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
(Reuters) – British police raided an English country pub this week in search of a stolen wooden relic believed by some to be the Holy Grail – a cup from which, according to the Bible, Jesus is said to have
Dr. Sebastian Gorka reacted to President Obama’s do-nothing approach to the ongoing genocide of Christians and Yazidis in Iraq at the hands of Islamic State (formerly ISIS) by quoting Leon Trotsky: “You may not be interested in war, but war is definitely interested in
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton–the most senior foreign policy official in the United States, aside from President Barack Obama himself, for four years–is now attempting to differentiate herself from her old boss, now that his hapless leadership has become
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a surprise speech late Sunday, resisted calls for his resignation and accused the country’s new president of violating the constitution, plunging the government into a political crisis at a time
Controversial Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayap Erdogan appears to have crossed the 50% threshold in Sunday’s national election, which, if confirmed, would enable him to avoid a runoff in his quest to become his country’s first directly elected president. An
Tucked towards the end of his otherwise vapid interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, President Barack Obama offers his own bizarre theory about what would bring about peace between Israelis and Palesitnians: namely, Israeli weakness. According to the president,
American airstrikes were carried out Saturday and Sunday through drones and fighter jets in order to provide air support for Kurdish ground troops in the area of Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers have been
CAIRO, Egypt — An Egyptian court on Saturday dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, preventing its participation in the parliamentary elections. The Muslim Brotherhood itself was banned in Egypt after the organization unleashed
The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, stated the jihadist group is coming to form a worldwide Caliphate in a chilling new video. “Our message to the entire world is that we are the soldiers of the Caliphate state and
Not every Yazidi resident in northern Iraq escaped before the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, captured towns in the region. The terrorist group told the people to convert to Islam or die, killed 500 of them, buried some alive,
Concerns over Ebola in the United States have escalated due to the prolonged nature of the disease; symptoms can take two weeks to appear. Given the ease with which the virus can travel via plane through a carrier who does
JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas have agreed to a second 72-hour ceasefire, multiple Israeli media outlets confirm. Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times of Israel that Israel has accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal after previously asserting
JERUSALEM — In a briefing at the Government Press Office on Sunday afternoon, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called on the Israeli government to deal with the “pragmatic” factions of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo to achieve a sustainable, long-term peace
BOSTON (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is focusing a spotlight on an online tool run by experts in Boston that flagged a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” in forested areas of southeastern Guinea nine days before the World Health
In 2005, boycotts of Israel and divestments from companies with ties to Israel began in earnest. In 2014, Sun News Network reports that Israeli supporters are countering these movements by buying Israeli products–especially the civilian version of IDF’s new battle
President Barack Obama’s weekend interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a stunning portrait of incoherence and inadequacy. Friedman–a shameless promoter of Obama since the 2008 campaign, whose books have allegedly influenced Obama’s foreign policy views–tries his mightiest to
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Riot police raced to quell a demonstration blocking Liberia’s busiest highway Saturday as an angry crowd protested the government’s delays in collecting the bodies of Ebola victims. In Guinea, where the deadly Ebola outbreak emerged in
This article originally appeared at the National Journal: August 1, 2014 The Nigerian government announced Thursday that it had started screening passengers at international airports for signs of Ebola after a passenger showed up in Lagos suffering from the illness, which kills up
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: The President didn’t want to strike ISIS in Iraq this week, but he has no choice. But there is still no plan to defeat the group, which gets more powerful by the
The article originally appeared at Bloomberg: The international response to the Ebola outbreak that has killed almost 1,000 Africans has been slow and inadequate, and the World Health Organization is at least partly to blame, said spokesmen for two key aid groups.
Sierra Leone (CNN) — It’s Monday, mid-morning as we drive east down rain-slicked roads. There are no cars, no trucks, and no people. Sierra Leone’s government demanded a shutdown and its citizens are listening. The West African nation crippled by
This story originally appeared in The Daily Mail: They arrived bristling with heavy weapons and waving black flags from about a dozen Humvees, seized from the Iraqi army and supplied originally by the United States. When the terrified residents looked
This article originally appeared on Vox: We know that Ebola outbreaks can be stopped — public-health officials have stopped them in the past. So how can they stem the current disaster unfolding in West Africa? By and large, experts understand
According to Miami-Dade police, as reported in a story from the Miami NBC affiliate (updated since first being posted; this story reflects that new information, as of 7:45 p.m. ET), two young black males approached 60-year-old Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Joseph Raksin Saturday
Out of the almost 1,000 Ebola victims, some of the most vulnerable are the medical workers on the front line. They know the risks, yet sacrifice their lives to help others. Despite the outbreak, more Americans are lining up for
