National Security

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel fired toward Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Tuesday after the Shiite guerrillas set off an explosion along the tense border that wounded two Israeli soldiers, in the most serious incident between the two countries in

(Reuters) After nearly a week in hospital, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States began to receive an experimental therapy initially developed to treat other viral diseases, according to the Dallas hospital where he lies in critical condition.

(AFP) US troops deployed to West Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak could stay up to a year, depending on how quickly the virus can be contained, a top general said Tuesday. The head of the US military’s Africa Command,

MADRID (AP) — Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa’s Ebola outbreak got past Europe’s defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the

(Reuters) – Four people have been hospitalized in Spain to try to stem the spread of Ebola after a Spanish nurse became the first person in the world known to have contracted the virus outside of Africa, health authorities said

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday that the Syrian border town of Kobane is on the verge of falling to jihadists, saying a ground operation was needed to defeat the militants. “The terror will not be over… unless

President Obama said Sunday that U.S. intelligence underestimated ISIS’s strength on the ground in Syria and Iraq. National-security officials counter that the president has been receiving precise briefings on the rise of the terrorist group for over two years, but

The Liberian Daily Observer is reporting that a Liberian man by the name of Samuel Kofi Woods has offered to represent America’s first Ebola patient. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who is currently in critical condition at Texas Presbyterian Hospital, reportedly

The South African government asked the Dalai Lama to withdraw his application for a visa to visit the country, for reasons “in the national interest,” according to Guy Lieberman, a Tibetan activist who helped organize the three previous visits by

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid sent a series of tweets on October 2, unintentionally giving away his location in Sindh, Pakistan. Quartz reported that “Mujahid quickly denied that he was in Pakistan” once the location was pinpointed.   BBC News reported

The radical Islamic group Boko Haram destroyed at least 185 churches after it captured towns in the states of Borno and Adamawa. Over 190,000 people were displaced due to the terrorists. “It is over 30 days now that our Church

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week that Turkey was open to putting boots on the ground in Syria, but only if “we can be sure that our border can be protected,” to which he later added,

Russian President Vladimir Putin has cultivated an international image based heavily on his self-worship. He criticizes anyone who attempts to be exceptional or powerful, but he has no problem when people celebrate him. Mikhail Antonov, a political science graduate at Moscow University, collected

The radical Islamist faction of Boko Haram killed at least seven people in the city of Ngambu in the Borno state of northeast Nigeria. Local sources said that on Monday, they discovered the bodies of seven brutally decapitated people. The

The US military has dominated the airstrike campaign against ISIS, having carried out nearly 90% of air strikes to date in Iraq and Syria, according to US defense officials. Arab and European coalition allies have carried out less than 200

(Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq, saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted. The group’s spokesman Shahid Shahidullah said

(AFP) North and South Korean naval patrol boats briefly exchanged fire Tuesday near their disputed maritime border, according to the South’s defence ministry which said the North’s vessel had violated the boundary. The incident took place around 9:50 am (0050

In the town of Cástulo, Spain, archaeologists have discovered one of the earliest-known images of Jesus, which shows him short-haired and beardless. The newly found depiction of Jesus is engraved on an 8.6-inch glass plate known as a paten, estimated

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. military expands war in Iraq with Apache Helicopters Thousands of villagers in Kashmir flee India-Pakistan clashes Ebola expected to reach France and Britain within three weeks Liberia and Sierra Leone introduce School by

In the first testimony of a married couple in the Vatican Summit on marriage, Ron and Mavis Pirola from Sydney, Australia, were quick to get down to brass tacks, calling marriage a “sexual sacrament.” Speaking of their early years as

BEIJING (AP) — The dengue virus has killed six people and infected more than 23,000 in southern China’s worst outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease in about two decades, officials said Tuesday. Authorities in worst-affected Guangdong province attribute the severity of

WASHINGTON (AP) — An al-Qaida cell in Syria that was targeted in American military airstrikes last month could still be working on a plan to attack the United States or its allies and is “looking to do it very, very

(AFP) A Franciscan priest and several other Christians have been seized by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said Tuesday. Qunyeh is a village of several hundred people in

(AFP) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned that the Syrian border town of Kobane is on the verge of falling to jihadists, saying a ground operation was needed to defeat the militants.

(Reuters) – A lightning strike in a small indigenous village in mountainous northern Colombia killed at least 11 people who were participating in a community ritual, the army said on Monday. The incident, which occurred near the town of Guachaca