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
Turkey’s heads of state have made abundantly clear they will react with force to another Russian incursion into their airspace after two incidents over the weekend, though Turkish forces did not respond with violence to a third reported incident with an unidentified jet.
Russian warplanes have violated Turkish airspace at least twice during the Russian air campaign against Syrian rebels, and the Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said these penetrations appear deliberate.
More than 130 notable converts to Catholicism have published an open letter begging Pope Francis and the bishops gathered at the Vatican Synod on Marriage and the Family to stand firm in teaching traditional Christian beliefs regarding the permanence of marriage, human sexuality, and the meaning of the family.
In addition to violating Turkey’s airspace at least twice on Monday, Russian aircraft flew alarmingly close to American aircraft engaged in anti-ISIS operations in Syria this week.
A villager in India reportedly beheaded a four-year-old boy to appease the Goddess Kali. He hoped she would bestow “divine powers” on him.
On Friday evening, a 15-year-old jihadi gunned down a civilian police employee as he was walking out of a suburban Sydney police station. Australian Islamist groups have refused to condemn the killing, which the authorities described as politically motivated terrorism, while playing coy as to the killer’s exact motivations.
Contents: Turkey threatens Russia if airspace violations are repeated; Russia’s incursions may be targeting Turkey’s Hatay province
Republicans are championing a new bill that will force Iran to compensate American victims of Iranian terror before it can use any sanctions relief funds it receives from the Iran deal.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world’s richest Marxist terrorist group, is threatening to walk away from a breakthrough peace deal signed with the Colombian government in September if the latter opts to “reinterpret” any part of the deal.
Over the weekend, Palestinian terrorists ran wild within the State of Israel and the Palestinian territories, murdering Jewish men and women and attempting to kill infants. Yet, Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas has refused to condemn this violence, instead blaming Israel for defending itself.
Residents in Şırnak, Turkey, are expressing outrage after a video and images surfaced on the Internet, showing Turkish soldiers dragging a Kurdish man through their streets.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned viewers on Sunday that he expects December’s legislative elections to be the “most difficult yet” for the socialist Chavistas. Maduro, who barely scraped a victory against opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski in 2013, also accused the United States of “conspiracy” against him.
Over the weekend, Democratic nominee for President Bernie Sanders rejected the idea of a U.S.-secured no-fly zone in Syria, opposing the proposal laid out by fellow contender Hillary Clinton when it comes to Mid East policy.
Saudi Arabian cash reserves are in free-fall due to China’s economic crash driving oil prices down to an average of $45 a barrel and the Kingdom becoming the world’s third largest military spender.
Russian television station Rossiya 24 tailored their weather report to support Russia’s bombing of Syria, reporting that the weather was ideal for an airstrike campaign in the Mideast nation.
Following several murderous attacks by Palestinian terrorists and a string of riots, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to conduct a “fight to the death against Palestinian terror.”
Recently it was charged that U.S. commanders in Afghanistan were telling American servicemen to ignore child rape by Afghan Muslim soldiers.
Bill Maher and world-renowned biologist Richard Dawkins took Islam to task during the former’s “Real Time” show on HBO this weekend, leading liberals to simultaneously engage in a series of meltdowns nationwide.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad sat down for an interview with Iranian television over the weekend, and proved less than enthusiastic about the Obama Administration’s muttered pleas for him to “transition” out of power.
The United States remains committed to its strategy of arming and aiding rebel groups on the ground in Syria with the hopes that they can help stop the Islamic State’s (IS) rise in the region.
Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF), known as Doctors Without Borders in America, “demanded an independent” investigation into a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 22 people, including 12 of the group’s doctors.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) executed 12 Christians, including a 12-year-old boy, after they refused to abandon their faith and convert to Islam. The murders occurred on August 28 outside of Aleppo.
The recently slower pace of jobs creation likely takes an interest rate hike off the table when Federal policymakers meet in October, but a move is still in play for December.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed its militants murdered a Japanese tourist in northern Bangladesh over the weekend. The murder comes only five days after the radical Islamic group claimed responsibility for the murder of an Italian in Dhaka.
Russian “volunteers” fighting in Ukraine might travel to Syria to fight with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. However, the Kremlin insists the government has no plans to deploy ground troops.
