National Security

(AFP) A mysterious explosion that rocked Nicaragua’s crowded capital Managua, creating a large crater, appears to have been caused by a meteorite, officials said Sunday. Amazingly, in a sprawling city of 1.2 million people, the impact near the international airport

(Reuters) – Iran has failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a setback to hopes for an end to an international stand-off over Tehran’s atomic activity. The lack of

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there. The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The African Union in an emergency meeting says the largest Ebola outbreak in history has created a sense of siege in affected communities. The regional bloc has promised to send health care workers, but there

This article originally appeared in the New York Post: When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions. Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev‘s ideology was not their own, the

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A novel vaccine temporarily shielded lab monkeys from Ebola, and a booster jab provided lasting protection, according to a study Sunday that endorsed approval for tests on humans. A single shot of the vaccine, based on a cold virus that

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says helping contain the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a U.S. national security priority but it’s going to be a long and difficult task. He says the American military will be helping

Despite the best attempts of the Obama administration to declare ISIS a “regional threat” and label their ideology rootless, the truth has now penetrated the public consciousness: ISIS has global reach, largely because their ideology does as well. The latest indicator

President Barack Obama told NBC News on Sunday that he regrets the “optics” of going golfing just minutes after making a speech about the beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorists. “I’ve got to ask. During that vacation,

In a stunning reversal of his past statements diminishing the Islamic State terrorist network’s threat level, President Barack Obama conceded to NBC News on Sunday that ISIS is “not a JV team.” “So they are not a JV [junior varsity]

After the release of videos showing two American journalists–James Foley and Steven Sotloff–being beheaded by ISIS militants, as well as the videos depicting the mass execution of unarmed Iraqi guards and 250 Syrian guards, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) says ISIS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar has confirmed it is holding two Britons who went missing while researching migrant labor issues, saying the men are being questioned for alleged illegal activity in the Gulf nation that is due to

BERLIN (AP) — Senior officials in Germany say the government will try to ban a group of Muslim extremists calling themselves “Shariah police” who told people to refrain from drinking alcohol in the western city of Wuppertal. German Interior Minister

This article originally appeared in The Hill: President Obama said he plans to address the nation on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday, vowing to “hunt down” the terrorists.  Obama said in

This article originally appeared in the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The agreement signed last year by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs was explicit: For $5 million, Norway’s partner in Washington would push top officials at the White House, at the

Lebanese Christians are taking precautions as the Islamic State (ISIS) continues to terrorize Iraq and Syria. Men grabbed weapons and set out for the hills to prepare for an eventual attack by the terrorist group. “We all know that if

Chinese state media outlet Xinhua estimates that the government will organize trips for 14,000 Chinese citizens to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to conduct the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city. The news follows months of crackdowns on ethnic Uighur Muslims

The Netherlands has experienced as surge in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-jihadists demonstrations in the past decade, and is currently struggling to contain the rising popularity of the terrorist group the Islamic State in its Muslim communities. Last week, the Dutch

David Remnick of the New Yorker has offered a weak, though amusing, defense of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. The liberal Remnick warns readers not to “to dismiss caution as weakness,” not to think Obama’s slow reactions to Vladimir Putin or

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday and giving a speech Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of

(AFP) Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi will be tried on accusations that he handed over to Qatar documents relating to national security, the state prosecutor said on Saturday. The Islamist ex-president is already facing the death penalty in several trials,

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian officials are trying to reassure citizens panicked about a spreading Islamic insurgency in the northeast even as fleeing residents report the extremists are urging people to join their fight and take their children out of