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
Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry refused to describe the current undertaking against the Islamic State jihadist terror group as a “war,” instead opting to call it “a very significant counterterrorism operation” and emphasizing the involvement
The Assyrian community and the Kurds of Iraq have staked a claim to areas throughout the region, including the Nineveh province in the State’s north. Due to the Islamic State’s surge through the country, geopolitical ramifications have caused both entities
The largest Ebola outbreak in history, spanning five west African countries, continues to spread and threatens to engulf the infrastructures of multiple nations. The situation could get worse for the continent, according to one Oxford University study that finds animals
Boko Haram has control of a swath of land the size of Ireland and the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, says he will rule the land as a caliphate in a fashion similar to ISIS’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to Newsweek,
President Barack Obama reportedly rejected advice from Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), to send a limited number of combat troops to the Middle East to assist in the fight against ISIS. According to Dustin Walker of RealClearDefense,
ISIS, the terror group that also calls itself the Islamic State, “can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria,” according to a CIA spokesman, CNN reported today. U.S. officials previously estimated ISIS had only as many as
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Catalans energized by Scotland’s upcoming independence referendum protested Thursday for a secession vote aimed at carving out a new Mediterranean nation in what is now northeastern Spain. The events illustrated how the
(AFP) US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Ankara Friday for talks aimed at building a coalition against Islamic State jihadists, a visit that comes after Turkey refused to allow the use of its air bases for launching attacks
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Two weeks after the end of the Gaza war, there is growing evidence that Hamas militants used residential areas as cover for launching rockets at Israel, at least at times. Even Hamas now admits
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African judge on Friday found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and declared him not guilty of murder. Prosecutors said they were disappointed by the
The jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaeda, released 45 Fijian United Nations peacekeepers in Syria to Israeli military in Golan Heights. The terrorists captured the group on the Syrian and Israeli border. On Wednesday, al-Nusra released a
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will go toStrasbourg to address the EuropeanParliament on November 25. Francis will be the second pope to visit Strasbourg afterJohn Paul II, who addressedthe Parliament on October 11, 1988. At that time, just
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com President George W. Obama presents his ISIS strategy Obama pledges ‘to degrade and ultimately destroy’ ISIS CIA increases estimate: ISIS has 20,000 to 31,500 fighters Iran faces a double threat from ISIS President George
GUARDAMAR DEL SEGURA, Spain, Sept. 11 (UPI) —A Spanish gravedigger pictured posing next to a long-dead corpse that had been exhumed has been suspended from his duties, officials said. A municipal representative in Guardamar del Segura said the worker, identified
German and Turkish officials have announced that they will not send fighter jets to Iraq and Syria as part of a coalition effort to conduct air strikes against the Islamic State terror group.Turkey has in addition also refused its airspace
Mirza Dinnayi, senior Yazidi leader and a former adviser on minority affairs to the president of Iraq, told the audience at a conference this week he fears the radical jihadist group the Islamic State could strike anywhere, due to the
Australia on Friday raised the terror threat level to “high” from “medium” for the first time in a decade, on concerns about Australians returning from fighting in the Middle East. The heightened alert means a “terrorist attack is likely”.
An email press release for In Defense of Christians (IDC), an organization that convened a three-day summit in Washington D.C. reportedly dedicated to bringing awareness to the persecution of Christians in the MidEast, states that five patriarchs from the conference–many
On September 11, both Britain and Germany made clear that they will not be participating in President Obama’s planned airstrikes against ISIS. This came one day after Obama assured Americans that the United States would be “joined by a broad
See, kids, this is why you don’t do drugs. And this is why you will always eventually regret voting for somebody who boasted of all the coke and dope he did while smoldering about his absentee father. President Choom Gang
“We must break the silence” on the shameful scourge of contemporary slavery, said archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi yesterday in Geneva at the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Tomasi is the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to
On September 10 President Obama gave a speech citing the mixed results against terror in Yemen and Somalia as models for how the U.S. will fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen
President Obama in his September 10 speech to the nation officially confirmed that the United States has been “sending arms to Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian opposition.” While Obama did not state specifically what group(s) America is providing assistance
(AFP) Boko Haram fighters have surrounded the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri and are preparing an imminent takeover, an influential regional group claimed on Thursday, calling for military reinforcements. abu-joa/phz/ec
Questions surround a Washington, D.C. conference whose stated purpose was to gather lawmakers, Eastern and Western churches, community leaders and a variety of Christian groups to confront the problem of genocide being perpetrated against Christians by ISIS. According to Alana
