Democratic Rep. Gabbard meets with Trump: source

Gabbard, who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, is being considered for jobs at the Defense Department, State Department and the United Nations, a source told CNN. Gabbard stepped down from her post as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee earlier in the year to support Sanders -- and fight Hillary Clinton -- in the primaries.

How Democrats, media are pushing ‘white nationalism’ on Trump team

Alan Dershowitz, who is a famed professor of law and advocate of human rights, defended Stephen Bannon today against accusations that the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News is an anti-Semite. In an interview today with Steve Kornacki of MSNBC, Dershowitz said that there is "no evidence to support that" Bannon is anti-Semitic.

Russia launches offensive in Syria, airstrikes hit Aleppo29 min ago

Beirut, Nov 15 : Russia announced a major air offensive in Syria today as Syrian opposition activists reported the first airstrikes in three weeks in the besieged, rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo. The offensive began hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump discussed Syria over the phone and agreed on the need to combine efforts in the fight against what the Kremlin called their No 1 enemy "international terrorism and extremism."

The Latest: Obama blames Congress for not closing Guantanamo

The latest on President Barack Obama's news conference ahead of his last overseas trip as president : President Barack Obama says that he's been unable to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of "congressional restrictions." In a news conference Monday ahead of his final overseas trip as president, Obama said he still would prefer to have Guantanamo inmates transferred to a facility under U.S. jurisdiction, saying, "we'd do it a lot cheaper.

Top GOP senator: Trump ‘doesn’t know anything about’ foreign policy

Top Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a vocal critic of Donald Trump throughout the election cycle, slammed the president-elect's views on foreign policy in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider last week. He called Trump a "fool" when it comes to Russia, said the billionaire businessman has "zero idea" about how to defeat the terrorist group ISIS , called his views on the NATO alliance "dangerous," and said Trump "doesn't know anything" about foreign policy writ large.

The Latest: Malaysian leader: Trump success ‘extraordinary’

Malaysia's prime minister has congratulated Donald Trump on his "extraordinary victory," saying his success showed that politicians should never take voters for granted. Najib Razak is a possible beneficiary of what could be an inward-looking U.S. under a Trump presidency.

Federal Judge Concerned About Small Number of Christians Among Syrian Refugees Admitted to US

Holding crosses painted in the colors of the Syrian opposition flag, Syrian Christians protest persecution in their homeland The American people have been given no good explanation for the "perplexing discrepancy" between the tiny proportion of Christians among Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S. and the considerably larger proportion of Christians in the Syrian population, a federal appellate court judge has written. In a concurring opinion in a case relating to immigration policy, Judge Daniel Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit expressed his "concern about the apparent lack of Syrian Christians as a part of immigrants from that country."

Obama’s Last Stand Against War on Syria

Through five years of war in Syria, President Obama has been in a constant internal struggle with hawks in his administration who want the U.S. to directly intervene militarily to overthrow the Syrian government. On at least four occasions Obama has stood up to them, although at other times he has compromised and gone half way toward the hawkish position.

US, Europe at odds over Revolutionary Guard-backed airline

An Iranian airline backed by the country's notorious Revolutionary Guard has a... WASHINGTON - An Iranian airline, backed by the country's notorious Revolutionary Guard and used to ferry weapons and fighters to support Syria's government, has acquired rights to fly commercial routes in more than a dozen European and Asian countries in spite of U.S. terror-related sanctions. The agreement Iran and six other world powers signed last year ended some of the sanctions that had punished and isolated Iran for its nuclear program.

UN investigator: Trump is peddling ‘lies’ on Syria IS link

The U.N. special investigator on counter-terrorism and human rights is accusing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of peddling "lies and xenophobia" by claiming a link between Syrian refugees and Islamic State extremists. British human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson told a press conference Friday "there is no evidence that terrorist groups take advantage of refugee flows to carry out acts of terrorism."

War build-up in Syria: To influence US elections or is it real?

Note the rhetoric: US State Department Spokesman, John Kirby, says: "Extremist groups will continue to exploit the vacuums in Syria to expand their operations, which could include attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities. Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags, and will continue to lose resources, perhaps even aircraft."

GOP Chair of Wall Street Panel Held Fundraiser With Official From ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Group

New Jersey Representative Scott Garrett praised Edward Durfee, the regional coordinator for New Jersey Oath Keepers, at an October gathering. Representative Scott Garrett, a Republican from New Jersey, questions John Stumpf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., not pictured, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington on Sept.

She clobbered him

In this weekly column and in my on-air work at Fox News, I have characterized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a crook and as the "Queen of Deception." I have argued that there is enough credible evidence in the public domain to indict, prosecute and convict her of espionage, perjury, misleading Congress, public corruption, providing material assistance to terrorist organizations and obstruction of justice.

Homeland chief: Homegrown attacks an increasing threat

Bombings in New York and New Jersey - and a stabbing attack in Minnesota the same day - underscore that homegrown attacks inspired by violent extremists are as much a threat to the United States as those directed by terrorists, the nation's Homeland Security chief says. While all attacks are difficult to detect and prevent, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the United States and its allies continue to "take the fight militarily to terrorist organizations overseas" 15 years after the Sept.

In Africa, terrorism dominates a resource-challenged mission

An AV-8B Harrier, from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The 22nd MEU, embarked on the Wasp, was conducting precision air strikes in support of the Libyan Government of National Accord-aligned forces against Islamic State group targets in Sirte, Libya, as part of Operation Odyssey Lightning.