To Obama, the Geneva Convention applies to stateless terrorists–who are not parties to the convention, and are not lawful combatants–but not to U.S. sailors captured and detained by Iran at gunpoint
Reports indicate at least 81 people were killed in fights between Iraqi armed forces and ISIS on October 1. The deaths took place in Salahuddin province, where former Iraq president Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit is located. According to China.org,
A Liberian man who traveled to the United States four days after having contact with a symptomatic Ebola victim in Monrovia “knew he had Ebola,” according to his former boss, who said he abruptly left his job before the incident.
From the Daily Beast: The President’s White House staff was controlling, insular, and often ignored the advice of its senior national security officials, former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta charges in his yet-to-be-released memoir. The result, Panetta says:
(Reuters) – An American freelance television cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus and will be flown back to the United States for treatment, the network said on Thursday in an online report.
(AFP) Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong clashed with police outside government offices as tensions ran high Friday morning, despite an eleventh-hour agreement for talks, as China said the demonstrators were “doomed to fail”. Although most overnight demonstrators had gone home
DALLAS (AP) — Worries over Ebola kept some Dallas schoolchildren home Thursday after school officials identified five students who may have come into contact with the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with the virus. Attendance is down
CARACAS, Venezuela, Oct. 2 (UPI) — Robert Serra, one of Venezuela’s promising young lawmakers, was found shot to death along with his partner, Maria Herrera, at their residence Wednesday night. The couple was “vilely killed here in their house, a
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has eyed Lebanon since the jihadists captured Syrian areas and towns along the border. Lebanese Christians are forming self-defense units for an inevitable invasion as the terrorists attempt to spread their caliphate. “We are
Read the full story at The Daily Mail. Islamic State militants have carried out mass executions, abducted girls as sex slaves and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes in Iraq that demand prosecution, the UN
A United Nations report released Thursday highlighted a “staggering array” of crimes perpetrated by the Islamic State terrorists group (ISIS/ISIL) and its associates, including the targeted killings of civilians, kidnappings, rapes of women and children, the desecration of religious places,
Today Pope Francis received the Assyrian Patriarch of the East, Mar Dinkha IV, assuring him of his “personal commitment” to deepen the dialogue between their two churches and underscoring their common suffering from “the violence that Christians and the faithful
Islamic Sate jihadists are close to seizing a strategic Syrian Kurdish town that lies on the country’s border with Turkey. On October 1, the International Business Times (IBT) reported that the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS and ISIL)
The Pope is not down with a free market that means more participation. What he’s against is “crony capitalism” where the “powerful pick the winners and the losers,” said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in a televised interview yesterday. Speaking about
As the international media and law enforcement authorities begin to investigate how a man who had contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia came to arrive in Texas, new details are surfacing about Thomas Eric Duncan and his voyage to the
The Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX), one which has seen over 8,000 Russian students come to the United States since 1992 in order to experience what life is like in America, has been cancelled by the Kremlin. United States Ambassador to Russia
Secretary of State John Kerry is asking authorities in Hong Kong to show “restraint” as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warns that the protests are “illegal” and says, “All countries should show respect for China’s sovereignty.” According to BBC News,
The government of Liberia has announced that they plan on prosecuting Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man to ever be diagnosed with the Ebola virus on U.S. soil. Duncan, they claim, may have lied about having contact with people who
(AFP) Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner charged in an emotional address that domestic and US interests were pushing to topple her government, and could even kill her. Domestic business interests “are trying to bring down the government, with international (US) help,”
The Texas Department of State Health Services ordered the Thomas Eric Duncan’s entire family under quarantine. Duncan is in serious condition with Ebola. The family is not allowed to leave their house or contact anyone for 21 days without approval
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament approved a motion Thursday that gives the government new powers to launch military incursions into Syria and Iraq and to allow foreign forces to use its territory for possible operations against the Islamic State
Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old Liberian citizen identified as the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus on American soil, was vomiting upon arriving at the Texas hospital that initially let him go with antibiotics, according to a
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of al-Qaeda offshoot Boko Haram, surfaced in a new video, where he dismissed claims made by governments and media outlets that he was deceased. The video, obtained by AFP on Thursday, showed Shekau talking about how
US Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly seeking to hold new direct intensive talks between Israel and the Palestinians under the auspices of regional Arab nations. The Times of Israel, citing Israel’s Channel 10, reports that Kerry is calling
I remember when they arrived, with little more than the clothes on their backs. This is depicted sweetly in the new film, The Good Lie, opening October 3, when employment counselor Carrie (Reese Witherspoon) asks, “Did your luggage come down
This story originally appeared in The Daily Mail. Islamic State fighters beheaded seven men and three women in a Kurdish area of northern Syria, a monitoring group reports. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, among
