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(Reuters) – Unidentified war planes flew over the Libyan capital Tripoli and explosions were heard early on Monday, residents said, in what could mark a sharp escalation of more than a month of street fighting between armed factions. Several Libyan

BEIJING (AP) — Russian army helicopters have landed in northern China to take part in multinational anti-terrorism drills, underscoring continuing close ties between Beijing and Moscow despite tensions with the West over Ukraine. Eight transport choppers landed Sunday night at

A Malaysian teen who “liked” a pro-Israel Facebook post is now being investigated for sedition and could face jail time for his “crime.” The 17-year-old from Penang reportedly liked someone’s post on the social media site that declared “I love

The Syrian rebels in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) asked the United States for airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria similar to those the US performed in Iraq. The terrorist group is closing in on Aleppo, the last

This story originally appeared in BBC: Residents of a Nigerian village on the shore of Lake Chad say at least 50 residents are missing after a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants. A witness told the BBC that 26 people

From The Guardian: Abu al-Mutasim, 18, from a Syrian border town in the province of Deir Ezzor, joined the rebellion against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in early 2012. He left his family home in Bahrain, where his parents

Henk Zanoli, 91, is one of the “Righteous Gentiles,” those few heroic Europeans who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Recently, however, the Dutch pensioner returned the medal he received in 2011 to

JERUSALEM – Hamas reportedly rejected a comprehensive, 11-clause long term ceasefire proposal on Saturday. Egypt has warned that this proposal will be its final effort to secure a lasting end to the Israel-Gaza conflict. According to details leaked by Egyptian

Catholicism in Korea came without missionaries, priests or nuns. Instead, it grew from a Confucian scholar who read books about the Faith and was baptized Peter by a Jesuit missionary in China. He returned to Korea with the books and baptized many more,

On Saturday, the US struck the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in an attempt to retake the Mosul dam. These strikes came a day after IS massacred 80 Yazidi men and kidnapped over 100 women and girls in Kocho village

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed the army destroyed part of a Russian military convoy after it entered east Ukraine.  Russia denied a military presence among the humanitarian aid, but reporters from The Telegraph and The Guardian witnessed military vehicles from

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com West Africa at significant economic risk as Ebola panic intensifies Ukraine says it partially destroyed Russian military convoy crossing border West Africa at significant economic risk as Ebola panic intensifies With travel bans increasing,

This article originally appeared in The Daily Mail: United States Secret Service is investigating a photograph blasted out on Twitter which seems to show someone holding up a smartphone, displaying a picture of the ISIS flag, in front of the

Breitbart News spoke with Colonel Bing West, former US Marine and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under president Ronald Reagan, about the threats we face as a nation today. West is the author of multiple books, including

Following three nights of “violent protests” by Turkish locals against Syrian refugees in and around Gaziantep, authorities in Turkey moved “hundreds of Syrian refugees” from the city on August 14. AFP reports the violence began on August 11 after news

A Hamas spokeswoman has inadvertently admitted that the terrorist organization she represents used force, intimidation tactics, and even death threats in order to coerce foreign journalists reporting in Gaza to provide biased coverage that worked in favor of Hamas and

The United Nations Security Council took proactive measures Friday to condemn the genocidal behavior of the jihadist terror group the Islamic State, blacklisting six individuals believed or confirmed to work with the terrorist group and threatening sanctions against those with

The growing spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria remains serious enough to keep the nation in an official state of emergency, with thousands concerned that the virus will spread like it has in other West African nations. In what

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday forged a unified response to the rapid advance of Islamic militants in Iraq and the resulting refugee crisis, allowing direct arms deliveries to Kurdish fighters battling the Sunni insurgents. Several EU nations

(Reuters) – The Hezbollah leader described the radical Islamist movement that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria as a growing “monster” that could threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states, according to an interview printed on

The siege of northern Iraq against the nation’s ethnic and religious minorities by jihadist terror group Islamic State threatens to significantly alter the composition of the nation and write yet another chapter on genocide in human history. The threat is

It is near impossible to imagine a Western representative collapsing on the legislature’s floor in tears or publishing unflattering hospital photos in the aftermath of a crash. Vian Dakhil, Iraq’s only Yazidi member of Parliament, has become internationally acclaimed for

Together with Yazidi leaders and emergency relief agency heads on the ground in northern Iraq, UN officials immediately disputed claims made late Wednesday by President Obama that Yazidi civilians stranded on Mount Sinjar no longer faced a humanitarian catastrophe, and