National Security

A U.S. official is admitting that the U.S. has had troops in Somalia since 2007. The troops–about 120 “on the ground”–“go beyond the Pentagon’s January announcement that it had sent a handful of advisers in October.” According to Reuters, even

On Thursday, the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its Iraq border. Iraqi troops had reportedly abandoned the area, leaving the Saudi side of the border vulnerable to infiltration.  Baghdad has denied the reports of the abandonment,

Nineteen-year-old Shannon Maureen Conley, a nurse from Denver, was prepared to give up her life and move to Syria to meet a jihadist claiming to be a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and upon being arrested attempting

The escalating crisis in Ukraine being engineered by Vladimir Putin is taking on the feel of the Guns of August: an inexorable march towards a wider conflict, and perhaps a conflagration.  Having few good options to prevent the Russian autocrat

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is attempting to persuade Sunni Iraqis that may sympathize with the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to return to peace and trust his Shia government. On Wednesday, Maliki announced a general

Uyghur Muslims located in the northwest of China have been ordered to cease their observance of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that necessitates taking part in fasting during the day. According to the Associated Press, statements about the ban have

The Pope has officially approved of exorcism as a recognized Catholic practice. The Vatican has approved of 250 priests under the banner of the International Association of Exorcists, who claim that they have the powers to save people from demonic

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Jerusalem violence triggered by ‘price tag’ killing of Palestinian teen China bans Ramadan fasting for Uighurs in Xinjiang province Muslim players at World Cup Football (Soccer) face Ramadan problems Airport security to increase as

Myanmar police imposed an overnight curfew in the country’s second largest city of Mandalay on Thursday, after two nights of sectarian unrest that left two people dead.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said, on the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s talks in Seoul expected to focus on the North’s

Muslim “relatives” of a Sudanese Christian woman hiding at the US embassy are taking her to court to try to prove she belongs to their family, a lawyer said Tuesday. The complainants are the same people who laid an apostasy

Rescuers have pulled 13 more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed last weekend in southern India, raising the death toll to at least 55, officials said Thursday. The 11-storey apartment tower on the outskirts of Tamil Nadu’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaida is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security. There is no indication that such a bomb has been created or that there’s

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a tentative step toward improved relations with North Korea on Thursday by announcing his government will lift some of its sanctions in response to the North’s decision to re-open a probe

(Reuters) – Three accused leaders of Peru’s Shining Path were charged in New York on Wednesday with running a drug trafficking ring to fund the insurgent group, federal authorities announced. The three Peruvian citizens face terror, narcotics and weapons charges,

(Reuters) – U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said. The comments are

DENVER (AP) — FBI agents tried more than once to discourage a 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who said she was intent on waging jihad in the Middle East before arresting her in April as she boarded a flight she hoped

Breitbart News spoke with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), candidate for president of the United States in 2012, about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Islamic State jihadist terror group, the Muslim Brotherhood, Putin’s Russia, America’s border security issues, and what her plans

Yale University’s Yale Global Online has published a piece by Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, asserting that “Islam has no centralized controls; any power-hungry despot can use religion as an excuse.” But it’s

In the aftermath of the kidnapping and killing of three Jewish boys in Hebron, the world has now fixed its attention on the killing of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 17, a Palestinian youth whose burned body was found in the Jerusalem

On Tuesday, July 1, the 17th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, some 500,000 residents of what since 1997 is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) marched through the

The nearly 500 American troops sent to Baghdad to bolster security for the US embassy are equipped with Apache attack helicopters and small unarmed surveillance drones, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. President Barack Obama on Monday ordered 200 additional troops to

Chinese engineers are currently working on a $6.3 billion high-speed rail linking China with North Korea. The rail is one of three China plans to build to “bring North Korea closer into China’s economic orbit.” According to The Wall Street

JIANGXI, China, July 2 (UPI) — Researchers in China recently discovered a new wasp species — Deuteragenia ossarium, or the “bone house wasp.” The name alone is enough to send shivers down your spine, but it gets worse: the insect