Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Sunday that his regime in Tehran would consider releasing three Americans held hostage in the country if the U.S. would release several jailed Iranians.
Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Monday afternoon, discussing matters such as the Hajj pilgrimage disaster and the Iran nuclear deal.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke Monday at the UN General Assembly debate in New York, honing in on the battle against the Islamic State, the situation in Jerusalem, and the Syrian refugee crisis as the primary issues for Amman and the world as a whole.
After several dispatches from Syria reported that the few remaining American-backed rebel fighters have been compromised by the al-Nusra Front, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, U.S. Central Command released a statement late Friday confirming that the U.S.-armed New Syrian Forces had delivered equipment and vehicles to the jihadi outfit.
A stampede in Mecca on the last day of the hajj pilgrimage took the lives of over 100 Iranian citizens, as the total death toll from the incident has surged to over 700 people, and the leaders of the regime in Tehran are furious with Saudi officials for their alleged negligence.
Dozens of people were killed outside of Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday when an Islamic State terrorist snuck into a Shiite mosque dressed in ultra-conservative Islamic women’s garb and carried out a suicide bombing.
The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Islamic terrorist group based in Bangladesh, has published an extensive hit list consisting of non-Muslim writers, activists and other leaders not only residing in their home country, but around the world.
Muslim parents and schoolchildren in New Jersey were outraged this week when they learned that the entire Jersey City school district would not be closed for Thursday’s Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Kurdish forces are attempting to cut off the route often taken by foreigners wishing to link up with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) terror group and join its Middle East jihad.
Since Iran and Russia continue to pile on with direct support of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist group, has been allowed to fortify its gains outside Damascus and retreat back into southern Lebanon, from where the jihadi outfit is based.
Islamic activist Reza Aslan appeared on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show Monday night to talk about the recent remarks about Muslims by GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Retired General David Petraeus appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to discuss the administration’s current Mid East strategy.
A majority of Palestinians now reject the notion that there should be a state of Israel alongside a future state of Palestine, according to a poll released Monday.
Egypt’s Ambassador to Mexico, Yasser Shaban, has shined a new light on the recent incident that resulted in the deaths of eight Mexicans visiting Egypt.
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top staffer, has made her debut on Twitter, delivering a not-so-clandestine shot at Dr. Ben Carson, a high-polling Republican nominee for President.
The intelligence products that were initially provided by Defense Department intelligence analysts–who claim that their reports were significantly altered by Obama administration officials to provide favorable analysis related to the U.S.-led coalition’s operations against ISIS–to U.S. Central Command, have now been revealed to the public, by way of a Daily Beast report on their findings.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was accompanied by some of his top generals as he arrived in Moscow on Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim advocacy group with deep ties to Islamist outfits, has asked for the FBI to step in and investigate a purported case of vandalism against a mosque in Kentucky.
Famous archaeological sites in northern Syria are being raided by locals and ISIS jihadists on an “industrial scale,” the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) chief said on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s regressive culture is on display again as one of the country’s best female soccer players has been forced by her husband to stay in the country.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he has devised a strategy to force Democrats to vote on the Iran nuclear deal as is, or face a procedural vote that would make Democrats vote on whether the Iran accord should be tied to the release of four American hostages and the recognition of Israel as a sovereign state.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that he was ready to talk with the Russians about the ongoing civil war in Syria, and Moscow’s continuing presence there.
John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio and GOP nominee for President, has previously insisted that his primary opponents are “playing to a crowd” and “inexperienced” when they suggested that on day one in the oval office, they would rip the Iran deal to shreds.
A recently released memoir revealed new details about the former Director of the Nobel Institute and his regret for agreeing to hand over the famed Peace Prize to President Barack Obama during his first days in office.
In a recent segment on Palestinian television about the future ambitions of young children, two Palestinian boys revealed that their most prominent desire was to kill Jews.
French officials have warned that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) continues to move through Syria with reckless abandon, showing no signs of weakness and eyeing the takeover of the country’s northern region of Aleppo, a city whose residents’ fate grows gloomier each day.
Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate president and the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, presents herself on the campaign trail as a hawk on Iran. She’s promising to take a hardline on the regime in Tehran. However, during her time as the chief executive of HP, she “sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export sanctions,” Bloomberg reports.
Russia was ready to agree to a proposal that would see Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad renounce his presidency as part of a peace agreement between Syrian and rebel forces that would likely end the civil war in the nation, Martti Ahtisaari—the former President of Finland, who was involved in negotiations at the time—told The Guardian in an interview published on Tuesday.
The Vatican released a statement Tuesday officially welcoming the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, China, France, Russia, Germany) and Iran, stating that the Holy See believes Tehran will reduce its nuclear capabilities in exchange for sanctions relief. In calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, the Vatican also appeared to target Israel, given that it is the lone nuclear power in the region.
French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has published a controversial set of cartoons about Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose death generated international outrage when photos of the boy’s deceased body surfaced online, The Independent reports.
Ayman al Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda’s “core”—the group that was responsible for carrying out the terror attacks against America on September 11, 2001—has released an audio message as part of his “Islamic Spring” recordings that calls for Muslims worldwide to strike America.
A professor employed by Delta State University in Mississippi has been gunned down by an active shooter at Delta State University, a Bolivar County Deputy Coroner confirmed Monday, and the campus shooter remains at large, according to reports.
The YouTube page of Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei has released a new video titled “if any war happens,” which casts a particularly threatening tone in predicting that the Islamic Republic would defeat the United States should war break out between the two sides.
Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a Saudi banker who is now worth billions of dollars thanks to his success with Sharia-compliant financing, has donated $10 million to Yale University as part of a successful effort to build an Islamic Law Center at the Ivy League school.
The Gaza-based terrorist group Jaysh al Islam [Army of Islam] has reportedly pledged its services to the Islamic State terror group’s branch in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a message that circulated jihadist Internet networks this week.
Washington, D.C.’s Union Station has been evacuated due to a shooting that reportedly happened in the transit center’s food court, reports have stated.
France’s Economy Minister, Emmanuel Macron, attended a prominent technology conference this week in Israel as part of an ongoing strategy employed by Paris to bring French Jews back to their home country, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The latest edition of the Islamic State terror group’s Dabiq magazine features an article that proclaims Syrians and Libyans making the exodus to Europe are “sinners,” and the Western world will expose their kids to secular thoughts, drugs, alcohol, and sex.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told legislators on Wednesday that he believes the United States should increase the amount of refugees that Washington absorbs per annum to 100,000 people, the New York Times reports, citing congressional staffers and Obama White House officials.
Speaking at the Stop Iran Rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sen. Cruz (R-TX) laid out a list of negative consequences that would unfold as a result of Congress approving the Iran deal.
