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.
This article originally appeared at the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Note: This analysis has been excerpted, with the approval of the author, from a much longer scholarly article that will be published in an academic journal. “Which will come first,
A recently released Pew Center survey found Americans extraordinarily disengaged from news surrounding the 2014 midterm elections. While the poll results are notable, what is capturing Americans’ attention may be even more telling: the Ebola virus, and not the threat of
US air strikes have been important to hold back ISIS, according to Iraqi Patriarch Louis Sako, but “we need a long-term strategy to destroy the sick ideology that drives the action of the violent.” ISIS is “a danger to the
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone Thursday with more Marines, as West Africa’s leaders pleaded for the world’s help in dealing with a crisis that one called “a tragedy unforeseen in modern
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkey and America play a game of ‘chicken’ over ISIS and Kobani Russia makes farcical demand for Security Council resolution on Kobani Iran blames Pakistan for terrorist attacks The continuing realignment of the Mideast
The International Monetary Fund officially announced that China just surpassed the United States as the world’s largest economy, sort of. China’s victory is only on a “Purchasing Power Parity” (PPP) basis. Although Gross Domestic Product is about 50% higher in
(AFP) Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was on Friday discharged from a Moscow clinic where he had been admitted for medical tests. A spokeswoman for Gorbachev’s foundation confirmed to AFP that the last leader of the USSR had arrived at
Turkish, British, and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, all key United States allies in the military campaign against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL), have indicated that airstrikes alone will not defeat the jihadist group.
Bamako, October 10 (QNA) – Three people in Mali were injected with an experimental Ebola vaccine, the first such trial on African soil, the Health Ministry said Friday. The volunteers were among 40 Malian health workers who agreed to participate
(AFP) Liberia said on Friday it was banning journalists from Ebola clinics, defying media rights campaigners who have warned panicked African governments against “muzzling” reporters in response to the crisis. Government spokesman Isaac Jackson made the announcement as he was
(AFP) A priest kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in northwestern Syria was released Thursday, the Franciscan Order said, days after his abduction alongside 20 other Christians.
(AFP) Jihadists captured the headquarters of Kurdish fighters defending the battleground Syrian town of Kobane Friday as a UN envoy warned of a looming “massacre” by the Islamic State group. Outgunned Kurdish militia were struggling to prevent the jihadists closing
A 41-year-old man and his 20-year-old son were stabbed and beaten and ended up in the hospital after a fight involving up to 30 people that police say was organized ahead of time on Facebook. Police in Sydney, Australia arrested
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions Thursday in the Syrian border town of Kobani as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements. The battle
The doctor who treated Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero during the time she had not yet been confirmed to be carrying Ebola sent a scathing internal letter to superiors at his hospital, alleging that he only found out about her
President Xi Jinping of China has announced a campaign to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline the Communist Party of China, a plan called “mass line” that requires strict adherence to party philosophy to “prioritize the interests of the people.” According
Google is in a row with France about how much corporate taxes it pays. Like the Obama Administration’s outrage about businesses moving headquarters abroad, this dispute demonstrates corporate taxes, along with personal income taxes, are obsolete. Google markets ads in
Supporters of the jihadist terror group the Islamic State (ISIS) have begun to circulate photos of a ten-year-old boy known only as Abu Ubaidah, reportedly killed alongside his father while fighting on behalf of the terrorist organization. According to the
A global health professor at Georgetown University expressed concern this week that new measures announced to keep Ebola out of the United States are merely a response to “political outcry” meant to make the public believe the government is working
A website has reported that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has an estimated net worth of $100 million dollars. Jonathan, seemingly aware that this finding may have tarnished his reputation as the proverbial “man of the people,” has threatened to sue
An unprecedented pandemic outbreak drill was held on Wednesday at Marine Corps Air Station New River. Military units reportedly ran drills responding to a mock smallpox outbreak, which had started on the base itself, The Daily News of Jacksonville, North
On October 8, the United Nations appointed three Ebola Crisis Managers for Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. According to Xinhuanet, the three managers were announced by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The managers are “Marcel Rudasingwa of Rhwanda as Ebola crisis
An entire French family has packed up and left for Syria, where they are likely to take part in the fighting on the side of the Sunni Islamist opposition forces. A legal source told AFP Wednesday that the family in
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced in its most recent update that over 8,000 individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have contracted the Ebola virus. A breakdown of the numbers shows almost 1,000 documented new cases of Ebola
The world is watching the Islamic State’s terrorist army close in on the Syrian Kurdish town Kobani in real time and HD from TV cameras set up only hundreds of yards away on the Turkish side of the border. Panning
