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
The latest brainstorm from the Chinese Communist Party is a system for monitoring the Internet activity and financial transactions of its citizens, computing a “social credit” score on the acceptability of each person’s behavior, similar to the credit ratings compiled by financial institutions.
Cosmopolitan magazine last week published an interview with Brooke Sever, who is identified as “the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Middle East, which predominantly sells in Dubai, as well as in Beirut in Lebanon.” Says Sever: “As soon as you say you’re the editor of Cosmo in the Middle East, people just suddenly have this confused expression on their face and have a million questions.”
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran who continues to maintain a loyal following both inside and outside of the country, admitted in an interview with Iranian media that the regime in Tehran commenced a nuclear weapons program at the height of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
Turkish newspapers Bugün and Millet have painted their front pages black in protest of a Wednesday morning police raid on their offices, as well as the offices of Bugün TV and Kanaltürk. Police shut down the Kozi-Ipek media network and attacked journalists and protesters with tear gas and water cannons in what many claim is an abuse of government power.
As reports of a runaway military blimp filled cable news, MSNBC turned the coverage over to their breaking news reporter Brian Williams.
Supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have released a new propaganda manual, titled Oh Media Correspondent, You Are the Mujahid, in an effort to amp up their already well-known social media and Internet presence.
A 67-year-old Roman Catholic nun was excommunicated and ousted from her religious order last week after revealing that she had been secretly ordained a priest earlier this year and has since been presiding over Catholic rituals.
Chinese state media outlet Xinhua has published an editorial threatening the Chinese government is open to “use of force” against the United States should it continue to establish a military presence in the South China Sea.
The Office of the Inspector General (IG) at the Department of Defense (IG), the Pentagon’s top watchdog, announced Tuesday that it will “immediately” begin an investigation into the U.S. military’s response to allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan security forces.
The office of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad issued a statement Tuesday claiming to welcome “any political solution” to the Syrian civil war, days after insisting that an election is out of the question until Assad achieves “victory over terrorism.”
When it was time for three homeless veterans to be laid to rest, with no loved ones to serve as pallbearers, six Detroit high school students stepped forward, setting up a program similar to one they learned about in Cleveland.
In an address to an interreligious audience Wednesday, Pope Francis paid tribute to the Jewish people, noting that in Jewish-Christian relations, “indifference and opposition have turned into cooperation and goodwill.”
Contents: Sunni jihadist suicide bomber targets Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia; Russia’s military intervention in Syria inflames jihadists in Saudi Arabia
While being questioned by Lindsey Graham about the means through which the Obama administration intended to secure the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter conceded that such efforts were “principally political.”
Armed jihadists broke into three departments at the University of Aden in southern Yemen on Monday, distributing leaflets signed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and threatening death to university authorities if they do not enforce a strict separation of the sexes.
Turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannon on Wednesday stormed into the Istanbul headquarters of a media group linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival, just days before a weekend election. The action triggered widespread concern about
United States State Department spokesman John Kirby called Iran’s “destabilizing activity” in Syria “unhelpful” but noted that the Islamic Republic would need to be more involved in the diplomatic process of achieving an end to the violence in the region sooner rather than later.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Able-bodied young Muslim men of military age, who are fleeing their home country in search of refuge in the West, should stay behind and fight radical Islam, suggested Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) during a House panel hearing on the ongoing refugee crisis fueled by the civil war in Syria.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has published a report blasting the Malaysian government for clamping down on free speech in order to silence critics.
The video below was released by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council. Its opening moments offer helmet-cam footage from the rescue of some 70 hostages from the ISIS prison near Hawija, Iraq.
The Islamic State has struck on a novel combination of depravities, murdering three prisoners by lashing them to ancient stone pillars at a historic site in Palmyra, Syria, and then destroying both pillar and prisoner with explosives.
Though Palestinian leadership has continued to make unproven allegations related to Muslims being mistreated at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound, where the Al Aqsa mosque stands, Palestinian leaders have continued to reject measures–such as the installation of cameras at holy sites–that could provide proof for their claims.
Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American citizen who helped establish a pro-Tehran lobbying group in America, has been arrested in Iran and imprisoned indefinitely.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is investigating what it calls a “global crisis” of religious freedom, and the resulting challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, indicated that the death of Delta Force Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler in Iraq will probably not be the last American ground combat fatality in that country.
