National Security

Pompeo said a newly-announced $8 billion in arms sales to Middle East allies would help protect their and America’s interests against Iran.

Boko Haram has killed an estimated 2,295 teachers and displaced 19,000 people in northeastern Nigeria since it launched an insurgency in 2009 to establish an Islamic emirate, the African nation’s minister of education revealed this week.

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro approved a plan on Thursday to manufacture machine guns across Venezuela despite a nationwide ban on the use of firearms.

Johnny Spann, father of Mike Spann, recalled his son’s last moments with his then-nine-year-old daughter before deploying in 2001.

Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who became famous after receiving a public beating for waving an American flag in Cuba’s Marxist May Day Parade, tells Breitbart News the communist regime forced him on a one-way flight to Guyana to keep him from continuing his pro-American activism.

Johnny Spann, father of Mike Spann, described the early release of Islamic terrorist John Walker Lindh from federal prison as a “disgrace.”

China’s campaign to “Sinicize” religion – that is, either make religions completely subordinate to the Communist Party (CCP) or wipe them out altogether – includes a campaign to “exterminate Buddha.”

President Donald Trump directed assistance for America’s farmers while long-term trade deals are negotiated, leading the Agriculture Secretary to announce $16 billion in aid Thursday.

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) warned of other convicted Islamic terrorists seeking early release in the wake of John Walker Lindh’s release.

Indian Prime Minister Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed a landslide victory Thursday in the gargantuan six-week general elections, cementing the Hindu nationalist leader as the most powerful politician in decades in the most populous democracy in the world.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo met with White House National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump’s four-day visit to the region.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei of lying about his company’s ties to the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party, which controls it.

The White House has notified Congress that plans to deploy 1,500 troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran continue to flare, officials tell the Associated Press Friday. 

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Thursday introduced the No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019, a bill that would make convicted terrorists ineligible for early release from prison due to “good behavior.” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) introduced companion legislation in the House.

North Korea’s communist regime has continued to excoriate President Donald Trump for walking out of a meeting with brutal dictator Kim Jong-un in February. On Friday, a foreign ministry spokesman called Trump’s position “arbitrary and dishonest” and vowed North Korea will not move “even an inch” towards denuclearization under pressure.

On Thursday, Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg spent much of the day regurgitating Barack Obama’s old, failed anti-Israel policies.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday his regime would invest “immediately” into Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE to bring a 4G wireless network to the country, which is suffering chronic shortages of food, medicine, electricity, and gasoline under his rule.

The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution demanding the United Kingdom surrender the islands of the British Indian Ocean Territory in six months — receiving no support from any EU member-state except Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

Stories of heroism amidst tragedy have been heard by the inquest into the London Bridge terror attacks, including a man who threw chairs and bottles at the attackers and another who attacked the terrorists with his skateboard.

Police officers in Pakistan this week arrested an engineer from China for allegedly pushing a Pakistani worker into a three-story-deep furnace for failing to understand his instructions at a factory in Punjab’s Faisalabad region.

Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea published research on Wednesday demonstrating that Chinese factories have been emitting a huge volume of a greenhouse gas banned by a treaty China signed in 1987.

The Irish Times has published an official editorial declaring U.S. President Donald Trump ‘an unwanted guest’ prior to Mr. Trump’s upcoming visit to Ireland on June 5.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday officially shunned an invitation to a U.S.-led peace conference in Bahrain next month in what is being billed as a precursor to President Donald Trump’s so-called “deal of the century” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  

TEL AVIV – Arab nations are putting pressure on the Palestinians to walk back a rejection of a US-led peace conference in Bahrain next month, according to Palestinian officials cited by the Jerusalem

TEL AVIV – Iranian youth will witness the demise of Israel and American civilization, Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday said in comments translated by Reuters.

China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is notoriously dotted with huge re-education camps for Muslims where very little autonomy can be found.

Prominent Nigerian journalist Jones Abiri was arrested on Wednesday on charges of “terrorism and economic sabotage,” in a case that rights groups claim is politically motivated.  

First Lady Melania Trump is breathing new life into some of her older wardrobe essentials with new dresses, thicker belts, and her favorite pair of shades. 

The infamous “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh wrote a few letters to reporters and authors praising Afghan Taliban jihad and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), prompting recipients of the correspondence to label him unrepentant as authorities released the jihadi into U.S. communities on Thursday.

The vice president of the Communist Party of North Korea met with senior members of the Cuban Castro regime in Havana on Thursday for a “work visit” to discuss “topics of mutual interest,” according to the Cuban Foreign Ministry.