National Security

From Fox News: Investigators are exploring potential links between Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an extremist group known as the Caucasus Emirate, sources tell Fox News. The purported leader of the separatist and Islamic extremist group is Doku

Many are wondering why the FBI overlooked the potential danger posed by now-deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after they interviewed him. According to reports, the bureau failed to find any incriminating evidence of terrorist ties. As first reported

Authorities in Massachusetts have identified suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday as Dzhokhar and (the now-deceased) Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two brothers of Chechen descent originally from Kyrgyzstan. Many Americans haven’t heard of the place; most couldn’t find it on

The mother of the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon said that the elder brother, who was killed in a Thursday evening shootout, had found radical Islam five years ago and that the FBI had been concerned about

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the brothers who are suspected to have bombed the Boston Marathon, were on a “jihad mission” motivated by radical Islam. Graham also claimed Dzhokhar, who was captured alive on Friday, should

News that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers were of Chechen heritage came as no surprise to those who have studied the ties between the Russian Caucasus and Islamism. In fact, “congressional researchers and foreign policy analysts have long tracked a

(AFP) – Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that Russia was “out of step” with history for backing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and was isolating itself on the international scene. “Russia is keeping up a foreign policy that

(AP) – Iraqis braved the fear of violence on Saturday to vote in the first election since the U.S. military withdrawal, though delayed voting in some parts of the country and an apparently lackluster turnout elsewhere has cast doubt about

(AP) – Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen advanced during fierce battles with rebels on Saturday capturing at least one village in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, activists and state media in Damascus reported. The

(AP) – A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.

TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – One trail in the search for clues about why two ethnic Chechen brothers may have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings leads to a sleepy town in Kyrgyzstan where former neighbors recall a quiet family that

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Background profiles of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev The radicalization of the Tsarnaev brothers Generational history of Kyrgyzstan The Beslan massacre and ABC news Background profiles of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left (dead),

(AP) – A Communist Party official says that earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan provinces left at least 32 people dead and injured more than 600. Xu Mengjia, party secretary of Ya’an city, which administers the area where the quake hit,

A split between Britain and France on the one side and the United States on the other regarding sending military aid to opposition forces in Syria may be widening due to a report Britain and France gave to the United

A YouTube page that belonged to someone named Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who may have been one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers of the same name, showed Tsarnaev was an acolyte of a violent Australian Muslim cleric. The cleric, Feiz Mohammed,

While police in and around Boston hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, information gathered from various social media outlets indicate that he and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, harbored radical Islamic beliefs. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed

Now that we know that the Boston Marathon bombers were Muslims from the Russian Caucasus, it is clear the war is here. Boston is a war zone, yet still the media is disarming the American people by refusing to address

Because the alleged Boston bombers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were of Chechen descent and from the Russian Caucasus, an area that’s been a bastion of support for al Qaeda, experts are concerned about the potential dangers of the 2014 Olympics

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov says the Tsarnaev brothers’ “American upbringing” is to blame for their actions, and he criticized the fact that police killed one of the brothers.  Regarding the Boston Marathon bombing, Kadyrov said, “Tragic events have taken place

Anzor Tsarneaev, the father of the suspected Boston terrorists Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarneaev, reportedly warned that “all hell will break loose” if his son, who is still at large, is killed. I learned about the incident from TV. My opinion is:

According to Politico, President Barack Obama has never “said the word ‘Chechnya’ publicly.” The publication points out that other past presidents have remained relatively quiet about Chechnya due to the Russian leadership’s sensitivity over the subject: “President Barack Obama and

(AFP) – A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars. Live footage

(AP) – Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in Warsaw as largely Roman Catholic Poland paid homage Friday to the Jewish fighters who rose up 70 years ago against German Nazi forces in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The mournful sounds

(AP) – Militants from Chechnya and other restive regions in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus have targeted Moscow and other areas with bombings and hostage-takings, but if it turns out that the suspects in the Boston bombings are linked to those

(AP) Police arrest former Pakistani ruler MusharrafBy MUNIR AHMED and SEBASTIAN ABBOTAssociated PressISLAMABADPolice arrested former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf overnight at his home in the capital, where he had holed up following a dramatic escape from court to avoid