Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has avoided taking a visible role in the Trump administration since it took office last year, avoiding cameras and cable news shows.
byKristina Wong28 Mar 2018, 3:51 PM PDT0
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis asserted on Tuesday that the government of Turkey is correct to be concerned about Kurdish factions in Sinjar, Iraq, where they participated in eradicating the Islamic State amid an attempting suicide of the majority-Yazidi population there.
byFrances Martel28 Mar 2018, 3:07 PM PDT0
Lee Ching-yu, the wife of jailed Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che, vowed to continue fighting for her husbands release from a Chinese prison on Wednesday.
byJohn Hayward28 Mar 2018, 1:58 PM PDT0
A small but vocal campaign urging people to delete their Netflix accounts has emerged in Brazil in response to the streamers new documentary series based on the corruption of former socialist administrations.
byBen Kew28 Mar 2018, 1:53 PM PDT0
Brazils leftist former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lost a final appeal on his corruption conviction that could soon land him in prison and keep him out of the 2018 presidential race. While still a heavy favorite to win, signs of opposition are starting to grow, including recent eggings at campaign stops and gunfire aimed at his campaign convoy on Tuesday.
byFrances Martel28 Mar 2018, 1:20 PM PDT0
Satellites have detected increased activity at North Koreas Yongbyon nuclear test site, possibly indicating that one or two new nuclear reactors are close to coming online. If these findings are verified, the reactors could prove capable of creating weapons-grade nuclear material.
byJohn Hayward28 Mar 2018, 12:40 PM PDT0
Corruption, mismanagement, and neglect have reportedly replaced Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists as the destroyers of historical heritage sites in Iraq like the city of Basras “shanasheel,” finely crafted windows with intricate wooden latticework and stained glass that allows inhabitants to see outside without being seen.
byEdwin Mora28 Mar 2018, 12:02 PM PDT0
President Trump is ending temporary amnesty for nearly 1,000 Liberian nationals who have been allowed to stay in the United States for almost three decades.
byJohn Binder28 Mar 2018, 10:49 AM PDT0
Thousands of mourners silently walked through Paris on Wednesday to condemn the gruesome murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, the latest in a series of anti-Semitic attacks that have convulsed Frances dwindling Jewish community.
bySimon Kent28 Mar 2018, 10:39 AM PDT0
Uncertainty from Washington, DC, due to the Trump administrations possible withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear Iran deal resulted in a drop of the Iranian rial to a record low on Monday.
byAdelle Nazarian28 Mar 2018, 10:30 AM PDT0
In a postscript to the latest tale of iron-fisted censorship from authoritarian China, Internet users neatly sidestepped a ban on insulting nicknames for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un by coming up with new insulting nicknames for him.
byJohn Hayward28 Mar 2018, 10:12 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is still undecided about whether he will travel to Israel in May to inaugurate the new U.S. embassy to coincide with Israels 70th anniversary, the White House said Tuesday.
byDeborah Danan28 Mar 2018, 9:50 AM PDT0
TEL AVIV – Israel will postpone deporting illegal African migrants until after Passover a high court demand for a policy brief on the matter.
byDeborah Danan28 Mar 2018, 9:49 AM PDT0
In an interview with a Zimbabwean newspaper over the weekend, ousted dictator Robert Mugabe complained that his friends in South Africa “could have done much more” to save him from the coup that ended his four decades of rule.
byJohn Hayward28 Mar 2018, 9:43 AM PDT0
A day after the Chinese Foreign Ministry claimed it had “no idea” if North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was in the country, the state propaganda arms of both countries confirmed that Kim and his wife met with Chinas communist leader, Xi Jinping.
byFrances Martel28 Mar 2018, 9:42 AM PDT0
U.S. President Donald Trumps administration has reportedly carried out Americas first ever drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda terrorists in jihadi breeding ground Libya last weekend, suggesting a possible expansion of the United States mission in the war-ravaged nation.
byEdwin Mora28 Mar 2018, 8:58 AM PDT0
The forced withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the anti-Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fight in Iraq and Syria is prompting a resurgence of the jihadist groups in both countries, according to U.S. and Kurdish officials.
byEdwin Mora28 Mar 2018, 7:46 AM PDT0
Rumors have engulfed Washington, DC, that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, who will replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor, is seeking to restaff the agency and remove individuals seen as hostile to the Trump administration agenda.
byAdelle Nazarian28 Mar 2018, 6:31 AM PDT0
Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted that President Donald Trump could succeed in his peace talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, noting that former President Barack Obama never reached that point in diplomacy with the rogue nation.
byCharlie Spiering28 Mar 2018, 6:13 AM PDT0
Contents: Tense Turkey-EU summit in Bulgaria once again ends in failure; Other unresolved issues from the EU-Turkey summit meeting
byJohn J. Xenakis28 Mar 2018, 6:07 AM PDT0
President Donald Trump updated the American people about the upcoming talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, signaling on Twitter that peace was possible.
byCharlie Spiering28 Mar 2018, 5:55 AM PDT0
“Fake Christians” who say they are saved by Jesus but still live corrupt lives will “end badly,” Pope Francis warned pilgrims Wednesday in his weekly audience in Saint Peters Square.
byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Mar 2018, 5:47 AM PDT0
JERUSALEM — The Israel Airports Authority says a German plane collided with an Israeli plane on the ground at Ben Gurion airport, causing damage but no injuries.
