Category: Foreign Countries & Policy

While considered a religious taboo in Islam to involve women in combat, al-Qaeda in Iraq is using every means possible to recruit women to help the terrorist group make a noticeable resurgence in the nation’s Sunni Arab strongholds, according to …

By Dr. Sylvain Charat

Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com.

Welfare has become a characteristic of President Obama’s domestic policies. There has been a surge in American citizens on welfare over the last four years, including a …

The Jew-hating genie has been spectacularly unleashed onto the world stage once again following the decision by 138 of the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly to accord non-member observer State status to the non-existent state of …

Conducting a nation’s foreign policy is an imperfect science. Mistakes happen.

But the US role in toppling Hosni Mubarak as the president of Egypt may be our nation’s biggest blunder in years.

The end of the eight day bombardment of Israel’s civilian population by hundreds of rockets indiscriminately fired from the Gaza Strip has caused many respected commentators such as Caroline Glick to roundly criticise former Israeli Prime Minister – Ariel Sharon …

Only a mere few hours after a fragile ceasefire took effect between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Iran’s top military commander, Gen. Mohammad-Ali Jafari, announced that the Iranian government is going to provide the Palestinian “resistance” with …

At times, complicated issues are most clearly understood in simple terms. Speaking before the Knesset in 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu captured, in two brief sentences, that which lies at the heart of the ongoing, centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict: “The …

Just finished reading an article from AP: “Egypt’s Morsi Grants Himself Far-Reaching Powers” and started asking myself how long it would be before I was reading an AP article: “America’s Obama Grants Himself Far Reaching Powers”, before realizing that is …

By Cindy Simpson

Some brave thinkers recognize that beneath the intrigue surrounding the Benghazi tragedy lie the traces of something much larger and far more dangerous.

Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy hosted a panel on November 13, 2012, to …

Even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Israel-Gaza ceasefire, it’s apparent that Gaza still holds many traps for Israel.

For example, there’s the media trap. Hamas, like other Islamic terror groups, manipulates the Western media while toying …

“Well, my first job as commander in chief, Bob, is to keep the American people safe.” [President Barack Obama speaking to presidential debate moderator Bob Schieffer on October 22, 2012. The entire debate transcript is here.]

He didn’t. Ambassador …

Professor Richard Falk – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 – has returned to world headlines with another controversial annual Report.

Falk this time round has encouraged a boycott of …

Soon America will make its decision about what kind of nation we want to be, and hopefully President Obama can start planning what kind of post presidency he’s going to have. Will we go back to constitutional republicanism with its …

On the Sunday news shows it was difficult to tell the difference between the members of the Obama White House and the members of the Obama reelection team, with all of the Democrats uttering the same talking points and blasting …

It’s long been practiced that American politics stop at the water’€™s edge. We stand united on foreign policy. In return, we expect the president to act in our nation’€™s best interest. And to tell us the unvarnished …