It’s been almost a month since we started paying attention to Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish town along the Turkish border, where peshmerga forces are just barely holding off Islamic State militants from taking control of the city. A refresher: Turkey has only just said it would open the border for Kurdish fighters and refugees . The United States wants Turkey to go even further, and consider ground support for besieged defenders. For now however, Turkish soldiers are sitting in their tanks just across the border. Turkey wants the United States ...

Malala Yousafzai's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize just over a week ago was not only just recognition of her contribution to the advancement of girl's education but a timely response to inflammatory and unfounded comments made by Bill Maher in July on his television show, Real Time with Bill Maher. The American stand-up comic and political pundit suggested that Israel had become very good at defending itself largely due to Jewish expertise in science. “Jews have, I think, 155 Nobel Prizes, Muslims have two,” said Maher, calling it “kind ...

When asked how Great Britain could help end the conflict over Kashmir during a visit to Pakistan in 2011, Prime Minister David Cameronsaid: "I don't want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world's problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place." The UK passed a non-binding motion to recognize a legitimate Palestinian state last week, stealing headlines and winning some hearts. Still, something was off. There was an elephant in the Parliament last monday - was it ...

A new conspiracy theory has been juicing content on the internet’s more dubious “news agencies” with reports that Islamic State (IS) terrorists may send infected jihadists to spread the Ebola virus to the West. Now U.S. national security and health experts are giving credence to the possibility of low-tech biological terror attacks. The Israeli News Agency (INA), self-described as Israel's first online news organization, initially reported that dozens of IS fighters in Syria have fallen ill with symptoms of the disease, allegedly contracted in African training camps. Citing confirmation by ...