Turkey’s foreign minister dismissed allegations the country used chemical weapons against the Kurds in northern Syria’s Afrin region as fake news disseminated by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) organization, arguing that Turkey is taking the utmost precautions to avoid hurting noncombatants.
byEdwin Mora19 Feb 2018, 10:07 PM PST0
Speculation over how long National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster can last in the job is ramping up after President Donald Trump corrected him on Twitter during the weekend.
byKristina Wong19 Feb 2018, 7:18 PM PST0
Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has said he will attend the Summit of the Americas “rain, hail, or shine” despite being disinvited from the event.
byBen Kew19 Feb 2018, 5:53 PM PST0
A Foreign Policy report suggests the United States is currently “laying the groundwork” for cyber warfare against North Korea as an alternative method of neutralizing the rogue communist regime.
byBen Kew19 Feb 2018, 5:34 PM PST0
In a rare interview with Margaret Brennan of CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he has been working to convince China that North Korea is a “serious threat” to its interests.
byJohn Hayward19 Feb 2018, 5:31 PM PST0
The Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday that Australia, India, Japan, and the United States are considering an alliance to counter China’s growing influence – in particular, the huge “Belt and Road” trade project undertaken by China.
byJohn Hayward19 Feb 2018, 5:03 PM PST0
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed Venezuela’s top diplomat to the country this week, just as Abuja honors North Korea with floral arrangements to honor Kim Jong-Il and Eternal President Kim Il-Sung.
byFrances Martel19 Feb 2018, 3:46 PM PST0
A court in Baghdad on Sunday convicted 11 Turkish women and one from Azerbaijan of joining the Islamic State. One of them was sentenced to death, while the others were given life in prison.
byJohn Hayward19 Feb 2018, 2:55 PM PST0
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took his rapprochement with China to a new level on Monday by joking that China should consider absorbing his country and turning it into a province of the People’s Republic.
byJohn Hayward19 Feb 2018, 11:38 AM PST0
The government of dictator Bashar al-Assad confirmed on Monday that it would send Syrian military troops into Afrin to fight against the Turkish military, which invaded the northern province last month.
byFrances Martel19 Feb 2018, 10:10 AM PST0
Members of Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF/PMU) confirmed on Monday that Islamic State terrorists killed “at least 27” of their fighters and kidnapped about two dozen more near Kirkuk, a city the PMF invaded and conquered late last year.
byFrances Martel19 Feb 2018, 9:58 AM PST0
JERUSALEM – Israel has struck an “historic” contract for sales of billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas to Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday.
byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Feb 2018, 7:48 AM PST0
The violent Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East did not begin with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014, said Iraqi Archishop Bashar Warda, but rather many centuries ago. “Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Feb 2018, 6:28 AM PST0
Contents: Special prosecutor Robert Mueller issues farcical indictment of Russian trolls; How the Russian trolls do their jobs; Russian trolls are Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons; Comparing Russian trolls to Chinese hackers
byJohn J. Xenakis19 Feb 2018, 5:13 AM PST0
The indictment of Russian nationals and entities for alleged attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election represents a major intelligence failure on the part of the Obama administration, which was warned about the purported Russia meddling threat since at least 2014.
byAaron Klein19 Feb 2018, 4:50 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – Hamas banned a new TV station for women from being launched on Sunday, prompting outcry that the Gaza-ruling terror group is “oppressive.”
byDeborah Danan19 Feb 2018, 4:30 AM PST0
The Israeli military struck the Gaza Strip early Monday, hours after a rocket was shot into southern Israel as intense cross-border fighting persisted for a third straight day.
byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Feb 2018, 3:52 AM PST0
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was being held in custody in France on multiple rape charges, has been released to hospital care for evaluation to determine if he is well enough to face trial.
bySimon Kent19 Feb 2018, 3:30 AM PST0
Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Holocaust.
byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Feb 2018, 2:57 AM PST0
MOSCOW (AP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia’s predominantly Muslim Dagestan region.
byBreitbart London19 Feb 2018, 2:48 AM PST0
In a meeting with priests, Pope Francis announced that he would canonize Pope Paul VI later this year, and that he and emeritus Pope Benedict XVI are on the “waiting list” to become saints.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Feb 2018, 2:15 AM PST0
Hezbollah threatened on Sunday to target Israel’s Mediterranean natural gas rigs in a future conflict, the latest in a string of such threats.
byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Feb 2018, 2:02 AM PST0
Australia and New Zealand will be the next destinations for Hillary Clinton’s What Happened book tour, with “exclusive first access” tickets to hear her speak in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland announced.
