World
June 19th, 2016
ISIS functions as a state, controlling a vast territory with millions of residents, whereas al Qaeda operates primarily as an organization with considerably fewer resources.
June 8th, 2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress today. It was really a historic day in Washington, D.C., and in the relationship between the government of the Republic of India and the United...
June 6th, 2016
The Syria Democratic Forces — a mixed-religion anti-IS coalition made up of Kurdish and Arab groups — is dominated by the YPG. The U.S. provides critical air support to the SDF, and hundreds of U.S. special operation forces...
May 26th, 2016
Recently I joined House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and other Members of Congress on an overseas delegation to examine the spread of Islamic terror and other threats to the United States and its...
May 19th, 2016
It says much about the world we live in that the mid-air explosion aboard EgyptAir’s Flight MS804 from Paris, and the deaths of 66 passengers and crew in the Mediterranean, was almost immediately being scrutinised in the...
May 15th, 2016
As the world leader in freedom and democracy, it is in our national interest to see the same freedoms we enjoy spread to people throughout the world. The Republic of Georgia is a small and young democracy in an area that is...
May 4th, 2016
Yet, memories of that war, and what went wrong in our attempt to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam, came flooding back to me as I read Geoffrey Shaw’s book.
April 25th, 2016
John Ridsdel, a Canadian held hostage by Islamist militants in the Philippines, "has been killed at the hands of his captors," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement Monday.
April 14th, 2016
It was footage that broke hearts around the world, underlining the ongoing suffering of the Chibok mothers -- and the unimaginable plight faced by their daughters.
April 8th, 2016
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), along with Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), today introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act to help facilitate the return of...
June 15th, 2016
The Egyptian government says it has found wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.
Images taken of the wreckage were provided to an Egyptian investigative committee, the Civil...
June 7th, 2016
A car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office.
The car was...
June 1st, 2016
A French naval vessel has detected underwater signals from one of EgyptAir Flight 804's so-called black boxes, investigators said Wednesday.
May 25th, 2016
ISIS terrorists came to the house of a Christian family in Iraq to collect the religious tax imposed on all non-Muslims. ISIS told the mother of the home: You have two choices. You are to leave now or you are to pay the tax...
May 17th, 2016
Israel has always been surrounded by threats. Since it was established, Israel has survived Arab armies waiting at its borders to destroy the Jewish state. It has persisted in the face of suicide bombers and terrorist...
May 7th, 2016
A trio of Spanish journalists who went missing last July in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo have been released, according to the president of the Spanish Journalists Federation.
May 3rd, 2016
Islamic State fighters killed a U.S. serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday when they overran Kurdish defenses in the biggest attack in the area in recent months, officials said.
The dead man was the third American to be...
April 20th, 2016
Japan is a developed nation that allows little immigration, thus winning occasional praise from American immigration restrictionists. If the reason for copying Japan’s immigration policy of almost no immigrants is that it...
April 9th, 2016
The main identified suspects in Islamic State attacks on Paris and Brussels are now dead or in custody after Belgian investigators charged two men on Saturday with aiding last month's Brussels suicide bombers.
April 6th, 2016
A new round of United Nations sanctions on North Korea has a lot of loopholes, and China is only enforcing those that hit at Pyongyang’s weapons-making capabilities. The rogue nation, that is once again making nuclear...