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Charlie Hebdo attack live: hunt near Paris intensifies, hostage fear,...

8.07pm: SHOTS were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage was taken to the north-east of Paris tonight, in the same area police were hunting for two heavily armed brothers accused of...

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Israeli president: ISIS jihadis are today's Nazis

Text smaller Text bigger Israeli President Reuven Rivlin UNITED NATIONS – The president of Israel compared the brutalities of ISIS and the Nigerian group Boko Haram to the Nazi genocide, declaring the...

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Hollywood glamour gals wake up to holy war

Text smaller Text bigger WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s leading foreign-policy experts has revealed to WND what he believes is the key to getting leftists to join the war on terror: Enlisting...

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An Aging United Nations in 2015. But How About a New United Nations in 2020?

The new report from the Commission on Global Security, Justice, and Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suggests that the 75th anniversary year in 2020 might be...

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President Trump: Irish writers have their say

While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...

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Michelle Obama’s hashtag quest to rescue Nigerian girls

Michelle Obama told Americans - and the world - about schoolgirls abducted by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. But the first lady's awareness campaign has failed - at least in part. The...

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World wounded, angered by Paris terror attacks

Mourners across the globe reacted to the attacks in Paris with tears and anger, but also with colourful shows of solidarity with France. Monuments across the world, from the Sydney Opera House in...

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Chibok People Combed Sambisa Forest Hoping To Rescue Schoolgirls Like Amina...

The successful rescue of Amina Ali Nkeki has prompted a group of Chibok people to comb Sambisa Forest hoping that they would find the remaining schoolgirls who were abducted in April 2014 by terrorist...

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82 More Chibok Schoolgirls Freed In Militant Exchange

This picture taken on March 5, 2015 shows an arial view of the burnt-out classrooms of a school in Chibok,in Northeastern Nigeria, from where Boko Haram Islamist fighters seized 276 teenagers in April...

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Nigeria Is Letting Boko Haram Get Away With Murder

Remember the #bringbackourgirls campaign? The girls are still gone and as the body count rises in Nigeria, and the country’s leaders are almost as silent as the global community. No one knows for sure...

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Artist Jean Jullien's Eiffel Tower peace sign goes viral after Paris terror...

In the wake of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, many took to social media to express their condolences and concern for the people of the French capital, using hashtags like...

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Frederica Wilson plans Nigeria trip to push for release of kidnapped schoolgirls

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson announced Sunday that she plans to take her year-long campaign for the release of almost 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls to the West African country. Wilson, D-Miami...

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When were the Chibok schoolgirls released, why were they kidnapped by Boko...

AT least 82 of the 270 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria have been released. The girls had been kept prisoner for three years after being snatched from a school in...

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France's flag flies on social media as people worldwide grieve terror victims

Social media is awash with public buildings lit up in the French colors of blue, white and red as people globally expressed their solidarity with the French after deadly terror attacks in Paris. Users...

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ISIS isn't the world’s deadliest terrorist group. Boko Haram is.

After three attacks in as many weeks — in Paris, Beirut and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula — in which a total of at least 397 people were killed, the world's attention is fixed on the Islamic State and its...

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Nigerian army says it has rescued another Chibok girl

Abuja (AFP) - The Nigerian army on Thursday said another Chibok schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists almost three years ago had been rescued along with her six-month-old baby. Rakiya Abubakar...

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Boko Haram mystery: Where -- or who -- is African terrorist group's leader?

Of all the terrorist leaders sending out suicide bombers in Africa, Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau is probably the most globally recognizable: Who could forget that leering laugh as he boasted last year...

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One year since #BringBackOurGirls: What did it accomplish?

One year after Islamic extremists kidnapped hundreds of young girls from a northeastern Nigerian town, the world still wonders what happened to the 219 girls that are still missing. The event sparked...

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Boko Haram Calls Girl Hostages ‘Infidels,’ Orders Them To Return To Village

Boko Haram kidnapped the women on January 6th, from Katarko, which is about 12 miles away from the state capital of Damaturu. According to the New York Times, dozens of armed Boko Haram terrorists...

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Five facts about the missing Chibok schoolgirls

In this file photo taken from video released by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014, shows missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. (Source: AP Photo) Two...

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