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.
(Reuters) – The United States is preparing to increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a gap left in the NATO mission by other contributing nations, according to three sources with direct knowledge of
Some of the weapons recently supplied to the Iraqi forces by U.S. taxpayers have already ended up in the hands of Islamic State jihadist, reports The New York Times. That is a testament of the entrenched corruption in Iraq’s
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens’s new book, America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, presents the dangers of an isolationist foreign policy and prescribes a solution for bringing America back to the forefront of
The report rocketed around the Internet, trading in equal parts outrage and glee–outrage that the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF might be spiking tetanus shots of poor African women with a sterilizing vaccine, glee that they’d been caught. Doubts
An analysis of UN human rights reporting just released by the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam) shows that Western Europe has put gay rights in the developing world front and center in tackling human rights issues at the UN.
The Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) terror group has released a new video called “The Blood of Jihad Part 2,” which showcases the training of child soldiers at an undisclosed location in Iraq. The video shows dozens of pre-adolescent boys being given training
17-year-old Londoner Silhan Ozcelik boarded a train to Europe with a male friend in October, never to see her family again. Now, authorities suspect that Ozcelik, who is Kurdish, is on her way to Syria to fight against the terrorists
An Afghan woman, only known as Rezagul, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty how she murdered between 10 and 25 Taliban militants after they murdered her 27-year-old son right in front of her. The attack occurred on November 17 in western
For American teens these days, the biggest heroes are no longer baseball players or even Lady Gaga: they are mostly You Tube stars, like the comedy team Smosh, followed by Katy Perry and – surprisingly – 92-year-old actress Betty White. But
The U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office of the inspector general (OIG) received 29,000 complaints, opened 1,000 investigations, and achieved 300 convictions in 2014 related to employee misconduct and corruption involving Border Patrol agents and other officers from the
Saddam Hussein’s granddaughter Banin enraged Iraqis with photos of her expensive wedding preparations on social media. She is set to marry Badr Raad Mahmoud Nasser in Jordan’s capital Amman on Friday. Her mother, Raghad, Hussein’s eldest daughter, posted pictures of
Authorities in Guinea are alarmed that a cooler containing the contaminated blood of an Ebola victim has gone missing, after bandits robbed the public taxi in which the blood was being transported. The Agence France-Presse reports that Guinea authorities only
In Kurdish-protected and internationally-organized refugee camps throughout Iraq and Syria, Christians, Yazidis, and Muslim Kurds live a tentative life in which many have lost their entire families and have no sense of when they will be able to return to
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin is the main suspect in a series of goat deaths in China’s northeast, state media reported Chinese local authorities as saying on Tuesday. Siberian tiger
On November 24 ISIS blew up St. George’s Church and a nunnery in Mosul, thereby continuing the string of churches destroyed since the terror group took control of Mosul in June. According to Rudaw.net, the destruction has included not only
Reports coming out of the Middle East warn that the Islamic State terrorist group has established provinces across the region and a colony in Libya. One report from the Washington Institute says ISIS has developed colonies in areas as far as Saudi
Germany’s Catholic bishops are pressing ahead with reform of a controversial Church labor law that would allow employees who are in homosexual relationships or those divorced and civilly remarried to work in Church-run institutions. The bishops were to unanimously vote
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resume peace talks, predicting the current pro-Palestinian diplomatic wave will only get stronger. Israel National News reports that Ban predicted that the recent trend of countries
A couple of months ago, National Grid, one of Massachusetts’ two dominant utilities, announced rate increases of a “whopping” 37 percent over last year. Why, when natural gas prices are at historic lows, does the Northeast face double-digit increases? New
A Muslim Somali man who lives in Minnesota has decided to combat the lure of ISIS in a very creative way. Mohammed Ahmed has created vivid and clear-sighted cartoons at AverageMohamed.com, aimed at children between the ages of 8-16. Using verses from the Koran,
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has accused the Nigerian military of cowardice and of terrorizing the civilian population in the northeast part of the country. Abubakar is Nigeria’s highest ranking Muslim leader, and his stinging words, spoken
The US Army’s Fort Sam Houston was locked down “around 5:30 pm” on November 23 after a Saudi National “rammed his car into the gates” of the installation. The Latin Post reports that the lockdown was lifted “later Sunday night
In his address Tuesday morning to the European Parliament, Pope Francis issued a powerful plea to Europe to rediscover its religious roots and to place the human person at the center of society. “A Europe which is capable of appreciating
The death toll in Madagascar continues to rise due to the bubonic plague outbreak. The health ministry reported the disease killed forty-seven so far, but it could become worse since the plague is now in the capital Antananarivo and deltamethrin,
