National Security

Obama has consistently disregarded the advice of his military experts on the ISIS threat. And he seems to have written off the Kurdish-Syrian town of Kobani, which may soon be overrun by ISIS. Whatever the U.S. accomplished after about a decade of war

A German hospital confirmed on Tuesday that a United Nations worker has died from Ebola eight days after testing positive. St. Georg hospital in Leipzig says after undergoing “intensive medical procedures,” an unnamed 56-year-old man died from the Ebola infection

GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Australia’s PM Tony Abbott promises to ‘shirt-front’ Vladimir Putin when they meet WHO: Ebola threatens the ‘very survival’ of countries Australia’s PM Tony Abbott promises to ‘shirt-front’ Vladimir Putin when they meet Australia’s prime

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of an Indiana aid worker threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group rejected suggestions that their son converted to Islam to save himself Monday, saying his interest in Eastern religions began long before he

(AFP) A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck in the Pacific off El Salvador late Monday, prompting a tsunami warning, US government agencies said. The quake hit 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador, at a depth

(AFP) Britain began screening passenger arrivals at London Heathrow Airport for Ebola on Tuesday as the Royal Navy loaded a ship with supplies for epidemic-stricken Sierra Leone. The checks at Heathrow Terminal One will be expanded by the end of

Hyderabad, October 14 (QNA) – The death toll has mounted to 24 in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh ravaged by Cyclone Hudhud, according to reports citing regional state government Tuesday. The deadly cyclone killed 15 people in Vishakhapatnam,

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two gunmen shoved their way into a radio studio and opened fire on a local activist, killing him while he was broadcasting, prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sinaloa said. It was the first on-air killing

MAQLUBA, Iraq (AP) — The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to

The Obama administration’s calamitous policy of abandoning U.S. control of Internet domain names is being handled by none other than his controversial Chicago crony, Penny Pritzker. Pritzker, the Hyatt billionaire and subprime mortgage lender who withdrew her name from consideration

(Reuters) – Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. “I’d

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, smiling broadly and supporting himself with a cane, appeared Tuesday in state media for the first time in nearly six weeks, ending an absence that fed global speculation that

The U.S. Army will make public the results of its investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s alleged desertion of a base in Afghanistan and subsequent capture by Taliban militants in 2009.   A Pentagon spokesperson clarified that, contrary to various media reports,

HONG KONG (AP) — A mob of masked men opposed to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators led an apparently coordinated assault on the protest zone in the heart of the city’s financial district Monday, tearing down barricades and clashing with police.

(Reuters) – Emergency crews in protective gear removed five passengers with flu-like symptoms from a commercial airliner that arrived at Boston’s Logan Airport on Monday, but U.S. health authorities played down the possibility of Ebola. Emirates flight 237 from Dubai

(AFP) North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un made his first public appearance in just over 40 days when he inspected a newly built housing complex, Pyongyang’s state media said Tuesday. It marked the first time Kim has returned to the public

Claudia Roth, deputy speaker of Germany’s Parliament, says Turkey must end its support for ISIS, and NATO must pressure it to do so if necessary.  According to Rudaw, Roth alleges that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is purposely pursuing a

In a scathing letter calling for the resignation of Madrid’s regional health chief Javier Rodríguez, the husband of a nurse auxiliary who contracted Ebola from a patient in Spain asserts that his wife received only half an hour of training

The Cameroonian government has allegedly paid Boko Haram a $400,000 ransom to free twenty-seven hostages, most notably Francoise Agnes Moukouri, who is the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Amadou Ali, Sahara Reporters has claimed. The Chinese government allegedly pitched in

Nigerian military authorities have arrested several soldiers in Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa, all believed to have been operating as “moles” and providing “vital security information” to Boko Haram. The leaks concerned Nigerian military troop “strategies and tactics.” According to Vanguard,

The government of Qatar has a senior al-Qaeda operative on its payroll, despite the United States’ designation of the individual as a terrorist, The Telegraph reports. In his role at Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari has allegedly

26-year-old nurse Nina Pham was among the first staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to treat Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, the first confirmed Ebola case on US soil. Pham has been identified as the second confirmed case of the virus

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a Kurdish woman is leading the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Kobane, Syria. “Mayssa Abdo, known by the nom-de-guerre of Narin Afrin, is commanding the YPG