National Security

Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime sentenced several anti-government protesters to hundreds of years in prison for defying the regime this week.

President Donald Trump suggested in remarks to the press on Wednesday that North Korea could one day convince the United States to drop sanctions on the communist regime there, but only when Kim Jong-un offers “something that’s meaningful” as a concession.

The Chinese military this week concluded a month of unannounced exercises in the South China Sea and the Pacific aimed at testing its “wartime command system” and enhancing its missile defenses, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) revealed on Thursday.

Syrian first responders discovered the largest Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) mass grave so far, holding at least 3,500 bodies and located outside Syria’s city of Raqqa, once the de facto capital of the terrorist group’s nearly completely fallen self-declared caliphate, a local forensic assistant revealed on Thursday.

A diplomatic crisis between Italy and North Korea is brewing over the alleged abduction of the 17-year-old daughter of Jo Song Gil, who until November was North Korea’s ambassador to Rome.

Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó led dozens of opposition lawmakers from Caracas on Thursday to collect a U.S. humanitarian aid convoy from the Colombian border, in defiance of the socialist regime’s attempts to block its entry.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has long been accused of using his seven-year “anti-corruption” crusade as an excuse to purge officials who are rivals to his power or critics of his ideology. This critique will find new energy thanks to Tuesday’s announcement that China’s chief corruption-fighting agency will also begin targeting “political deviation” as well as graft.

BAE Systems, the military weapons manufacturer which sells weapons to Saudi Arabia, virtue-signaled its “ethical principles” and support for “cultural diversity” this week, declaring that diversity is the company’s “strength” and that it condemns “racism” and “violence.”

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping declared on Wednesday that Beijing remains committed to developing a “strategic partnership” with Iran, which the United States has designated as the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism.

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has warned that the European Union is pushing for more immigration at a time when radical Islamic extremists are returning from the ruins of the Islamic State caliphate “by the hundreds”, and this “must be stopped”.

The pro-democracy dissident organization Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) announced Wednesday that over 120 people across the island had joined their collective hunger strike protesting the abuses of the Castro regime against opponents of a “new” Communist Party constitution set to pass this weekend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview with Russian media on Wednesday to elaborate on the threats he made against the United States in his annual address.

In an interview with CNN conducted Monday and posted in full on Thursday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen warned other Asian nations they could be the next targets of Chinese aggression, which increasingly includes military threats along with diplomatic and economic pressure.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) stressed to Breitbart News this week that commensurate with U.S. seizures, a small amount of heroin entering the United States from Afghanistan, the world’s top producer of the drug, is having a “limited impact” on the nation’s opioid crisis.

The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has relocated a rival concert intended to drown out an international humanitarian effort on the Colombian border to the Tienditas bridge connecting the two countries, authorities confirmed Wednesday, meaning both concerts will take place in the same location simultaneously.

Iran’s foreign minister accused Israel of “adventurism” with its campaign of airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria, and said he could not rule out the possibility that they could lead to a war between the Mideast arch-foes.

British government security orders that can be placed on known extremists are so expensive to enforce they are hardly ever used, with the majority of returning jihadists are able to “roam free”.

After marathon, all-night talks, the leaders of the two top-polling centrist parties, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, announced Thursday that they had agreed to merge their party lists to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s frontrunning Likud in the upcoming elections.

Iran’s navy is ready to begin an annual drill in the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the re-imposed United States sanctions against the Islamic republic, targeting its vital oil sector, begin to bite.

UK authorities are facing the “headache” of an influx of returning ISIS fighters’ wives and children after the fall of the terror group’s caliphate in Syria, according to reports.

There was much anticipation over the expected rivalry between the United States and China at a global security conference in Munich over the weekend, given a sense among global elites that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and China is growing in stature.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News exclusively that China’s intense international push for global dominance is the biggest threat that America has ever faced, even more substantial than the one that the Soviet Union posed in the 20th century during the Cold War.

The socialist regime in Venezuela closed its land and air borders with neighboring countries on Wednesday to prevent the entry of U.S. humanitarian aid into the crisis-stricken country.

A Chinese corporation in a statement on Wednesday dismissed Islamabad’s accusation of corruption in connection to one of the largest transportation infrastructure projects in Pakistan under Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as “groundless.”

The United Nations-backed Global Polio Eradication Initiative attributed a recent resurgence of the potentially deadly disease in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, home to the one the debilitating virus’ last remaining bastions in the world, to the “unchecked” flow of people across their mutual border, the Guardian reported Wednesday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi welcomed his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to Beijing on Tuesday, stressing the importance of China’s relationship with Iran and telling Zarif he became a “famous person” in China with his speech at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.

Brazil vowed on Tuesday to defy Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and deliver humanitarian aid to the country, which Maduro has deployed his military to prevent.

Police in the Philippines issued five warrants against Father Kenneth Bernard Pius Hendricks on Tuesday on charges of child molestation, adding to charges under U.S. federal statutes that prescribe a maximum of 30 years in prison for Americans who commit sexual assault crimes abroad.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, in remarks to reporters in India on Wednesday, described terrorism and extremism as a common threat and offered intelligence sharing and other cooperation with India in combating the menace.

Police in Haiti arrested a group of foreign nationals, including five Americans, for possession of illegal firearms on Sunday as protests against corruption rocked the nation and President Jovenel Moise was pressured to resign.