National Security

On Friday, a natural disaster that occurred in a remote village in northeast Afghanistan claimed the lives of upwards of hundreds of Afghan villagers, with some estimates even claiming thousands. The landslide occurred around noon local time in the district

From The Economist: “Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force?” America’s cerebral president betrayed a rare flash of frustration on April 28th when dealing with a question in Asia about his country’s “weakness”. Barack Obama

May 2 was the most violent and deadly day in Ukraine since the Euromaidan protests began in November 2013. Between 30-40 people were killed in Odessa after pro-Ukrainians and pro-Russians clashed. As Maxim Eristavi points out, it was “the darkest

On Friday, Phillippines and Interpol security authorities arrested 58 individuals behind a Philippines-based criminal network that used victims’ online sexual activity as material for blackmail. The criminal front was said to be a “sextortion” ring. In its press release Friday,

(AFP) Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday to discuss the “serious escalation of violence in Ukraine,” where security forces have clashed with pro-Moscow separatists. Diplomats said the meeting, the body’s 13th on Ukraine since

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a press conference in the Rose Garden, and one of the many topics was Ukraine. The two leaders vowed more sanctions if Russia does not stop making the situation worse in Ukraine.

A growing number of Syrian Christian leaders are traveling to the United States to plead with lawmakers to stop sending arms to the rebels. The most recent visitor is the Patriarch of the Church of Antioch, His Beatitude Gregorios III,

The disastrous policies of President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela are beginning to significantly impact American corporations. Corporations like Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, and others are finding their quarterly earnings diminished by the rapid devaluation of Venezuela’s currency. According to

Ajnad Misr is a new jihadist group in Egypt that is slowly emerging from under the shadow of the better-known Ansar Beit al-Maqdis. Ajnad Misr translates as “Soldiers of Egypt,” and in the last few months it has become “increasingly

This article was originally posted in National Journal Someone tweets about Benghazi every 12 seconds. Not every 12 days or every 12 minutes, but every 12 seconds. Over the past month, that’s added up to more than 200,000 tweets, according

On Friday, May 2, 2014, a radical Islamist group stormed Libya’s security headquarters in Benghazi, leaving up to nine dead and over a dozen wounded. Libyan army officials said among the dead were some of Libya’s police officers and military

The Venn Institute has just released it mid-term scorecard on International Religious Freedom (IRF) for the 113th session of Congress, and Congress has received a resounding F.  Only a handful of members received high scores: on the House side Frank

A long-anticipated preliminary report reviewing the actions surrounding the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 shows that Malaysia Airlines relayed incorrect information about the location of the plane to Vietnam in the early hours of its disappearance, waiting four

International human rights groups are once again calling for improved working conditions at construction sites for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, as the alarmingly high rates of migrant worker deaths and a litany of human rights abuses continue in

While previously in a five-year decline, terrorist activity increased significantly in 2013, from the work of Islamist extremists to Greek anarchists to lone wolf attackers in America. According to a new report released by the United States Department of State

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Geneva agreement between Ukraine, Russia, the European Union, and the US is now invalid because Ukraine used military force to recapture cities occupied by pro-Russian forces. “Basically, at the same time that Russia is

On Thursday at a United Nations Human Rights summit in Geneva, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) took the stand to to defend its human rights record against accusations it was committing crimes against humanity. Western nations were

Ukraine launched another military offensive to retake Sloviansk, which is held by pro-Russian forces. The Ukrainian army captured three checkpoints outside of the city on April 24. Early Friday morning Ukraine Defense Minister Arsen Avakov said the army seized nine

It has been almost two weeks since the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram abducted over 300 Nigerian schoolgirls aged 16 to 18. It is believed they are being held captive in the Sambisa Forest, a territorial stronghold for the Boko

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have suspended imports of live pigs and certain pig products from North America and Japan to prevent a deadly virus from contaminating the food chain here. The Agriculture Ministry said Friday no cases of the

There were many rich moments in former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor’s interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier about the Benghazi scandal. Certainly his exasperated protest–“Dude, this was like two years ago”–summarizes the callow nature of

Kiev, May 02 (QNA) – Ukrainian rebels shot down a third Ukrainian army helicopters on Friday over a barricade in the city of Slaviansk in Donetsk province, southeast Ukraine. Earlier defenders of the east Ukrainian city of Sloviansk have downed

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Friday that Ukraine’s offensive against pro-Moscow rebels in the east dealt a final blow to a faltering peace deal aimed at easing the crisis in the ex-Soviet country. “While Russia is making efforts to

It was the headline that buzzed ’round the world: “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power this year.” Okay, so China is now #1. We are now #2.     Let’s ask ourselves: Does it really surprise us that