National Security

China is sending a spy ship to monitor U.S. ship exercises off the coast of Hawaii. The Chinese say that because the exercises are being held in international waters, they have a right do surveillance of them. According to BBC

On July 21, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan M. Pitts received the Medal of Honor and said he did not want the nation to remember his name, “but those of the nine men who were killed in one of the fiercest

Bulgarian officials have revealed that the bomber behind the July 18, 2012 attack at the Burgas airport was 25-year-old Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini. Husseini held “dual Lebanese-French citizenship.” According to BBC News, Husseini “blew up a bus in Bulgaria…killing five Israeli

The Times of Israel reports that a day after hundreds of anti-Israel protesters demonstrated in downtown Chicago, leaflets threatening Jews with violence were found on a half-dozen cars. The hate crime unit of the Chicago Police has already opened an

Sky News reporter Colin Brazier broadcast live from the MH17 crash site this week, with a cameraman panning closely to the personal artifacts of passengers believed to have died almost immediately as the plane was allegedly shot out of the

For more than a week since the arrival in Mosul, Iraq, of the jihadist terror group Islamic State (formerly ISIS), reports out of the city were relatively quiet. ISIS, NBC reported, dedicated itself to rebuilding infrastructure and helping Sunni Muslims.

A giant rubber duck installed on China’s Nanming River has disappeared. The duck, a sculpture by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, was widely acclaimed and warmly received when it arrived in China, but disappeared swiftly from the waters as the river

Jihadist militants have taken over a monastery in northern Iraq, one of the country’s best-known Christian landmarks, and expelled its resident monks, a cleric and residents said Monday. Islamic State (IS) fighters stormed Mar (Saint) Behnam, a 4th century monastery

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that he has put his nation’s military on standby in response to the alleged shooting down of commercial aircraft Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, on which 28 Australian citizens died. Any action by Russia

Four people died in Donetsk, the disputed Ukrainian region now home to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. The rebels said Ukraine’s government is attempting to take over the city. According to Reuters, Kiev claimed that no one sent

The suicide bomber who killed approximately three people near a Baghdad mosque on July 17 was from Melbourne, Australia. The Islamic State took credit for the attack and named Abu Bakr al-Australi as the bomber. According to BBC News, the Australian

BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks overnight in two Iraqi cities killed at least 16 people, officials said Monday as authorities struggle to stop the Sunni militants’ offensive that has left huge areas in northern and western Iraq outside of government control.

(Reuters) – Edward Snowden, a former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use technologies to subvert government surveillance programs around the globe.  Snowden,

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested one of Colombia’s most-wanted criminals, a 40-year-old man nicknamed the Rat who is one of leaders of a ruthless drug cartel linked to 400 murders and the shipment of largest amounts of cocaine

At least two people were killed in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Sunday evening in an attack by armed men on a motorbike, police said.

(Reuters) – Italy’s navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship recovered five bodies from a sinking rubber raft off the coast of Libya. Calmer summer seas have led

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way to Cairo, as of this writing, to attempt to negotiate yet another ceasefire. His journey is a thoughtless, and no doubt narcissistic, waste of U.S. diplomatic capital, since after two

The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported sources in Khartoum claiming that Israeli forces struck a Sudanese weapons arsenal which held long-range missiles for Hamas. The UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the Sudanese government would not confirm the incident, hoping to cover up

Amidst swirling rumors of an imminent Gaza ceasefire announcement, The Times of Israel reports that representatives of the Palestinian Authority headed by intelligence chief Majed Faraj and Egyptian representatives have met in Cairo to discuss possible amendments to an Egyptian

ERBIL, Iraq – The last Christian reportedly left Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul at 12:00pm on Saturday, ending over 6,000 years of Assyrian history in the city. Assyrians have lived in Mosul for over 6,000 years, converting to Christianity over 2,000 years

Convinced that their region has suffered as much Obama administration meddling as it can possibly stand, Israel and Egypt took the extraordinary step earlier this week of jointly rejecting requests by US Secretary of State John Kerry to involve himself

The United States Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, told Israeli TV Saturday night that his country will work to restore Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority to power in Gaza after Israel’s current military operation against Hamas is successfully completed.  Appearing on

The United Nations Relief Works Agency, the organization of the world body dedicated solely to Palestinian ‘refugees,’ announced that the 20 Hamas terror rockets found hidden inside a UNWRA run school on Thursday have been returned to Hamas.   In its

Tel Aviv, Israel– On Sunday, A two-hour humanitarian ceasefire signed onto by both parties and facilitated by the Red Cross, one that was supposed to take place from 1:30-3:30 p.m. local time, was violated by Hamas less than 40 minutes