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FILE PHOTO: U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller/File photo U.S. Justice and State Department officials will fly to Ankara to discuss government accusations against Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric Turkey accuses of masterminding a failed military coup, according to a Justice Department official.
In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center , 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. The White Helmets, were among the crowd of first responders who pulled Daqneesh and his family from the rubble of their apartment building Wednesday night.
The Saudi-led coalition admitted children were at the site of the airstrike but jets "don't distinguish ages" during attacks. At least 10 Yemeni children were killed in a Saudi airstrike targeting a school in Haydan, a town in rebel-held Saada province, Doctors Without Borders, a Paris-based relief agency also known as MSF, and the United nations said Sunday.
Rabbi Nachman Kahana is an Orthodox Rabbinic Scholar, Rav of Chazon Yechezkel Synagogue - Young Israel of the Old City of Jerusalem, Founder and Director of the Center for Kohanim, and Author of the 14-volume "Mei Menuchot" series on Tosefot, "With All Your Might: The Torah of Eretz Yisrael in the Weekly Parashah", as well as weekly parasha commentary available where he blogs at http://NachmanKahana.com During the three weeks between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Menachem Av, 1946 years ago, a hand-to-hand battle raged between the soldiers of Rome and the Jewish defenders over every meter of hallowed ground in the walled city of Yerushalayim.
FOR SOME weeks now, I have felt like a boy who has thrown a stone into a pool. Rings of water created by the splash get larger and larger and expand more and more.
Intelligence assessments approved by senior leaders at U.S. Central Command exaggerated the progress of anti-terrorism efforts they ran against Islamic State militants, a House Republican task force said in an initial report released Thursday. The report detailed what the task force described as "persistent problems" in 2014 and 2015 with the command's analysis of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi forces and combat the extremist group in Iraq and Syria.
On Aug. 8, saying the media misinterpreted the original statement made on Aug. 5, the Defense Ministry said the reference to the Munich pact - a failed bid by European powers to appease Nazi Germany - "was not intended to make a direct comparison, either historically or personally. We are sorry if it was understood otherwise."
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Donald Trump's suggestion that gun rights advocates could "do" something about Hillary Clinton recalled the incitement to violence reported in the months prior to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. "I instantly thought about Rabin and Israel," Malloy, a Democrat, said Aug. 9 on MSNBC.
At a time when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised that, if elected, "We're going to have a big, beautiful wall" dividing Mexico from the United States, a Jewish summer camp in Colorado is building a bridge between itself and a synagogue in Mexico City. This year, after several years of planning, more than 20 Jewish Mexican campers, three counselors and Rabbi Leonel Levy from Comunidad Bet-El de Mxico attended Ramah in the Rockies for two weeks, from July 20 to Aug. 2. Bet-El is a Conservative synagogue in Mexico City's upscale yet diverse Polanco district, and Camp Ramah is a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative movement.
The military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have taken 45,000 enemy combatants off the battlefield and reduced the total number of Islamic State fighters to as few as 15,000, the top U.S. commander for the fight against IS said Wednesday. Lt. Gen.
The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy's civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a hoax bomb.
This Oct. 23, 1983 file photo shows the scene around the U.S. Marine Base near Beirut Airport following a massive bomb blast that destroyed the base and caused a huge death told rising to 239, in Beirut, Lebanon. Iran's former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Barack Obama, that was posted Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, on a website associated with the former president's office, asking him to "quickly fix" a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could cost Iran some $2 billion.
Ali Jawwad reports that the US has just given Iraq four more F-16 jets. This is apparently part of a bribe from the White House to secure armed forces attacking Mosul in time for the reported "October surprise" Barack Obama has planned to throw the election to Hillary Clinton.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton basked in a diplomatic "Moscow Spring," seizing on Vladimir Putin's break from the presidency to help seal a nuclear arms-control treaty and secure Russia's acquiescence to a NATO-led military intervention in Libya. When Putin returned to the top job, things changed.
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Shahram Amiri vanished in 2009 while on a religious pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia, only to reappear a year later in a series of online videos filmed in the U.S. He then walked into the Iranian interests section at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and demanded to be sent home. In interviews, Amiri described being kidnapped and held against his will by Saudi and American spies, while U.S. officials said he was to receive millions of dollars for his help in understanding Iran's contested nuclear program.
Until August, ground zero in that rebellion was, of course, Donald Trump's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, which, when he handily won, rocked and shocked the Republican establishment and political world at large. Truly, he feels people's pain and has an intuitive, real feel for what's wrong and what needs to change.
The nuclear accord signed a year ago with Iran has become a hot US presidential campaign issue. On Thursday, Aug. 4, US President Barack Obama speaking at the Pentagon said the agreement "has worked exactly the way we said it would," and even "Israeli defense officials are behind [it] and now recognize the efficacy of the accord" and that the Iranians "no longer have the short term breakout capacity that would allow them to develop nuclear weapons."
President Barack Obama said a $400 milllion payment to Iran that coincided with Tehran releasing four Americans wasn't a secret when it was finalized last January. DES MOINES, Iowa - Donald Trump has made a rare admission he was wrong - in claiming he saw a video of a U.S. cash payment going to Iran.