One of six men convicted of taking part in the savage 2012 gang rape of an Indian physiotherapy student on a moving Delhi bus was released Sunday after completing his full three-year sentence behind bars, an Indian government official said. He had participated in the most heinous of acts, but because he was just shy of his 18th birthday on ...

Republican front-runner Donald Trump fired back at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton after she said ISIS was using video of his comments about Muslims and Islam as a recruiting tool. During the Democratic presidential debate Saturday night, Clinton alleged Trump was “becoming ISIS’ best recruiter” based on his call to ban Muslims from entering the country, and other recent comments. “They ...

North African jihadist group al-Murabitun has declared its allegiance to al Qaeda, swelling the ranks of that terror group in its rivalry with ISIS for African adherents. “We declare that we are joining to our brothers in al Qaeda organization in Islamic Maghreb to stand in one line against the occupying crusaders,” said al-Murabitun spokesman Abu Dujana Al Qasmi in ...

The Nigerian army has arrested Boko Haram’s “chief cameraman,” the army said in a statement Saturday. Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq was arrested in the town of Uba, in Nigeria’s northwestern Borno state, according to the statement. He was number 58 on the list of the 100 most-wanted Boko Haram suspects, which was released earlier this year by the military. Suspect number ...

The African Union is planning to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians in strife-torn Burundi and has given the government there 96 hours to respond to the proposed mission, officials said Friday. The proposed peacekeepers, however, still require the authorization of the United Nations Security Council. The African Union issued a decision this week that strongly condemned “all acts of ...

Standing at the edge of a tiny marina on the Greek island of Lesbos, two strangers are clinging to one another. They do not know each other’s names. They don’t speak the same language. But they are locked in an embrace as if they are mother and daughter. “She wouldn’t let go of me. She just felt safe, so we ...

If Donald Trump looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, what would he see? For nearly every other Republican politician — from the party’s past two presidential nominees to the current field of GOP hopefuls — the answer is pretty clear. “He’s a bully,” Jeb Bush said in June. “Gangster and thug,” intoned Marco Rubio in an October foreign policy speech. And ...

  WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG According to research, in order for a culture to maintain itself for more than 25 years requires fertility rate of 2-11 children per family. With anything less, the culture will decline. Historically, no culture has ever reversed a 1-9 fertility rate, a rate of 1-3 impossible to reverse because it will take 80-100 years ...

French President Francois Hollande pushed back Thursday against some of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s demands for EU reforms, saying it was unacceptable for him to overturn the bloc’s core principles. “If it is legitimate to listen to the British prime minister, it is unacceptable to revise founding European commitments,” Hollande told reporters as he arrived for a European Union ...

Rival Libyan politicians signed Thursday a deal on a unity government despite opposition on both sides, in what the United Nations described as a “first step” towards ending the crisis. World powers have urged the warring factions to break a political deadlock that has allowed jihadists and people-smugglers to flourish since the fall of strongman Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. A ...