The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner, stunned Republicans on Friday, saying he would resign at the end of October, stepping aside from one of the most powerful jobs in Washington in the face of hardline conservative opposition that threatens an institutional crisis. A constant focus of conservatives’ complaints, Boehner was facing the threat of a ...

The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 by 2017, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks with his German counterpart on Sunday.The remarks may show increasing U.S. willingness to help cope with the mass migration of Syrians although the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of jihadists as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Islamic State group. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas were the guests of honour at the unveiling of the 20,000-square metre mosque in the ...

The U.S. military has assessed that the type of Russian aircraft in Syria is consistent with protecting their own forces, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday and called on Russia and Iran to be helpful in ending the 4-year-old conflict. “For the moment it is the judgment of our military and experts that the level and type represents ...

Hungarian parliament has a new law which allows the government to deploy its army to deal with refugees at its borders using rubber bullets, tear gas grenades, and net guns. Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban claimed that millions of refugees are “laying siege” to the borders of Hungary and of Europe. He said “the migrants are not just banging on our door, they’re ...

There are at least 58 ISIS defectors who have publicly spoken out why they abandoned the group. Although their experiences and reasons for leaving ISIS are various, many of them left because they were asked to kill other Muslim rebels instead of toppling the Assad regime. ISIS has distinguished itself from other Syrian rebel groups since it first emerged around 2013, especially in expanding its territory and establishing its “caliphate” rather than toppling Assad. ...

by: Sam Nan US billionaire Donald Trump and the top Republican candidate  in the US election said that he loves Muslims and believe that they are great people. He declared that  he does not mind to have a Muslim Minister in his administration. This came as a response to a question by network «CNN» US about the Americans who convert to ...

   WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG Is it true that some of my fellow’s immigrants here in Canada do not feel comfortable enough when debating on the issue of patriotism? I fully comprehend why many maintain this kind of a mixed reaction. It could be because of their former political, religious persecutions, social, and economic deprivation, even on a religious ...

  President Hassan Rouhani, by a picture of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The two have offered starkly opposing views of Iran’s future since reaching a deal on its nuclear program. Credit TEHRAN — A new struggle is unfolding in Iran, where the top leaders have begun to tackle the question of how to deal with the United States ...

The Hague: Dutch officials have arrested two Syrian nationals for organizing a trafficking network which smuggled hundreds of migrants into Europe, prosecutors said Friday. The two men, arrested in the southern city of Eindhoven after a year-long probe, brought refugees from Turkey by boat into Europe, then transported them as far north as the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, charging ...