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 Islamic State (ISIS) Sharia Law in their self-declared “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq include laws that treat women as second-class citizens. Yet, somehow this terrorist group manages to recruit women from around the world to participate in their jihad.
A senior commander from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-connected jihadi group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) spoke with Reuters about how the Islamic State has helped train its terror outfit and organize its operations. “They teach us how to carry out operations.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with the four leaders of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, a senior congressional source said on Friday, amid rising concern in Washington about the advances of the Islamic State. The source told
The Jabhat al-Nusra jihadist group, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, set its eyes on Mhardeh, which is one of the last Christian cities in the war-torn country. Locals claim ten-year-old Shaza Bitar was killed in one attack on September
On September 4, speaking at the NATO Summit in Wales, UK Prime Minister David Cameron lectured fellow NATO leaders against making ransom payments to the Islamic State (IS) militants. According to The Guardian, Cameron used a G8 statement opposing ransom payments
South Sudan’s civil war is forcing people to flee towns and villages, leading to a devastating food crisis. Over 4 million of the 11 million citizens in South Sudan face starvation, including 50,000 children. Unfortunately, the country is in the middle
On September 4, South Korea announced it would “create a joint military unit” with the U.S. to destroy North Korea’s “weapons of mass destruction” should full-scale war erupt between the two Koreas. The unit “will be set up in the
Hussam Qawasme of Hebron was allegedly paid by terror group Hamas $61,500 dollars for masterminding the June 12 abduction and subsequent murder of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha’ar, according to a report that has been cleared
** The untold story of the Benghazi terror attack ** From Fox News: It has been nearly two years since the fatal attack in Libya. Now, hear for the first time from the men who fought that battle. Part II:
Following Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attack against the United States, Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera was introduced to the U.S. public as the channel that received the tape where Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the worst terrorist attack on
(AFP) Canada said Friday it will deploy “several dozen” military personnel to Iraq to advise security forces fighting Islamist militants in the northern part of the country. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office said the Canadians will join US advisers in
(Reuters) – A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia’s al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group’s leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as a fighting force
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com ISIS and Mideast realignment energize Islamic terrorism in India ISIS and al-Qaeda have generational struggle, and the prize is India China to increase harassment of U.S. surveillance planes ISIS and Mideast realignment energize Islamic
On September 3 the U.S. Navy issued a press release announcing the guided missile destroyer USS Ross was headed to the Black Sea. The release also said, “The U.S. Navy maintains an enduring commitment to forward-presence throughout the region in
Christianity is no longer a religion, former Turkish official Erdogan Bayraktar said at a recent conference sponsored by Turkey’s ruling (AKP) party. Bayraktar, Turkey’s Environment and Urbanism Minister until December 2013, said at the conference: The biggest three countries in the
Patriarch Louis Sako, leader of the Iraqi Christian Chaldean Catholic Church, has attacked the United States as “indirectly responsible” for the plight of Christians in that nation at the hands of the violent jihadist group the Islamic State. In a
British human rights activists Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Gundev Ghimire, 36, are missing in Qatar. The two men went to the country on behalf of The Glabal Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) to investigate the country’s treatment of migrant
Johnson & Johnson’s Crucell unit, along with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), decided to move forward with a two-shot Ebola vaccine to protect a person’s immune system. The vaccine will target the Zaire strain, which is
After reminding reporters of his “pretty busy” week during a press conference in Wales, President Obama made a surprise visit to Stonehenge before boarding Air Force One for home. Asked if this was a place he had always wanted to
A photo allegedly released as part of the propaganda campaign waged by the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS, shows an infant surrounded by guns and grenades “lying on an ISIS flag.” According to Mail Online, the photo, posted
The World Health Organization has released a controversial study claiming that North Korea has the second-highest suicide rate in the world, with almost 10,000 people taking their lives in the oppressive dictatorship in 2012. Many question state statistics, however, as
Breitbart News recently reported that the FBI did not include Islamist terrorism in its report, “National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism.” As Bill Gertz originally wrote, “the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to
Ten Israeli Arabs have united with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, to fight in Iraq and Syria, according to reports based on Israeli Shin Bet security services sources, The Times of Israel reports. Israeli Arabs’ interest in jihadi
The World Health Organization announced this week that the death toll in West Africa due to the outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,900 and continues to skyrocket. Among the greatest challenges for medical experts working to contain the outbreak has
This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal: Tucked away in a recent New York Times story on military operations against ISIS by Iraqi special forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga was a brief description of what these troops discovered when they
