Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
Five church schools in Gaza are facing closure by the Hamas government if it follows through with an order forbidding co-educational institutions. The Catholic Herald reports that the director general of Latin Patriarchate Schools in Palestine and Israel is gravely
As atheists push for chaplain positions within the military, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) and others within the House of Representatives ask why the family of a solider KIA would want to be told their son or daughter is now “worm
Congress is taking action on religious liberty in the military, a story that was originally reported by Breitbart News. New legal language passed a key committee this week and next goes to the full House and then the Senate; it
Reports indicate the Pentagon recently conducted tests in which advanced bunker buster bombs were used to destroy a replica of an Iranian underground nuclear facility. The tests proved a resounding success, and the U.S. shared the results with ally nations.
Yesterday America learned that the U.S. government is gathering information on our phone calls and can follow our every keystroke. We are reassured that the information is to stop terrorists. And yet the government fails to stop terrorists when it
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an immediate end to mass protests against his rule Friday but urged supporters to “go home” after they staged a major show of strength welcoming him home from an overseas trip. Waving
(AP) UK’s Prince Philip faces exploratory surgeryLONDONBritain’s Prince Philip is facing exploratory abdominal surgery after being admitted to a London hospital. Buckingham Palace says he is in good spirits and is expected to be in the London Clinic for up
(AP) World stocks fall ahead of US jobs reportBy PAMELA SAMPSONAP Business WriterBANGKOKWorld stock markets fell Friday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of a key U.S. jobs report later in the day. Investors were also registering disappointment with
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is getting a divorce Austria quits U.N. peacekeeping force on Syria-Israel border North Korea goes on a charm offensive Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is getting a divorce Alina Kabaeva relaxes
An article in the Taliban magazine Azan compares Barack Obama at this point with Michel Gorbachev in 1989–saying both lost in Afghanistan and both lost their own countries. The article opens by describing Afghanistan as “the graveyard of empires” which
(AP) Russian president Putin, wife divorceBy JIM HEINTZAssociated PressMOSCOWRussian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila said Thursday they are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, making the announcement on state television after attending a ballet performance at the
The exodus from Vladimir Putin’s jackbooted Russia is on. On Thursday, Russian chess grandmaster and Putin political opponent Garry Kasparov announced that he had left the country thanks to its political repression. “I kept traveling back and forth until late
After a long legal battle, the British goverment has apologized and agreed to pay £19.9 million (about $30 million) to thousands of Kenyans who were totured between 1951 and 1962 in the Mau Mau uprising. One of the people tortured
A report issued by NBC News’ Open Channel says the CIA did not always know who is was targeting with drone strikes over a 14 month period. According to the report, about 25% of those killed by drones in Pakistan
ConVal High School in Peterborough, NH is forcing a member of the USMC who is just wrapping up boot camp to cover his Marine Blues when he attends his own graduation. The mother of soon-to-be Marine Brandon Garabrant, said his
A soldier who served Chick-fil-A sandwiches at a party he threw to honor the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and his promotion to Master Sergeant has received a letter of reprimand. The soldier received his promotion last summer, and since
A roadside bomb targeting a Tunisian army vehicle killed two soldiers and wounded two others on Thursday in Mount Chaambi, near the border with Algeria, the military said. Mount Chaambi is in rugged area close to the border with Algeria
The International Monetary Fund has admitted to significant failures in the first Greek rescue that forced a second, larger bailout and left the country in a deep recession. However, the global lender placed much of the blame on its Greek
Saudi Arabia on Thursday urged Lebanon’s people to act “wisely” and end their fighting in the city of Tripoli, wracked by a wave of bloody violence linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria. Riyadh was following “with deep concern the
(AP) SKorea offers to meet North for talks next weekBy SAM KIMAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaSouth Korean officials have offered to meet their North Korean counterparts next week in Seoul to talk about restoring a jointly run factory park and other
Yemeni forces killed two local Al-Qaeda leaders who were planning attacks on vital installations and arrested a third, state news agency Saba reported Thursday. An army operation Wednesday in the eastern province of Marib left “two dangerous leading Al-Qaeda elements
A group of former U.S. officials taking part in the”Iran Project” are calling on the Obama administration to focus on a more diplomatic approach to Iran. Former Ambassador William Luers runs the Iran Project. He visited Capitol Hill on May
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Syria and Hezbollah gloat over victory in town of Qusair Assad’s Qusair victory renews debate about military intervention Thousands of American troops to Jordan for ‘Eager Lion’ Syria and Hezbollah gloat over victory in
Cleric Anjem Choudary claims accused Woolwich attacker Michael Adebolajo was “a very nice man” and the vicitm–British soldier Lee Rigby–will “burn in hellfire.” The New York Daily News reports Choudary said Rigby will face hellfire not because he was part of the
Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner observes that although the administration mocked Mitt Romney less than a year ago for suggesting that President Barack Obama undertook an “apology tour” to the Middle East in 2009, Obama’s nominee to replace Susan
