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
Though last Friday’s suicide bombing failed to kill or injure its suspected target, General Abbas Ibrahim, leader of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate who was traveling through a busy checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway, it did kill two people and injure
July 28, 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, the first truly modern war that nearly destroyed European civilization. This terrible conflict, one that the intellectual elite of the time said could not happen, opened the door
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that non-Muslims cannot use the word “Allah” to refer to God, adding to a contentious debate that has reinforced complaints that religious minorities are treated
Like Cuba, socialist Venezuela often boasts of its free socialized medical system, with President Nicolás Maduro announcing in March the introduction of 60,000 new doctors to the Venezuelan medical force. For Venezuelans with medical needs, however, finding health care, or
News reports are flying about airstrikes by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) inside Syria, the most serious response by Israel to cross-border violence in the past several years. The IDF response came after an Israeli teenager was killed by an
With Iraqi soldiers failing to stop the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), reports indicate the only thing standing between ISIS and Baghdad are Kurdish soldiers blocking key roads to the capital. Kurds also play a
As the bipartisan permanent political class pushes for more guest-worker visas in America that will lower the wages of American workers, Canada is reducing the number of guest-worker permits it will award. According to the Wall Street Journal, Canada will
I was recently asked to advise a young Arab Muslim woman on her doctoral dissertation. Her work concerned violence against women–honor killings in particular. I said it would be my “honor” to do so. However, this feminist, from a wealthy
Tehran, June 23 (QNA) — Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman has said Iran and Russia have agreed to build two new nuclear plants in Bushehr alongside the current nuclear plant. They plan to build more nuclear plants in Iran in
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean army captured a soldier Monday who it says killed five comrades and then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days before shooting himself as pursuers
A Bangladeshi court sentenced eight Islamists to death Monday for a 2001 bomb attack targeting new year celebrations in the capital Dhaka that left 10 people dead. The head of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HuJI) outfit, Mufti Abdul Hannan,
MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo police fired tear gas and used batons Sunday to disperse hundreds of ethnic Albanians upset because minority Serbs had reinforced a barricade in the center of the city of Mitrovica. At least seven police officers
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty,
US General David Petraeus, a former commander of US forces in Iraq, said Friday he would support targeted strikes against jihadists behind an offensive in the strife-torn country, who he said were developing into a “terrorist army”. Petraeus, who won
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent Republicans exchanged criticism over U.S. involvement in Iraq on dueling Sunday news shows. Potential presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticized those who pushed the U.S. military invasion in Iraq and are now blaming the
Inspectors discovered two skulls and other human remains hidden inside teddy bears at a Mexico City airport shipping company. Company employees made the find when they ran the plush bears under an x-ray machine during a routine inspection, the Mexico
Pope Francis made headlines after traveling to Calabria, Italy and denouncing the mafia. During his trip, however, he stopped the papal motorcade to greet and bless a crowd of Italians that crowded the roadside. In a video posted on Facebook,
President Barack Obama used Uruguayan President Jose Mujica to deliver a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro on June 14th offering to negotiate an end the U.S. trade embargo, according to MercoPress. Obama supposedly first asked for help when Mujica
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Israeli troops kill two Palestinians during hunt for kidnapped teens Israeli air strikes hit Syria after cross-border attack Pakistanis fear nationwide blowback from military offensive against Taliban Jordan on alert as ISIS captures more
(Reuters) – U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner of war before being released last month, has been discharged from a military hospital in Texas and will continue treatment as an outpatient, the Army
MONROVIA, Liberia, June 22 (UPI) — Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare confirmed an eighth person in the span of two weeks has died of the Ebola virus in the country’s capital of Monrovia. The announcement came a week
GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel, June 22 (UPI) — The death of a Israeli teenage boy Sunday morning near the Syrian border prompted retaliation by Israeli troops, military officials said. Muhammad Fahmi Krakara, described 14 or 15 years old, died while sitting
Zaharie Shah, the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that vanished on March 8, was at home practicing takeoff and landings in remote locations before he piloted the plane. Some of the locations Shah used as targets included airstrips in
In the past few months, as many as 15 Somali-American men have left the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in order to join radical jihadist insurgents in Syria, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. One of the Minnesota residents told MPR
A week after the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) announced its takeover of the Iraqi city of Mosul, staggering figures of the money the Sunni jihadists have plundered from the nation are beginning to surface. Sunni jihadists aren’t
