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 Pentagon revealed this week that U.S. warplanes in Syria changed their course to avoid a collision with Russian warplanes. The planes took off from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. Due to Russia inching closer to Turkey, NATO’s chief said the organization has to be ready to protect the country.
Secretary of State John Kerry warns the world that more and more people will be fleeing the devastation caused by global warming. “It’s something new. We have climate refugees today,” he said during a town hall event about the oceans.
A Chinese campaign to have documents related to Japan’s use of wartime sex slaves and its bloody invasion of Nanjing recognised by Unesco has sparked a new round of diplomatic tension between Beijing and Tokyo.
Contents: Russia dramatically escalates Syria war launching cruise missiles from Caspian Sea; Russian Orthodox Church declares a ‘Holy War’ in Syria; Russia’s ‘Holy War’ in Syria declaration sparks calls for jihad; IMF warns of significant danger of global financial crash
Pope Francis is urging the bishops gathered for the Vatican Synod on the Family not to give in to “conspiracy” theories, after 13 cardinals and bishops expressed their concern that the assembly is being manipulated in a progressive direction.
With China’s foreign exchange reserves falling by $490 billion in the last twelve months, China is on pace to run out of currency reserves in just two years.
Bangladesh joins the list of nations battling ISIS-linked insurgent groups, with a string of brutal murders perpetrated by a militia linked to the Islamic State, plus a few killings said to have been carried out by direct operatives of ISIS itself.
The Colombian government has opened an investigation into senator and former President Álvaro Uribe, largely responsible for the destabilization of the FARC terrorist organization in the mid-2000s.
As North Korea prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the communist ruling Korean Workers’ Party, signs have begun to spring that the nation’s people are growing restless and fatigued of the constant military displays, crippling repression, and widespread poverty.
Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels, who threw the country into civil war this year after a coup attempt against exiled president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, have written a letter to the United Nations accepting a seven-point peace plan led by Oman.
The United States intelligence community is trying to get to the bottom of how the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has been able to acquire a plethora of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs during its holy war in the Middle East.
The victim, a 20-year-old woman known as “Rokstan M,” is one refugee who had a strong case for asylum. She was gang-raped in Syria, emigrated to Germany two years ago, and found employment with the German government as a translator.
Russian propaganda outlet Pravda implied in a report this week that U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) wants to fund arms for the Islamic State, to be used to shoot down Russian fighter jets.
A report based on recently released Hillary Clinton emails indicate that, as Secretary of State, Clinton refused to take a Skype call from Moammar Qaddafi’s son Saif, in which he was allegedly looking to broker a peace deal.
Russia may consider a formal request from Baghdad to expand its airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) beyond Syria to Iraq, said the head of the Russian parliament’s upper chamber.
After several days of pounding enemies of the Assad regime from the air – with a preference for bombing forces trained by the CIA and backed by the United States – Russia kicked in a swarm of 26 cruise missiles launched by its Caspian Sea fleet, some 900 miles away
Syrian state television is reporting Russian jets attacked the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Palmyra only days after the radical Islamic group destroyed three ancient arches in the historic city.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told reporters Wednesday that Turkish military intelligence indicates that only 2 of the 57 Russian airstrikes in Syria so far have actually hit the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The other 55 have hit other enemies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Saddique Azam, a Catholic teacher who was recently appointed principal of a primary school in a small village of Pakistan, was severely beaten and tortured by three Islamist extremist teachers who said they refused to work under a Christian.
The White House won’t join Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in calling for the House Select Committee on Benghazi to be shut down, although the administration questions the integrity of its investigation.
Citing the United States’s supposed untrustworthiness, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has banned negotiations with the United States indefinitely.
Two U.S. officials claim Russian fighter jets are stalking American predator drones over Syria.
Dr. Ben Carson, who has now emerged as a frontrunner for the GOP nomination for President, offered an outline of his Syria strategy to Breitbart News on Wednesday.
Obama’s strong stand on Gitmo underscores two vital points. First, President Obama does not fear defunding America’s national security. Second, Obama does not fear Republicans in Congress.
While Sierra Leone patiently moves towards concluding a 42-day period in which it can be declared Ebola-free, a study shows that deaths continue to skyrocket in the nation not due to Ebola, but of the fear of hospitals left in its aftermath.
