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A submarine long theorized to have transported Nazi officials to South America has finally been found — sunken near Denmark.

byNate Church19 Apr 2018, 10:40 PM PDT0

A picture taken on October 28, 2017, shows a fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walking through an empty rubble-filled street surrounded by damaged buildings in the Syrian city of Raqa. The US-backed SDF took full control of Raqa on October 17, wrapping up an operation that lasted more than four months to capture a city that had been the inner sanctum of IS's now moribund 'caliphate'. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the city since 2014 and by the time the SDF retook it, Raqa had become a ghost town of collapsed buildings. / AFP PHOTO / Delil souleiman (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), in a piece published Thursday, condemned United States-led attacks on the Islamic State in the city of Raqqa that took place nearly one year ago, arguing that Americas intention to remove the terrorist group was a “lie.”

byAdelle Nazarian19 Apr 2018, 8:45 PM PDT0

Russian forces patrol damaged buildings in Douma, Syria on the outskirts of Damascus on April 16, 2018 during an organised media tour after the Syrian army declared that all anti-regime forces have left Eastern Ghouta, following a blistering two month offensive on the rebel enclave. The announcement, which represents a key strategic victory for President Bashar al-Assad, came just hours after US-led strikes pounded Syrian government targets in response to a suspected chemical attack on the enclave's main town of Douma. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that it has “credible information” Russia and Syria are working together to keep inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from visiting the site of the alleged chemical attack in Douma.

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 8:15 PM PDT0

An employee assembles a OnePlus X smartphone at the OnePlus manufacturing facility in Dongguan, China, on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. OnePlus is part of a crop of upstart Chinese companies that are intensifying competition throughout the industry and crushing profit at established giants such HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A study commissioned by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission warns that the U.S. federal government is highly vulnerable to espionage or cyber attack due to its dependence on Chinese electronics and computer software.

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 7:50 PM PDT0

GUANGZHOU, Sept. 13, 2016 -- A Chinese Air Force H-6K bomber flies to the West Pacific, via the Bashi Strait, for a routine combat simulation drill, Sept. 12, 2016. The Chinese Air Force on Monday sent multiple aircraft models, including H-6K bombers, Su-30 fighters, and air tankers, for the drill. The fleet conducted reconnaissance and early warning, sea surface cruising, inflight refueling, and achieved all the drill's targets. (Xinhua/Guo Wei via Getty Images)

Two Chinese H-6K bombers flew around Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon in what the Chinese military described as a “sacred mission” to defend the “beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland.” Taiwan saw things very differently, denouncing Chinese “military intimidation.”

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 6:58 PM PDT0

Mohammed Haydar Zammar leaves a mosque in Germany on Oct. 3, 2001. (Knut Mueller/Der Spiegel via AP)

Kurdish forces in Syria announced this week that they have captured a Syrian-born German jihadist linked to 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta and other terrorists, Mohammed Haydar Zammar.

byAdelle Nazarian19 Apr 2018, 6:46 PM PDT0

A woman wearing traditional dress from Kachin state in Myanmar sheds a tear as she prays outside St. Mary's Cathedral during a mass led by Pope Francis in Yangon during his last day of a four-day visit on November 30, 2017. Pope Francis on November 30 wrapped up a visit to Myanmar defined by his decision not to address the Rohingya crisis in public, before flying to Bangladesh, where huge numbers of refugees from the Muslim minority languish in refugee camps. / AFP PHOTO / Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

Around 2,000 people from the Christian ethnic Kachin community are in need of urgent medical attention after fleeing to the jungle in order to escape clashes between Kachin guerrillas and Myanmars security forces.

byBen Kew19 Apr 2018, 6:34 PM PDT0

General Khalifa Haftar, commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA), arrives to attend a meeting for talks over a political deal to help end Libyas crisis in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris, France, July 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / PHILIPPE WOJAZER (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images)

The potential absence of former Gen. Khalifa Haftar, a military strongman who leads the prominent Libyan National Army (LNA), could create a power vacuum and fuel the chaotic conditions that have allowed jihadist groups to remain active in the North African country, according to several experts.

byEdwin Mora19 Apr 2018, 6:03 PM PDT0

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

A jihadist group linked to al-Qaeda has capitalized on the international troops near single-minded focus to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to consolidate its power in northwestern Syria and surface as the last major terrorist group standing in the war-ravaged country.

