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.
(AFP) Serbia’s nationalist President Tomislav Nikolic on Thursday personally apologised for the first time for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims, but stopped short of calling it genocide. Nikolic’s office confirmed to AFP authenticity of the statement.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang province Will Thursday be the day for a North Korean missile test? Syria’s opposition scorns Obama over chemical weapons commitment Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang
WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) — U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Wednesday accused the Obama administration of covering up its failures in Benghazi as he announced a new round of hearings. Issa said the administration gave “free passes to senior officials
USA Today reported Tuesday that “the mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a
On Tuesday, USA Today and Breitbart News both reported that the Cambridge, MA mosque attended by the late Boston Marathon terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has ties to Islamist radicals. It was founded in part by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who is now serving a
In the USA Today’s extensive look at the Islamic mosque attended by the suspected Boston bombers, a number of radical ties have been uncovered, including five attendees and/or official implicated in terrorist activities. There is also a sister mosque that,
Secretary of State John Kerry broke with some of his peers Wednesday and asserted the elder suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was radicalized in Chechnya then came back to America “to kill.” Speaking in Brussels, Kerry made this comment in
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has vowed to put the Obama administration and fellow legislators under pressure to take action to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who assisted the U.S. in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and who
In Wednesday’s USA Today, Oren Dorell offers a substantive piece of reporting on the Boston mosque attended by the Tsarnaev brothers, the suspects in last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. In this dangerous age of political correctness, Dorell’s reporting is surprisingly
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com France’s embassy in Tripoli, Libya, attacked by car bomb Israel accuses Syria of using chemical weapons, then retracts Twitter hoax causes a new Wall Street ‘Flash Crash’ Japan’s Shinzo Abe threatens ‘force’ against China’s
A global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style “killer robots” amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said
By RICHARD LARDNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONSenior Army officials warned Tuesday they may have to cut more than 100,000 additional soldiers over the next decade unless automatic spending reductions forcing the military services to slash their budgets are stopped. Testifying before the Senate
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye will address a joint meeting of the US Congress next month, lawmakers said Tuesday, in a show of support for the new leader after tensions with North Korea soared. South Korea’s first female president will
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Riyadh Tuesday to seal a major arms deal that will provide the Saudi kingdom with sophisticated missiles for its American-made fighter jets. Hagel flew in from Jordan after a three-day visit to Israel
Iran’s Finance Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said Tuesday that international sanctions had pushed inflation above 30% and were causing “a lot of trouble” but that Iran’s nuclear drive would not be halted. Lashing out at measures by the United Nations, United
French President Francois Hollande, accompanied by a high-powered business delegation, starts a two-day visit to China Thursday, with trade rather than geopolitics at the top of the agenda. For Hollande, beset by economic woes and the aftermath of a damaging
France promised that those behind a devastating car bomb attack on its embassy in Libya — which wounded a girl living nearby and two guards — would pay. He was speaking shortly after having visited the wrecked embassy in Tripoli
By MARIA CHENGAP Medical WriterLONDONA group of independent experts has slammed Britain’s cosmetic surgery industry for not protecting patients adequately and is calling for stricter controls in the aftermath of a breast implant scandal in Europe last year that left
The Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) has become the center of attention since it was discovered that now deceased suspected marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a member of the mosque. ISB is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. The Islamic Society of
Now he’s in trouble. It is one thing for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be seen on security camera videos placing one of the bombs that killed three people at last week’s Boston Marathon. But now he’s really crossed a line. Tsarnaev is telling investigators he
A clerical error thwarted the FBI from discovering that now-deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had traveled to Russia last year for six months. It underscores broader problems that have persisted in federal counter-terrorism databases since 9/11. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the number of Saudi Arabian students studying in the United States has jumped over 500%–climbing from 5,579 in the 2001-2002 school year up to 34,139 in 2011-2012. Saudi national Hani Hanjour was in
(AP) Car bomb targets French embassy in LibyaBy ESAM MOHAMEDAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaA car bomb targeted the French embassy in the Libyan capital early on Tuesday, wounding two French guards in an attack that President Francois Hollande denounced as an assault
(AP) Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with TwitterBy ELAINE GANLEYAssociated PressBattered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida’s North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign by the terror network seeks to tap into
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns of ‘alarming signals’ of economic slowdown Boston bombers raise new problems for Russian officials Canada thwarts al-Qaeda inspired plan to attack passenger train Lebanon Salafists call for jihad against Hizbollah
