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
Tel Aviv, Israel — Tuesday morning, Israel unilaterally agreed to the conditions of an Egypt-brokered ceasefire, completely halting its military operations in Gaza. However, Hamas Muslim Brotherhood terrorists refused to stop firing rockets from Gaza into Israeli population centers. Fifty
The death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has risen to 603, the World Health Organization (WHO)) said on Tuesday, with 68 new fatalities mostly in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The UN health agency said the new deaths were recorded
(Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Hernandez blamed U.S. drug policy for sparking violence in Central American countries and driving a surge of migration to the United States, according to an interview published on Monday. Hernandez, who took office in January
(AFP) An American soldier who was held captive by Afghan insurgents for nearly five years returned to regular military duty Monday and will be taking a “desk job,” the Pentagon said. Following his release on May 31 in a swap
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 89 people and wounding more than 40 in one of the deadliest attacks
(Reuters) – Governments and health agencies trying to contain the world’s deadliest ever Ebola epidemic in West Africa fear the contagion could be worse than reported because suspicious locals are chasing away health workers and shunning treatment. From Guinea, where
AL-ARISH, Egypt, July 14 (UPI) — At least eight people were killed Monday in explosions near a security compound in al-Arish on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, near Israel and Gaza. One soldier and seven civilians died after a rocket, which security
MOSCOW (AP) — A rush-hour subway train derailed Tuesday in Moscow, killing 19 people and sending at least 150 others to the hospital, many with serious injuries, Russian emergency officials said. Several cars went off the track in the tunnel
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has resumed airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas militants violated a de-escalation brokered by Egypt. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner says that after holding its fire for six hours Israel has “resumed
A rocket fired from Gaza knocked out a power line in Israel that supplied electricity to 70,000 Gazans, according to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office on Sunday night. The Jerusalem Post reports that the outage was caused by shrapnel
Hamas is presenting Palestinians with a false picture of success in its ongoing rocket attacks against Israel, reports Palestinian Media Watch. On Hamas TV News, the host explained to viewers that the Israeli media “imposes blackouts on every place rockets fall,
Palestinians began flooding into UN refuge facilities after Israel dropped pamphlets in northern Gaza warning civilians to get away from military targets. About 17,000 Palestinians have sought shelter since Israel began striking back one week ago. According to BBC News,
Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a military court’s conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul for conspiracy to commit war crimes. However, the court also vacated two other convictions against Bahlul
Via Armin Rosen at Business Insider: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has now controlled much of Iraq for over a month. The group has been prolific in its abuses even during this brief reign of cruelty:
Tel Aviv, Israel — Egypt has extended a proposal for a ceasefire that would effectively end Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s name for the military operation against Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group Hamas. According to reports, the deal entails that both sides
With Hamas’ decision to begin firing hundreds of rockets into Israel, precipitating Israeli action to stop that rocket fire, anti-Jew sentiment has now exploded full-force onto the public scene. This isn’t unprecedented – each time Israel acts in its own
In a stunning rebuke of President Obama’s tepid calls for Israel to show “restraint” in response to daily rocket fire on Israeli civilian targets by Hamas terror redoubts in Gaza, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, long considered Israel’s best friend
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said Russian soldiers and officers are fighting next to the pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine. At the same time, NATO claimed Russia added more troops along the Ukraine border. “In the past three days a new
Last week various Palestinian websites posted a song recorded by Shadi al-Bourini and Qassem al-Najjar titled “Strike a Blow at Tel Aviv.” According to the Boston Globe, the video for the song “features images of wounded Israelis and massed Qassam
A military transport plane was shot down in Luhansk and Kiev claims the rocket probably came from Russia. This comes a day after Russia said a shell from Ukraine territory hit Russian territory and killed one person. The Donetsk People’s
Rabbi Moshe Ohayon, the leader of Casablanca’s Jewish community was walking to his local synagogue on Friday night for Sabbath services when a young Muslim man stopped him and beat him, breaking his ribs and nose. The man allegedly told
The Cuban communist government has arrested 100 women affiliated with the dissident group the Ladies in White–friends and family of male political prisoners–for organizing a march on Sunday to commemorate the mass drowning of refugees twenty years ago this weekend.
Tel Aviv, Israel–On Monday, an Israeli army tank stationed near the Gaza border came under fire from a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) attack. But for Israeli innovation, the tank likely would have sustained heavy damage and may have cost its
The jihadist terror group Islamic State–formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)–has released a new video attempting to court Canadians to the cause of jihad; it stars a Canadian man named André Poulin, who was killed in battle
On July 13, Boko Haram released a video “mocking the social media campaign that highlighted the plight of the 223 girls” abducted in Nigeria in April. The video “[marked] the girls third month in captivity… [serves] as a direct snub”
