The Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 10-5 to advance the nomination of Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, to the Senate floor in a bipartisan vote celebrated by both leaders of the committee.
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) federal law enforcement officers made 13 arrests and seized one illegal firearm in the first 48 hours of deployment at the U.S. border with Mexico between Arizona and Texas.
Former Syrian rebel officer Maj. Anas Ibrahim Obaid told Fox News in an interview published on Wednesday that weapons, ammunition, and other military equipment sent to “moderate” rebel forces in Syria were given to al-Qaeda terrorists instead.
Prosecutions linked to the hundreds of open Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) cases across the United States have significantly dropped this year amid the lingering national security threat posed by the remnants of the jihadist group remaining after the losses sustained in Iraq and Syria.
The American cereal maker Kellogg announced on Tuesday it will cease operations in Venezuela because of the country’s economic crisis.
Hamas had developed a “new missile” that can evade the Iron Dome, Michael Oren said. “It’s called a ‘demonstrator.’ It’s cheaper, it carries less risk, and in most cases, the missile is reusable.”
The Taliban temporarily overran the capital of Afghanistan’s Farah province located along the Iranian border before American and Afghan forces drove the militants out on Tuesday, marking the second time the narco-terrorists seized a major urban area since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari on Wednesday decried several “treacherous” regional countries for their silence and inaction against Israel in the aftermath of the deaths of nearly 60 Palestinians on the Gaza border on Monday.
President Trump prompted confusion when he tweeted Sunday about saving a Chinese telecommunications company, ZTE, and Chinese jobs. Here are the top five things you need to know about the ZTE dispute.
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo translated a column in a Japan-based North Korean propaganda outlet Wednesday demanding the return of a group of defectors it claims were “abducted” by South Korea in 2016.
As Trump works to disarm the North Korean nuclear threat, scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12 with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, he may find his biggest challenge lies south of the DMZ border: with President Moon Jae-in.
A bipartisan bill called the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) seeks an addition $1.5 billion in annual defense spending for the next five years, for a total of $7.5 billion, to counter Chinese influence in the region.
Iran’s “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Israel’s right to national defense was “meaningless” following the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians, most revealed to be operatives of the Hamas terrorist organization.
The jihadist terror group Boko Haram continued to hold a Christian schoolgirl captive after 85 days for refusing to renounce her faith and convert to Islam after she turned 15 this week.
A pair of Israeli journalists were attacked in Istanbul on Wednesday amid the sharp deterioration in ties between Turkey and Israel over clashes on the Gaza border and the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — Senators Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders this week released statements about the orchestrated Israeli border assault that must make Hamas terrorists proud.
A group of Islamic State militants attacked a police station in Pekanbaru, Indonesia with samurai swords on Wednesday morning, killing one police officer and wounding two others along with a local journalist.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recalled the Palestinian envoys to the U.S. and four EU countries over their support of President Donald Trump’s decision to open the American embassy in its new location in Jerusalem Monday.
English translations of the North Korean editorials that implied dictator Kim Jong-un might withdraw from his June summit with President Donald Trump reveal North Korea was infuriated by long-scheduled U.S.-South Korean military drills. The North Koreans denounced these exercises as a “deliberate military provocation” and rejected criticism of North Korea’s human rights violations as a “senseless act of disregarding elementary etiquette.”
TEL AVIV – A Hamas co-founder on Sunday confirmed that the bloody Palestinian riots on the Gaza-Israel border are backed by the terror group’s fighters and added that calling the protests part of a “peaceful resistance” is simply a tactic to “deceive the public.”
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping welcomed a delegation of high-ranking officials from North Korea on Wednesday, who reportedly visited Beijing to observe how China transitioned from a closed-off repressive communist state to its modern form – a repressive communist state profiting from business with major multi-national corporations.
A senior North Korean official published a statement in the nation’s government news service on Wednesday expressing “repugnance” at National Security Advisor John Bolton and rejecting the possibility of a Libya-style denuclearization program.
Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, expected to be named the victor when Friday’s final Iraqi election results are published, is reportedly seeking to ally his Sairoon coalition (On the move) with several allied blocs in Iraq to form a government.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after he called Israel an “apartheid state”, telling the near east autocrat he will not take lessons from a country that occupies Cyprus.
A Hamas official on Wednesday acknowledged that 50 of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during Gaza border riots on Monday and Tuesday were members of the Islamist terrorist group, bringing the total number of known members of terror groups among the fatalities up to 53.
A new report alleges that former CIA Director John Brennan included claims from the dubious Steele dossier into President Barack Obama’s Presidential Daily Brief — without disclosing the source of the allegations.
Persecution of Christians in India is inextricably linked to the fact that many suffer discrimination for being members of the dalit or “untouchable” caste, and Hindu extremists have become “bolder and more mainstream” in recent memory, a prominent Indian Christian bishop tells Breitbart News.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman told Breitbart News on Tuesday in an exclusive interview that President Donald Trump had been “excited” about moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, Israel — U.S. Ambassador David M. Friedman told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that the decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had shown “moral clarity” and served America’s core interests.
Donald Trump Jr. responded to the release of a transcript of his interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee about the ongoing Russia investigation in a statement on Tuesday.
Lawyers of the imprisoned presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, appealed to an Ankara court this week for his release in time for the June 24 elections.
Contents: Taliban launches major military operation in Farah province in Afghanistan; Afghan officials blame Iran and Pakistan; Afghan government continues to lose control to the Taliban
In a special appeal Wednesday, Pope Francis made known his worry and sadness over escalating violence in the Holy Land, while wishing Muslims a fruitful season of Ramadan.
A diplomatic feud between Israel and Turkey over deadly clashes on the Gaza Strip border continued on Wednesday, with the Foreign Ministry dressing down a senior Turkish envoy over the “humiliation” hours earlier of the expelled Israeli ambassador as he boarded a flight to Tel Aviv.
Hamas turned away two large truckloads of Israeli humanitarian aid intended to relieve medical shortages in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Italy’s abortion lobby has appealed to the mayor of Rome to have pro-life posters removed in the lead-up to the city’s annual March for Life.
South Africa’s ruling party on Tuesday slammed Israel’s recent actions at the Gaza border, comparing the IDF’s efforts to prevent Palestinian protesters from breaching the border fence with Nazi Germany’s cruelty against Jews.
Pope Francis told a Buddhist delegation from Thailand Wednesday that his desire was for Buddhists and Catholics to grow ever closer to each other.
Iran has rejected fresh U.S. sanctions on its central bank governor, indicating the penalties would only make Iranians “more determined, patient and resistant than ever.”
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman told Breitbart News on Tuesday in an exclusive interview that American policymakers needed to reflect on current policies toward Judea and Samaria.