byEdwin Mora19 Apr 2018, 5:30 PM PDT0

Liviu Dragna, a member of the Romanian ruling party, confirmed in an interview with the Romanian TV channel ANTENA 3 on Thursday night that his country would transfer its embassy to Jerusalem. He clarified that the decision was made Wednesday night.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 2:30 PM PDT0

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be strong favourites to win elections now set for June 24

WASHINGTON, DC — The Islamist ruling party of Turkey has established a policy of persecuting indigenous Christian, Yazidi, and Jewish communities in the country, an expert on Turkish minority groups declared on Wednesday.

byEdwin Mora19 Apr 2018, 1:44 PM PDT0

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno talks during a news conference about the kidnapped journalists of Ecuador's El Comercio, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 12, 2018. Moreno said it is highly likely that three press workers kidnapped along the conflictive border with Colombia were killed and gave their captors 12 hours to demonstrate they remain alive before he orders a major military operation against them. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador abruptly announced in an interview Wednesday that his country would cease participating in peace talks between Colombia and the communist guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN).

byFrances Martel19 Apr 2018, 1:25 PM PDT0

Trump, Kim Jung-un

Michael Malice, author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong-il, discussed President Donald Trumps North Korea strategy with SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak during Wednesdays Breitbart News Tonight. Malice described the presidents dual “madman” and “good cop, bad cop” approach as offering “reasons to hope” for human rights improvements in the totalitarian state.

byRobert Kraychik19 Apr 2018, 11:05 AM PDT0

Mike Pompeo, Kim Jong Un

At a joint news conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the United States is “fighting very diligently” to secure the freedom of three Americans held by North Korea.

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 11:04 AM PDT0

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's president Moon Jae-in are due to meet for a rare summit on April 27

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that North Korea has dropped its long-standing demand for American forces to withdraw completely from the Korean peninsula as a condition for denuclearization.

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 10:52 AM PDT0

Visitors wait in front of a

Saudi Arabia opened its first movie theater on Wednesday in a historic launch at the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, bringing an end to a 35-year ban on cinemas over fears that they distort Islamic morality.

byBen Kew19 Apr 2018, 10:31 AM PDT0

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suprised many observers by moving forward the date of Turkey's elections to June this year

Turkeys Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced on Wednesday that it would hold snap parliamentary elections on June 24, expected to reinforce President Recep Tayyip Erdogans control of national policy.

byFrances Martel19 Apr 2018, 10:22 AM PDT0

An image grab taken on April 19, 2015 from a video reportedly released by the Islamic State (IS) group through Al-Furqan Media, one of the Jihadist platforms used by the militant organisation on the web, purportedly shows men described as Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya kneeling on the ground in front of masked militants before their beheading on a beach at an undisclosed location in Libya. The video released online purportedly shows the executions of 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya, with the footage showing one group of about 12 men being beheaded by militants on a beach and another group of at least 16 being shot in the head in a desert area. AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains a “potent” menace in Libya more than a year after U.S.-backed local forces pushed the group out of former stronghold Sirte, experts told a House panel.

byEdwin Mora19 Apr 2018, 10:10 AM PDT0

In his debut speech as the “President” of Cuba on Thursday, Miguel Díaz-Canel, billed as Raúl Castros hand-picked successor, made abundantly clear that Castro would continue to govern the country, telling the National Assembly that Castro “will preside over all major decisions for the present and future of the nation.”

byFrances Martel19 Apr 2018, 8:57 AM PDT0

United Nations vehicles carry the team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), arrive at hotel hours after the U.S., France and Britian launched an attack on Syrian facilities to punish President Bashar Assad for suspected chemical attack against civilians, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 14, 2018. A team of the international chemical weapons watchdog arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus to carry out an investigation into the alleged chemical weapons attack on the town of Douma where opposition activist said more than forty people were killed. (AP Photo/Bassem Mroue)

Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “arrived” in Douma, Syria, on Tuesday, but they were not able to enter the town and examine the sites where the Syrian government allegedly deployed chemical weapons.

byJohn Hayward19 Apr 2018, 8:39 AM PDT0

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Mondays Breitbart News Tonight, saying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was previously prepared to provide him with “physical proof” that WikiLeaks source for Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails was not the Russian government.

byRobert Kraychik19 Apr 2018, 8:01 AM PDT0

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Abbas said Wednesday he will ask the United Nations to endorse Palestinian independence this fall even if negotiations restart with Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed a terrorist immediately upon his release from a 20-year sentence in Israel prison for murder, in an hour-long meeting that focused on Palestinian prisoners.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 6:53 AM PDT0

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official ceremony for Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, at the National Memorial Hall for Israel's Fallen, in Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery, Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a fiery address at a torch-lighting ceremony marking Israels 70th Independence Day, declared that the Jewish state is becoming a “world power” and said its light will overcome its enemies “darkness.”

