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
Russia passed laws to restrict free assembly, but there are Russians who defy the laws to protest or hold vigils for the war in Ukraine. In the most recent event, Russians attempted to light 2,249 candles to commemorate the number
The world’s leading public health voices are all in agreement that West Africa is losing precious time in the fight against its ongoing Ebola outbreak, and the window is closing on containing the virus in the region. “The level of
At least fifteen young men dug up the casket of a suspected Ebola victim in Liberia and placed it in the middle of a busy highway towards Roberts International Airport–a highly trafficked airport close to the capital, Monrovia–authorities in the
Islamabad, September 03 (QNA) – The Pakistani Army has killed more than 910 terrorists in operations in North Waziristan, the army said in a statement Wednesday. Security forces have cleared a number of areas including Miranshah, Mirali, Datta Khel, Boya
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A top Saudi security official said Tuesday that police had arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an al-Qaida cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour
Fighters from Hezb-e-Islami in Afghanistan, allies of the Taliban, are considering joining the Islamic State (IS). Their commander, known simply as Commander Mirwais, said Muslims everywhere are “thirsty for an Islamic caliphate” and that his fighters are watching to see
NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — The heady “we won the Cold War” days are over. When President Obama and other NATO leaders assemble here Thursday for a key summit meeting, their No. 1 goal will be an old and familiar one:
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident
BAGHDAD (AP) — An international rights group accused the extremist Islamic State group on Tuesday of systematic “ethnic cleansing” in northern Iraq targeting indigenous religious minorities, as well as conducting mass killings of men and abducting women. In a new
(Reuters) – An American doctor working in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus after working with obstetrics patients at a missionary hospital in Monrovia, the Christian organization SIM USA said on Tuesday. The North Carolina-based group did not
This post originally appeared in The Daily Beast: In the wake of ISIS’s latest alleged killing of an American journalist, leading lawmakers from both parties are calling for a bigger role in the U.S. war against the terrorist group. Leading
This post originally appeared in Salon: Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden began a press conference on Tuesday with the warning that “the window is closing” on containing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. “This
This is part two of the Huffington Post’s Alistair Crook’s analysis of ISIS. We reprint here. BEIRUT — ISIS is indeed a veritable time bomb inserted into the heart of the Middle East. But its destructive power is not as
According to the indispensable government watchdog group Judicial Watch, the U.S.government has evidence that the jihadist Islamic State (IS) is present in Juarez, Mexico – acrossthe Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Worse yet, the Texas Department of Public Safety
A Danish mosque spokesman has announced that his place of worship fully supports the Islamic State terrorist group that is waging a war of genocidal aspirations in Iraq and Syria. “An Islamic State will always be what Muslims long for,
Israeli intelligence identified and neutralized an Iranian “Yasir” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that was violating the country’s air space in the Golan Heights, Israel’s Channel 2 news reports. The drone was shot down by a MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 1,000, officials said Tuesday.
Last month, Islamist radicals seized Tripoli International Airport and took possession of as many as 11 commercial jetliners, according to a report from Magharebia, an online news site covering North Africa. News of the stolen planes have now created concerns
From Jake Tapper at CNN’s The Lead: The terrorist group has gained strongholds in eastern Syria and northeastern Iraq, and, according to a former CIA operative, ISIS cells have already infiltrated the U.S. “The people who collect tactical intelligence on
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday condemned an Islamic State video apparently showing a militant beheading of a second US reporter and threatening to kill a British captive as “disgusting”. He said it was an “absolutely disgusting, despicable act”
Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey announced Monday that Kiev has been threatened with a nuclear attack should it continue its battle against pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. According to Heletey’s statement on Facebook, “The Russian side has threatened on several occasions
The oppressive socialist regime governing Venezuela has gone through painstaking means to replace the nation’s storied Christian tradition with blind worship of deceased dictator Hugo Chávez, from filling the streets of Caracas with murals to teaching in children’s books that
The Inspector General has determined that the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan needs to provide better accountability and transparency over the aid it receives from the U.S. In 2013, Afghanistan received $15 billion in U.S. assistance, and congress has just approved
Reports indicate Boko Haram has seized the northeastern Nigerian town of Bama and displaced “thousands of civilians” in the process. Last month Boko Haram tried to duplicate ISIS’s formation of a state in Iraq and Syria by declaring an Islamic
Captured American journalist Steven Sotloff has reportedly been executed by a member of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. IS has released a video that purports to show the beheading of Sotloff. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at
