Pope Francis urged the Group of 20 leaders on Thursday to abandon the “futile pursuit” of a military solution in Syria as the Vatican laid out its case for a negotiated settlement that guarantees rights for all Syrians, including minority Christians. In a letter to the G-20 host, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Francis
The United States declared on Thursday that Russia is holding the U.N. Security Council on Syria hostage. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, lashed out at Russia, and left little doubt that Washington would not seek U.N. approval in response to the August 21 chemical weapons attack near Syria’s capital Damascus.
Syrian anti-regime activists say government troops and al-Qaida-linked rebels are fighting over a regime-held Christian village for a second day. The director of the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, says the fighters of al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra group entered the Christian village of Maaloula overnight. Despite heavy army presence in
An Egyptian policeman was shot dead and another wounded on Wednesday at a checkpoint in the southern town of Aswan, the Interior Ministry said, in what appeared to be a revenge killing. The attack was carried out by relatives of a man killed earlier in an exchange of fire with police at the checkpoint.
Militants bombed adjacent houses belonging to two Shiite Muslim brothers south of Baghdad early on Wednesday morning, killing 18 members of their families, security and medical officials said. The bombs targeted the houses in the town of Latifiyah, just south of Baghdad, shortly after midnight, an army officer and a doctor at a
The recently discovered 1979 newspaper article by Vernon Jarrett – the father-in-law of senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, opens a new dimension to understanding Obama’s youth, as Vernon Jarrett was a close friend of Obama’s Communist Party-activist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. The connections were not lost on Joel Gilbert, the filmmaker whose documentary
Al-Qaeda’s leaders have been bolstering their anti-drone efforts, setting up cells of engineers to shoot down, disable or hijack U.S. drones, the Washington Post reported late Tuesday classified documents. The militant leadership is “hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses against the terrorist network,” the Post
Has anyone noticed? Israeli media wrote about it this past weekend, having just woken up to the implications of educating Americans to hate Israel as occurred in Europe. West saw it right away. "Al-Jazeera America": The very name gives me the heebie-jeebies. What does Al-Jazeera have to do with America? Everything, if the
Amid speculation that Russia may hike military assistance to Syria should the Unites States strike, Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking action, in comments published on Wednesday. In an interview with The Associated Press and Russia’s state Channel 1 television, Putin said that Moscow has provided some components of the
Egypt’s interim leader Adly Mansour said on Tuesday that his country is conducting a strategic review of its foreign relations after failing to win European and American support for the military-backed overthrow of Islamist President Mohammad Mursi. In his first television interview since he was appointed by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as interim president
