Paul Ryan rejects calls for a 'religious test' in refugee screening
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan called on Congress on Wednesday to promptly pass legislation tightening controls on Syrians seeking asylum in the United States, but stressed that such a...
View ArticleCan Putin use the Paris attacks to mend fences with the West?
He wasn't ostracized. He wasn't isolated. And certainly nobody threatened to shirtfront him. In the space of a year, Vladimir Putin has gone from being the pariah of Brisbane to being the star of...
View ArticleAn ISIS defector revealed the spying methods that helped build the 'Islamic...
ISIS is dedicating resources to infiltrating other anti-Assad regime groups throughout Syria in order to better expand its "caliphate,"according to a defector from the group that The Daily Beast's...
View ArticleIntense video of Russian Tu-22 on a bomb run over Syria
Yesterday we posted an interesting video shot from ground level of a swarm of 19 iron bombs falling from the sky.Here’s footage from the other side.The footage was mainly shot from the cockpit (and...
View ArticleCNN's Fareed Zakaria gave Hillary Clinton a 30-second summation of the...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down for a foreign-policy interview with journalist Fareed Zakaria after she gave a speech laying out her plan to defeat the Islamic State, also known as...
View ArticleDemocrats just delivered a stunning blow to Obama's Syrian refugee plan
Turning on President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders, a significant chunk of the House Democratic caucus sided with Republicans in an effort to effectively stifle the flow of Syrian refugees...
View ArticleWatch a fully loaded US Navy Harrier launch off an amphibious assault ship...
On November 19th, Harrier Jets from the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron launched from the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge to carry out airstrikes against ISIS targets, according to a US Navy...
View ArticleA US veteran passionately explains why America needs to welcome Syrian refugees
In response to the November 13 attacks on Paris that claimed the lives of at least 129 people, several United States governors have said they would refuse to admit Syrian refugees. On Thursday, the...
View ArticleThe governors who want to ban Syrian refugees could learn a lesson from Superman
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, more than half of US governors have declared that Syrian refugees aren't welcome in their states. As is often the case, these executives could learn a lesson...
View ArticleSyrian refugees living in the US say the years-long process is worth the wait
Over and over, Nedal Al-Hayk and his wife traveled up to three hours by bus from their temporary home in Jordan to an office where U.S. Homeland Security officials put them in separate rooms and asked...
View ArticleTed Cruz supported allowing Syrian refugees in the US as recently as February
Before the attacks in Paris, Ted Cruz (R-TX) had a different outlook on allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. As recently as February, he wanted the United States to continue accepting them...
View ArticleTurkey summons Russian envoy over 'intensive' bombing of Turkmens in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has summoned Russia's ambassador in protest over the "intensive" bombing of Turkmen villages in northern Syria by Russian warplanes, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told...
View ArticleRussia fired more cruise missiles at rebel-held areas in Syria
Russia has continued to ramp its bombardment of Syria, firing cruise missiles at both ISIS and rebel-held areas of the war-torn country from vessels in the Mediterranean Sea and long-range strategic...
View ArticleAnti-Islamic discourse is ‘promoting a clash of civilizations’
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said this week that as president he would "look very, very carefully at mosques" and would not rule out the creation of a national database for...
View ArticleHere's the CIA's damage assessment for Jonathan Pollard, who was just freed...
One of the most notorious spies in American history has been freed after three decades in prison.On November 20th, Jonathan Pollard was paroled 30 years after being convicted of spying for Israel.It's...
View ArticleSomething Jeremy Corbyn said in 2013 is coming back to haunt him
A speech that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn made to Parliament in 2013 is coming back to haunt him because it contradicts his current stance on military action in Syria.There is a huge amount of tension...
View ArticleRussians inscribe 'For Paris' on bombs destined for Syria
Russian ground crew are inscribing the words "For Paris" on some bombs destined to be dropped on targets in Syria, in a message of solidarity with the victims of last week's Paris attacks.A video...
View ArticleTurkey seized 11 million pills of a stimulant that's helping to fuel the...
Turkey conducted two massive drug raids along its Syrian border this week.The raids, AFP reports, netted nearly two tons worth of an amphetamine called Captagon, totaling nearly 11 million pills. As an...
View ArticleWatch Iranian F-14 Tomcats escort a Russian Tu-95 bomber during an air strike...
Something really interesting details have been exposed by the material released by Russia’s MoD lately.Indeed, as you can see in the video below, IRIAF (Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force) F-14 Tomcat...
View ArticleThe Paris attacks exposed a rift that could lead to a new government-shutdown...
The burgeoning dispute over the issue of resettling Syrian refugees could complicate plans to keep the federal government from shutting down in December.President Barack Obama's administration is...
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