britain, allegedly controlled by Muslims and off-limits to whites and Christians. Those areas exist, as ample research and video evidence proves.
Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece, American Sniper, has shattered box office records and touched a chord in movie audiences across the country. The film has also unleashed an unbecoming waft of snarkiness from a pair of Hollywood insiders— Seth Rogan and Michael
WASHINGTON — Obama’s State Department wants to keep the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital open for as long as possible, but the Pentagon is pushing for an evacuation before the situation worsens.
Seventeen people have been wounded after a Palestinian Muslim radical went on a stabbing spree against civilians riding a public transportation bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday.
In a move that would have delighted Andrew Breitbart, a prominent British historian is using the internet to overthrow mainstream media’s monopoly by producing his own 96-part documentary series on YouTube.
Ben Norton, who has written and interned for the far left-wing Think Progress blog, sat down with Iran’s state-run Fars News to discuss how “Israel is the Master of Racism and Dehumanization.” In the interview, Norton talks about how “The
The websites of at least 40 towns and cities in northern Navarre, Spain, were hacked yesterday and replaced with pro-Islamic State messages and a promise that Allah “would destroy all with his wrath.”
“As a new generation of veterans comes home, we owe them every opportunity to live the American Dream they helped defend,” said President Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address on Tuesday night. He praised a national campaign organized by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden for helping “nearly 700,000 veterans and military spouses get new jobs,” asserting that “already, we’ve made strides” to improve life for veterans in America.
Breitbart News has found that in several areas throughout Europe places officially or unofficially deemed “no-go” zones often have largely unassimilated Islamic populations where the host country’s laws are difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.
White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett tells CNN that President Obama is personally engaged with the situation inn Yemen, and is in close contact with the men and women in the U.S. embassy there. “Having a presence there is very important,” she said acknowledging the risks to the people who served in all U.S. embassies.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news that House Speaker John Boehner had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress, calling it a “departure from protocol.”
Just days after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, a band of five young immigrants desecrated a statue of the Virgin Mary at the parish of San Barnaba in the Italian city of Perugia, breaking it and urinating on it.
For years, both European and American journalists have been reporting on the increasing lawlessness of certain cultural enclaves in nations like France and the UK, where growing Muslim populations have begun imposing their own Sharia law over that of their respective states. But only now, in light of public shaming from the left and a lawsuit threat from the mayor of Paris, has Fox News not only retracted statements aired on its network about the areas (popularly dubbed “no-go zones”), but has apologized four times.
It is not unusual for U.S. presidents to reference the pope in their State of the Union addresses. President Obama’s decision to quote Pope Francis in Tuesday’s address follows on Lyndon Johnson’s citation of Pope Paul VI in 1968 and Bill Clinton’s reference to Pope John Paul II in 2000.
