National Security

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department recommended Tuesday that Americans leave Libya immediately and warned U.S. citizens against any travel to the North African country. The department also said that due to security concerns and limited staffing it was only

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday the United States is setting up a $5 billion “terrorism partnership fund” to help other countries push back against radical extremists. Appearing on a host of network morning-show interviews, Kerry

C​AIRO–Egyptians went to the polls Monday and Tuesday to cast their vote in presidential elections. Egyptians went to the polls with enthusiasm, singing and dancing in celebration for the opportunity to ​elect the​ next leader of Egypt. They drove through

I just appeared for a rather intense hour on the BBC on the World Have Your Say program to talk about three separate cases in the news: the Pakistani woman who was just stoned to death for daring to marry

A similar situation to that in Ukraine is occurring in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. Thousands of demonstrators marched into the pro-Russian president’s building and demanded his resignation. Reuters reported: Several thousand opposition supporters had gathered in the capital

On May 25 the Tokyo Shimbun daily reported that four North Korean engineers were executed “over the deadly collapse of a new high-rise apartment building in Pyongyang.” The death toll in the May 13 collapse “may be as high as

(Reuters) – Boko Haram gunmen attacked a Nigerian military base and adjacent police barracks in the northeastern town of Buni Yadi, killing 31 security personnel, security sources and witnesses said. The attack late on Monday in Yobe state occurred not

The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) is a Washington-based non-profit organization that, like many working these portfolios, happens to have worrisome ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.  It is, moreover, engaged in a top priority of what the Brotherhood

On Sunday, President Barack Obama traveled to Afghanistan to do a photo op with the troops amid fallout from the burgeoning Veterans Administration scandal. Announcing his visit, the White House promptly released a list of guests, including the name of

(UPI) Cameroon on Tuesday began deploying large troop reinforcements to buttress its border with Nigeria against the threat posed by marauding Boko Haram militants, security officials said.

BAGHDAD, May 27 (UPI) — A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people on Tuesday at a Shia mosque in Baghdad. The bombing at the mosque in Baghdad’s Shorja district occurred shortly before midday prayers. No one has yet claimed

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama may soon sign off on a project to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels, in an open move that would significantly boost U.S. support to forces who have been asking for three years for

A man who once weighed in at 1,316 pounds died Monday in Monterrey, Mexico. Manuel Uribe was at a slimmer but still stunning 867 pounds at the time of his death. At his peak weight of 1,316 pounds, Uribe was

Japan is introducing a new holiday to the calendar: Mountain Day, a day for “opportunities to get familiar with mountains and appreciate blessings from mountains.” It will be Japan’s 16th holiday, the most of all G8 countries, though Japanese workers

VIENNA, May 27 (UPI) — One of the five white tigers cubs at the White Zoo in Austria has been named after President Barack Obama. Obama is the only male in the litter and is brother of Lila, Lulu, Lela,

With approximately 10 percent of the DePaul University student body participating in last week’s anti-Israel divestment referendum vote, apathy appears to be the big winner on the Lincoln Park campus. Still, by a vote of 54 percent to 46 percent (1,575

A group of sixth- to eighth-graders on a field trip in Chile are being heralded as the “tiny Indiana Joneses” of their hometowns after discovering the remains of a mummy estimated to be 7,000 years old. Local media suggest that

Despite a promise during peace talks that they would not engage in any terrorist activity during the course of the nation’s presidential election, reports have surfaced of at least three different incidents of attempted terror attacks by the Revolutionary Armed

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States is finishing the job it started in Afghanistan. The president says he will seek to bring the U.S. force in Afghanistan down to 9,800 as the American combat mission ends

PBS is set to air a documentary Tuesday describing the US-backed training and arming of Syrian opposition forces. The purpose of US involvement in the region, while not clearly and overtly stated by the Obama administration, is seemingly to counter

The South Korean foreign ministry has stated that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed that North Korea’s apparent increase in nuclear activity poses a threat to the entire region. China, North Korea’s only ally in the region, has previously aimed

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pregnant woman was stoned to death Tuesday by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore for marrying the man she loved. The woman was killed while on her way to

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian government on Tuesday released 45 pages of raw satellite data it used to determine that the missing jetliner crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, responding to demands for greater transparency by relatives of

(AFP) US forces will complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama was to say Tuesday. The United States invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime in Kabul

Mariem Yahya Ibrahim, the 27-year old Sudanese Christian doctor who was sentenced to death for apostasy, gave birth to a baby girl in Omdurman Women’s Prison in Khartoum on May 27, 2014. The baby, the daughter of Ibrahim and her