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 6:06 AM PDT0

Movement for the Salvation of Azawad militants patrol along the Mali-Niger border on February 3, 2018

Contents: Al-Qaeda linked JNIM attacks two peacekeeper camps in Timbuktu, Mali; Canada debates whether theres any point to a peacekeeping force; Thousands of Mali refugees flee into Burkina Faso to escape ethnic violence

byJohn J. Xenakis19 Apr 2018, 6:03 AM PDT0

Site of earthquake near Bushehr, Iran on April 19, 2018. (Screen capture: USGS National Earthquake Information Center)

TEHRAN, Iran — An earthquake of at least magnitude 5.5 struck in southern Iran near the countrys sole nuclear power plant on Thursday morning, shaking countries across the Persian Gulf. There was no immediate report of damage or injuries.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 5:49 AM PDT0

CIA chief Mike Pompeo, seen here at a Senate hearing last May, says his agency was not behind the recent unrest in Iran

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced Thursday morning it will hold a vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo at 5 p.m. to confirm him as secretary of state.

byKristina Wong19 Apr 2018, 5:39 AM PDT0

Michael Steinhardt, the co-founder and major supporter of Birthright Israel—a program that has brought more than 600,000 Jewish young adults from around the world to Israel for free 10-day heritage trips—gave the middle finger to a group of anti-Israel, anti-Birthright activists outside a gala Birthright celebration on April 15.

Michael Steinhardt, the co-founder and major supporter of Birthright Israel—a program that has brought more than 600,000 Jewish young adults from around the world to Israel for free 10-day heritage trips—gave the middle finger to a group of anti-Israel, anti-Birthright activists outside a gala Birthright celebration on April 15.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 4:31 AM PDT0

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Hundreds of IDF reservists were called up for service on Thursday morning by accident, the IDF Spokesmans Office said.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 3:53 AM PDT0

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on March 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said he 'may' attend the opening of a controversial new US embassy in Jerusalem, a fraught prospect designed to underscore close ties with Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he hosted Monday.Trump warmly welcomed the embattled prime minister to the White House, claiming US-Israel ties had 'never been better' and floating a May trip that would be a major security and diplomatic challenge. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Israelis on the countrys 70th anniversary, saying the United States has “no better friends anywhere” than Israel.

bySimon Kent19 Apr 2018, 2:50 AM PDT0

Polish soldiers attend the main commemoration ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland. The Warsaw Ghetto was a prison created by the German military during its occupation of Warsaw during World War II. Starting in 1940, 400,000 Jews were confined to a walled-in neighborhood of 3.4 square kilometers under horrific conditions. With assistance from Polish partisans the Jews rose up in armed resistance in 1943 and held off the Germans for several weeks until the Germans annihilated the ghetto, killing 13,000 people. In all 392,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were killed, most of them after deportation to the Treblinka death camp. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

WARSAW, Poland — People in Warsaw pinned paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital began a day of commemorations Thursday on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 2:37 AM PDT0

An Israeli soldier keeps guard near a Palestinian woman standing by a Star of David graffiti sprayed by Israeli settlers near an army checkpoint in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on May 18, 2009 during a visit by a delegation of ultra-nationalist Israeli MPs protesting against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's promotion of the easing of restrictions on Palestinians.

