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
Archbishop Alexios, the Greek Orthodox Christian leader of Gaza, told CBN News on Wednesday that Hamas had used the church to fire rockets at Israeli civilians prior to the 72-hour ceasefire. The church was also being used at the time
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces struck terror sites in Northern Gaza in response to renewed rocket attacks from Hamas early Friday morning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ordered the IDF to “respond with force” after
This article originally ran in The Telegraph: If ever there was a likely spot for an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, New Kru Town in Liberia is it. A sprawling slum of the country’s war-ravaged capital, Monrovia, it is home
This report originally appeared in The Independent: Christians from the town of Qaraqosh were fleeing today after it was taken by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on Wednesday night. The town had previously been
This article originally appeared in The Independent: The health care system in Liberia is collapsing as hospitals shut down and medical workers flee from the Ebola epidemic, Liberia’s foreign minister has said. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said diseases such as malaria
The article originally appeared in The Guardian: In the space of just one week last month, according to Crif, the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organisations, eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by
With the plight of Israelis targeted by Hamas rockets at the forefront of mainstream media, the struggle of east Ukraine’s Jewish minority often goes unreported. The unstable region is under control of pro-Russian forces who choose to persecute anyone who
Aug 8 (Reuters) – The world’s worst Ebola outbreak, which has already affected four countries in West Africa, is likely to get worse in the coming months, the World Health Organization said on Friday. “The likelihood is that things will
The Pentagon confirmed Friday morning that the United States has conducted an airstrike on Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) artillery in Iraq. Rear Adm. John Kirby announced news of the strike on Twitter just moments ago: US military aircraft conduct strike
The Hamas terror organization launched two rockets at Israel in the waning hours of the 72-hour ceasefire that began Tuesday morning. And though Israel was offering to extend the ceasefire, and Egypt was urging Hamas to agree to a 72-hour
This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: At an emergency hearing Thursday, leaders of the fight against Ebola gave updates on the situation in Africa and the future of the deadly disease’s possible spread. At an emergency hearing in
UPDATE, 6:03 AM: A senior administration official that spoke with reporters after Obama’s speech stressed that no airstrikes have taken place at this time in Iraq, but would be postured to take targeted military action. ****** President Obama announced late Thursday
BEIJING, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Apple Inc. products were removed from a list of Chinese government procurement lists, as accusations between China and the United States over cyber-espionage continue. Despite Apple’s sales growth throughout Asia, ten products of the California-based
Israel may be attacking positions held by the terrorist Islamic State, or ISIS, militia. That is one possible conclusion after Kurdish sources reported Thursday that airstrikes had begun in northern Iraq, together with airlifts to help stranded civilians, while the
Some journalists from international news outlets have reported being threatened or intimidated by Hamas while reporting from Gaza, reports The Jerusalem Post. In one example, Indian television station NDTV broadcast a report by Sreenivasan Jain on Tuesday showing rockets being
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has announced that individuals from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, where the Ebola virus is most prevalent, are not allowed to obtain visas in order to go on the Hajj or Umrah (Islamic Pilgrimage to
Last week, Aderemi Ibirogba, Nigeria’s commissioner for Information and Strategy, warned would-be scammers that selling false “Ebola cures” could land them in jail. The threat apparently did not work, as a separate Nigerian government agency repeated the threats and publicly paraded
The terrorist group Islamic State, formerly ISIS, has nearly completed a march out of the city of Mosul to the Kurdish capital Erbil, where Kurdish forces, reports say, are working with the Iraqi military to protect their capital. A McClatchy
An Afghan military official says the gunman who killed U.S. Major General Harold Greene on August 5th was an Afghan soldier and that he shot Greene once in the leg and four times in the back. Greene was visiting Marshal
Hamas has demanded that Israel lift its blockade of Gaza by 8:00 a.m. Friday. If Israel fails to oblige, Hamas threatens that it will continue its attacks. Israel instituted the blockade of Gaza in 2007 to try to stop foreign entities from fueling Hamas and
The terrorist group Islamic State has taken over Qaraqosh, the largest remaining Christian enclave in Iraq. With the conquest of Qaraqosh and a further onslaught north into Assyrian territory, reports have surfaced that up to 200,000 Assyrian Christians have fled
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com ISIS targets 40,000 Yazidis for extermination on a mountaintop Russia appears poised to invade Ukraine, threatening war Panic over Ebola grows as Nigeria declares state of emergency ISIS targets 40,000 Yazidis for extermination on
The chief nurse for Emory Healthcare at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Susan M. Grant, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post Wednesday defending the decision to bring Ebola patients to America. Grant wrote that Americans need not worry about
Amid heightened pressure from the new media concerning the continued march of the Islamic State, formerly ISIS, and the perilous conditions under which Iraq’s religious minorities are living, President Obama and the Pentagon are considering airstrikes against IS and humanitarian
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained to reporters Thursday that the Obama administration believes there is no military solution to the crisis in Iraq. Earnest’s response appears to contradict a New York Times report that said President Obama is
