Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday honoured Holocaust victims at Nazi Germany’s notorious wartime Auschwitz death camp, now a museum in southern Poland. Cameron walked through the camp’s infamous wrought-iron “Arbeit macht frei” (work makes you free) entrance gate before
Six months into the jihadist offensive in Iraq, the autonomous Kurds said Wednesday they had lost more than 700 fighters and argued the burden of hosting a million displaced civilians was becoming unsustainable. Since the Islamic State group launched a
The European Union has announced that it will give Turkey $85 million to help the nation support almost two million refugees from the Syrian Civil War. The donation to the Erdogan government overlooks Turkey’s role in helping the Islamic State,
The Armenian Students Association (ASA) at UCLA is seeking to draft a resolution which would require the University of California Board of Regents to divest from the Republic of Turkey. The resolution, which will be presented to the Undergraduates Student Association
David Cameron will travel to Turkey tomorrow to hold talks with the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over growing concerns that the country is being used as a staging post for British jihadists to travel to
Jihadi wannabe terrorists are taking advantage of European open borders to enjoy ‘grand-tour’ style jaunts across the continent on their way to the Islamic State, taking in the sights and staying at luxury hotels, analysis suggests. One British passport holder,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Sony suffers catastrophic breach, possibly from North Korean hackers Mahmoud Abbas blames Gaza war on lies by Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood Sony suffers catastrophic breach, possibly from North Korean hackers Publicity poster for Sony’s
It’s not an unfamiliar sight: Oil prices go up, and influential U.S. politicians, sometimes even presidents, run to Saudi Arabia hat-in-hand, hoping that Middle Eastern royalty thousands of miles away will lower gas prices at the station on the corner and keep
Two British-born jihadis have been jailed for 12 years and eight months each after spending eight months fighting with the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front terror group in Syria. Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar were sentenced at Woolwich
A pair of British former soldiers fighting against jihadis in Syria have spoken out about their experience, saying of their decision to confront terrorism: “I’m a firm believer that if you want to do something you have to do it
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was reelected this year in an election the United States government deemed a “sham,” asserted the legitimacy of his government and insisted that the Obama administration is supporting the Islamic State in a wide-ranging interview with
Was he flexing his muscles or beating a retreat? Opinions are divided over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement to abandon Moscow’s $50 billion South Stream gas pipeline. Some analysts viewed the unexpected December 1 decision to scrap the project
(Reuters) – Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students
Addressing tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, Pope Francis recounting his recent trip to Turkey, summing up his meeting with state officials with the words: “We spoke of violence.” Francis said that on the first
Jordanian officials have detained twenty-one Muslim Brotherhood operatives, who have been charged with smuggling weapons and cash into the disputed West Bank region, according to reports in Arabic media. The Muslim Brotherhood operatives were accused of attempting to create a
Recent arrests in Jordan and Israel show that Hamas and the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood are trying to smuggle weapons into Gaza and the West Bank. After Egypt’s army destroyed tunnels joining Gaza and Sinai that had been lucrative smuggling paths,
A Dutch right-wing member of parliament called for a purge of mosques in the Netherlands during a debate on the integration of Muslim and Turkish minorities. “Dutch unity, identity and culture are being wrecked by immigration and incubation. We do not
The World Food Programme (WFP), a United Nations agency, suspended a food program to Syria due to lack of funds–right before the start of winter. The program provided food for 1.7 million Syrians. “A suspension of WFP food assistance will
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government on Tuesday reached a deal with the Kurdish local authorities in the country’s north to exchange oil from the autonomous region for a nearly 20 percent share of the national budget, officials said. The
Just a few weeks ago Prince Charles, a man sometimes criticized for being too supportive and praising of Britain’s Muslim community, made a passionate speech calling for the Islamic world to stop persecuting its Christian minorities. It was entirely coincidental
Russian President Vladimir Putin paid reverence to Turkey for maintaining a strong fiscal relationship with Russia in the presence of Ukraine-related economic sanctions against the Kremlin ratcheted up several times by the United States and the European Union. In a
Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders worldwide to “clearly” condemn terrorism carried out in the name of Islam, and called for an end to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East. Francis said he had told Turkish President Recep Tayyip
In Istanbul Sunday morning, Pope Francis employed some of his strongest language against Islamic extremism to date, condemning jihadist violence against the weak and defenseless as “a profoundly grave sin against God.” Francis spoke of the “plea” coming from the
On Sunday Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew signed a joint declaration affirming their common commitment to full Christian unity as well as their support for suffering Christians in the Middle East. “We cannot resign ourselves to a Middle East without
On Friday, a Republican staffer went to her Facebook page to criticize how President Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, were dressed at Obama’s turkey pardon ceremony last week. But only hours later, she was apologizing for the digs. Republican aide
