The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombing attacks on Wednesday in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad. As the Islamic State keeps losing ground on the battlefield, it is increasingly turning to terror attacks on civilian populations. The bombing attacks happened at an open air market and at two security checkpoints in the city. At …
President Obama, on May 27, will be the first American president to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima since the end of World War Two. In August of 1945, the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb and helped force the Japanese empire to surrender to the United States and thus ending the Pacific War. …
On Tuesday, the United States Navy sent a guided missile destroyer into the South China Sea in response to the Chinese building of an airstrip on a disputed island. The Navy destroyer got to within 12 miles of the island when it was met by Chinese warships and fighter aircraft. The artificial islands, the Pentagon …
A Florida Army veteran was arrested on Sunday and charged with the murder of his mother on Mother’s Day at her Pace, Florida home. When police arrived, they found Christopher Lynch, 38, charging at them with blood all over himself wielding a long iron pipe or rod with a hook on the end of it. …
The city of London, England, has elected Sadiq Khan, 45, as their new mayor. He is the first Muslin mayor of one of the largest, and most important, Western cities in the world. He defeated his conservative rival who is entrenched in old school, old family, conservative England. The fact that Khan is a …