Officials said a large-scale terror attack planned for Independence Day had been averted after security officials arrested a Palestinian at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Wednesday with a “powerful explosive device” stashed in his truck.

byBreitbart Jerusalem19 Apr 2018, 2:18 AM PDT0

A bumper sign during a blockade of the freeway between Johannesburg and Vereeniging, in Midvaal, South Africa, in protest against the recent murder of farmers, Monday, Oct 30 2017. Traffic was bought to a standstill on highways leading from farming areas to Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg, as white farmers protest in what they call the Black Monday protest against the high rate of murders of farmer workers. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Australia is laying the legislative groundwork necessary to welcome persecuted South African farmers who face a targeted campaign of violence at home, the countrys top legal officer said.

bySimon Kent19 Apr 2018, 1:59 AM PDT0

TEL AVIV – Billionaire Sheldon Adelson made a surprise announcement at the 18th annual Birthright Israel gala on Sunday night by pledging a $70 million donation to the group in honor of Israels 70th anniversary.

byDeborah Danan19 Apr 2018, 1:49 AM PDT0

Pope Francis has asked that the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù childrens hospital to “do everything possible” to be able to receive little Alfie Evans, the British child whom doctors are prepared to euthanize.

byThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Apr 2018, 1:09 AM PDT0

MISCHIEF REEF, CHINA - MAY 1, 2016: DigitalGlobe high-resolution imagery (closeup-1) from 1 May 2016 shows significant development at Mischief Reef. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images)

The Philippines is reportedly looking to lodge a protest against Chinas alleged presence of two military aircraft on a Chinese-built island in the South China Sea.

byAdelle Nazarian18 Apr 2018, 6:04 PM PDT0

One of China's most popular online communities for Muslims has been shuttered after posting a petition asking Chinese President Xi Jinping to stop his

The Trump administration and some lawmakers are reportedly considering using a law targeting human rights abusers to impose sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the oppression of Muslims in western Xinjiang province.

byEdwin Mora18 Apr 2018, 4:38 PM PDT0

If Vladimir Putin wins a fourth term in Sunday's Russian presidential election, that would take him to nearly quarter a century in power

Valentina Matviyenko, speaker for the Russian Federation Council (i.e. the upper house of the Russian parliament) declared at a press conference on Wednesday that Russias response to the latest round of sanctions will be “precise, painful, and without question sensitive for exactly those countries that imposed them on Russia.”

byJohn Hayward18 Apr 2018, 2:40 PM PDT0

American internet and social media companies have launched a crackdown on neo-Nazi and white supremacist material on their sites, sparking warnings that the web's grand promise of free speech is on the rocks.

Chief Minister Biplab Deb of Tripura state in India closed out his first month in office with a speech at a computerization workshop on Monday in which he claimed India invented the Internet about 3,000 years ago.

byJohn Hayward18 Apr 2018, 1:32 PM PDT0

Newly re-elected president Yoweri Museveni, in power since three decades, gestures as he speaks during a press conference at his country house in Rwakitura, about 275 kilometres west of the capital Kampala on February 21, 2016.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has warned his citizens against the practice of fellatio, pointing out that the “mouth is for eating” rather than sexual activity.

byBen Kew18 Apr 2018, 12:47 PM PDT0

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech in Tehran on February 11, 2018

During a ceremony held to celebrate National Army Day in Iran on Wednesday, Irans President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will “produce or procure any weapons” that it needs to defend itself.

byAdelle Nazarian18 Apr 2018, 12:35 PM PDT0

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. President Donald Trumps administration finds the expanding cooperation in Syria between U.S. NATO ally Turkey and Russia “gravely concerning,” a top Department of State (DOS) warned lawmakers.

byEdwin Mora18 Apr 2018, 12:20 PM PDT0

Xi Jingping, Kim Jong Un

An anonymous “official with knowledge of the discussions” told CNN on Wednesday that the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is planning his first official visit to Pyongyang.

byJohn Hayward18 Apr 2018, 11:41 AM PDT0

Intruders seize the symbol of authority of the upper house of Parliament, the mace, in the Senate, Nigeria, April 18, 2018. (Twitter/TVC News)

A meeting in Nigerias National Assembly plenary was disrupted after a group of men stormed the building and stole the chambers mace – a large, ceremonial club.

byBen Kew18 Apr 2018, 11:33 AM PDT0

Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews a naval parade Thursday in the South China Sea.

Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why Chinas Dream Is the New Threat to World Order, told SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Tuesdays Breitbart News Tonight that China could “choke off trade” and “control access” to a critical maritime trade route if allowed to control the South China Sea.

byRobert Kraychik18 Apr 2018, 11:05 AM PDT0

Mike Pompeo, Kim Jong Un

North Koreas state media outlets, which have remained largely silent on talks for an in-person meeting between communist dictator Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, did not disclose on Wednesday the news that CIA Director Mike Pompeo met Kim personally in Pyongyang.

byFrances Martel18 Apr 2018, 10:31 AM PDT0

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