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.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their caliphate across Iraq. Residents near Mosul told Assyrian website Ankawa the militants’ plan to blow up the walls of Nineveh, which date back to almost 700 B.C.
A YouTube account believed to be affiliated with jihadist groups uploaded a video of two Italian women kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jabhat al-Nusra in August in Syria. The women beg their government to secure their release.
The year 2014 saw the death of at least 90,000 people as a result of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq brought on by ISIS jihadists, more than double the figure for 2013. According to reports, at least 76,000 were killed in Syria and another 15,000 in Iraq.
A study on relationships in America finds that one in five married people in America (20%) have not had sex in the last month, 12% in the last three months and 6% have not had sex in more than a year. On average, married Americans reported having sex 1.2 times per week, or just about five times a month.
The United States has reportedly aborted an effort to rescue a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State near Raqqa, Syria– the proclaimed “capital” of the Islamic State.
With the worldwide drop in oil prices, Venezuela has slipped into another recession. Now experts warn the country’s already high levels of inflation could skyrocket next year.
Dean Parker, a 49-year-old grandfather and resident of sunny West Palm Beach, Florida, has decided to make a dramatic lifestyle change and fight against the Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihad in Iraq and Syria.
Islamist terror group Boko Haram now controls about twenty percent of Nigeria, The New York Times reported this week. The land grab amounts to over 70,000 square miles of territory, which is between about two and six times the square miles of land reportedly held by the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
Chikungunya, a virus hailing from Africa and spreading rapidly in the Caribbean and South America earlier this year, may have just become an even bigger problem for Brazil, just as that nation’s summer is set to begin.
In his New Year’s Day greeting to the tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square on Thursday, Pope Francis called for 2015 to be a “year of peace” and expressed his hope that “there may never again be wars. No more wars!” he said.
Mrio Cuomo is being remembered for many things, both good and bad, but the one that sticks most firmly in the minds of many Catholics is his famous articulation of a Catholic politician’s ability to be “personally opposed” to certain unjust activities without having to impose his views on others.
(Reuters) – Falling world oil prices will hurt countries across the Middle East unless Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, takes action to reverse the slump, Iran’s deputy foreign minister told Reuters.
(AFP) Iran is to help Iraq rebuild its army under an agreement that could formalize Tehran’s military support for its neighbor, which remains under assault by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group. No details of the pact
SINUI ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — He ran the first chance he got.
(Reuters) – Somalian al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the town of Baidoa on Friday morning, killing at least seven soldiers, a Somali military official said.
In drama on the high seas, the Italian coast guard has rescued two large merchant ships in the Mediterranean, packed with migrants from Syria, Eritrea, and Africa.
An African virus has been spreading inside the USA via Central America and the Caribbean, and according to authorities it appears that this invader isn’t going away any time soon.
A North Korean defector turned South Korean-activist announced on Wednesday that he is planning to launch approximately 100,000 balloons carrying copies of the controversial film The Interview into North Korea by air. The controversial film unveils a covert plan to
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited his Syrian troops in Jobar to discuss the damage various anti-government factions have done to the state. Speaking just northeast of Damascus as the beleaguered country entered its fourth year of a civil war, he had little hope to offer his troops.
Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, a United States spy sentenced to 25 years in prison in Cuba for espionage, would call his parents every day from deep within the Cuban penal system. Then, one day in mid-December, the calls stopped, and President Barack Obama announced that Sarraff was safely on American soil. Since his alleged release, however, his family and friends have not heard from him and are demanding to know whether he is, indeed, free.
Iran’s “morality police” arrested nine Christians on Christmas Day, presumably for celebrating the seminal holiday, though authorities did not give reason for the arrest. Heavily armed agents transferred the nine people to an unnamed location.
Hot off the heels of releasing a guide on how to properly handle sex slaves, the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun distributing a handbook titled Sister’s Role in Jihad, designed to teach women how to properly indoctrinate their children to fully commit to the cause of jihadist terrorism.
HarperCollins, a preeminent world-wide publishing company, had originally planned to sell atlases to schools in the Middle East with Israel removed from the map. In that edition, only Gaza and the West Bank would exist.
The Hong Kong protests ended in mid-December, but the protestors vowed that they would be back. The protests in Hong Kong in 2014 were in reaction to China’s move to reign in on democracy in the region by mandating that candidates for future elections of the Chief Executive (Hong Kong’s Top Leader) be vetted first by China.
A recent Washington Times piece suggests that President Obama has found a convenient ally in Pope Francis because of the latter’s interest in climate change and his “soft” economics, which seems to converge with points of the democratic platform. At the same time, The Hill reports that Francis is driving a wedge between the Catholic Church and the GOP.
