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Indian Soldier Awarded for Fighting Off 30 Train Attackers in 2010

At 11:30 p.m. on September 2, 2010, Bishnu Shresta (left), a 35-year-old Gurkha soldier on his way home following his retirement from the...

Bob Adelmann February 25, 2012

State Department, White House Demand Release of Iranian Pastor

Dave Bohon February 24, 2012

As Christians around the world pray and wait for word about the fate of Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (left), the Obama administration has...

Iranian Pastor May Face Imminent Execution

James Heiser February 23, 2012

In a decision likely to further alienate Western nations against the Iranian regime, a trial court in Iran has found Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani...

Al-Qaeda & the West Back Syrian Rebels Against Assad

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

Western governments and the notorious al-Qaeda terror network have teamed up to bring down the relatively secular dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in Syria,...

Syrian Christians Fear Genocide if al-Assad Falls to Muslim Extremists

Bruce Walker February 10, 2012

Catholic bishops are warning that if the Bashar al-Assad (left) regime in Syria falls to Islamists, there may well be a mass genocide of...

Is It Nuts to Let Iran Go Nuclear?

Charles Scaliger February 9, 2012

On the morning of January 11, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a 32-year-old chemist from Sharif University in Tehran, was riding in a Peugeot 405...

Russia, China Block UN Vote on Syria Regime Change

Alex Newman February 6, 2012

The governments of China and Russia blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to hand over power,...

UN Textbooks in Palestinian Schools Strongly Anti-Israel, Anti-U.S.

Raven Clabough January 31, 2012

Textbooks provided by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestinian schools have been found to contain strongly anti-Israeli and anti-American...

China Announces More Open Gov’t., Less Open Internet

Brian Koenig January 19, 2012

In response to rising citizen demand for government transparency and efficiency, this year China plans to defog the secretive workings of the government...

Report: Israeli Spies Posed as CIA to Recruit Anti-Iran Terrorists

Alex Newman January 18, 2012

An explosive report published late last week by the magazine Foreign Policy, citing half-a-dozen current and former U.S. intelligence officers, claimed that spies...

With Increasing Conflict in Syria, Talk of “Intervention” Escalates

Dave Bohon January 17, 2012

As Iraq flexes its muscle following the departure of U.S. troops, and as Iran continues to challenge the “international community” relative to its...

Iran Blames United States, Israel for Assassination of Nuclear Scientist

Alex Newman January 12, 2012

Iranian officials are accusing the U.S. and Israeli governments of assassinating another senior nuclear scientist in Tehran, using a car-bomb terrorist attack as...

Panetta Says No Nukes for Iran Yet, But Calls for Continued Sanctions

Dave Bohon January 10, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a television audience January 8 that while Iran may be laying the groundwork for nuclear weapons, it is...

U.S. Impacted by China Food Safety Concerns

Dave Bohon January 4, 2012

China has been hit once more by a food safety crisis, as officials in that country attempt to assure its own people, as...

Mossad Spy Chief: Iran Nuke Not “Existential Threat”

Alex Newman January 2, 2012

Hysteria over Iran’s alleged nuclear-weapons program has been steadily rising among some U.S. and Israeli officials. But Tamir Pardo (left), the chief of...