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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far fewer refugees remain on Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain and a U.S.-led rescue mission is far less likely, U.S. officials said Wednesday night. A team of U.S. military personnel assessed the situation and reported that only several thousand
This article is from this week’s New York Observer. We reprint here. A month after the German surrender ending the First World War, American President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Paris to throngs of admirers. After four years of the most
A leader of South Africa’s most powerful trade union has called for attacks on Jews in response to the war in Gaza. In a posting on his personal Facebook page Wednesday, Tony Ehrenreich, the leader of the Congress of South
CNN’s Ivan Watson flew with Iraqi air forces to Mount Sinjar to drop aid to stranded Yazidis. The helicopter managed to rescue around 20 people. Watson’s picture of 15-year-old Aziza illustrates the treatment Yazidis received from the terrorist group the
Wednesday, Pope Francis departed from Rome for Seoul, South Korea, on his first visit to Asia – and Protestants have already rallied in opposition. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, about 10,000 people attended an event Tuesday at
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Six people — including an Associated Press video journalist — were killed Wednesday when leftover ordnance believed to have been dropped in an Israeli airstrike blew up in the Gaza Strip. Simone Camilli and
“The pope? How many divisions has he got?” Soviet leader Josef Stalin said this in May 1935 to French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval when it was suggested the officially atheist Soviet Union should encourage Christianity to gain the pope’s favor.
Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram is still ongoing, but wives of the soldiers are retaliating because the government cannot properly arm their husbands. The wives surrounded a base in Maiduguri to stop deployment to Gwoza in northwest Borno state. “No
(AFP) A convoy of nearly 300 trucks carrying what Russia says is humanitarian aid for victims of fighting in eastern Ukraine moved slowly towards the border on Wednesday despite concerns by Kiev and the West over the shipment, Russian officials
From The Daily Mail: Six of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s former platoon mates are shopping proposals for a book and movie manuscript that are fiercely critical of the former prisoner of war. Since Bergdahl’s controversial release in May, the six have
ASHKELON, Israel – Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the current ceasefire by another 72 hours late Wednesday night, although Israel’s Channel 2 News reports a rocket landed in the Eshkol region shortly after reports of the agreement surfaced. As
ASHKELON, Israel – Rocket alert sirens sounded all across southern Israel at around 10 p.m. Wednesday night– two hours before the temporary 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was scheduled to expire– after a rocket was fired toward the coastal
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he was alarmed and in protest of Russian military exercises on the disputed Kuril Islands, known as the Northern Territories to Tokyo. Russian state-media proclaimed that 1,000 army soldiers, including eight Mi-8AMTSh attack helicopters
On August 12 Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to “speed up the delivery of billions of dollars in arms to Egypt. Moreover, he told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sissi that Russia is not only eager to deliver weapons agreed
Pope Francis announced that a soccer game will take place on September 1st in the Olympic Stadium in Rome in hopes of raising the prospects for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, the JTA reports. The Pope called fellow Argentines,
An extensive report by The Washington Post details how the Turkish government is attempting to fight off Islamic State jihadists on their border–and struggling to undo medical, military, and moral support that jihadists counted on for months in border towns near
Islamic State (IS) militants took over 500 women and girls as “war booty” when they captured Shingal nearly two weeks ago. Witnesses confirm that the militants took women based on who “was prettiest” or would be “funniest” to be with.
One hundred thirty United States marines and special operations units will travel to the autonomous Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said of the deployment of marines to the
Secure America Now, a 501(c)4 nonprofit focusing on defense and foreign policy issues, is dropping a bomb on President Barack Obama–figuratively, anyway–as national security becomes an issue in the midterm elections. Its new ad, “Daisy 2,” recreates Lyndon B. Johnson’s
PARIS (AP) — France’s top security official says nearly 900 French citizens have gone to Middle East battlegrounds and some have joined the Islamic State group. Despite efforts to discourage French people from joining militant groups, the figures given Wednesday
French President Francois Hollande says France will supply arms to Iraqi Kurds “in the coming hours.” USA Today reports that Hollande received “the blessing of authorities in Baghdad” to do so. A statement released from Hollande’s office said France is
Five doctors working out of a private hospital in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, claim they are being forced to continue working there and cannot return to their homes in India. The doctors have aroused the ire of the leadership
The Islamic State (IS) seized towns in the Aleppo province in Syria in an attempt to form a worldwide caliphate. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the terrorists snatched Masoudiyeh, Dabiq, Akhtarin, and Ghouz from rebel forces against President Bashar
An interesting development in the world of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations: a long simmering disagreement has broken out into open discord, as Tariq Ramadan, son of Said Ramadan and grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna, formally announced that he was
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Mammoth Russian truck convoy heads for confrontation at Ukraine border Indirect Hamas-Israeli negotiations for Gaza war continue in Cairo U.S. sends 130 more troops to Iraq as advisors Mammoth Russian truck convoy heads for
