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.
Washington, D.C. — The highest-ranking U.S. military official suggested to a House panel on Thursday that the United States prematurely withdrew its military from Iraq at the end of 2011, leaving behind a country that was a “work in progress.”
The widow of deceased Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said that it was time for the region’s Arabs to recognize the state of Israel, and that armed struggle to eliminate the Jewish state’s existence was no longer a plausible idea.
In its crusade against high-interest lenders, the Church of England is now focusing on primary schoolchildren, saying that kids as young as four should attend “savings clubs” to teach them how to handle money responsibly and avoid debt. The plan drafted
The Islamic State released a letter on Thursday, which it claims was written by its “Khalifah,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the letter, Baghdadi explained that his subordinates were carrying out their Muslim duty to wage jihad against the Kufr, or
The UN General Assembly is set to debate whether to name 2016 as the Year of the Camelid. The resolution, sponsored by Bolivia, reads in part: Noting that camelids are strictly herbivorous, even-toed ungulate mammals that first appeared in America
The world’s richest terrorist group, the Islamic State, has begun making strides in Iraq’s Anbar province, now a new epicenter of fighting for the soul of that country. Rumors that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been wounded
(Reuters) – Syria’s neighbors Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraqare cutting back sharply on the number of Syrians they allow onto their soil as they can no longer cope with the influx of refugees, two prominent humanitarian agencies said on Thursday. The number
NEW DELHI (AP) — The doctor who conducted sterilization procedures after which 13 women died in central India was arrested, but insisted he didn’t do anything wrong — even though he said he used to perform up to 10 times
(AFP) Twin car bombs struck near the shuttered Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassy buildings in the militia-controlled Libyan capital on Thursday, an AFP correspondent and a UAE official said. Two guards posted outside the empty Egyptian embassy compound were
Four Islamic State (ISIS) flags have been confiscated after being raised near the Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) in the city of Taxila. The flags followed reports that an ISIS spokesman “visited banned militant outfit Jundullah,” an offshoot of the Pakistan
In Mecca, rapid new construction has already destroyed hundreds of historic monuments. Now, reports the Independent, even the site where Mohamed is said to have been born is about to be replaced by a huge royal palace. The multi-year, multi-billion
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russian combat troops, tanks and artillery pour into Ukraine Turkey’s warships near Cyprus threaten Egypt and Israel Russian combat troops, tanks and artillery pour into Ukraine Armed personnel and unmarked military trunks arrive in
Mexican protesters set fire to congress and the education department’s audit office in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, as anger over the 43 missing students grows. Gavino Garay reports. Mexico’s Guerrero state congress is in flames. Hundreds of protesters set fire to the
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 people, including civilians, since they began in mid-September, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
On Wednesday, a UN committee in Geneva asked State Department representatives what the federal government was doing to prosecute psychologists who help patients change their same-sex attractions. The questioning came during the U.S. report to the UN Committee on Torture
China has unveiled its J-31 Stealth fighter jet and hopes the plane will be able to cut into the world market currently dominated by the United States’ F-35. The J-31 is China’s second stealth fighter, and the Department of Defense
A French Socialist Party proposal to recognize Palestine as a state will be voted on in the French National Assembly on November 28, reports AFP. Because France’s president holds the ultimate prerogative to recognize states, the vote would be nonbinding.
CAIRO (AP) — Two car bombs and an explosion struck Wednesday in two eastern Libyan cities that are temporary homes to the nation’s elected parliament and government, inflicting an unspecified number of casualties, officials said. The attacks were a worrisome
The Egyptian Minister of Education, Mahmoud Abo El-Nasr, visited the city of Minya in Upper Egypt on Tuesday, to personally verify that administrative posts in public education are not occupied by jihadists linked to Islamist groups. This latest purge of
US General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s top commander, said the organization witnessed more Russian troops move into Ukraine. Russia continues to deny sending troops to Ukraine, but evidence over the last nine months quash these denials. “Across the last two days
In Germany, authorities arrested ten men on suspicions of robbing churches and schools to fund the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Ahrar al-Sham, and Jund al-Sham in Syria. The men, aged 22 to 58 years old, resided in Cologne, Siegen, Bergisch-Gladbach, Kreuztal,
The opium business is booming in Afghanistan, despite a 12-year, $7.6 billion counternarcotics initiative by the U.S. Last year, Afghans devoted a record 209,000 hectares of land to opium poppy cultivation, and those crops produced drug profits 50 percent higher
(Reuters) – More than 400 health workers at the only Ebola treatment center in southern Sierra Leone went on strike on Wednesday over unpaid risk allowances the government is meant to fund, officials said. The clinic in Bandajuma in Bo
Liberian officials announced in late October that health workers had made significant gains preventing the acceleration of the Ebola virus in the capital, Monrovia. Unfortunately, those gains appear short-lived, as new Ebola epicenters appear in Monrovia’s suburbs. As reported earlier
(Washington, D.C.) — American and Turkish authorities will investigate the attack on three United States sailors in Istanbul, allegedly by Turkish nationalists, a Pentagon spokesman asserted. Army Col. Steve Warren, the spokesman, told Pentagon reporters that the Department of Defense
