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
BEIJING, Sept. 26 (UPI) — Chinese state media announced an upward-revised death toll, to 50, in last weekend’s violence in China’s western Xinjiang province. The initial report indicated two people died in the Sept. 21 bomb attacks by suspected Uighur
An Egyptian court postpones its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule. Gavino Garay reports. Protesters chant outside the court where a verdict for former Egyptian
KISO, Japan (AP) — Five more bodies were found near the summit of a Japanese volcano on Monday, bringing the total presumed dead to 36, police said, as toxic gases and ash from the still-erupting mountain forced rescue workers to
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban. A senior adviser to President Barack Obama
(Reuters) – An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket toward the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before. The U.S.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: On “60 Minutes,” the president faulted his spies for failing to predict the rise of ISIS. There’s one problem with that statement: The intelligence analysts did warn about the group. Nearly eight
Rising from an expansive 15-acre plot just 11 miles from Saint Peter’s Basilica, the Mormon’s first temple in Italy shines tall and white. The 140-foot temple, begun in 2010, will be the largest Mormon temple in Europe, and is scheduled
A Turkish man who was part of a flotilla that violently tried to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza in 2010 has been killed in bombing raids targeting ISIS terrorists in Syria, media reports say. Yakup Bülent Alniak was in Syria researching a
On Sixty Minutes, President Barack Obama said that his administration had “underestimated” the rise of the Islamic State. Recent history supports a case that the President and his counselors have underestimated the entire crisis of disorder in the Arab
He is a man who rarely reads a book of less than 600 pages and who has easily written books of that length. Engage him in conversation and he will talk about the footnotes in a particular book–and the footnotes which should
The writing is on the wall for Vatican Radio, which can expect substantial downsizing as the media commission works toward reform of Vatican communications operations. The committee of experts that began meeting this week to study Vatican communications has been
Last week, President Barack Obama complained to the United Nations General Assembly about violence in Ferguson, Missouri, implicitly equating the protests to the genocidal violence of ISIS, his primary focus in the address. On Sunday, Iranian leader Ali Khamenei picked
First it was 1991, then we returned in 2003. Today, it is 2014, and America is again at war in the Middle East–but now it is Syria and not just Iraq. Despite decades’ worth of analysis followed by military actions,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: India’s rock star PM Narendra Modi draws mobs at Madison Square Garden. Saudi Arabia warns that Yemen coup could threaten global security. Pro-democracy protests bring Hong Kong to a standstill. India’s rock star PM
(Reuters) – The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France’s upper house of parliament on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande’s Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant
Over the weekend, the FBI announced that it would treat Islamist Alton Nolan’s alleged beheading of Colleen Hufford, 54, as a case of workplace violence. That despite the fact that Nolan’s Facebook page contains a picture of Nolan giving the ISIS salute, multiple
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s army has started training 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighters at an army school in Bavaria to support them in their fight against Islamic State extremists. A spokesman for the German defense ministry said Sunday that the 32
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll finds that, despite President Barack Obama’s promises to the contrary, 72% of Americans believe the United States will end up using combat troops in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). Americans were
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama acknowledged that U.S. intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants and overestimated the ability and will of Iraq’s army to fight. Questioning Obama’s strategy to destroy the group, House Speaker John Boehner
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police used tear gas Sunday and warned of further measures as they tried to clear thousands of pro-democracy protesters gathered at government headquarters in a challenge to Beijing over its decision to restrict democratic
This article originally appeared in the Daily Mail: The British Muslim convert known as the ‘White Widow’ has joined ISIS and is training a female suicide bomber squad in Syria, it has been reported. Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, from Aylesbury in
(Reuters) – A Twitter account run by an Qaeda member said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a U.S. air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said on Sunday, following several days of uncertainty over whether
Was Muslim convert Alton Nolen, who allegedly beheaded co-worker Colleen Hufford and stabbed another woman in Oklahoma on Sept. 25, inspired by ISIS, the Islamist group that rules large parts of Syria and Iraq? (ISIS is also known as the
This morning Pope Francis, together with emeritus Pope Benedict, met with thousands of elderly people in Saint Peter’s Square, telling them that old age “is a time of grace.” Grandparents, the Pope said, are entrusted with handing down their wisdom
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Saudis prepare for MERS and Ebola at Hajj Central African Republican government asks UN to lift arms embargo Saudis prepare for MERS and Ebola at Hajj Hajj in Mecca, 1920 (Getty) Saudis are preparing
