How I conquered my fear in the Old City
Sarah Tuttle-Singer I want to tell you about the time I got stoned at Damascus Gate. (And I don’t mean in the way most people get stoned — with some really dank weed and Bob Marley on the stereo) I was 18 — the summer before my last year of high school. I had spent […]
Trump Reverses US Policy Toward Egypt, Welcoming Sissi
U.S. President Donald Trump reversed years of chilled relations with the world’s largest Arab nation Monday, warmly welcoming Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to the White House and pledging collaboration with Egypt in the fight against radical Islamist terrorism. It was the first White House visit by an Egyptian leader since former President Barack Obama […]
FBI: ISIS suspect dreamed of killing and torturing Americans
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An 18-year-old South Carolina man arrested last week on an ISIS-related charge dreamed of replicating the Orlando, Fla., massacre but decided he could better serve by joining the terrorist group in the Middle East where he could kill Americans, the FBI says. Two years ago, when he was 16 and a student […]
Saudi Arabia Touts Closer US Cooperation Against IS as Pressure Mounts
Saudi Arabia says it is intensifying cooperation with the United States in fighting Islamic State militants – a move driven by pressure on Riyadh but also its warming ties to a new U.S. administration that shares Saudi concerns about Iran. Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir touted his nation’s role in the U.S.-led coalition against the […]
Concerns Mount Over Kyrgyzstan Being Breeding Ground for Terrorists
Russia’s subway bombing, carried out by a suspected Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen, has again cast concerns on worldwide terrorism associated with the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. Monday’s attack in St. Petersburg follows terror incidents in recent years, like the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings — carried out by Chechens who grew up in Kyrgyzstan — and […]
Idlib: ‘More gruesome than can ever be described’
Survivors of a suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province and aid workers on the scene say they are still in shock and struggling to recover from the distressing event of the attack. “It’s just indescribable,” Othman al-Khani, local activist and witness said. “We saw people suffocating while their lungs were collapsing. The hardest was […]
Chemical Weapons Convention disregarded with impunity
The official dismantling of Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons began in October 2013, the result of painstaking negotiations. Under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a UN, body the destruction of sarin and “ mustard gas begins: The then US President Barack Obama made his opinion on chemical weapons clear:“A […]
As White Men Flee, Trump’s Approval Rating Dips Again
Things aren’t looking up for President Donald Trump, a man long obsessed with ratings of any sort. His approval rating took another dip this week. Just 34 percent of the country approved of the job Trump is doing, down from 44.1 percent in March, according to the latest survey this week from Investor’s Business Daily/TechnoMetrica […]
Mob kills Muslim man transporting cows in India
A Muslim man has died after being attacked by a mob while transporting cows in India, police said on Wednesday, as tensions continue to rise over the slaughter of what is considered a holy animal in the Hindu-majority country. No arrests have been made, but police said they registered a murder case over the death […]
Americans Don’t Like White House Officials
President Donald Trump is a man who has long been obsessed with ratings and poll numbers — but lately, polls haven’t been in his favor. Gallup put his approval rating at 38 percent this week, the lowest amongst presidents in modern history. And a Quinnipiac University poll found that only 37 percent of Americans approved […]