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
As terrorists overwhelmed Iraqi security forces, President Barack Obama attempted to wash his hands of any responsibility for Iraq’s fate last week. “The fact that they are not willing to stand and fight and defend their posts against admittedly hardened
Policy decisions and politically driven censorship of the American national security establishment have helped strengthen Al Qaeda’s successor and hastened the collapse of the nation of Iraq. The current administration and the President represented Operation Iraqi Freedom as the “wrong
German President Joachim Gauck said the German army should be more involved abroad. After WWII, Germany has been reluctant to be involved in any mission that requires troops. Germany is America’s most important ally on the European continent and the
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the organization will help Ukraine defend itself against Russia and finally admitted Russia considers NATO an enemy after months of heavy tension. NATO also released satellite images that prove Russia did move tanks into
A “fluorescent green statue” of Vladimir Lenin urinating has been erected in the Polish town of Nowa Huta as part of Krakow’s 6th Grolsch ArtBoom Festival. The statue is titled the “Fountain of the Future.” According to The Independent, the
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies are demanding Ukraine fire Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia after he called Putin a “dickhead” in a protest at the Russian embassy in Kiev. “We must fulfill our international obligations, including defending the right of Russia
The situation in Crimea, now officially Russian territory, remains tense after the referendum that shifted sovereignty from Ukraine. For the Muslim Tatar population in the area, the return of Russian rule has prompted concerns of repression, concerns that Russian President
A senior Israel Defense Forces official is reported to have said that the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers late last week–one of whom may also be a U.S. citizen–was planned by Palestinian terrorists who had recently been freed from Israeli
BAGHDAD (AP) — As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers. The pictures on
On June 13 former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the Iraq War and the decision to “topple” Saddam Hussein, adding that the violence in that country today is due in part to Barack Obama’s decision to pull U.S. troops
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Iran asks U.S. to intervene in Iraq, and offers to help U.S. wholesale prices unexpectedly decreased in May Ukraine conflict escalates sharply after plane shot down, killing 49 Iran asks U.S. to intervene in
Pope Francis, speaking to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, issued a blistering assault on “the god of money,” asserting that it is the root of problems facing the young people of the world. He also said that the world economy
As he was being released from an American detention camp in Iraq in 2009, the man who will go on to head the powerful ISIS group issued a menacing warning to his former captors. ‘I’ll see you guys in New
The disappearance and presumed kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers took place on Thursday evening, Israel time. By Friday evening, Israel time, the IDF had released their names and photos. They are: Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach. It has been confirmed that
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered an aircraft carrier — the USS George H.W. Bush — to move from the northern Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf as President Barack Obama considers possible military options for Iraq.
Alexander Stubb is set to become Finland’s next prime minister, and he said he wants the country to join NATO. This could cause problems since Russia has “warned” Finland, along with Sweden, over a relationship with NATO and even told
A bomb was found near President Petro Poroshenko overnight in Kiev. “The device was found during the night near the gate where presidential cars go in. It was a container with five grenades and a kilogram of metal nuts,” a
(AFP) — Egypt’s prosecution service on Saturday referred 13 men to trial for alleged sex attacks on women at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, including during inaugural celebrations for new President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The attacks took place on January 25, 2013,
Over 200 people are picketing at the Russian embassy in Kiev against Russian policy and aggression towards Ukraine. From Interfax-Ukraine: According to an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, about 200 people gathered near the main entrance of the diplomatic mission, blocked by various
Pro-Russians forces shot down a Ukrainian military plane in Luhansk, killing 49 servicemen. “Overnight on June 13 and 14, terrorists cynically and treacherously shot the IL-76, transportation air carrier of Ukrainian Air Force as it was approaching the land of
BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of young Iraqi men gripped by religious and nationalistic fervor streamed into volunteer centers Saturday across Baghdad, answering a call by the country’s top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni militants advancing in the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Iran and Iraq’s al-Sistani call for sectarian war in Iraq Obama caught be surprise, discussing military options in Syria U.S. State Dept. confirms Russian tanks in Ukraine Iran and Iraq’s al-Sistani call for sectarian
On Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Ukraine that its soldiers had violated the border and demanded it stop all provocations. Moscow released this statement a day after Russian tanks were reported inside Ukraine. “On June 3, two infantry fighting
Mohammad Fazl, one of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees whom President Obama traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, did not have a hand in planning the September 11, 2001 attacks but was key to Al Qaeda’s pre-9/11 planning and “served
Marine Sgt. Colin Archipley’s unit suffered heavy casualties in the savage house-to-house fighting against insurgents holed up in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. Nearly a decade later, he watched in frustration from his organic farm north of San
