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
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has orphaned at least 3,700 children, according to UNICEF, creating a separate humanitarian crisis from the health disaster befalling the affected nations. Children as young as three years old have lost at least one
The Obama administration found itself scrambling on Tuesday to defend President Barack Obama for his lackluster 42% attendance record on daily intelligence briefings, a finding from a new report issued by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI). When asked about
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s departure from the world stage for nearly a month has been traced to ankle surgery, a report said. Kim fractured both ankles and had surgery in Pyongyang, North Korea’s
(Reuters) – Islamic State militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and planting their black flags on civilian homes, tribal sources and eyewitnesses say. They reported fewer
Starting October 1st, Hong Kong celebrates two days of government holidays which will no doubt be the peak of the recent ‘Umbrella Revolution’. What started as a protest last Wednesday by university students in Hong Kong has now filled the
A patient in Dallas, Texas has been confirmed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control as the first case of Ebola diagnosed on American soil, reports CNBC. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital had confirmed earlier this week that they had isolated
Editor Note: Historian Diana West delivered these remarks at National Security Action Summit II on Monday, September 29. The event was hosted by EMPact America, in partnership with Breitbart News Network and the Center for Security Policy. For anyone still puzzled as
The United States has spent up to an estimated $1 billion on military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS and ISIL), a new analysis found. According to a September 2014 report by the
The Obama administration’s efforts to combat Ebola in west Africa by sending 3,000 military personnel to Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun, and while residents appear grateful and optimistic about the efforts, both infection and death tolls appear to be
Shortly after Breitbart News revealed that the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC) had deleted its past two Friday sermons from its website, the mosque responded by making the sermons again available to the public. The motive behind why
Until now, a common understanding of the details surrounding Iranian Dr. Ardeshir Hosseinpour’s death was that he was reportedly assassinated in 2007, and presumably at the hands of Israel, which had hoped to slow-down Iran’s nuclear program through clandestine operations.
The Syrian city of Kobani is facing capture by the terrorist group the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and residents fear the terrorists will massacre Kurdish inhabitants when it happens. This news comes on the heels of President Obama’s
Iranian courts have decided to uphold a death sentence by hanging for Rayhaneh Jabbari, a woman found guilty of murdering a man who attempted to rape her. New reports indicate that the hanging will be postponed, however, from its originally
Some of Canada’s nationwide Islamic organizations have come together to release a ‘counter terror’ handbook that urges intelligence and law enforcement officials to stop using the terms “Islamist terrorism,” “Islamic extremism,” and “jihad,” when officers of the law. The 37-page
Breitbart News was able to secure through direct URLs the past two Friday Khutbahs (sermons) preached at the ISGOC (Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City), which are believed to have been deleted off of the Mosque’s website shortly after Islamic
(Reuters) – The European Union has accused Ireland of giving Apple Inc. state aid by letting the iPhone maker shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from tax, in return for maintaining jobs. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told the Dublin
(Reuters) – At least eight people were killed by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake that hit rural southern Peru over the weekend, emergency authorities said on Sunday as the search for victims continued. The quake late Saturday night in Paruro province, in the
(Reuters) – Venezuela announced on Friday the “temporary” takeover of two plants belonging to U.S. cleaning products maker Clorox Co which has left the country because of difficult economic conditions. After Clorox management abruptly left, many of the firm’s 400
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — A radical Muslim organization in Belgium was a terror group that brainwashed youngsters and sent them to fight in Syria, prosecutors said Monday as a trial started for dozens of its alleged leaders and members. Only
(AFP) Bangladesh police said Monday they have arrested a British citizen suspected of entering the country to recruit militants for jihadist groups overseas such as the Islamic State organisation. Officers said Samiun Rahman, a 24-year-old Londoner of Bangladeshi origin, was
TOKYO (AP) — Huge boulders falling from the sky. Billowing gray smoke that cast total darkness over the mountain. Volcanic ash piling on the ground and fumes filling the air. Some survivors of the eruption of Mount Ontake made a
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire during a protest on the Ethiopian Embassy grounds on Monday, according to a video of the incident, but no injuries were reported. A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said it had detained a
Sierra Leone’s largest newspaper, the Awareness Times, is reporting with alarm that at least 1,028 Ebola patients appear to be missing in the country, as official Ministry of Health statistics account for a smaller number of combined victims and survivors
During a recent interview with the Russian news organization Rossiya Segodnya, Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab stated that Egypt could take the lead in the fight against terrorism. “Today’s terrorism is an artificially created product which has no borders and
The papal ambassador, or nuncio, to the Ukraine has criticized both the Ukrainian government, which he called a “criminal oligarchy,” and “Russian aggression” as the joint cause of serious destabilization in the nation. In a recent address to officials of
