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.
Following months of questionably legal military behavior in eastern Ukraine and over the Baltic states, government officials in Moscow are expressing concern to United Nations Secretary General Ban-ki Moon regarding reports that Israel launched an airstrike near Damascus, Syria. “Moscow
Quiet allegations of Iranian cheating on its interim nuclear agreement are fueling speculation in the Israeli press that Israel may be preparing to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, reports the Algemeiner. The official position from Washington has
Skokie, Illinois – Over 200 Jews, Christians and Hindus from the Chicago area gathered at Ezra Habonim/Niles Township Jewish Congregation in the northern suburb of Skokie to raise awareness and humanitarian aid for the Yazidi population under attack from the Islamic State of
A new book by Bonnie Weinstein claims that Christians are capable of writing some nasty letters. Her book—You Can Be a Good Speller or a Hater, But You Can’t Be Both–is filled with what she claims are authentic letters from
NATO and the United States monitored more Russian jets in the Baltic region on Saturday and Sunday. Reports of Russian jets flying threateningly close to the Baltic states have become a near-weekly occurrence, yet NATO regularly issues concerns and warnings
Last week, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a ban on Australians traveling to Syria’s Raqqa province, which is held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). It is the first time Bishop used the powers invested to her under the terrorism laws.
Ex-KGB agent Boris Karpichkov claims Russia ordered famed spy Anna Chapman to seduce NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in an effort to keep him in Moscow and tear out American secrets. A marriage would give him citizenship and would make him
Pope Francis has sent a recorded video message to Christian refugees in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, which Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, France, delivered personally on Sunday. The Pope told the refugees that he would
Patriarch Louis Sako, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, has said that the U.S.-led bombing campaign is insufficient to defeat Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, “especially when there are no troops on the ground providing assistance.” Not long ago,
NEW YORK (AP) — A knife-wielding man stabbed an Israeli student in the head inside a synagogue at the Brooklyn headquarters of an international Jewish organization early Tuesday before being fatally shot by police after refusing to drop the knife,
(Reuters) – A policeman was killed while on duty southwest of the Bahraini capital Manama on Monday in what authorities described as a “terrorist” attack using a bomb made by Hezbollah. The Interior Ministry gave few details of the incident
(Reuters) – United Nations sanctions monitors have said photographs taken inside Iraq appear to confirm that the head of Iran’s elite military Quds Force, one of Iran’s most powerful people, has been in the country in violation of a U.N. travel ban.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Islamic State fighters have lost the initiative in Iraq and are now “on defense” with far less ability to generate the kind of ground maneuvers that enabled the extremists to capture large chunks of Iraq earlier
This post originally appeared on Bloomberg: China is preparing to arm its stealthiest submarines with nuclear missiles that could reach the U.S., cloaking its arsenal with the invisibility needed to retaliate in the event of an enemy strike. Fifty years after China
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Canada and Britain close their Cairo Egypt embassies over security concerns State of Palestine joins the International Criminal Court Canada and Britain close their Cairo Egypt embassies over security concerns British Embassy in Cairo
There will be up to 1,000 more U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan after the end of this year, potentially raising the total to 10,800 instead of the 9,800 that President Obama said would be there by the beginning of 2015, outgoing
Most of the 275 inmates who escaped this weekend from a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, after the facility was attacked by gunmen, remain at large. Although the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and al-Qaeda-linked
The Al-Nusrah Front, the main al-Qeada affiliate in Syria, has released photos that it claims shows a United Nations armored vehicle being used to carry out a suicide car bomb attack against the Bashar Assad regime, reports The Long War Journal.
Late on Thanksgiving eve, with no one paying attention, the Obama administration released its regulatory road map of thousands of regulations for 2015. Within the bundle of more than 3,000 regulations lies a rule on ozone that President Obama himself
More independent media in Russia face outages due to their unwillingness to toe the Kremlin line. Independent station Rain TV (TV Dozhd) lost its first office in January and was kicked out of its second office over the weekend. The
In another move that will surely generate controversy and conversation within Iraq’s sectarian political environment, over the weekend, former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki blamed the Kurdish leadership for “masterminding” the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group’s takeover of the city
While Israel remained silent about its role in an alleged air raid into Syria on Sunday near Damascus, Syrian opposition sources maintained that an Israeli attack destroyed a storage facility holding anti-aircraft missiles and drones belonging to Hezbollah, reports The
The Ukrainian Parliament has begun work on a bill that would ban “communist,” “Nazi,” “anti-Ukrainian” ideologies, and the functioning of any communist parties within the state. The bill has been tabled while the government expands other programs to fight Putinist
Kurdish news outlet Rudaw is reporting that high-ranking Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) commander Abu Abdullah Kosovoi was killed by a roadside bomb on Sunday inside of Mosul, Iraq. The Mosul Brigades, a group of ordinary citizens fighting against the Islamic State, are allegedly
In an extensive interview Sunday, Pope Francis said that much of the unrest generated by the recent Vatican marriage summit came from people only reading “some news in a newspaper, or an article,” rather than reading what the synod actually
