National Security

Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan published photos on his social media accounts on Tuesday appearing to play basketball with retired NBA star and commentator Shaquille O’Neal in Istanbul.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that her country will not rule out a military response in Greenland amid threats from U.S. President Trump to annex the Arctic island.

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Tuesday announced the U.S. seized another oil tanker that stood in defiance of the Venezuelan oil blockade ordered by President Donald Trump.

Iranian-American activists are circulating online petitions asking the U.S. to deport relatives of senior Iranian regime officials.

President Donald Trump spoke by telephone with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Monday to discuss the conflict between Sharaa’s forces and the Kurds of northeastern Syria, who have complained of abuses by government troops and blamed them for releasing around 120 Islamic State terrorists from a Kurdish-run prison in Hasakah province.

The Venezuelan non-government organization Foro Penal on Monday announced that, based on information confirmed by the group, Venezuela’s socialist regime still holds 777 political prisoners as of Monday night.

Bolivia’s state-owned cable company Entel over the weekend announced the removal of Russian state outlet RT and the left-wing propaganda network Telesur from its channel grid.

A group of representatives of the Turkic communities of East Turkistan, a nation colonized by the Chinese Communist Party, gathered before the White House on Monday to mark five years since Washington recognized the ongoing genocide of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in the region.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gives no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

A torrent of violence, including reported beheadings and a prison break by Islamic State terrorists, erupted in Syria on Monday following the signing of an agreement between the jihadist federal government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

U.S. President Donald Trump will address globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and set out the future of Greenland as well as the course, direction and speed of a host of other geopolitical initiatives he is driving.

The administration of Paraguayan conservative President Santiago Peña accepted President Donald Trump’s invitation to his proposed international Board of Peace, Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano announced.

America’s relations with Europe remain strong and trans-Atlantic trading partners are best advised to “take a deep breath” and let tensions driven by the Trump administration’s new tariff proposals over Greenland “play out,”  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday counseled.

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae said on Monday she will dissolve the lower house of the Japanese Parliament on Friday, setting the stage for snap elections on February 8. The next parliamentary election was not scheduled until October 2028.

An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that at least 5,000 people were killed during the regime crackdown on protests last week.

Venezuela’s socialist regime on Sunday rejected the “malicious information” allegedly contained in a report published by Reuters claiming that the Trump administration was in discussions with strongman Diosdado Cabello months before the U.S. law enforcement operation to arrest Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump declared that he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of peace” in a letter to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, expressing his desire to acquire Greenland from Denmark for the United States. 

President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree this weekend designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) Quds Force a terrorist organization.

Cuba’s National Security Council held a meeting this weekend to discuss what state propaganda described as “plans and measures to take a step toward a State of War,” a day after welcoming the remains of 32 of its soldiers killed in an American operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The Chinese government on Monday released its latest round of dismal demographic data, revealing that birth rates have hit their lowest level since the Communist revolution of 1949, and the population is still declining despite years of expensive efforts to convince more couples to have children.

The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), signed an agreement on Sunday with American-allied Kurdish forces in the country that dramatically strips away the latter’s autonomy in exchange for Damascus recognizing “Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights.”

Devastating raging wildfires in southern Chile have left at least 19 dead and affected more than 1,500 local residents.

Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend.

A deadly Sunday night collision between a derailing high-speed train and a second oncoming train in southern Spain left at last 39 dead and over 152 injured.

Hundreds of thousands in Russian-occupied parts of southern Ukraine were left without power on Sunday, according to Kremlin-installed authorities there. Meanwhile, Moscow has kept up its hammering of Ukraine’s energy grid in overnight attacks that killed at least two people, according to Ukrainian officials.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the formation of a “European Armed Forces” in light of U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s threats to use military force to take control of Greenland. Despite having chronically underinvested in its own

U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, this week as he continues to challenge the established world order with a series of geopolitical victories and the promise of more to come.

Advocates of hardball negotiations over Greenland in Europe have suggested stalling the ratification of the trade deal with the United States after President Donald Trump announced that America will impose tariffs on eight countries for opposing the United States acquiring the arctic island.

“The Iranian nation defeated the U.S.,” declared Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisting the U.S. must “be held accountable.”

Thousands of people demonstrated in the capital of Greenland on Saturday against President Donald Trump’s plans for the US to annex the Danish autonomous territory.

Ramping up the pressure in the diplomatic feud over the future control of Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will impose a 10 per cent tariff on eight European nations for their opposition to America acquiring the territory.

A Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for talks Saturday on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war as Russian attacks again took aim at Ukraine’s power grid, cutting electricity and heating in freezing temperatures.

Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.