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
(AFP) — A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned that Islamist militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada
President Barack Obama found time between golf rounds Thursday to condemn the beheading of American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State in the Levant or ISIL) and to assure the American people that
Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News is reporting that a famous Jewish couple were stabbed to death in their home in Istanbul. The bodies of Jak Karako, 77, and his wife, Georgia Karako, 69, were discovered by police in their apartment in Istanbul’s
This article originally appeared at BBC. The World Health Organization has said the speed and extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “unprecedented”. The WHO’s Dr Keiji Fukuda expressed concern over so-called “shadow zones”, areas which cannot be
(Reuters) – Authorities suspect around 130 people resident in Austria – most of them foreign nationals – have allied themselves with Islamist militants fighting abroad, officials in Vienna said on Friday, raising their estimate by nearly a third. Public safety
On August 9 a tweet sent with the hashtag #AMessagefromISIStoUS shows someone holding a piece of paper with Arabic writing in front of the Old Republic Building in Chicago. The Old Republic Building is located “at the corner of Michigan
The beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley has raised concerns in the West about Islamist threats. But Israel has been facing this specter for decades and – given Israel’s proximity to the Islamist threat – the Jewish state is the West’s canary
From The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Hamas killed at least 18 Palestinians, including two women, Friday that it suspected of collaborating with Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports. That number is expected to grow. Eleven suspected collaborators were murdered at a
On Wednesday, violence broke out in the West Point slum in Monrovia, Liberia, which is ground zero for Ebola in the country. The government quarantined the area, but restless citizens attempted to break out. The New York Times reported the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hamas says it didn’t intend to start the Gaza War Tunisia and Egypt cancel passenger flights to Libya Hamas says it didn’t intend to start the Gaza War The current Gaza war was triggered
Breitbart News spoke with Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, about his call to action to destroy the Islamic State Terror group, the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East, as
Sixteen-year-old Shaki Kamara, a resident of Liberia’s impoverished West Point slum, has become the face of the terror ravaging Monrovia as the government attempts to fight the growing Ebola epidemic. Kamara was shot by police during violent exchanges between law
The operations director of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Brice de la Vigne, has described the international efforts to stop the spread of the Ebola virus as “almost zero,” arguing that there is a lack of “political will” to stop the
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader, or “caliph” of the Islamic State terror group is reportedly on the move from Iraq to Syria, according to a top Kurdish official. It was said that Baghdadi feared U.S. airstrikes were rapidly closing
Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces remain poised for a possible takeover of neighboring Ukraine. Nuclear-armed North Korea is ruled by an unstable, nihilistic dictator who constantly makes new threats against American allies and the United States itself (along with some of its filmmakers). The Islamic State
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that the threat of the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant was “beyond anything we’ve seen.” He explained: They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq
After finally choosing to view the barbaric, on-camera beheading of freelance war correspondent James Foley, I’ve been left with a level of rage known only to those of us who have sacrificed unspeakable offerings on the altar of world peace.
The President of Indonesia called the actions of the Islamic State terror group “embarrassing” to the religion of Islam, AFP reports. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of Indonesia, the country with the world’s biggest population of Muslims, said, “It is shocking.
LUHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Declaring it had lost patience with Ukraine’s stalling tactics, Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kiev. Ukraine called the move a “direct
On August 21, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) told a Washington, D.C., audience that there is a “real possibility” ISIS militants have already entered the U.S. through the porous southern border. Perry pointed to individuals from terrorist countries who have
The UK-based video sharing website LiveLeak, which has become famous for its willingness to host videos featuring graphic violence that other sites ban, has issued a statement announcing it will ban any videos showing the beheading of a captive by
The economic situation in Venezuela has grown so dire under socialist President Nicolás Maduro that the federal government announced a plan to install a mandatory fingerprinting system in supermarkets, which would prevent individuals from buying “too much” of any one
It took her more than nine years of working in the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, but Yasmina Haifi finally uncovered the secret truth about the Islamic State: It isn’t Islamic at all. Actually, it’s a Jewish plot. Yes,
(Reuters) – At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, denying that the illness was Ebola. A WHO report dated Thursday and seen by Reuters
(Reuters) – Israel killed three senior Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip in an air strike on Thursday and said it would continue to target the group’s armed leadership after a ceasefire failed. Hamas, which dominates Gaza, named the men as Mohammed
