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
German President Joachim Gauck visited the White House today, signaling to President Obama that his country would continue to be open to Syrian refugees. He also urged the United States to remain open to the possibility of welcoming more refugees.
As the Associated Press notes, the defense policy bill “is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for more than a half-century,” but President Obama is threatening to veto this one, with Senate Democrats standing behind him.
Russia has expanded its campaign against opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, launching missiles at targets in Syria from the Caspian Sea. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the announcement in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on television.
The United States was founded on the notion that each life is valuable, Fiorina said, which means “we have to confront our adversaries.” While it doesn’t mean rushing to war every time, she said, “we can’t lie down while evil is perpetuated all over the world.”
An Associated Press report describes a joint project between Eastern European authorities and the FBI to expose a nuclear smuggling ring, which tried to sell “a huge cache of deadly cesium – enough to contaminate several city blocks”– to ISIS.
An extraordinary United Nations report on “Cyberviolence Against Women and Girls” has been withdrawn pending revision by the U.N. Broadband Commission, the body that published it. This followed widespread criticism from across the political spectrum.
A report from Reuters says a top Iranian general met with Russian officials in Moscow in July to plan their joint intervention in Syria.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio is again arguing that the United States should act in Syria, disputing the notion that the world should cede leadership in the conflict to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a word intended to reassure conservatives, Pope Francis told the bishops gathered in the Vatican Synod on the family Tuesday that Church teaching on marriage is “still valid,” while also urging them to broaden their horizons, instead of focusing on internal questions such as Communion for the divorced and remarried.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd in a recent exchange with a presidential candidate raised an issue that should be discussed not only by all of the candidates, but debated and analyzed by the American people.
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Criminal nuclear smuggling networks with suspected Russian ties sought to sell radioactive material to extremists through Moldova.
A sizable group of Saudi clerics has called for jihad against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, and by extension, Assad’s military allies Russia and Iran. The Islamist clerics praised the rebels Russia is currently bombing as “holy warriors of Syria” who are “defending the whole Islamic nation.”
Following multiple attacks in its stronghold of northeast Borno state, ISIS affiliate Boko Haram has bombed multiple targets in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, as well as attacking Niger and Chad, both member nations of a military coalition formed to destroy the terrorist group.
In an interview that reportedly took “three months of often covert communications” to arrange, the BBC interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow about his life as a fugitive from American justice.
U.S. authorities have charged six people in connection with an alleged bribery scheme at the UN, including a former head of the General Assembly. The bribes were for real estate developments in Macau, a peninsula in mainland China.
The anti-Israel prejudice at The New York Times (“NYT”) is so extensive and persistent that it takes looking back only to the last few weeks to easily find a dozen examples of this bias.
U.S. General John Campbell claims that Afghan allies called in a U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) (MSF) clinic, in direct contrast to an earlier statement which claimed that the American military acted independently.
American intelligence officials have evidence that Russia has moved ground weapons and troops into western Syria. The Pentagon has announced reinforcements for rebels opposing Bashar al-Assad in the region in light of Russia’s support for the dictator.
A study documenting every piece of Arabic-language Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda released in one month finds that more than half of the materials sell Muslims on the idea of a Sharia utopia, its trademark bloody video a minority of its media output.
The editor-in-chief of Zaman, a major Turkish newspaper, is stepping down, citing “unlawful pressure on press” as a major factor in his departure. The resignation comes a week after a major anti-government columnist was hospitalized due to a public beating.
A senior member of the Gaza-ruling terrorist group Hamas has called for a third intifada, or terror uprising, against the Jewish state of Israel.
U.S. officials declared on Monday that they are convinced Russian warplanes were deliberately targeting CIA-backed Syrian rebels.
President Putin’s decision to deploy aircraft in Syria and bomb opponents of President Assad may be “a recipe for disaster” as President Obama asserts, but it neatly exploits U.S. and western European vulnerabilities in the region. It also gives Russia leverage to undermine NATO and destabilize the oil-rich Middle East.
An American archbishop who served as Vatican nuncio to Ukraine until several weeks ago warned that the country is in dire straits and risks becoming “a kind of Somalia in the middle of Europe.”
