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.
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times: In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain (an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf and home to the U.S. Navy’s
The Associated Press has followed up their report on a USAID social media project that attracted 40,000 Cuban users with a report on an even more ambitious human rights experiment: a plan by the agency to infiltrate and promote anti-communist
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper announced this week that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, under whose rule thousands of political prisoners were forced into squalid conditions and thousands more were forced to fight in communist wars in Africa, was this year’s recipient
“Piles of bodies, overwhelmed medical personnel and exhausted burial teams” greeted Ebola teams from the capital upon visiting the eastern mining district of Kono, Sierra Leone, reports the Associated Press. With a spike in deaths blamed on dangerous traditional burial
The Islamic State terror group has put a price on the severed body of deceased American James Foley, asking for $1 million dollars in order to deliver his remains. BuzzFeed reports that three ISIS middlemen have reached out to the
On December 11, French forces in northern Mali killed Ahmed al Tilemsi, a jihadi wanted by the US. Tilemsi helped found the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA). According to Reuters, French colonel Gilles Jarron said French
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISISL) has released a new video showcasing a children’s training camp around Damascus, Syria, in which children are seen practicing combat on each other and being beaten. The training in this video was more brutal than previous
Swiss authorities have decided to let returning an Islamic State jihadist back into Switzerland with a slap on the wrist. The threat posed by returning jihadists has deeply concerned Western intelligence and law-enforcement agencies due to worries they may launch terror
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed Thursday to authorize the ongoing U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State terror group. However, the measure prohibited the use of ground troops in the mission to defeat ISIS. The authorization passed in a 10-8
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will name a batch of new cardinals in February, a year after his last set of appointments to the select group that counsels the pope and eventually gathers to elect his successor. Last
The CIA director took issue with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for not interviewing CIA officers during its investigation on the agency’s enhanced interrogation tactics (EITs), indicating that as a result a partisan investigation was unveiled. “Our hope
(Reuters) – Afghanistan does not have enough money to pay salaries this month and has asked aid donors for a bailout before the end of the year, the treasury chief told Reuters on Thursday. “Salaries are our priority,” Alhaj Mohammad Aqa said,
(Reuters) – As the dust settles on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy ‘Occupy’ protests, China is likely to embark on a sweeping but covert campaign across the territory’s judiciary, media and universities to ensure there is no recurrence, activists and politicians say. The surprisingly
(Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects “took things out of context” and made false accusations.
(Reuters) – Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Israeli embassy in Athens with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in the early hours of Friday, police said, but no injuries or damage were reported. Four people on two motorcycles fired shots at
In a message to the UN Climate Change Conference winding down in Lima, Pope Francis said that “there is a clear, definitive and urgent ethical imperative to act” to combat climate change. “The consequences of environmental change,” Francis said, “which
This article originally appeared in the New York Times: While much of the world has been focused on the rise of the Islamic State, another proto-Islamic state has been waging a campaign of terror while dreaming of a caliphate in
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Palestinians threaten to halt security coordination with Israel Palestinian Authority decides on actions following death of Ziad Abu Ain Palestinians threaten to halt security coordination with Israel Funeral for Ziad Abu Ain in Ramallah
(UNITED NATIONS)–In a paper published just last month, the UN Children’s Fund has asserted that “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are now protected categories in international human rights law. UNICEF calls for the striking down of any and all laws
In November alone, those who claim to be Islam’s Sunni holy warriors killed 5,000 people in the name of their God, according to a BBC study. The study found that in November, 5,042 people were murdered in 664 separate jihadi
A new manual, allegedly published by the Islamic State’s official publishing house (the Al-Himma Library), provides graphic details on how to properly beat, rape, and fail to impregnate female slaves, offered in a question-and-answer format to curious jihadis. Translated by
A study conducted by IBM in India has found that old laptop batteries (e-waste), deemed useless by most accounts, still possess enough juice in them to power homes in the slums of India and other economically-disadvantaged regions. If executed properly,
In her article explaining why Time honored Ebola medical workers as their Person of the Year in 2014, managing editor Nancy Gibbs describes the workers’ weapons as “bleach and a prayer.” No description could be more apt, as a great
The Left is feeling pretty good about itself right now. After the disappointment of the 2014 midterms, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s release of the CIA “torture report” has given liberals a feeling of moral superiority, even as they lose their senatorial majority.
Several members of the intelligence community and military have fired back against the Democrat-led CIA “torture” report, with former high-ranking officials, officers, and operators describing the document as one that is “partisan” “one-sided,” will offer our enemies critical knowledge, and
