Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s recent worldwide threat assessment describes the United States as facing more foreign policy threats than at any time since World War II. For the last several weeks, my Twitter feed has been consumed with Trump-mania. What he said, what
The Aurora Prize, presented by George Clooney, aims to honour those who stood up for Armenians during the 1915 genocide A priest who saved 1,500 Muslims from slaughter in the Central African Republic has been shortlisted for a new $1 million peace prize. Fr Bernard
Secretary of State John Kerry determined Thursday that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, meeting a congressional deadline for a decision. The declaration, while long sought by Congress and human rights groups, changes little. It
A young man killed while preventing a suicide bomber from entering a crowded church should be considered for canonization, according to Catholics marking the anniversary of a deadly terrorist attack carried out in Lahore on March 15 last year. Volunteer security guard Akash Bashir, 20,
Two Syrian women took a hidden camera through the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to document their life under ISIS rule, knowing they faced execution should they be discovered, according to CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, which commissioned the video. Fully covered and wearing face
Turkey has launched air strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq following a bomb attack in Ankara that killed 37 people. No group said it carried out the attack but PM Ahmet Davutoglu said evidence “almost certainly” pointed towards the banned PKK Kurdish separatist group.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest declined to call the Islamic State’s persecution of Christians in Iraq and Syria a “genocide,” saying earlier this week that such a distinction requires a “specific legal determination” that has “not been reached.” During a press briefing on Monday, Earnest was
In one letter, bin Laden responds to a list of grievances about excesses by al-Qaeda in Iraq, and reports from its leadership that they no longer answer to al-Qaeda’s central leadership. “We heard from more than one person at the leadership level that they are
Of all the images symbolizing our post 9/11 world, few are more searing than the video of American journalist James Foley, moments before his execution by ISIS. With his head shaven, and hands bound, clothed in an orange jump suit, Foley is forced to kneel
A bomb ripped through the crowded Mredi market (BAGHDAD) — Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 73 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. A bomb ripped through the crowded Mredi market in the Shiite district of