bySimon Kent19 Feb 2018, 1:39 AM PST0
President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday slammed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments that there were Jewish perpetrators in the Holocaust, calling them “a new low.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Feb 2018, 12:35 AM PST0
Pakistan is deploying an undetermined number of additional forces to join up to 800 of their counterparts in allied nation Saudi Arabia, one of the top financial contributors to Islamabad’s growing nuclear program.
byEdwin Mora18 Feb 2018, 10:16 AM PST0
Contents: Iran gives operational control of its Chabahar seaport to India; Comparing Iran’s Chabahar seaport vs Pakistan’s Gwadar seaport
byJohn J. Xenakis18 Feb 2018, 10:13 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – In what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed a “serious” incident, four IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated by their jeep during a patrol along the Gaza Strip border on Saturday.
byDeborah Danan18 Feb 2018, 10:12 AM PST0
In contrast to the media narrative, most Russian ad buys occurred post-election with the intent to “divide America, said the Facebook VP.
byAllum Bokhari18 Feb 2018, 9:28 AM PST0
A gunman has killed four women and injured three others, including police officers, at a folk festival in the Russian republic of Dagestan.
byJack Montgomery18 Feb 2018, 7:44 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday slammed Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki’s “outrageous” remark that Jews helped perpetrate the Holocaust, saying that the comment highlighted the Polish prime minister’s insensitivity.
byDeborah Danan18 Feb 2018, 6:47 AM PST0
RIYADH – Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the consent of a husband or male relative, as the kingdom pushes to expand a fast-growing private sector.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Feb 2018, 4:38 AM PST0
Police on Sunday said senior officials in the Bezeq phone company were arrested over the weekend in a graft probe involving close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a “dramatic” development was reported over the weekend in the case.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Feb 2018, 4:09 AM PST0
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has reportedly engaged in a series of coordinated cyber warfare tactics to spy on, police, and arrest the Iranian people to secure its theocracy.
byAdelle Nazarian18 Feb 2018, 1:42 AM PST0
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Saturday that alongside Poles, Jews were also responsible for perpetrating the Holocaust.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Feb 2018, 1:07 AM PST0
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Matylda Jonas-Kowalik has spent most of her 22 years secure in the belief that she would never know the discrimination, persecution or violence that killed or traumatized generations of Polish Jews before her. She once thought the biggest problem that young Jewish Poles like herself faced was finding a Jewish boyfriend or girlfriend in a country dominated by Catholics.
byBreitbart Jerusalem18 Feb 2018, 12:45 AM PST0
The Pakistani army and terrorists from the Islamabad-allied Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) have intensified attacks on the portion of Kashmir controlled by New Delhi, killing ten Indian soldiers and injuring ten civilians, including women and children, in two separate incidents over a week period.
byEdwin Mora17 Feb 2018, 6:15 PM PST0
All scientific evidence indicates that gender identity disorders result principally from cultural causes and moreover, modern society is facilitating them.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Feb 2018, 5:59 PM PST0
A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a Saudi-born al-Qaeda terrorist to life in prison Friday for killing two U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
byKatherine Rodriguez17 Feb 2018, 1:46 PM PST0
The “increasingly deadly” explosives the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) left behind across Iraq are preventing residents from returning home and impeding the delivery of vital aid and reconstruction efforts, the United Nations revealed.
byEdwin Mora17 Feb 2018, 8:53 AM PST0
A U.S. federal court has indicted a teacher from New York and his twin brother on explosives charges for allegedly stockpiling destructive material at their residence in the Bronx and paying students to make bombs, among other crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
byEdwin Mora17 Feb 2018, 8:08 AM PST0
Contents: Ethiopia declares state of emergency after shock resignation of prime minister; Generational analysis of Ethiopia’s protests and state of emergency
byJohn J. Xenakis17 Feb 2018, 7:44 AM PST0
A former Czechoslovakian spy has claimed that Jeremy Corbyn was paid by Communist secret police to inform on Britain.
byVirginia Hale17 Feb 2018, 7:33 AM PST0
Three Syrian migrants are currently on trial in Hamburg for being members of a terrorist cell and one of the men has admitted that the Islamic State terror organisation sent him to Germany telling him to disguise himself as a refugee.
byChris Tomlinson17 Feb 2018, 5:51 AM PST0
The Islamic State has released propaganda photos that the terrorist group claims depicts the lives led by its jihadists in Iraq despite declarations from the Iraqi government that IS has been ejected from the country.
byAli Waked17 Feb 2018, 4:03 AM PST0
TEL AVIV — A Syrian civilian has been accused of “prostitution” and arrested by the Islamic State-affiliated Khaled Bin Waleed armed militia active in the triangle border area between Syria, Israel and Jordan, according to the jihadist group.
byAli Waked17 Feb 2018, 4:02 AM PST0
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