
Islamic militants fired upon the South Korean embassy in Tripoli, Libya on Sunday, resulting in the death of two base guards, South Korean and Libyan officials have confirmed. In a separate attack on early Monday morning, ISIS-linked jihadis bombed Morocco’s Embassy in Tripoli.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Apr 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

The plight of Americans abandoned in Yemen by the Obama administration is a gigantic national scandal, studiously ignored by the same media that invent various “outrages” to hit Republican presidential candidates with. Despite the lack of adequate coverage in the mainstream media, at least one journalist felt baffled enough by State Department tactics to ask just how Americans trapped in Yemen are expected to escape: “Swim?”
by John Hayward11 Apr 2015, 7:45 AM PST0

Libya’s internationally recognised parliament said Tuesday it has uncovered “new elements” behind the 2012 assassination of the US ambassador when the American consulate was stormed in eastern city Benghazi.
by Breitbart News8 Apr 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

Italian authorities rescued over 1,500 asylum-seekers on Saturday. The work included four coastguard boats and an Italian navy ship.
by Mary Chastain6 Apr 2015, 11:27 AM PST0

Top Iranian journalist defects, criticizes US nuclear negotiators; Arab League meeting ends with promise for joint Arab military force; Report: Iran nuclear negotiations may be deadlocked
by John J. Xenakis30 Mar 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server “clean,” permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said Friday.
by Breitbart News27 Mar 2015, 4:19 PM PST0

The Islamic State has taken over at least parts of the Tunisian town of Tataouine, with over 4,000 jihadists currently housed there. The government of Tunisia insists, however, that the town’s most recognizable pop culture institution remains safe from jihadist destruction.
by Mary Chastain26 Mar 2015, 9:42 AM PST0

Things are going so well in Barack Obama’s big foreign-policy “success,” Libya, that people are literally dying to get out. Vice News recently posted a 27-minute documentary video on the hideous conditions in Libya’s “migrant prisons”—internment camps where refugees are left to rot after their attempts to flee the country across the Mediterranean fail.
by John Hayward24 Mar 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

As even the New York Times explores the Hillary Clinton email scandal, the American people ought to be getting sick and tired of lectures from our disconnected, above-the-law Ruling Class about how the peons need to take their word for everything – as if winning an election, or being appointed by someone who won an election, is the only credibility bar they’ll ever need to clear.
by John Hayward23 Mar 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

Reuters reports that the Tunisian government has arrested over 20 suspected militants in the wake of the deadly Bardo Museum attack, about half of them directly involved in planning and executing the massacre, which killed twenty foreign tourists and three Tunisians.
by John Hayward22 Mar 2015, 7:12 PM PST0

Fox News reports that ISIS is claiming responsibility for the horrific shooting spree at the National Bardo Museum in Tunisia, in a statement describing the attack as a “blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Muslim Tunisia.”
by John Hayward19 Mar 2015, 9:08 AM PST0

Tunisia in shock after terror attack on museum in Tunis; Beneath the surface, Tunisia is a terrorist breeding ground
by John J. Xenakis19 Mar 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

On Monday, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed they kidnapped 20 foreign doctors and nurses in Sirte, Libya. Arab media reported the majority of the kidnapped came from the Philippines, while others were from Ukraine, Serbia, and India. However, reports from the respective countries contradict the terrorist group.
by Mary Chastain18 Mar 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

In the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, ISIS kidnapped 20 foreign doctors and nurses on Monday afternoon as they were waiting for a bus to take them to Tripoli. According to reports from various Arab media, the hostages are mostly Filipinos, but among them there are also Indians, Serbs and Ukrainians.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Mar 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is in complete control of the Libyan port city of Sirte, confirms The New York Times (NYT).
by Edwin Mora11 Mar 2015, 8:20 PM PST0

Libya’s two rival governments in unity talks to fight ISIS; UAE may replace Saudis as Egypt’s most important Arab ally; Boko Haram kills 58 in multiple bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria; Boko Haram declares allegiance to ISIS
by John J. Xenakis8 Mar 2015, 9:03 AM PST0

WARSAW, Poland, March 6 (UPI) — Between a half million and one million migrants could leave Libya and head for Europe in 2015, a European Union official warned. Fabrice Leggeri, chief of Frontex, the EU’s border security agency headquartered in
by Andre Walker7 Mar 2015, 5:16 AM PST0

Who is America’s greatest national security threat at the present time?
by Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS 42)4 Mar 2015, 8:00 PM PST0

The headless corpse of Mansour Saad Awad, an Egyptian Christian, has been found by Libyan security forces on the outskirts of the town of Mechili, in eastern Libya. The victim of the barbaric murder worked in a poultry farm in the area. No one has yet stepped forward to take credit for the slaying, but the m.o. matches the preferred execution style of the Islamic State (ISIS).
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Mar 2015, 6:42 AM PST0

Libya has become a support base and safe haven for Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) jihadists, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.
by Edwin Mora3 Mar 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

In a meeting with North African bishops in the Vatican Monday, Pope Francis praised the “courage, loyalty, and perseverance” of Catholics in Libya in the face of the “explosion of violence” in the region.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Mar 2015, 6:32 AM PST0

Italy’s coastguard announced Friday that it would allow its 11,000 members to carry weapons, following threats from Islamic militants in Libya, and recent confrontation with traffickers.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.1 Mar 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

Reports indicate Egypt, Italy, Russia planning military action in Libya; Egypt court declares Hamas to be a terrorist organization; Egypt and Turkey may try to create a ‘Sunni front’ with Saudi Arabia
by John J. Xenakis1 Mar 2015, 6:48 AM PST0

In light of the targeting of Christians by the Islamic State–particularly in Libya and Syria–Christian Coptics in the United States assembled before the White House this week to demand the Obama administration address the plight of their brethren in the Middle East.
by John Hayward25 Feb 2015, 12:10 PM PST0

Tunisia arrested an estimated 100 people in the last three days, suspected of having links to the jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), Reuters reports.
by Edwin Mora25 Feb 2015, 11:12 AM PST0