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
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was allegedly shot down on Thursday, and three days later, the crime scene is still not secured. The pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine are not allowing anyone except their own people to access the site. Donetsk
Nothing tells the story of the tragic crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 like pictures from the still-unsecured site, where passengers’ bodies, personal effects, and remnants of the plane lay strewn on the ground. The most troubling thing about the
Tel Aviv, Israel — Midday Saturday, a Hamas terror cell attempted to infiltrate Israel through a tunnel network in the Gaza Strip. They were met by Israeli forces, who reportedly exchanged fire with the jihadis and pushed them back underground.
Iraq’s Christian leaders have just made a desperate cry for help. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of Iraq’s Catholic church, has issued an appeal “to all who have a living conscience in Iraq and all the world.” The situation
Powerful militia battling for control of the Libyan capital’s airport have agreed on a ceasefire, Tripoli’s mayor said Thursday. The truce was confirmed by both warring sides, and would see control of the airport handed over to neutral forces. ila/hmn/
On Friday, twenty civilians were killed in Luhansk, which is only an hour north of the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed. Luhansk, like Donetsk, is under control of the pro-Russians and broke away from Ukraine to form the
Russia Today reporter Sara Firth quit Thursday because of the network’s coverage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster. She is the second RT reporter to leave since the crisis started in Ukraine in November 2013. I resigned from RT
(AFP) Christians were fleeing Iraq’s jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours to leave, the country’s Chaldean patriarch and witnesses said. Witnesses said messages telling Christians to leave the city
The terrorist group which now goes by the self-proclaimed name the Islamic State, which was formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (ISIS), is seeing mounting support in Lebanon’s second-largest city of Tripoli, despite the lack of organized ISIS
A “homosexuality test,” once commonly used by law enforcement officials in countries where being gay is illegal, appears to have experienced a resurgence in Lebanon, despite the Lebanese Order of Physicians decrying the practice as torture. The practice, which Lebanon’s
As the three day meeting for the 6th annual “BRICS” conference of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa comes to a close, the most important accomplishment is the founding of the BRICS Development Bank and a currency stabilization pool
While Gazans, their Hamas leadership and pro-Palestinian supporters around the world condemn Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, now turning into a ground invasion, its time Muslims examined the Other Occupation: the inexorable advance of political Islamism over Islam. Increasingly, Islam has been usurped by
President Obama spoke to the press about the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine. Kiev released intercepted calls and evidence that proves the pro-Russian forces are responsible for the deaths of almost 300 people. “Yesterday, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17
BRISBANE, Australia, July 18 (UPI) — Australian woman Kaylee Mann lost her brother on MH370 in March, then found out her stepdaughter was killed on MH17 after the plane was shot down over Ukraine Thursday. Mann’s brother, Rod Burrows and
BAGHDAD, July 18 (UPI) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria distributed leaflets to Christian leaders in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul this week, threatening violence if they don’t convert. Christians who do not accept Islam or fail
Thirty independent investigators from the Organization for the Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have arrived at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile over disputed territory in Ukraine. The
In their own way, the Russians are trustworthy: You can always trust them to remind you as to what kind of people they are, and what kind of political system they create. As we shall see, Americans got a bitter
In the aftermath of the horrific fall of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine Thursday, the United States Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines not to fly over that airspace, and it received voluntary agreements from airlines that they would not. But
As the international community attempts to piece together the facts surrounding the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over disputed Ukrainian territory, the plane’s black boxes–pivotal to the investigation–appear to have been found. Whether Russian separatists will hand the boxes
On June 30, NATO Supreme Commander General Philip Breedlove warned the world that Russia was training the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine to use surface-to-air missiles. The US believes Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down and a BUK missile
A Washington Post article addresses ongoing Israel-Hamas hostilities, including reports of Hamas funnelling weapons into a mosque in Gaza. In paragraph 36, Washington Post reporters on site in Gaza wrote: During the lull (5-hour humanitarian truce violated by Hamas), a group of
Jewish communities around the world are not letting terrorist attacks from Hamas deter them from relocating to Israel. This week, hundreds of French Jews arrived in Israel to settle in the towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon, while incidents of anti-Semitism
NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama directed U.S. officials on Thursday to do all they could to support an investigation into what caused a Malaysian jetliner to crash in a Ukrainian war zone and pledged support to the affected
According to some on Twitter, Israel shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine. after #Malaysia announced sending help and doctors to #GazaUnderAttack ,its #MH17 got rocket.Sounds like #Israel destroy it.#DirtyIsrael — omar khattab (@omarkhataab) July 18, 2014 The shooting
Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Kiev has evidence the pro-Russians in east Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Luhansk. “The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Interior Ministry have collected and continue to collect irrefutable evidence
