National Security

China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed data on August 13th that the nation’s credit plunged by a dramatic and wildly unexpected 86% in July, down to the slowest pace since the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the start of the

The state-controlled Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has published five separate articles in the past six weeks which accuse the United States of being responsible for the creation of the Islamic State terror group, Palestinian Media Watch reports. The articles all

With the World Health Organization announcing that the number of Ebola cases globally has neared the 2,000 mark AND the death toll nearing half of that, the government of Sierra Leone is implementing a centuries-old tactic to keep villages contaminated

In a special event dedicated to support for anti-Israeli elements in Gaza, the Venezuelan government announced that María Gabriela Chávez, the daughter of late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, would be making her political debut as an ambassador to the United

This post originally appeared at the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Like many girls her age, 15-year-old Moezdalifa El Adoui left her family’s home on a summer afternoon without stopping to say goodbye. But unlike other teens, she wasn’t going shopping

A stealth fighter designed by a group of Japanese companies, and using “similar technology to US-made F-35 fighters,” will undergo its first test flight early next year. This jet is “the first homegrown stealth fighter” built by the Japanese. According

The United Nations declared a “Level Three Emergency,” the highest possible, for Iraq on Thursday, as the advances of the Islamic State terror group remain largely unchecked. A UN representative said the new designation would “facilitate mobilisation of additional resources

President Barack Obama claimed that he “had Israel’s back,” and his supporters defended his record in 2012 by claiming: “No president in history has done more for Israel’s security than Obama.” Yet the supposedly “most pro-Israel president” even has clamped

(AFP) — Yazidis fleeing a jihadist onslaught in northern Iraq say neighbours took up arms alongside their attackers, informing on members of the religious minority and helping the militants take over. “The (non-Iraqi) jihadists were Afghans, Bosnians, Arabs and even

(AFP) An influential Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen has praised Islamic State jihadists for their “victories in Iraq” but without pledging allegiance to their self-proclaimed “caliph” or leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Rubaish is considered to be the religious affairs chief of

Geneva, August 13 (QNA) – The number of reported Ebola cases in West Africa has climbed to 1,975, the World Health Organization WHO said Wednesday. Among these patients, 1,069 have died in the four affected countries – Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria

(AFP) A second senior doctor in Sierra Leone was confirmed dead from Ebola on Wednesday as west Africa anxiously awaited the arrival of experimental drugs to tackle the deadliest-ever outbreak of the virus. Sierre Leone’s chief medical officer Brima Kargbo

While much of the global attention on the jihadist terror group Islamic State has focused on its genocidal attacks in Iraq, the group’s Syria wing has begun to advance through towns in Aleppo province, Syria, trapping more moderate anti-Assad rebels

Doctors attempting to halt what has become the largest outbreak of Ebola in history are faced with an ethical dilemma. The virus is spreading so fast and so wide that doctors are considering the idea of using experimental treatments on

A new Wall Street Journal report reveals that President Barack Obama’s administration blocked a shipment of missiles to Israel in late July and tightened additional weapons shipment procedures to Israel, revealing increasing tensions between the two governments.  The U.S. decision

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Western countries struggle with whether to send troops to Iraq Iraq is repeating the events of the 1930s Western countries struggle with whether to send troops to Iraq The Obama administration flip-flopped on Wednesday on

Marine combat veteran Bing West explains how to defeat our enemies in today’s National Review. We reprint here. By pulling our forces out of Iraq in 2011, Mr. Obama claimed, he “ended the war.” Three years later, the winner of

(Reuters) – Libya’s parliament on Wednesday voted to disband the country’s militia brigades and called on the United Nations to protect civilians in an effort to end the worst fighting between armed factions since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Lawmakers appeared

(Reuters) – In rare testimony to a Cairo court, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied on Wednesday that he ordered the killing of protesters in a 2011 uprising, saying history would vindicate him. Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to life in

GENEVA (AP) — The number of people who have been killed in eastern Ukraine appears to have doubled in the last two weeks, the U.N. human rights office said Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the office, Cecile Pouilly, said the U.N.’s

CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary cease-fire for five days, Egyptian and Palestinian officials announced Wednesday, permitting the sides to continue to negotiate a substantive deal to end the war in Gaza. Yet even as

(Reuters) – The body of an American tourist from Chicago has been found stuffed into a suitcase in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and the victim’s daughter and her boyfriend have been arrested for what police suspect was a gruesome

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies, the umbrella organization that leads that country’s Jewish community, has announced that it is filing charges at the South African Human Rights Commission against trade union leader Tony Ehrenreich for an anti-Israel Facebook

(AFP) Guinean President Alpha Conde on Wednesday declared a deadly Ebola outbreak that has killed 377 in the west African nation a “health emergency”.