National Security

This story originally appeared at BBC: The UN says it has received reports from Iraq that “reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale”. Deputy Human Rights Commissioner Flavia Pansieri said Islamic State (IS) was believed to have committed systematic and

Russia President Vladimir Putin told outgoing European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso he could take Kiev, Ukraine in two weeks if he wanted to, according to a report in Italian newspaper La Repubblica. This latest threat surfaces just days after Putin

Within just days of a video surfacing showing ?the decapitation of four Egyptian nationals, the Cairo government took decisive military action and killed the leader of the Jihadist group alleged to have been responsible .  Several sources have reported that on Sunday,

By midnight August 31, 1939, more than one and a half million German troops had secretly taken up their final positions on the Polish border in preparation for their ordered invasion that was to commence at dawn.  The last barrier

The jihadist terror group Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS, has become a particularly dangerous threat to the West through its guerrilla-style war tactics and decentralized organization, making targeting leaders more difficult for Western militaries.  ISIS leaders are now

A new poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly support a military strike against the Islamic State terror group in Syria, formerly known as ISIS– an outcome that is in striking contrast to the indecisiveness of President Barack Obama, who has admitted

The Cuban government has implemented new laws Monday that strengthen the embargo between itself and the United States–not limiting tourism from the West into the country, but limiting the transport of necessary goods like underwear and soap from Cuban families

On this day, 75 years ago, the bloodiest war in human history broke out when Nazi Germany, fresh off of signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, invaded Poland. Though two years would pass before the United States entered

 This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ukrainian naval vessel attack from shore by anti-government militias Pakistan’s army issues a veiled threat to politicians Israel infuriates Palestinians by claiming West Bank land for settlements Ukrainian naval vessel attack from shore by

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cities in the United States and Western Europe are being eyed as Islamic State militants’ future targets and President Barack Obama needs to take action, U.S. lawmakers say. Without offering specifics on any threats or suggestions on

Despite evidence that Islamist terrorism is the root cause of some of the deadliest attacks on American soil–including the Boston Marathon bombing that killed or wounded hundreds–the FBI has not included it on the list of potential domestic terror threats

BRUSSELS (AP) — Despite tough rhetoric decrying Russia’s increasing military involvement in Ukraine, European Union leaders on Sunday stopped short of imposing new sanctions against Moscow right away. Instead, the 28-nation bloc’s heads of state and government tasked their executive

PARIS (Reuters) – A 16-year-old girl suspected of trying to reach Syria to join Islamist rebels has been arrested in the southeastern city of Nice, France’s interior minister said on Sunday. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement that

BEIJING (AP) — China’s legislature on Sunday ruled out allowing open nominations in the inaugural election for Hong Kong’s leader, saying they would create a “chaotic society.” Democracy activists in the Asian financial hub responded by saying that a long-threatened

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hong Kong threatened with riots as China reneges on democracy Coup possible in Pakistan after night of violence Russian troops threaten Ukraine’s entire coastline Colleges preparing to screen incoming students for Ebola Hong Kong

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday that his country and Russia are “very close to the point of no return,” which he defined as full-scale war, after this week’s revelation that Russian forces have entered Ukraine. Poroshenko said Russia will face full

Hardly any Americans will know of Hilarion Alfeyev, 48, a Russian Orthodox bishop who acts as the “foreign minister” of his Church, but it is important that they do. He is a bridge between not just the Orthodox Church and

A century ago, the First World War began. On 28 July 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, then on 1 August, Germany declared war on Russia, and over the course of a few short days, several more world powers joined

In sharp contrast to President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet to deal with the lightning progress and horrific brutality of the ISIS terrorist army, a new report published in the journal “Sentinel” by the Combatting Terrorism

“America reinforces its values and thus its security by being transparent about even the worst abuses of those values, not by hiding the evidence deep in a file drawer.” This sentence is from a New York Times editorial of 30

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen on Sunday broke a six-week siege imposed by the Islamic State extremist group on the northern Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli, following U.S. airstrikes against the Sunni militants’ positions, officials said.

The White House has rejected a recent report that claims president Obama took as long as a month to initiate a rescue mission into Syria to attempt to save James Foley, the American journalist recently beheaded by a member of

Police have named Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a murder suspect over his alleged involvement in the deaths of 14 demonstrators in a June protest.  The protest was led by supporters of populist and opposition cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, who