byBreitbart Jerusalem28 Mar 2018, 4:46 AM PDT0
ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatia is set to buy a squadron of F-16 fighter jets from Israel to modernize its military, after the countrys top defense body backed the deal.
byBreitbart Jerusalem28 Mar 2018, 4:03 AM PDT0
An Israeli woman was left in a serious condition after falling out of the doorway of a passenger jet during a chaotic evacuation when passengers became alarmed at smoke in the cabin and rushed to the emergency exits.
byBreitbart Jerusalem28 Mar 2018, 2:55 AM PDT0
Australia wants to begin negotiating a new trade deal with the UK on “day one” of Brexit next year and put it into effect on January 1, 2021.
bySimon Kent28 Mar 2018, 2:18 AM PDT0
The red tape that could have delayed the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem was cut on Tuesday, when the National Planning and Construction Council authorized plans to build a wall and escape route from the structure chosen, when the embassy moves from Tel Aviv.
byBreitbart Jerusalem28 Mar 2018, 1:31 AM PDT0
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in New York City on Tuesday afternoon with around a half-dozen representatives of major American Jewish groups, The Algemeiner has learned.
byBreitbart Jerusalem28 Mar 2018, 1:02 AM PDT0
Several reporters in Tuesdays White House press briefing failed to get a detailed answer out of press secretary Sarah Sanders on whether President Trump is pursuing using defense department omnibus funds to build the promised southern border wall.
byMichelle Moons27 Mar 2018, 10:04 PM PDT0
The United States must accelerate the development of high-velocity rocket technology that is able to “defeat” ballistic missiles defense systems to keep up with the capabilities being honed by China and Russia, warned a top commander and key lawmakers.
byEdwin Mora27 Mar 2018, 6:58 PM PDT0
In an interview that aired Monday on Fox Newss The Story with Martha MacCallum, American photojournalist Matt Schrier said he felt “betrayed” by the FBI under former directors Robert Mueller and James Comey after he was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Syria.
byJohn Hayward27 Mar 2018, 6:19 PM PDT0
If Sisi succeeds, the Islamic world will never be the same. And the world will be safer. If Sisi fails, then barring an unforeseen miracle, Egypt, with its 90 million people, will fall apart.
byCaroline Glick27 Mar 2018, 5:57 PM PDT0
Officials within the Iranian regime on Sunday said President Donald Trumps decision to appoint former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton as national security adviser was a “matter of shame” due to his involvement with an Iranian opposition group that Iran considers to be a terrorist organization.
byAdelle Nazarian27 Mar 2018, 5:28 PM PDT0
China held large-scale naval exercises involving dozens of vessels in the South China Sea this week as the government again seeks to show off its military power around the disputed territory.
byBen Kew27 Mar 2018, 4:36 PM PDT0
The Cuban dissident group Ladies in White reports that at least 36 of their members were arrested violently this weekend while participating in pro-democracy protests and attempting to attend Catholic Mass on Palm Sunday.
byFrances Martel27 Mar 2018, 4:17 PM PDT0
The Cambridge Analytica employee who revealed the companys alleged Facebook data mining has stated that he believes his predecessor may have been poisoned.
byLucas Nolan27 Mar 2018, 4:08 PM PDT0
Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and James Inhofe (R-OK) on Monday wrote a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to consider the sale of F-35B fighter jets to Taiwan, citing Chinas growing military capabilities and increasing belligerence toward the island.
byJohn Hayward27 Mar 2018, 3:54 PM PDT0
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders informed reporters during Tuesdays briefing that a total of 150 Russian “intelligence officials” have been expelled from more than 20 countries this week over a chemical attack on U.K. soil.
byMichelle Moons27 Mar 2018, 3:18 PM PDT0
A prominent human rights organization in the Philippines has claimed that President Rodrigo Dutertes drug war is leading the country into a path of “tyrannical megalomania and unparalleled self-destruction.”
byBen Kew27 Mar 2018, 2:55 PM PDT0
The Taliban wholly or partially controls over half of Afghanistan, claimed the Russian foreign minister this week, echoing other assessments.
byEdwin Mora27 Mar 2018, 2:13 PM PDT0
Glenn R. Simpson, the co-founder of the controversial opposition research firm Fusion GPS, may have used unwitting reporters to help get the FBI to take more seriously the largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier produced by his group, according to a recently released book.
byAaron Klein27 Mar 2018, 1:55 PM PDT0
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was taken to the hospital Tuesday evening due to a high fever and a cough.
byBreitbart Jerusalem27 Mar 2018, 12:46 PM PDT0
Economist and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Mondays Breitbart News Tonight to discuss President Donald Trumps trade negotiations with China and other Asian nations.
byJohn Hayward27 Mar 2018, 12:33 PM PDT0
The mystery train carrying unknown North Korean VIPs to Beijing departed on Tuesday after what proved to be a brief visit, leaving the city awash in rumors that the visitor was dictator Kim Jong-un. Chinas vast army of online censors has been working overtime to block web searches for information about Kim using his common derogatory nickname among Chinese: “Fatty the Third.”
byJohn Hayward27 Mar 2018, 11:51 AM PDT0
China provided cover for its ally Russia in an editorial published Tuesday by the state-run Global Times, in which evidence of Russian involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal is dismissed as thin, and the Western response of expelling Russian diplomats is denounced as “a crude form of behavior” and “uncivilized.”
byJohn Hayward27 Mar 2018, 11:37 AM PDT0
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