Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels, who threw the country into civil war this year after a coup attempt against exiled president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, have written a letter to the United Nations accepting a seven-point peace plan led by Oman.
The United States intelligence community is trying to get to the bottom of how the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has been able to acquire a plethora of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs during its holy war in the Middle East.
Citing the United States’s supposed untrustworthiness, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has banned negotiations with the United States indefinitely.
Over the weekend, Democratic nominee for President Bernie Sanders rejected the idea of a U.S.-secured no-fly zone in Syria, opposing the proposal laid out by fellow contender Hillary Clinton when it comes to Mid East policy.
The Obama administration has thrown in the towel on a plan to spend $500 million on training “moderate” Syrian rebels to fight ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the regime of Bashar Assad.
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro praised President Barack Obama’s “courage” in working with Cuba, while condemning “neoliberalism” and calling for a “new geopolitical system.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi presented a plan Monday afternoon at the UN General Assembly to battle regional extremism.
Nearly 30,000 foreign fighters from more than 100 countries have traveled to Iraq and Syria since 2011, mostly to join ISIS, the New York Times reported, citing anonymous intelligence and law enforcement officials.
At the U.N., Obama Refuses to See the Chaotic World He Has Made
Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group told Al-Manar TV they welcome Russia’s increased presence in Syria. In gratitude for their support, the Syrian army gave at least 75 Soviet-era tanks to Hezbollah troops in Syria.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) and 33 other Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, expressing outrage over allegations that senior intelligence officers at U.S. Central Command altered their assessments of the U.S. military efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria to make it appear that President Obama is winning the war.
On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.
On September 3rd, French prosecutors closed their investigation into the 2004 death of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Yasser Arafat.
(Reuters) The United States said on Tuesday it had transferred Abdul Shalabi, a longtime hunger striker at the Guantanamo Bay prison and described as a bodyguard for former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, to his home country of Saudi Arabia.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Retired General David Petraeus appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to discuss the administration’s current Mid East strategy.
Last week, Breitbart News reported that two Middle Easterners who had drag-raced luxury cars in Beverly Hills had tried to claim diplomatic immunity before fleeing the U.S. In fact, they did not enjoy diplomatic immunity.
Iran is already spending the enormous cash windfall Barack Obama is giving them on a heavy investment in terrorism, according to a report in the Times of Israel.
Art Garfunkel, of Simon and Garfunkel fame, recently told the Daily Mail that the influx of Muslim migrants into Europe “could change the nature of Europe forever.”
An Iowa news outlet tried–and failed–to draft Sen. Ted Cruz into the media’s campaign against Dr. Ben Carson, following the doctor’s Sunday declaration of opposition to Islamic ideology.
Donald Trump is hitting back twice as hard as Democrats — led by the White House — attack him for not rebuking a town-hall questioner who declared that President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Taliban terrorists attacked a jail in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, freeing more than 350 inmates and killing four policemen.
More than 90 percent of recent refugees from Middle Eastern nations are on food stamps and nearly 70 percent receive cash assistance, according to government data. The high welfare rates among Middle Eastern refugees comes as the Obama administration considers increasing the number of refugees — who are immediately eligible for public benefits — to the U.S., particularly Syrian refugees.
In another chapter of the ongoing story of Muslim harassment on the Temple Mount, a Jerusalem Post reporter was subjected to intimidation as she went to the holy site on a personal-turned-professional visit.
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson will join a Tea Party Patriots rally alongside former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, billionaire and 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and others against the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol.
The 42 Syrian refugees granted asylum in Uruguay are staging a sit-in before the office of the President in Montevideo, accusing the government of lying to them about economic opportunity and demanding to return to Lebanon.
On television, we are watching the beginnings of a mass migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe. If you google “Middle East Population and North African Population” you get the 2014 CIA population estimates nation by nation. The Middle East has a population over 600 million and North Africa has a population of 198 million for a total over 800 million.
Political responses to crises are often tardy and embarrassingly fad-driven, as with the current global outcry over the image of a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on the Turkish shore. He was hardly the first innocent victim of this century’s most brutal war. Where has the world been for the last 54 months?
The migrant crisis currently overtaking Europe has experts focused upon one of the most remarkable examples of an effective border fence: the one Israel built along its border with Egypt.
Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan said Russia has agreed to deliver the S-300 surface-to-air missile system by the end of year, despite concerns expressed by the Pentagon over the sale of the advanced air defense system, reports Tehran Times.
NEW YORK, New York—Demonstrators waving American and Israeli flags gathered in front of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s midtown Manhattan office Tuesday evening to protest her support for the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Saudi Arabia is set to ink an agreement with U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin for the defense giant to sell two warships to Riyadh.
The release of the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton emails from her private server while she was Secretary of State reveals her State Department’s long-standing anti-Israel bias.
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander (IRGC) stated Wednesday that Iran will not stop building up its military until Israel is annihilated.
After his traditional Angelus message on Sunday, Pope Francis launched a heartfelt appeal on behalf of persecuted Christians in the Middle East, saying that there are more Christians killed for their faith today than during the brutal persecutions by the Roman Empire.
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) will vote for the nuclear Iran deal. In a late Thursday op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune, Peters wrote, “the JCPOA is our best tool to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon for at least
Never in my lifetime, did I believe I would witness our great country being taken down and withdrawn from our world leadership role by our own administration. The latest example is the flawed agreement with Iran on their nuclear weapons
From Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post comes an argument that Europeans resisting the wave of migrants from Middle Eastern hell-holes have got it all wrong. The new arrivals will actually save Europe, by repopulating it with someone other than Europeans.
According to Agence France-Presse, the United States will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. This is a modest number when measured on the scale of mass migration – a veritable drop in the bucket compared to the tide sweeping through Europe – but still much larger than what Americans were previously told to expect by their government.
Associated Press— A man wearing an Afghan security force uniform opened fire Wednesday inside a base in southern Afghanistan, killing two U.S. soldiers in what appeared to be the latest so-called “insider attack” to target foreign troops or contractors in the
Small but growing numbers of American, British, Canadian, and Australian veterans are volunteering to assist in the battle against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in Iraq and Syria. Motivated to help Christian and other minority groups defend against the spread of Islamist terrorism in the region, they have traveled to Iraq and Syria to take the fight to ISIS. On the front lines, they assist beleaguered people with training, guidance, and combat.
