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.
Fox News apologizes for misreporting on ‘no-go zones’ in Europe; Swiss franc revaluation panics East European currency markets; Troops and police spread across Europe, in fear of terror attacks; Thousands in Muslim countries protest cartoon depiction of Mohammed; Barack Obama describes an American advantage over Europe
Jurgen Todenhofer, the first Western reporter to embed with Islamic State fighters and not be killed in the process, spoke to Al Jazeera about his time with the terror group.
In Sunday’s Mass in Rizal Park, Manila, Pope Francis told the throng of some 6 million that the devil’s lies are the greatest threat to God’s plan for our lives. “Often he hides his snares behind the appearance of sophistication, the allure of being ‘modern,’ ‘like everyone else,’” the Pope said.
Germany’s anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement said it has cancelled a planned march on Monday, citing a death threat against organisers from the Islamic State jihadist group.
Though the final figures are not yet in, reports estimate that some six million people attended Pope Francis’ Mass is Manila on Sunday, making it one of the largest gatherings in human history.
Washington, D.C. — The Center For Security Policy held a Press Conference on Friday at Washington D.C.’s National Press Club to commemorate the release of its “Secure Freedom Strategy For Victory Over the Global Jihad Movement.”
Bostonian John Howard broke Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s nose and sent him down on a body shot in a sparring session. He felt bad about it at the time. He doesn’t now.
The Islamic State terrorist group has released new images through its social media outlets of a series of gruesome executions in Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq. Two men are seen crucified, a woman stoned to death, and two men thrown off a tall building for “sodomy.”
In a move that some are describing as purely symbolic, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into war crimes committed by Israel during the summer 2014 Gaza war.
At least three people have been killed and six churches attacked in Niger amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek authorities have detained several people for questioning in connection with the foiled Islamist plot to attack Belgian police, Greek police said on Saturday.
During the weekend, riots broke out throughout the Islamic world in demonstration against the recent publication of a Muhammad cartoon by France’s Charlie Hebdo, several of which resulted in death and destruction.
French authorities arrested Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi in 2005 for his participation in a plot to bring jihadists into Iraq. A court found him guilty in 2008, but in a video resurfacing in light of this month’s attack, he proclaims his innocence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a treaty with South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, that will effectively annex the region to Russia early next week. The Treaty of Alliance and Integration allows Moscow to control its foreign policy, border, and security.
A Saudi Arabia-funded institute for interreligious dialogue in Vienna has ignited controversy among politicians and citizen groups alike. Austrian politicians have publicly asked how Saudi Arabia can have a dialogue center in Vienna and simultaneously persecute free speech activists in their own country.
Ghana’s President John Mahama has said he and other African leaders will discuss plans next week to “deal permanently” with Boko Haram militants.
A significant exodus of Jews from France is underway. It began long before the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the killing of innocent Jews at a kosher grocery store, but those events may well inspire further relocation. Scott Ott at PJ Media compiled the emigration figures into a graph, and its rocket-like ascent after 2012 is impossible to miss.
At a joint press conference at the White House with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama warned Europe to better integrate its Muslim immigrants to help avoid terrorist attacks such as those France suffered last week.
A shortage of women in China– triggered by a cultural desire for rearing boys and the state-imposed one-child policy, has created a fertile market for the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar (the former Burma). Women and girls are trafficked for both forced marriage and adoption.
It all started when a University alumnus made a $3 million dollar donation to fund the position of Director of Islamic Studies at Duke University. Bettye Martin Musham, who gifted the Islamic Studies Center with the vast sum of money, said that she was convinced that it was the right thing to do after hearing a lecture on the meaning of jihad. Musham said that she and her husband would later become “hooked with the importance of Islam.”
As protests spread across Pakistan, a rally in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi turned into a violent clash with police. In the chaos, a photographer working for Agence France-Presse was shot.
Saudi Arabian authorities publicly beheaded a woman in the holy city of Mecca after a court convicted her of sexually abusing and murdering her stepdaughter. The kingdom has executed nine people only two weeks into the new year.
Radical UK imam Anjem Choudary has made a name for himself as one of the most publicity-friendly radical Islamists in the West, semi-regularly calling for the imposition of Sharia law on Fox News’ Hannity, recently, condemning the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Muhammad on the pages of USA Today.
On January 15, the United States confirmed it is sending approximately 400 soldiers to train the “moderate” Syrian opposition.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, often mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for president, will address the Henry Jackson Society in London on Monday, speaking about foreign policy, terrorism, and immigration.
