Human rights leaders around the world facing down communist dictatorships mourned Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) this weekend, remembering him fondly as an ally who used his platform to advocate for freedom.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the arm of the Pentagon responsible for the Middle East, confirmed on Monday that its forces had conducted military strikes on a variety of targets throughout Iran, including the city of Bushehr, the home of the country’s only known functioning civilian power plant.
The State Department will publish an extensive report revealing the close ties between Cuba and radical leftist unrest in America.
The administration of President Donald Trump was among 14 countries publishing a joint statement on Sunday to mark the tenth anniversary of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague that found China’s claims to nearly the entire South China Sea invalid.
The official national parliament of Syria opened for business on Sunday.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the official “supreme leader” of Iran and son of late dictator Ali Khamenei, allegedly published a written statement this weekend read aloud on state television vowing “revenge” against the United States.
North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un presided over a military commission meeting on Thursday focused on how to improve the “quality and quantity” of the country’s illicit nuclear weapons arsenal.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a belligerent statement on Thursday announcing that “foreigners have no stake in the Strait of Hormuz,” overtly directed at the United States but following demands from China that hostilities in the region end.
The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders published a report this week revealing that the Communist Party of Cuba is systematically imprisoning, harassing, and otherwise intimidating citizens to prevent them from organizing events to mark the fifth anniversary of the July 11, 2021, anti-communist protests.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry lamented the resurgence of violence between Iran and the United States on Wednesday, urging both countries to “follow through on their memorandum of understanding” and “avoid resorting to force.”
Syria expressed gratitude to President Donald Trump for being removed from the State Department’s State Sponsors of Terrorism List.
South Africa’s Border Management Authority has documented over 50,000 migrants leaving the country in the past year, the new agency Ground Up reported on Wednesday.
Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed on Wednesday that they had targeted 85 allegedly “American military facilities,” in reality launching sweeping bombing campaigns against neighbors Kuwait and Bahrain.
Chinese state media highlighted this week the rise of “children influencers” on regime-controlled social media, children producing short video content in which they appear to be subject to a variety of abusive actions such as force-feeding and fighting each other.
The United States has invested over $310 million in humanitarian support for victims of Venezuela’s devastating June 24 earthquakes as of this week and delivered upwards of 60,000 food, hygiene, and other aid kits to victims, America’s top diplomat in the country told reporters on Tuesday.
Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla threatened to file a legal action against French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday night, accusing him of “gender violence” after the athlete described her on social media as a “despicable woman unworthy of her post.”
Chinese Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, freed this weekend after President Donald Trump appealed to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, found himself in Beijing’s crosshairs after building an unprecedented vehicle for the Christian faith that flourished under coronavirus lockdowns.
The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, issued a statement on Monday distancing himself from his organization’s decision to reverse a red card suspension issued to American player Folarin Balogun, allowing the striker to play against Belgium on Monday night at the World Cup.
The White House confirmed on Sunday that President Donald Trump will hold bilateral talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda jihadist who toppled Bashar Assad, at this week’s NATO summit in Turkey.
The “supreme leader” of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was notably absent from funeral events for his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei this weekend – an absence emphasized by the presence of three of his brothers.
Venezuelans denounced the disappearance of an earthquake rescue volunteer who criticized the socialist regime.
Former South Korean national soccer team coach Hong Myung-bo, who resigned last week after a disappointing performance at the FIFA World Cup, reportedly fled the country to Los Angeles on Thursday just days after arriving to an angry mob demanding he return his salary.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Thursday that the outbreak of the rodent-spread hantavirus believed to have begun in April on the cruise ship M/V Hondius had finally concluded.
Venezuelan journalist Carlos Salazar revealed during a broadcast on Wednesday that his sources believe that Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges, is blocking search and rescue crews from accessing buildings destroyed by last week’s earthquakes to protect stashes of drugs and cash buried there.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani visited Lebanon on Thursday for meetings with its president and highest-ranking leadership.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that Canada would be competing in the 71st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Bulgaria in May 2027.
Conservative President Nasry Asfura of Honduras rejected the possibility of his country offering aid to neighboring Venezuela.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited southern Lebanon on Tuesday and addressed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops there.
Victims of the dual earthquakes in Venezuela last week recounted to various outlets this week the harrowing ordeal of trying to identify their loved ones among the bodies lying on the ground at the port of La Guaira, which the government is using as a makeshift morgue.
The horrifying situation in Venezuela – where dual earthquakes have toppled over 800 buildings, leaving potentially thousands buried under rubble – has the potential to tear apart the fragile alliances that have kept the post-Maduro socialist regime in power.
Eight players on the South Korean national soccer team and their former coach, Hong Myung-bo, attempted to sneak back into the country in the early morning hours of Tuesday after a disappointing loss at the FIFA World Cup last week but were met by dozens of angry fans holding up protest signs and demanding Hong return his salary.
The government of Qatar confirmed that American special negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Doha on Wednesday for discussions on implementing the memorandum of understanding signed this month with Iran, but both Qatar and Iran stated no direct conversations are expected to occur on this trip.
The socialist government of Venezuela has documented 1,450 people killed by twin massive earthquakes last week, over 3,000 injured, and potentially upwards of 50,000 people missing as international rescue missions deploy to the South American nation.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will send representatives to meet their Iranian counterparts in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday after the Iranian Islamist regime allegedly asked for the resumption of talks.
President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea issued a statement on Sunday apologizing to the public after the nation’s soccer team failed to qualify for the knockout rounds of the FIFA World Cup.
Multiple news outlets with reporters on the ground in Beijing reported on Friday that a small aircraft, described by Reuters as about the “size of a car,” had crashed into the Chinese capital’s Citic Tower, its tallest building.
America’s expansive, near-immediate response to aid victims of the twin earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday has defied ominous predictions that streamlining the country’s international response by eliminating USAID would leave it flat-footed in the face of disaster.
The independent outlet Iran International reported on Thursday, citing a report from a South Korean think tank, that a defecting North Korean diplomat claimed the tunnel technology used to construct key Iranian nuclear facilities was sold to the rogue terrorist state by Pyongyang.
The Iranian terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued an ominous warning on Thursday claiming that ships attempting to navigate the Strait of Hormuz without using approved Iranian regime routes would face unspecified “dangers” in those waters.
The interim “president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez issued several statements on Wednesday thanking the government of the United States for offering aid following a devastating earthquake in her country — a dramatic reversal from her previous stance of actively discouraging starving Venezuelans from accepting American aid.
