Number of Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria Reaches All-Time High
The number of foreign nationals that have travelled to Iraq and Syria to join and fight for Sunni militant groups has reached an all-time high, in part due to successful use of propaganda as a...
View ArticlePoland's Jewish Culture Rises From the Ashes of Persecution
Paweł Bramson grew up in a white, Catholic country, and he liked it that way. As a teenager in Warsaw, he despised the rare Arab and African immigrants who were starting to settle in Poland in the...
View ArticleInside the Saudi-U.S. Rift
For years, whenever Saudi Arabia and the United States bickered over Middle East policy, the relationship never seemed dangerously strained. The two sides have frequently clashed over Israeli...
View ArticleWill Quantitative Easing Work for Europe?
It’s official: The eurozone will have its dose of medicine.The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced that a programme of quantitative easing (QE), totalling some €1.1 trillion ($1.24 trillion),...
View ArticleIraq's ISIS Fight Could Be a Second 'Awakening'
Just before Christmas, Atheel al-Nujaifi, a leading Iraqi politician, quietly slipped into Washington, D.C., with an urgent request that the White House provide arms and training for his 10,000-man...
View ArticleOpposition Leader Navalny Calls For ‘Anti-Crisis’ Protests in Moscow
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has responded to a Moscow court’s refusal today to shorten his house arrest by organising what he called an ‘anti-crisis’ protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
View ArticleTsipras Names Anti-Austerity Greek Cabinet, Bank Shares Dive
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras unveiled a cabinet of anti-austerity veterans on Tuesday, signaling he has no intention of backing away from election pledges despite warning shots from the euro...
View ArticleForeign Flights Into Baghdad Canceled Due to Gunfire
Foreign flights into Baghdad have been canceled after shots were fired in the vicinity of a flydubai passenger jet, hitting the plane as it landed in the city on Monday evening.Two passengers on...
View ArticleVideo Explains How Moisturizers Work to Soothe Dry Skin
A lot of people develop dry skin in the winter, and turn to moisturizers. But do you know how they actually work? This video from the American Chemical Society explains it nicely: The body’s blood...
View ArticleFormer Top Spy Calls CIA Leak Verdict an 'Injustice'
Patrick Lang doesn’t like leaks, not after decades as a Green Beret and a second career at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he ran worldwide spying operations. But on Monday, he called the...
View ArticleRemembering the Holocaust, Seven Decades Later
Tuesday marks 70 years since the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp complex in 1945. A decade ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that designated the...
View ArticleObama Responds to Drone Crashing at White House
Updated | After a two-foot drone went undetected by White House radars and crashed into a tree on the South Lawn at 3 a.m. on Monday morning, President Obama, in his first public comments since the...
View ArticleISIS Attack on Tripoli Hotel Opens New Front Against West
A militant group affiliated to the Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for today’s attack on a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital which left nine people - including five foreign nationals -...
View ArticleWhat’s Their Age Again? The Blink-182/Tom DeLonge Drama, Explained
Drama is afoot in Blink-182. The confusion began Monday afternoon, when reports began circulating that founding vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge had quit the band.This was followed by DeLonge denying...
View Article‘Wall Street Spy Ring’ Sought to Disrupt Financial Markets
The Russian spy ring, which the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced it had busted in New York earlier this week, had allegedly been tasked with looking into U.S. trading patterns, in a...
View ArticlePhotos: Kobani Liberated From ISIS
After four months of battle, Kurdish fighters were able to regain control of Kobani, Syria from the Islamic State (ISIS). United States Central Command told the Associated Press it believes 90 percent...
View ArticleMormon Church Backs Statewide LGBT Nondiscrimination Law
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, on Tuesday publicly announced its support for a statewide ban in Utah on housing and employment discrimination...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Super Bowl XLIX Travel Guide: It’s Always Sunny in Phoenix
With the 49th Super Bowl set to be played in the 48th state, allow us to enumerate 47 things for visitors to do in the Valley of the Sun. The University of Phoenix Stadium, located in the western...
View ArticleHow Do We Know What Is Going On in Saudi Arabia?
During one of my last semesters in graduate school, I was a teaching assistant for a course called “How Do You Know?” The goal of the class was to expose students to the way different disciplines in...
View ArticleFun With Conspiracy Theories: Did the Chernobyl Disaster Cover Up Something...
Dormant for a decade and a half, the Russian Woodpecker appeared to return in December 2013. Once, the notorious tapping of the massive Soviet over-the-horizon radar had frustrated and puzzled Western...
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