A five-year-old boy was detained for several hours at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to ban immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. The U.S. citizen boy from Maryland was travelling with a family member from Iran to Washington to meet his mother, who is of Iranian […]
BY SUE SURKES for Times of Israel Slowly, amid clashes and tears, Israel evacuates Amona outpost France on Wednesday said it “bitterly condemned” Tuesday’s announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman of plans to build 3,000 homes in the West Bank, some of them outside settlement blocs Israel hopes to keep in […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL U.S.-led coalition warplanes targeted Red Crescent’s headquarters in Syria’s Idlib, President of Turkish Red Crescent Kerem Kınık said on Wednesday. Kınık condemned the “hideous” attack, saying that it constitutes war crimes and violation of international humanitarian law. Local media outlets reported that the airstrikes took place around 3:00 AM in Syria’s Idlib […]
One of Britain’s top generals was given £100,000 ($125,000) just to cover “domestic assistance” at his plush London home last year, despite the daily struggles faced by rank and file soldiers. General Nick Houghton, who has since retired, enjoyed one of the ‘grace and favor’ homes given to senior military officers. The bill incurred by […]
Though I am not sure why, many Americans have forgotten that we are all from somewhere else, that we share more than what divides us. I am saddened about how this nation has forgotten its values and for what we allegedly stand for as Americans.
…from SouthFront Syrian government forces are preparing to launch a military operation in another pocket near the capital of Damascus – the Beit Jinn pocket, according to pro-government sources. The operation is allegedly set to be launched in February. On January 31, 30 ISIS terrorists were killed in a failed counter-attack against the Syrian army […]
Signs hang in the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., January 24, 2017. © Terray Sylvester / Reuters The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is vowing legal action after the US Army Corps of Engineers was directed to complete an easement for […]
Less than one-third of Americans believe US President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries makes them "more safe," a new poll shows.
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So far [12:00 CET], 85 fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have been killed and 315 others wounded in clashes with forces of the Donetk People’s Republic (DPR), according to information obtained by SF. ..from SouthFront The military conflict has dramatically escalated in the region of Donbass in eastern Ukraine. On […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- A member of the Iraqi Parliament disclosed that US army cargo aircraft once again landed in ISIL-held regions near Salahuddin. Sattar al-Qanem quoted sources in the Iraqi army intelligence and the country’s popular forces of Hashd al-Sha’abi as saying that an American Chinook helicopter on Saturday landed in al-Jazeereh region near Salahuddin that […]
Screenshot of The Intercept’s investigation, ‘The FBI’s Secret Rules’ A new report published by the Intercept reveals the FBI’s wide-ranging powers from the surveillance of journalists to the treatment of informants after the investigative news site acquired a trove of confidential FBI documents. The 11-part series led by Intercept reporter Cora Currier sheds light […]
