The U.S. Navy alerted Iran that it was deploying one of its vessels as part of a search and rescue effort for 10 sailors who were off course and allegedly inside Iranian waters, CNN learned from an unnamed U.S. defense
More than 1,200 Europeans who joined radical Islamists in Syria and Iraq have returned home in the past two years, an Associated Press count shows.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) says he will accept Syrian refugees because Americans have “an obligation” to do so.
A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week’s gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that Air France flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) was diverted to Salt Lake City Tuesday evening after a bomb threat was received, KABC reports.
Two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and hundreds of passengers and crew were safely removed, the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration said.
On Tuesday, at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) inquired if the Federal Communications Commission has the power to shut down websites used by the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
The United States needs Europe to take bolder action to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
In contrast to the United States, the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin does not see Hamas and Hezbollah as genocidal terrorist organizations bent on a second holocaust, but as democratic and “legitimate societal-political forces” that they can get along with.
Quoth Politico: “the terrorist attacks on an American ally, Republican elders think their party’s flirtation with inexperience is nearing its end.
The United States must guard against the flow of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked foreign fighters across America’s borders, warned U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The Russians have been saying they would not jump to conclusions about the nature of the Metrojet crash in Egypt until a lengthy investigation was concluded but, on Tuesday, Russian security officials suddenly declared the plane was indeed destroyed by a terrorist attack. There have also been reports of police detaining or arresting airport workers, although the Egyptian government has disputed those accounts.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) responded with gunfire and arrests when dozens of residents held an unprecedented protest against the jihadist group’s rule and draconian policies in the town of Manbij in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, activists cited by several news outlets revealed.
On Tuesday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin only had himself to blame for terror against a Russian civilian aircraft.
On Tuesday Police evacuated the soccer stadium in Hanover hosting a contest between Holland and Germany because a “suspicious object was found inside” reported the Guardian.
In Tuesday remarks to the staff and their families at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry suggested there was a “rationale” for the January Islamic terror attacks against the journalists/cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris,
There are several reasons the Jewish and Syrian crises have little in common, and why opposition is different in the two cases
A southern Syria Islamist coalition, led by Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot al-Nusra Front, issued an ultimatum for the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate, to surrender within 24 hours, reports the Lebanon-based NOW News.
Nearly 2,000 Cuban refugees are stranded on the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border after the former nation, an ally of Cuban dictator Raúl Castro, refused them entry despite possessing legal visas from the Costa Rican government. The Nicaraguan military used tear gas and water cannons in the Cubans, injuring many.
It’s not every day that Mother Jones magazine publishes something asking progressives to take it down a notch, but that’s what author Kevin Drum did in a piece published Tuesday.
A soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled less than two hours before it was scheduled to begin, and the stadium in Hannover evacuated, due to unspecified “security concerns.” According to Conflict News, there are now reports that German police “discovered a truck bomb disguised as a rescue vehicle” near the stadium.
A female passenger on a British Airways flight was restrained after allegedly attempting to enter the plane’s cockpit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists at the G-20 summit in Turkey that funding for ISIS comes from 40 different nations, including members of the Group of 20.
On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated California would help accept Syrian refugees, and argued that they would be “fully vetted in a sophisticated and utterly reliable way.”
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is the latest in a growing list of governors who have rejected Obama’s plan to allow Syrian refugees into the United States.
Farid Esack, a former professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, blamed the West for the Paris attacks in a post on his Facebook page, calling them “your chickens come home to roost.”
