Jihad has rapidly taken a new and ominous shape. In the past, bombs were exploded—either human homicide bombs or car/truck bombs. Rockets were launched. Unbelievably, planes were once flown into major Western targets. Now, President Obama empowers the radical Islamic world further by refusing to join the words “terrorism” and “Islam” and by
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday it was a "disgrace" that Jews in Germany faced insults, threats or violence, as she marked 70 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Merkel joined survivors of the former camp, created by Nazi Germany in southern Poland, for a somber and moving event in the
Kurdish fighters have expelled Islamic State group terrorists from inside the Syrian border town of Kobane, a monitor said Monday, dealing a key symbolic blow to the jihadists' ambitions. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had finally pushed ISIS terrorists out
Award-winning veteran actor and story teller Sir Ben Kingsley was among the dignitaries at the first day of the Let My People Live Forum in Prague, and used the opportunity to explain why in his view Europe has failed to fully come to terms with the crimes of the holocaust. Noting that his own
Iraqi forces have "liberated" Diyala province from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, retaking all populated areas of the eastern region, a top army officer said on Monday. The symbolic victory for Baghdad, which has at times struggled to push ISIS back, could clear the way for further advances against the jihadists. "We
New Saudi King Salman is expected to use President Barack Obama's stopover on Tuesday to push for greater US involvement in resolving Middle East crises, analysts say. Obama, accompanied by his wife Michelle, is cutting short a visit to India to convey his condolences after the death of ailing King Abdullah last Friday.
Five separate sets of potential fireworks have been igniting simultaneously in the Middle East for the last few weeks, each of them adding fuel to the fires caused by the others. If and when these developments reach the kindling point, the entire region may go up in uncontrollable flames. These are the sources of
A Farsi-language Iranian news site affiliated with the Islamic regime's Revolutionary Guards suggested that the sons of Israeli leaders are being targeted as a response to the Israeli airstrike in Syria last week, in which Iran's General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was killed. The news site, Mashregh News, detailed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's sons
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been conducting a nearly four-year bloody crackdown on his own people, said US plans to train vetted rebels to fight Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were "illusory" as they would eventually defect to the jihadists, in an interview published Monday. The Syrian leader also questioned talks to be held
France arrested five Russians Tuesday accused of plotting a new attack as four men suspected of helping the gunmen behind the Paris shootings were brought before anti-terrorist judge. European nations, on high alert after the attacks that shook France to its core, have launched a wave of raids targeting suspected jihadist cells. French
