National Security

(AFP) President Barack Obama attempted to rally allied commanders around his emerging strategy to defeat Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday, as the US-led air armada stepped up its raids in Syria. Coalition jets carried out two dozen strikes to relieve

(AFP) Malaysian police have arrested 13 people believed to have “links” with the Islamic State, a report said Wednesday, as concern grows over the extremist group’s appeal in the moderate Muslim country. The Star newspaper quoted national police chief Khalid

GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) – The Ebola epidemic is still spreading in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and projections show there could be between 5,000 and 10,000 new cases a week in early December, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The

TIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — It was news that gave parents hope: None of the bodies found in five mass graves in southern Mexico belonged to 43 teachers college students who have been missing for nearly three weeks since a clash

PARIS (AP) — The United States and Russia vowed Tuesday to renew cooperation on a broad array of global security matters, including intelligence sharing on Islamic State militants, even as the two powers remained deeply at odds over the crisis

ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul University student Aysegul Korkut is outraged by the images coming out of Syria. But these days the Islamic State group’s horrors seem closer to home: She recently faced off against masked supporters of the brutal militants

The first large wave of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s legendary 101st Airborne Division arrived in Liberia over the weekend to battle the deadly Ebola virus, according to the Pentagon. During a press briefing Tuesday, Army Col. Steve Warren, a

The reports from inside Kobane, the Syrian border town considered a potential watershed capture for the terrorist group the Islamic State, are ever more dire as American-led airstrikes appear to do little to stop the massacre of Kurds in a

Islamic State jihadists may have used chemical weapons to kill Kurdish fighters defending the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane, a number of disturbing and graphic photos obtained by the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) suggest. The pictures show Kurdish

No one with an Israeli visa in their passport is welcome on a New York Times-sponsored tour of Iran, part of its luxury line of Times Journeys. Although the tour includes a stop in Hamadan, where travelers will be able

In yet another event of what appears to be an unending string of Obama administration missteps, misstatements, and misrepresentations, the White House has been forced to back away from statements initially made on Sunday by National Security Advisor Susan Rice

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan militant already behind bars was indicted Tuesday on new charges arising from the 2012 Benghazi attacks, including crimes punishable by the death penalty, the Justice Department said. The new 18-count grand jury indictment, which includes

Kurdish fighters going against ISIS say they have recaptured “strategically important” Tall Shair hill on Syria’s border with Turkey, just west of Kobane.  Tall Shair hill “is about 2.5 miles to the west of Kobane and near an informal border

A Sudanese national who was employed as a UN medical worker in Liberia has died of Ebola at a hospital in Germany. Despite receiving multiple experimental drugs to help combat the deadly virus, the UN aid worker died of hemorrhagic

In his address to the UN in New York yesterday, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s Permanent Observer, spoke of “the alarming, escalating phenomenon of international terrorism,” which is “utterly ruthless in its barbarity.” The grave situation calls for “a deeper

A U.S. Marine in the Philippines is being held in connection with the death of a transgender woman after finding out she was anatomically male “following a night at a local disco.” According to ABC News, the deceased–Jeffrey Laude–was a

Vatican — Opposition increases in Rome as gays celebrate, traditional Catholics fret, bishops complain, and no one seems to be able to explain exactly what the document released Monday means for the Catholic Church. Late Monday night, experienced hands with

Kurdish fighters in Syria told the BBC that they have retaken a strategic hilltop from the Islamic State militants in the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane. U.S.-led air strikes reportedly assisted the Kurdish fighters in recapturing the hill known as

(Reuters) – A U.S. national was shot dead and another wounded in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be the first killing of a Westerner in years in a gun attack in the kingdom.

Two Upper West side artists think New York women should try wearing face masks, also known as “niqab.”Their names are Saks Afridi and Quinza Najm. They are calling upon women to don black face masks and take a “selfie.” The political art

Human trials of a potential Ebola vaccine, created by the Public Health Agency of Canada, began on Monday, with hopes that the much-needed drug can be mass-produced and shipped to affected West African nations within a few months. According to the Associated

Three hundred thirty four Saudi nationals who were released from prison, or a Jeddah-based counseling center, have now returned to their respective Islamic terror organizations. According to the Makkah newspaper, the Saudi jihadists were part of a 1,696-strong group of

John Batchelor, our newest author on the Breitbart National Security vertical, and host of talk radio’s most strategic program on global affairs – WABC’s John Batchelor Show – has identified the Islamic State’s military plan for Baghdad, based upon an