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) – Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are drawing up plans to break Islamic State’s siege of Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis remain stranded months after fleeing their homes. Seeking to regain territory and repair pride in his
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 22 (UPI) — Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday the United States will send $135 million more in humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians. He was speaking at a news conference in Istanbul during a trip to visit
(AFP) A cesspool filled with excrement has exploded in central China, injuring 15 people and knocking down a building, state-run media reported. The blast was apparently sparked by a local man burning waste close to the cesspool, igniting methane gas
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com After swallowing Crimea, Russia goes after Abkhazia and South Ossetia Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel fired by President Obama Iran nuclear deal collapses, forcing another seven months of talks After swallowing Crimea, Russia goes after
In a long-awaited decision, Pope Francis has tapped a conservative African cardinal, Robert Sarah of Guinea, as head of the Vatican’s liturgical office. This is the second nomination of a conservative African to an influential position in less than a
The recent drop in oil prices is making American consumers happy as they enter the holiday season. As fuel prices go down, consumer confidence and spending go up, and the economy strengthens. The opposite is true in Iran, where both
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers said Tuesday that two al-Qaida-inspired extremists who murdered a British soldier in a London street had been under scrutiny by the intelligence services, and one had expressed his intention of killing a soldier in an
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite told Lithuania National Radio and Television (LRT) Russia is a “terrorist state” and urged the European Union to do more to help Ukraine against Russian aggression. “Lithuania is one of the countries that recently walked a
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported at least 119 cases of the bubonic plague in Madagascar with at least forty deaths. The situation could become worse since the disease is now in the capital of Antananarivo, the country’s largest city,
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Monday that he intends to present a Declaration of War resolution against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to Congress in December to make the current military action legal. “When Congress comes back into session in December,
Ukraine is taking steps to formally join NATO after President Petro Poroshenko met with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, a day after she called Russia a “terrorist state.” Lithuania is also a former USSR state and a member of NATO and
Islamic State jihadists have kidnapped 78 family members of Iraq’s defense minister, reports Kurdish media network Rudaw. Ismat Rajab, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official in the Mosul area, told Rudaw on Sunday that the Islamic State (IS, also known
A new report by Canada’s Point de Bascule takes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to task for participating in a panel discussion Wednesday sponsored by the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at the University of Windsor. RCMP Superintendent Doug Best, who heads the Canadian law-enforcement agency’s national
ISIS is increasingly “conscripting” children to be soldiers and spies as it both conquers more land and attempts to maintain its grip on lands already conquered. In cities like Mosul–which fell to ISIS in June–children with “weapons stand at checkpoints
President Obama has quietly issued an order to allow U.S. forces in Afghanistan to continue some limited combat operations in 2015, after their planned end on Dec. 31. “Mr. Obama’s order allows American forces to carry out missions against
A new cyber hacking unit believed to be loosely affiliated with the Egyptian military called the “Egyptian Cyber Army” has emerged to combat the Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) and other Islamist terror groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood; doing so on
Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in a statement to Pentagon staff, says he made the decision to resign “after much discussion” with President Obama. Allegations have surfaced from anonymous defense officials that Hagel, the lone Republican on Obama’s national security team and the
It is “virtually impossible” that the U.S and negotiating world powers will reach a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran by the Monday deadline, the the Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday. A senior official told WSJ: Our focus remains on
Supporters and potential active members of the jihadist terrorist group the Islamic State are using the hashtag “Islamic State Topples US Defense Minister” to take credit for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. A Twitter search for the
The New York Times reports that one of the reasons the administration is supposedly offering for firing Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is the Pentagon’s slow response to the Ebola crisis. There can be no clearer sign that Hagel is
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a weekend newspaper interview that Egypt was willing to lend troops to help secure a future Palestinian state, offering stability for local police and providing an extra level of security reassurance for Israel,
Last Tuesday’s terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue killed five people: four rabbis (including three born in the USA) and a Druze police officer. Two Palestinians entered during morning prayers and attacked worshipers with knives, meat cleavers, and a handgun.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s military strength increasingly alarms neighbors Fears increase over poor civilian control of China’s military The disappearance of the ‘Long March’ generation China’s military strength increasingly alarms neighbors China’s military China’s Defense Minister General
In its bid for formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican, Beijing is now ready to offer a compromise in the contentious issue of how Catholic bishops are appointed in China. This represents an important departure from Beijing’s hardline position of
A self-described ISIS sympathizer and extremist threatened to behead former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to President George W. Bush and President of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Fran Townsend over social media site Twitter on Friday. The news of
