According to a senior official close to the White House, Israel’s continued “settlement” building is primarily to blame for the collapse of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Another senior official told The New York Times Thursday that those sentiments directly reflect President Obama’s
Breitbart News had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Nile Gardiner to discuss the UK Independence Party (UKIP), British-American Relations, and the Conservative movement. Gardiner is Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center For Freedom. He is a
“Islamophobia” is so 2013. According to several Iranian state-media outlets along with Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, “Iranophobia” is the West’s new anxiety disorder. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, speaking at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Global Forum Wednesday, reiterated his
Egyptian general and presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man largely responsible for dethroning the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, asked the United States for help in fighting his country’s battle against Islamist extremism. “We are fighting a war against terrorism,”
Judicial Watch believes it has found compelling evidence to suggest United States Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has uncomfortably close ties to the Chinese government. The watchdog group’s lead was uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Fatah, the governing party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, posted a threatening message to Israel’s citizens on its official Facebook page. “Warning. This is a land of a Palestinian state and the occupation to leave immediately,” said the
After years of Boko Haram terrorizing Africa, the Obama administration has finally come around to recognizing the militant Islamist terrorist group as a serious threat. As almost 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in April remain missing, the State Department acknowledged Thursday
The Obama administration has plans to sell one billion dollars in advanced weaponry to Iraq, according to the Pentagon. The deal provides massive advances in airpower for the Iraqi military. A Pentagon official said the deal will include 24 AT-6C
The Iraqi Parliament will convene to discuss the merits of legalizing marriage to girls as young as nine years old. Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari, a top government official, proposed the controversial law. Fawzia al-Babakhan, A female Iraqi lawyer, was disappointed
A veteran underwater explorer claimed he has found ship wreckage off the coast of Haiti, the final destination of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria vessel. Explorer Barry Clifford believes he has found the famous ship that hit a reef off of Haiti’s coastline
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria, has stepped down from his position. Brahimi took the position in 2012, but resigned largely due to his failure to successfully progress towards making peace between the warring
An estimated 200 suspected members of Boko Haram were reportedly killed Wednesday and 10 captured in a successful counteroffensive by a local Nigerian militia in Rann, located in Kabalage Village. It is an area located in the northeast part of
A Facebook page called Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women was recently set up by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad. Describing the vision behind her page creation, Alinejad said: This page does not belong to any political group and the initiative
Deborah Peters is the only female survivor of a Boko Haram attack ever to visit Washington, D.C. A teenage girl from the village of Chibok, where hundreds of schoolgirls were recently abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Peters is now
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled Turkey must compensate Cyprus for its 1974 invasion of the island state. The $123 million ruling marks the largest charge ever declared under the auspices of the ECHR. The court ruled
A spokesperson for South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense discharged a strongly worded statement during a press briefing that was extremely critical of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). The spokesman on behalf of South Korea said it
Al Qaeda affiliates have turned their guns on one another in the ongoing civil war in Syria. The warring parties: the al-Nusra Front and ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), who have been battling for control over the
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rozogin has claimed the residents of Transnistria, a breakaway region located between the borders of Moldova and Ukraine, have decided to back their absorption into the Russian Federation. “The Russian delegation has … brought home
The Central Intelligence Agency plans on shutting down its bases throughout Afghanistan over the summer and withdrawing its personnel back to Kabul. The Los Angeles Times reported that in March CIA Director John Brennan told a group of military officers that
The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed it has fully replicated and reverse-engineered a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned spy plane. The UAV was downed in 2011 while it was surveilling Iran’s nuclear and military sites. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who
A commentator at PressTV, one of Iran’s state-run news networks, has declared Nazi Germany on equal moral footing to its US, UK, and “Zionist Jew” opponents during WWII. PressTV’s Brandon Martinez vented his disgust that many were upset following revelations
In April, Islamist militants that were part of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) tried and failed to abduct a Central Intelligence Agency officer and U.S. Special Ops commando while they were at a barbershop in Sana’a, Yemen’s Capital
An influential Chinese journalist has been locked up on charges of leaking state secrets. Gao Yu, who was also imprisoned for over six years following the 1989 Tiananmen square protests, has been thrown in jail again stemming from reports from
According to ABC News and the Daily Beast, the Obama administration failed to reply to requests by lobbying firm Patton Boggs, on behalf of the Nigerian government, for intelligence information and aid to help fight the militant Islamist terrorist group
Chinese experts are studying and considering plans to build a high-speed rail line that stretches from China to the United States. If constructed, the project, titled the “China-Russia-Canada-America” line, would stretch out to cover over 8,000 miles of land. China’s
North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reportedly unleashed a variety of racial slurs directed at United States President Barack Obama. The reprehensible verbal rhetoric comes as North Korea prepares its fourth nuclear test. According to The Washington Post, Obama was
According to reports by Russian newspaper Izvestia, Russia plans to have a lunar base and moon colony in place by 2030. Izvestia claims it received a government document from the Kremlin that details the moon colony project. The project has
A group of Ukrainian Jews with sophisticated military and martial arts expertise have come together seeking to protect fellow citizens from anti-Semitic attacks. Tzvi Arieli, founder of the group, said the force is comprised of eight men who have either
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger and activist who is the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the charge of “insulting Islam.” Badawi had called for May 7th to be a
More than 170 sharks have been caught off the coast of Australia stemming from a controversial policy seeking to reduce the threat of shark attacks on humans. According to reports, 50 were shot on site, 20 died while caught in
The President of Indonesia has reiterated his stance that his country should remain a secular state, not one dominated by Islamic law. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said after receiving the Sukarno (Indonesia’s first President) prize for championing humanity and democracy,
A 3,000-strong mob raided a Hindu temple and over two dozen residences after hearing that two local youths allegedly insulted the prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Several inhabitants of the pillaged residences reported their possessions and valuables were stolen. Bangladesh Police
Russia is set to start delivery of nine Yak-130 fighter jets to Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian forces. The contract between Russia and the Assad regime in Syria is structured to facilitate the delivery of 36 Yak-130’s by the end of 2016.
The Syrian rebel army opposing current President Bashar al-Assad has fled Homs, once a stronghold for opposition forces. On Wednesday morning, the first of hundreds of opposition fighters left Homs after an agreement was secured between the two warring sides
Iranian state-media is reporting the explosion of a ‘wood and oil’ factory in Qazvin, Iran, resulting in an estimated 50 casualties. Police have reportedly closed off all roads within a 2km radius of the area surrounding the facility. Local media
The Telegraph has reportedly uncovered China’s secret plans for handling the scenario of a collapse of North Korea’s regime under Kim Jong Un. The document suggests that China is worried about the short- and long-term overall stability of the Un
Hundreds of Nigerian-American demonstrators and their supporters rallied today at Nigeria’s embassy in Washington, D.C., seeking to free the 276 girls (and the 8 more abducted today) kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. “Bring back our girls, now!”
Israel celebrates its independence day tonight and into Tuesday (Yom HaAtzmaut), while last night after sundown and today, it mourned its losses (Yom Hazikaron). The quick turnaround, marked by a day of mourning and a day of celebration in a
Two Nigerian women have been detained after demanding accountability from their government. Following the mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, Naomi Mutah was among many Nigerian citizens upset with their governments response. Protest groups amassed throughout the country,
The United Nations international nuclear inspection team arrived in Iran Sunday to visit the country’s nuclear facilities. Iranian state media is reporting the inspectors will visit two separate sites in the coming days. ‘Most of the seven-step procedural agreement between
