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Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked foreign fighters from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other predominantly Muslim countries are traveling to Christian-majority Philippines to join the terrorist group’s Southeast Asia wing.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 9:33 PM PST0
A new Gallup poll shows that North Korea has surged to the top of America’s enemy list. Fifty-one percent of respondents say the communist regime is the greatest threat to the United States.
byPenny Starr20 Feb 2018, 6:39 PM PST0
Beijing is demanding the extradition of 11 Muslim Uighurs from Malaysia as part of its efforts to allegedly combat Islamic extremism in and around Chinese soil.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 6:14 PM PST0
A mob of an estimated 3,000 Islamic extremists in Pakistan reportedly called for the beheading of a 17-year-old Christian whose phone, after reappearing days after he lost it, contained blasphemous content that authorities could use to sentence him to life in prison or death.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 5:45 PM PST0
The Islamic Republic of Iran is reportedly acting more visibly upon what it refers to as “the axis of resistance” by mobilizing its growing network of terrorist proxies throughout multiple Middle Eastern countries, particularly in Syria, in light of a recent incident between Iran and Israel.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Feb 2018, 5:31 PM PST0
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a severe rebuke of Iran in Moscow on Monday during a panel discussion with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif at a conference. He rebuked the Islamic Republic’s continuous calling for the destruction of Israel.
byAdelle Nazarian20 Feb 2018, 5:21 PM PST0
A North Korean official on Tuesday floated the possibility of co-hosting the 2021 Asian Winter Games with South Korea and using North Korea’s Masikryong ski resort for the event.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 5:13 PM PST0
China’s Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Center is demanding the United States “severely punish” a man who allegedly defaced an ancient terracotta warrior statue while it was on display at the Franklin Institute museum in Philadelphia.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 4:56 PM PST0
A group supportive of Russian president Vladimir Putin have announced its intention to hold a ‘Gays for Putin’ rally ahead of March’s presidential election, despite the country’s stringent laws on homosexuality.
byBen Kew20 Feb 2018, 4:29 PM PST0
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly trying to add Pakistan to a global terrorist-financing watchlist maintained by a counter-money laundering monitoring group.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 3:48 PM PST0
Police in Zimbabwe arrested a senior official and professor at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) on Friday for having participated in issuing former First Lady Grace Mugabe a Ph.D. which she did not qualify for, according to multiple reports.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 3:29 PM PST0
Chinese authorities have vowed to crack down on the rural tradition of hiring strippers for funeral ceremonies, the country’s Ministry of Culture has announced.
byBen Kew20 Feb 2018, 3:00 PM PST0
The U.S. Army is honoring three Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets killed in the Florida high school shooting Wednesday with medals for heroism.
byKatherine Rodriguez20 Feb 2018, 2:55 PM PST0
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s bloody efforts to stamp out the remaining rebel enclaves near Damascus resulted in what observers are describing as the wholesale massacre of civilians on Monday and Tuesday, with a bombing campaign that deliberately targeted seven hospitals and killed over a hundred people, including at least 20 children.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 2:44 PM PST0
The manager of a Castro-friendly Cuban band reportedly condemned the government in a Facebook post on Sunday, claiming that the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television had banned a recent hit song whose video has 5.9 million views on Cuban social media.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 1:54 PM PST0
A Russian husband and wife “troll team” was indicted by U.S. authorities on Friday for their involvement in an online effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
byTom Ciccotta20 Feb 2018, 1:17 PM PST0
Relations between Poland and Israel are in their deepest crisis in memory in the wake of Poland’s move to criminalize criticism of Polish collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust.
byCaroline Glick20 Feb 2018, 12:55 PM PST0
The government of India has been criticized for what many interpreted as a deliberate snub of visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday. While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted many other visiting dignitaries in person at the New Delhi airport, he dispatched Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh to do the honors for Trudeau.
byJohn Hayward20 Feb 2018, 12:30 PM PST0
United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had strong words for top Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday: “I will not shut up.”
byBreitbart Jerusalem20 Feb 2018, 12:00 PM PST0
The United States Military Academy at West Point has decided to posthumously accept fallen JROTC high school student Peter Wang to the class of 2025.
byKatherine Rodriguez20 Feb 2018, 10:28 AM PST0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday that the Turkish military would invade and “besiege” the heart of Afrin city Syria “in the coming days,” threatening to turn “Operation Olive Branch” into a devastating urban conflict.
byFrances Martel20 Feb 2018, 10:19 AM PST0
Two unlikely partners in South Asia, Taliban supporter Iran and U.S.-allied India, have reportedly expressed a willingness to enhance cooperation against jihadist organizations and drug traffickers in Afghanistan, named the top opium and terrorism-producing region in the world by the Pentagon.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 8:54 AM PST0
Lent is the time when we are called to stand up to Satan and “vanquish” him with God’s help, Pope Francis told pilgrims.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.20 Feb 2018, 8:03 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – Stop the violent protests or Israel will respond harshly, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) warned Gazans demonstrators in an Arabic-language video Tuesday, adding that they might consider protesting against their oppressive Hamas government instead.
byDeborah Danan20 Feb 2018, 7:56 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – There are 10 Iranian military bases in Syria, two of which are close to the border with Israel, that are training militias from the Assad regime for a future war with Israel, an analyst for an American think tank said in an article published Monday.
byDeborah Danan20 Feb 2018, 7:51 AM PST0
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has defiantly vowed that the Russian- and Iranian-backed military loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad will fail to stop the ongoing Turkey-led offensive against the Kurdish-held Afrin region in northern Syria.
byEdwin Mora20 Feb 2018, 7:00 AM PST0
Contents: Turkey gets bogged down with military ‘Operation Olive Branch’ in Afrin, Syria; Syria says it will send its ‘popular forces’ to support the YPG against Turkey in Afrin
byJohn J. Xenakis20 Feb 2018, 6:18 AM PST0
DUBAI – A UAE-based company has unveiled what it calls the world’s first camel-based baby formula, an instant powder mix aimed mainly at infants allergic to cow’s milk.
byBreitbart Jerusalem20 Feb 2018, 3:21 AM PST0
Police on Tuesday lifted a gag order on the Bezeq fraud case, the latest corruption probe involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, revealing the names of seven people who were arrested earlier this week.
byBreitbart Jerusalem20 Feb 2018, 1:19 AM PST0
TEHRAN, Iran — Three policemen were killed in “a vicious attack” in the Iranian capital during protests by a Sufi sect on Monday, a police spokesman told local media.
byBreitbart Jerusalem20 Feb 2018, 12:59 AM PST0
TEL AVIV – The Holocaust is the greatest lie in history, invented by the Jews to extort the world, and gas chambers were used to disinfect clothes and nothing more, an Egyptian TV host said on national television in a program broadcast on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
byDeborah Danan20 Feb 2018, 12:24 AM PST0
The Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency has fired the individual responsible for the false ballistic missile alert issued last month, and the state has promised to fix the system.
byPenny Starr19 Feb 2018, 10:55 PM PST0
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
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