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
A gay pride flag now flies over the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, just slightly below the American flag. U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro trumpeted the display on Facebook in a post shared by the embassy’s official page.
The Islamist terrorists that were responsible for attacking the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and killing four including Ambassador Chris Stevens were overheard by multiple US spy agencies communicating by means of State Department cell phones they seized during the
Threats of annihilation from a nuclear Iran, growing tensions with the United States, and a global campaign to isolate them through boycotts and sanctions seem unable to break Israelis’ optimism about their country and their children’s future in it. So
Once upon a time, Russian President Vladimir Putin scolded America for trying to be exceptional. Well, now Russians can buy numerous t-shirts and merchandise with Putin’s face on them to celebrate his many exceptional victories, including the annexation of Crimea
A Russian nuclear energy firm has announced that it is in talks to help construct a nuclear plant in Argentina. Rosatom expressed interest in the project, and its chief says the company only awaits the decision of the Argentine government
Ukraine and Russia gas talks are still going on, but nothing is resolved. Russia state owned gas company Gazprom extended Ukraine’s payment deadline to June 16 while the South Stream pipeline, a project to bypass Ukraine, meets setbacks. Russian President
A group of activists in Puerto Rico unhappy with the current status of the island as a United States commonwealth is demanding a separation from America and reunification with Spain. The group plans to contest the 1898 Treaty of Paris,
On June 11 Iraq announced it will join with Kurdish forces in an attempt to drive insurgents from Mosul. Mosul was “seized” by “an Al Qaeda splinter group” on June 10. According to Reuters, Iraq foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said:
As Congress demands answers on the reasoning behind the highly-secretive exchange of five Taliban officials for captive Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, new details emerge on Bergdahl’s time in captivity. The Department of Defense has denied they paid the Taliban money for
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel testified before the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday, reaffirming the Obama administration stance that the trade of five high-level Taliban officials for captive Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was the “last, best opportunity” to free Bergdahl and
The United States withdrawal from Iraq in 2012 was celebrated as a major advancement in ending the war on terror, but as American presence diminishes in the nation, jihadist groups have made significant gains, taking over the second-largest city in
Chinese officials announced Tuesday that Hong Kong is not designated with “full autonomy” and must submit to the control of Beijing. The notice comes less than a week after over 100,000 people gathered in Hong Kong to remember the 25th
The Al Qaeda-affiliate Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan now claim they were ultimately responsible for the assault in Pakistan on Karachi’s international airport. The militant Islamist group said they fought side by side with the Pakistani Taliban during the raid that
Sunni Islamist militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have rapidly expanded their control of Iraq as a whole. The group is now said to be within range of overtaking Iraq’s biggest oil refinery in the
On July 18-19, 2014, an important liberation movement and Declaration of Equalities for Muslim Women will be discussed and signed in Seneca Falls. Yes, Seneca Falls, the very site where Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony once
BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents. Fighters from the Islamic
Stanislav Shushkevich, former head of state of Belarus, helped officially end the Soviet Union in 1991, but he feels the USSR is making a comeback. Ex-Soviet leaders lead the old Soviet states and there is corruption everywhere, especially in Belarus.
Mosul, the capital of the Nineveh province in Iraq, is currently under assault. In a letter posted on the website First Things, Dominican Friar Fr. Najeeb Michaeel, O.P. has written from Mosul: Bad news. I write you in a situation of
After taking over Iraq’s second biggest city in Mosul, Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) have deployed further into several areas of Iraq. Iraqi Colonel Ahmed Taha said the ISIS overtook the areas of Hawijah, Zab,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Thailand’s military junta uses sexy ‘army girls’ to change minds Iraq in major crisis after catastrophic fall of Mosul to ISIS Iraq’s president Nouri Al-Maliki declares state of emergency Thailand’s military junta uses sexy
(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist Boko Haram militants have kidnapped up to 30 women from nomadic settlements in Nigeria’s northeast, close to where the group abducted more than 200 schoolgirls, residents and Nigerian media said. Villagers from Chibok, where the schoolgirls
Dayton, Ohio, resident Jeffrey Fowle, aged 56, is reportedly being held in a North Korean prison after leaving his Bible in his Pyongyang hotel room. Japanese news reports allege that Fowle was detained after “authorities” found a Bible during a
Ex-Soviet states Moldova and Georgia are following Ukraine, another ex-Soviet state, to sign a trade agreement with the European Union on June 27. Russia warned both countries not to proceed with the agreement. “There is an aggressive attitude from Russia
Polish MP Marcin Swiecicki said Ukraine is in a better position than Poland was 25 years ago when it broke away from communism. Swiecicki was in Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet, the first prime minister post-communism. “In Poland in ’89,
The territorial dispute between China and Vietnam involving a Chinese oil rig parked near the disputed Paracel Islands has continued to escalate and, in an extensive report, the government of China is now claiming that the oil rig triggered an
