National Security

North and South Korea exchanged fire across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) after South Korea allowed demonstrators to release balloons “containing leaflets” condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to BBC News, North Korea fired at the balloons, and South Korea

President Obama’s strategy to transition security responsibilities and rush the United States out of Afghanistan is a recipe for failure, revealed a scathing report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).    Anthony Cordesman, former intelligence director at the

The staff working at Carlos III Hospital in Madrid are extremely unsatisfied with the government’s handling of the spread of the Ebola virus from a patient to an auxiliary nurse. At a public event yesterday, staff were seen yelling “go

U.S. Airways has reportedly become a target for public scrutiny after a flight attendant refused to let a United States combat veteran and Army Ranger hang his uniform jacket because he wasn’t a “first-class” passenger. First Sergeant Albert Marle was

This story originally appeared at The Daily Mail: US Airways has sparked outrage after a flight attendant allegedly refused to hang up an Army Ranger and combat veteran’s jacket to stop it from creasing.  First Sergeant Albert Marle was wearing

This analysis by Riyadh Mohammed was originally published in The Fiscal Times. We reprint in part here. As ISIS continues to advance on the Syrian town of Kobani and close in on Turkey’s border, experts in Islamic radical movements think

Note from Senior Management: Blackwater’s founder knows from where he speaks about fighting wars in bad neighborhoods. This note on his company’s website we reprint. As someone who spent many years operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other underdeveloped countries facing

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The daily needs of a single Ebola patient U.N. envoy makes highly emotional appeal to Turkey to save Kobani Renewed violence in Central African Republic despite peacekeepers The daily needs of a single Ebola

Convicted Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has written a letter of warning to Pope Francis espousing “jihad” and referring to himself as SoA, or “Soldier of Allah.” Hasan gave the six-page, hand-written letter to his attorney John Galligan, instructing

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Malala Yousafzai celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize where she always wished to be: in school. The Pakistani girl once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education just like the boys celebrated being the

A 47-year-old man has been hospitalized in Brazil and quarantined, suspected of having brought the Ebola virus from Guinea into South America. He is the first suspected case of the Ebola virus surfacing on the continent. According to the Wall

(Reuters) – Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that

On October 9, Pakistan reminded India it is capable of nuking them if necessary. This reminder came in response to Indian Defense Minister Arun Jaitley’s warning that border “adventurism” near Jammu and Kashmir would prove “unaffordable” for Pakistan.  India Today reports that Pakistani

A recurring theme in the Vatican summit on marriage and the family has been the need to adapt Church language, rather than doctrine, to a modern audience. “Now you don’t deny the doctrine in any way,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced to the world, and for once they got it right. Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, hailing from Pakistan and India respectively, were the very deserving winners for 2014.  Malala, who is the

ISIS commander Tarkhan Batirashvili–aka, “Omar the Chechen”–warns that Russia will soon be targeted by the Islamist group. According to The Moscow Times, “Batirashvili has gained a fearsome reputation throughout the conflict in Syria.” Bloomberg News reports that he now seeks “revenge”

(AFP) Iraqi government forces are in a “tenuous” position in the west of the country but are holding out for the moment against Islamic State jihadists, US defense officials said Friday. Iraq’s army is under mounting pressure in Anbar province,

HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of protesters poured into a main road in Hong Kong for a pro-democracy rally late Friday, reviving a civil disobedience movement a day after the government canceled talks with student leaders aimed at defusing the

A spokesperson for the House Select Committee on Benghazi told Breitbart News that it “expects to talk” with Leon Panetta, who served as President Obama’s CIA director and Pentagon chief. Amanda Duvall, a spokesperson for the Benghazi Select Committee, made

(AFP) Attackers in Tanzania burned alive seven people they accused of witchcraft, police said Friday, who have arrested 23 people for murder in the latest killings of suspected witches.

Swiss officials have announced that the country is banning the Islamic State and related entities from their lands. The ban went into effect on Wednesday, when the Swiss cabinet voted to forbid Islamic State membership for at least six months.

Thousands of Yazidis in Iraq escaped the genocidal wrath of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) but remain in miserable conditions at refugee camps. One shelter in Khanke, Iraq, took in over 70,000 people in August. The conditions there have not improved.

A man on board a flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic yelled “I have Ebola!” shortly before the plane landed. While authorities determined that the exclamation was a “joke in poor taste,” medical personnel in full protective gear

Liberians following the arrival of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan to the United States and his subsequent death tell the nation’s largest newspaper that they fully expected him to die in America because he was Liberian, comparing his death to the

A national security expert tells Forbes magazine that the Ebola threat could be potentially multiplied should the virus fall into the hands of a terrorist organization like the Islamic State (ISIS). Sending ISIS terrorists to West Africa to bring back toxic