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.
Interpol (The International Criminal Police Organization) has requested the arrest of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and global Sunni Islamist diaspora, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whose radical past includes praising suicide bombers against innocents as martyrs and describing Nazi
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. and NATO closed their combat command in Afghanistan on Monday, more than 13 years after invading the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to target al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
Pope Francis has flatly denied that same-sex marriage was an issue at the recent Vatican marriage summit. “Nobody mentioned homosexual marriage at the synod,” the Pope said in an interview Sunday. “It did not cross our minds.” The Pope suggested
Numerous reports have surfaced that, in addition to selling oil and Yazidi sex slaves on the black market, the Islamic State terrorist group has begun selling the organs of young, dead jihadis and assorted captives to generate more income for
A Swiss hostage kidnapped by Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf escaped this weekend using only a knife to fight his captors after government forces fired upon the radical Islamists. Lorenzo Vinciguerra, 49, was kidnapped alongside his friends Ewold Horn and
Last month, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. had reached an historic deal with China on climate change, according to which the U.S. would decrease carbon emissions more rapidly and China would stop growing its emissions 15 years from
LONDON (AP) — Egyptian officials increased security Sunday around the British Embassy in Cairo, which was closed to the public because of security fears. Other Western governments warned their citizens of heightened danger in the Egyptian capital. Britain’s Foreign Office
In its last significant act, the Democrat leadership of the U.S. Senate plans to release a long-delayed report of the Intelligence Committee detailing the techniques used by the government to interrogate terror detainees in the years following the 9/11 attacks.
(AFP) Seventy Ethiopian migrants have drowned after their boat sank near the entrance to the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said. The boat capsized off the port city of Al-Makha, near the Strait of
(Reuters) – Mexican authorities on Sunday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members. Attorney General
Pakistani forces neutralized a Saudi Arabian-born and U.S.-raised senior al-Qaeda commander, Islamabad military officials said Saturday. The 39-year-old jihadist, Adnan el Shukrijumah had previously been charged with attempting to bomb New York City’s subway system and explode fuel pipelines at
In an interview Sunday, Pope Francis weighed in on a recent Pew Research Center study documenting the shift of many Latin Americans away from the Catholic Church and toward Pentecostal Protestant churches. The study showed that despite the “Francis Factor,”
(Reuters) – A quiet student at Kabul University, 25-year-old Abdul Rahim has a dream: to join Islamic State in Syria and fight for the establishment of a global caliphate – a new, alarming form of radicalism in war-weary Afghanistan. “When hundreds of foreigners,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria claims Israel’s warplanes strike near Damascus Egypt continues building buffer zone on Sinai border with Gaza Bank of International Settlements warns of ‘fragile’ and ‘sensitive’ markets Syria claims Israel’s warplanes strike near Damascus
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause “violence and deaths” abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said
Republican House members who voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) broke the 2010 GOP Pledge to America. Under a section entitled “Read the Bill” in the Pledge to America that Republicans penned up in 2010, the GOP
The Obama administration released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement as refugees amid the president’s renewed efforts to close down the facility. Upon taking office, President Obama pledged to close down the U.S. military
On December 5, Saudi-born US Naval engineer Mostafa Ahmed Awwad was arrested for allegedly passing secrets about the new Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier to an undercover FBI agent and also for discussing ways the carrier could be sunk with
This story originally appeared at The Daily Beast: Nazi Alois Brunner’s confirmed death in Damascus reveals an uncomfortable truth: Egypt and Syria have long ties to Nazi Germany and long provided sanctuary to fugitive war criminals. When most of us
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Britain will open a new military base in Bahrain Obama orders 1000 more troops for Afghanistan Britain will open a new military base in Bahrain The base will be an expansion of Bahrain’s Mina
Members of Israel’s secular elite–including renowned authors and former diplomats–have signed a letter that encourages European parliaments to recognize a Palestinian state. The letter, which was reportedly sent to the Belgian parliament on Sunday, comes after deadly Palestinian terror attacks,
This article was originally published by Reuters. (Reuters) – More than 50 World War Two veterans will gather in Honolulu on Sunday to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that left more than 2,000 Americans
Russian President Vladimir Putin is launching an aggressive campaign to control more of the Arctic’s oil-rich territories in response to plummeting oil prices. With a nation for whom oil represents 20% of its GDP, control of the Arctic would allow
Marseille, France’s second-largest city, has come heavily under fire by human rights groups over a proposed plan to force homeless individuals to wear a yellow triangle, which would include identification and medical information. The triangles, critics argued, were far too
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi announced Saturday that three top former officials of the Vatican Bank are being charged with embezzlement and that their bank assets totaling 16 million euros have been seized. Former Vatican Bank President Angelo Caloia, its
