As Americans prepare for New Year’s Eve ball drops around the country, law enforcement is in overdrive to keep revelers safe–as the homeland has recently been stung by a Islamic jihadist attack and threats have been flagged around the world.
Police in Munich, Germany are reportedly sweeping trains for explosives shortly after they announced on Twitter that they were aware of planned terror attacks. The police said to avoid crowds and train stations, then announced they were shutting down trains. Train stations were empty.
Police in Munich warned of a “serious, imminent threat” by Islamic State group suicide bombers wanting to commit an attack on New Year’s Eve and asked people to stay away from the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighborhood.
About 190 workers, most of them Muslim immigrants from Somalia, were fired from their jobs at a meat packing and distribution plant in Colorado this week for walking off the job to protest a workplace prayer dispute.
The United States is preparing new sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran after the regime in Tehran conducted ballistic missile tests in violation of international sanctions.
The Kurds are a major factor in the uneasy politics of Turkey and Iraq, and they have been holding the front lines against ISIS in Syria. There are Kurds in Iran, too, and they are nervous about the end of sanctions against Tehran, fearing the mullahs will use their increased wealth and power to further oppress the Kurdish minority.
Some 20 floors of the 63-story The Address hotel, a five-star establishment in Dubai not far from the landmark Burj Khalifa tower, have been engulfed in flames.
Fire broke out Thursday in a residential building near Dubai’s massive New Year’s Eve fireworks display. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 stories of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper.
Hamas, the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terrorist group, has banned New Year celebrations throughout the Gaza Strip. While hotels and restaurants are allowed to host festivities a day earlier or a day later, those businesses and individuals are prohibited from celebrating on January 1st.
The celebrated historian and British parliamentarian Hilaire Belloc was convinced in his day that Europe and America had forgotten about Islam to their own peril, and were unaware that the Muslim religion could rise again and would pose perhaps the greatest threat of any enemy of the western world.
Vladimir Morera Bacallao, a Cuban dissident allegedly freed as part of President Obama’s deal with Cuba but sentenced to four years in prison shortly after being released, is currently on his 81st day of a hunger strike that has left him in critical condition.
Federal officials have arrested a Rochester, New York man for plotting a New Year’s machete attack on behalf of the Islamic State terror group.
Following a series of protests against the celebration of the new year this week, a radical Islamist party staged a “street play” in the Turkey, featuring a repentant Santa Claus converting to Islam and reciting the Muslim profession of faith, or Shahada.
Although terror threat levels have been heightened around the world, and extraordinary precautions taken in major American cities, the U.S. State Department is aware of no “specific, credible threats here in the homeland.”
In an extensive report published this week, Reuters has revealed how the Chinese communist state threatens and intimidates foreign citizens of ethnic Uighur extraction into spying on fellow Uighurs abroad.
Was the White House spying on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel officials to get at conversations with key members of Congress having to do with the Iran nuclear deal?
In the aftermath of Islamic terrorist (e.g., jihadists) attacks in Paris, France and San Bernardino, California, U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump created a political and media firestorm by provocatively suggesting the U.S. is fighting a ‘politically correct’ war, and since jihadists ‘don’t care about their lives…so you have to take out their families.’
Just two months removed from their largest drug bust in Lebanon history, Beirut airport authorities have seized approximately five tons of Captagon amphetamine pills that were destined for Euorpe, according to reports.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declined to comment when Breitbart News asked whether he approved of President Obama’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Congress.
On the day after Christmas, three Chinese boats, one modified to carry four cannons, entered Japan’s territorial waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands in the southern portion of the East China Sea. The move, a dangerous escalation, is the first time the People’s Republic of China sent an armed vessel into an area that Tokyo claims as its own.
The Associated Press struggles mightily to avoid admitting that the Paris “climate conference” was a very expensive dystopian fantasy, in which world leaders soaked their taxpayers and also spewed vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere with their luxury jets, just to hold the world’s largest “Mad Max” live-action role-playing game
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The year 2015 will go down in memory as a period of unprecedented Christian persecution throughout the world, resulting in thousands of deaths along with continuous targeted acts of violence and terror.
Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.
The latest news from that most trustworthy of nuclear partners, Iran, has secret police thugs beating a Christian convert and dragging him off into the snow, while his family unsuccessfully pleaded to at least give him some warm clothing.
In what appears to be a subtle but disturbing trend, children are being targeted by Islamic supremacists in a most diabolical way. Islamic messages and prayers are implanted in beloved toys. This year for Christmas, no less – Christmas – toy F-16’s were fitted out with Islamic prayers instead of jet noises.
Venezuelan opposition leaders have written a letter to the UN General Secretary asking the world community to prevent a “judicial coup” by the ruling socialist party.
Muslim convert Enrique Marquez was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on five counts–including conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and false statements made regarding two guns, which he stands accused of providing as a “straw purchaser,” used in the December 2 San Bernardino terror attacks.
On Tuesday, Russia’s Economy Minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, sought to downplay the impact of much-publicized sanctions against Turkey over the downing of a Russian fighter jet on November 24.
Samra Kesinovic was used as a sex slave by the Islamic State before being killed while trying to flee, it has been revealed.
GOP 2016 candidate Ben Carson slammed President Barack Obama for spying on Israel — and also pushed Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton into the middle of the expanding scandal.
Two men suspected of being Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants have been arrested in Turkey, allegedly for plotting a suicide bomb attack during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the capital of Ankara.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Richard Burr from North Carolina, Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told Breitbart News that his panel will investigate whether President Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) broke the law by eavesdropping on private conversations between American lawmakers and Israel.
The Nigerian government is claiming that it has kept its promise to eradicate Boko Haram by the end of December, though the group has staged suicide bombings this week that have killed dozens.
Two gunmen opened fire on a group of twenty tourists at Russia’s Naryn-Kala fortress in Dagestan on Tuesday night, killing one and wounding 11 more.
Iran’s launching of a rocket test in close proximity of a U.S. warship has been deemed “highly provocative,” says a U.S. spokesman, who said the regime ship conducted the test while other commercial traffic was close by.
Kim Yang-gon, a senior North Korean official in charge of the nation’s relations with South Korea, died this week in a car accident, according to the communist nation’s official state news agency.
Catholic Cardinal Daniel Sturla wants “flexibility” in the application of a new law requiring zero blood alcohol for Uruguayan drivers, insisting that priests who say Mass necessarily consume some wine during the ceremony.
Tsoi Wing-mui, author of The Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai, argues that despite his many years of marriage, Zhou had an enduring romantic relationship with Li Fujing. “Zhou Enlai was a gay politician who had the misfortune of being born 100 years early,” Tsoi writes in her book.
“Oh, Daddy, Daddy!” repeatedly lamented a 4-year-old boy as he cried at the wake of his father — an NYPD detective and Air National Guardsman who was among six U.S. military heroes recently killed in an Afghanistan suicide bombing claimed by a resurgent Taliban.
