TEL AVIV – An Arab American news site on Friday claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was told by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he was committed to keeping the ceasefire with Israel and that the Golan would remain a demilitarized zone just as long as the Israeli prime minister doesn’t join the efforts to oust Assad.
On Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Dr. Herbert London of the London Center for Policy Research said that war has unquestionably come to America’s shores.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says that the Orlando nightclub shooting is an “act of war” that should prompt American leaders to finally understand the reality of radical Islamic terrorism.
Families across America this Sunday and Monday congregated in their town’s main streets to honor the memories of those soldiers lost defending the United States throughout history, passing on to their children the utmost respect for those who gave all in defense of their nation.
If Britain leaves the European Union then we’re all going to die. Orphaned kittens and stray puppies, their wounded paws tragically unbandaged, will wander the blackened streets mewling and yelping pitifully for their owners.
Far from making Europe safer, the European Union is highly likely to provoke a war thanks to its antidemocratic nature, and foolhardy foreign and defence policies, the chairman of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has warned. Conservative MP
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is responding to the massive terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has defended Iran from having any responsibility over three Americans who disappeared from Baghdad last week.
The Obama Pentagon announced Monday that Guantánamo detainee Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani, 40, will be transferred back to his home country of Saudi Arabia. With the Monday announcement, Al-Shamrani became the fourth Guantánamo detainee released in 2016. U.S.
The United States military is turning out all the stops in its war against the Islamic State terror group, hitting the jihadi outfit “harder than ever” before, President Obama says in a speech at the Pentagon.
An abnormally large number of desert locusts are expected to hatch beginning in January in Yemen, threatening to eat through a chunk of an already dangerously depleted food supply. Most Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid for food and water following a year of civil war and the rise of jihadist violence in the Middle East’s poorest nation.
Turkey could lose billions in all sectors of their economy after the government shot down a Russian jet on the Turkey-Syria border. Tourism might be the first to suffer, as the country hosts over 4 million Russian visitors a year.
In a strongly worded homily, Pope Francis is calling Christmas a “sham” in the face of recent terrorist attacks and wars.
It is a long-term and striking characteristic of the American people to show particular devotion to their soldiers. The famed French observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood in the 1830’s how the people of a participatory republic like the United States would be both fierce in war and show an uncommon devotion to those who had served in the military.
A suburb of Baghdad is currently experiencing a wave of cholera, triggered by increasingly poor hygiene and depleted resources as the Iraqi government struggles to expand its control over territories coveted by the Islamic State terrorist group.
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.
India’s Army Chief Gen. Dalbir Singh declared that, if needed, his country is ready to face hostile military action at its borders, comments that will likely increase tensions between India and Pakistan.
China faces a crisis of at least 24 million boys that will never find a mate due to tens of millions of female infanticides during China’s 34 years of one-child “policy” to restrict population growth. With at least 10 percent of China’s young men never being able find a spouse, these “bare branches” may direct their anger at the authorities.
An estimated 200 people came out Sunday evening to a rally calling for opposition to the Iran deal currently being considered in the U.S. Congress. The event followed a midday briefing that drew over 150.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops onto a war footing from 5 p.m on Friday after his government issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. South Korean
Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA) remains on the fence when it comes to her vote on the Iran Deal despite opposition from fellow Democrats Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) and influential Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
The Taliban is running wild in Kabul, killing and maiming Afghan soldiers on a daily basis, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a national audience Monday night that neighboring Pakistan is partly to blame for the chaos in his country.
Israeli defense minister Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon hinted that Israel would carry out air strikes and assassinations to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, and perhaps even to prevent the Iran deal from being implemented.
The Pentagon and State Department have announced the United States will train regular Ukrainian military forces this year.
Iran wanted something the civilized world judged it unfit to possess – including Barack Obama, up until two years ago – but they got it anyway, and they did so with a combination of actual and threatened violence. Their sponsorship of terrorist activities created those “Middle East tensions” Obama is now accepting congratulations for defusing by appeasing them. They proved they were serious about using violence, including criminal violence, to get what they want. The United States and its allies, under Barack Obama’s “leadership,” is not. Iran won the war without firing a shot.
For years the Won-Loss record dominated pitcher evaluations even more than ERAs. This was wrong, but too many in the baseball analytics community threw out the baby with the bathwater by making winning irrelevant in their calculations.
Washington (AFP) – America’s new military strategy singles out states like China and Russia as aggressive and threatening to US security interests, while warning of growing technological challenges and worsening global stability.
UN-organized peace talks between the competing Sunni and Shiite sides of the growing Yemeni civil war ended explosively after a journalist threw a shoe at a Houthi leader, prompting a melee between multiple parties at the resulting press conference. United Nations mediators nonetheless stated they were optimistic the two sides would resolve to end violence.
Hundreds of people displaced from the Iraqi city of Tikrit started to return home on Monday, three months after pro-government forces recaptured former president Saddam Hussein’s hometown from Islamic State militants.
Seventy-five years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood before Parliament and delivered his “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech, arguably the finest oration of his career.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that the nation had already begun sending “humanitarian aid” relief packages to refugees fleeing the war-torn nation of Yemen, and that it was preparing to continue sending food and medicine to the region. It marks the first Turkish presence in a war in which Iran and Saudi Arabia are both backing opposite sides of a civil war.
After months of alarming neighboring Vietnam and the Philippines with illegal constructions in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea, the Chinese government announced the construction of two lighthouses in the region, complete with groundbreaking ceremonies. The move indicates China has abandoned any attempt to continue their constructions surreptitiously, particularly in light of American State Department warnings to stay within their sovereign territory.
How about a few of you high-rolling elected officials try making do with a bit less luxury, and personally donate some of the obscene profits you’ve skimmed off hard-working taxpayers through endless decades of “service” to the VA? That would really be something to talk about next Memorial Day, wouldn’t it?
The United States and its allies have staged 22 air strikes on Islamic State targets since Friday, including four near Ramadi, the city taken by the militants this week, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Typically, and understandably, the bond between mother and son is very close.
Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and U.S. Marines, breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia’s besieged capital. The Americans were rushing in to save them, residents watching the aerial armada believed. But at the U.S. Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept.
Outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) both praised and chastised fellow Democrat and Secretary of State John Kerry during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. On Iran, Boxer said point-blank that Iran cannot be trusted “for one second.” She then went on to clarify her belief that while the people of Iran could be trusted, the government and regime cannot be.
In late January, America lost two of her finest during a helicopter training mission at 29 Palms in California. U.S. Marine Corps Major Elizabeth Kealey and Captain Adam Satterfield served their country with honor and were remembered at a recent
Jurgen Todenhofer, the first Western reporter to embed with Islamic State fighters and not be killed in the process, spoke to Al Jazeera about his time with the terror group.
The last year was a bad one for international peace and security. Sure, there were bright spots in 2014. Colombia’s peace process looks hopeful. The last round of Iran’s nuclear talks was more successful than many think. Tunisia, though not yet out of the woods, showed the power of dialogue over violence. Afghanistan bucked its history and has, notwithstanding many challenges, a government of national unity.
