This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has spent many years treating and advocating for rape victims in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who faced horrible sexual violence after being abducted by ISIS.
Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team has won the Entrepreneur Award at the Robotex festival in Estonia, Europe’s biggest robotics festival, another victory for a group of young women who have come to represent the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in a post-Taliban society, as well as the arbitrary cruelty of the…
Three years after 6,470 Yazidi women were abducted by ISIS on Sinjar mountain in 2014, a reported 3,410 are still missing. The New York Times has been documenting the stories of escapees, who have been held in what reporter Rukmini Callimachi described as “a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales…
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R-3rd District), a former Sheriff’s captain often flatteringly referred to as the “Cajun John Wayne,” recently urged the United States to “identity” [sic] and extrajudicially murder every “radicalized Islamic suspect.” In other news, the Islamic State’s campaign for a global holy war seems…
The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump shared highly classified information with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in a meeting at the White House. According to current and former US officials, “Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on…
Christians across the world celebrated Palm Sunday on April 9, but at two Coptic churches in Egypt, this gathering ended in bloodshed. Forty-four people were killed in two bombings, and as of this evening, ISIS has claimed responsibility for these atrocities.
Early in the morning on New Year’s Day, 39 people were killed by a gunman in an Istanbul nightclub called Reina. ISIS soon took credit for the attack, and now the man who allegedly wielded the weapons has been apprehended, and has reportedly confessed.
Turkish officials have arrested eight people in connection with the shooting in an Istanbul night club called Reina on New Year’s Eve that left 39 dead and 69 injured.
Have you heard? In the same way the incoming president of SAE might poll his fellow frat members on what beer they should stock in the house kitchen, President-Elect Trump has been sending around a survey to his mailing list so they can “step up and play an active role in fixing our country and enacting our platform…
After an eight-month investigation, French authorities have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille suspected of orchestrating an ISIS-linked terror plot. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for all those planning to fly to Europe for the holidays.
Hours ahead of the debate Wednesday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway listed several of the plans Trump has been presenting this week, though to whom he’s presenting these plans is not clear. Among them, a new initiative: a five-point plan to defeat Islam.
Hillary Clinton held a press conference Thursday morning, standing on an airport tarmac in White Plains, New York, her campaign plane behind her. You hear me? She had a press conference! It only took hundreds of days, relentless criticism of her evasiveness with the press from the press, and a disastrous presidential…
There’s a belief gaining traction Thursday morning that Matt Lauer did bad and should feel bad about his performance as moderator for NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum.” Lauer allowed Trump to lie, bloviate, and spread fact-free word diarrhea all over the stage, while urging Hillary Clinton to reply “briefly” when a…
As spectacular a display of willful ignorance and bluster as Donald Trump put on at the so-called Commander-in-Chief policy forum in New York City last night, Libertarian candidate for president and former governor Gary Johnson has somehow, in the span of about 10 seconds, stolen the crown of leading bullshit artist…
ABC News reports that floppy sack of rancid chicken fat Donald Trump addressed a rally of his supporters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 10 and called President Barack Obama the “founder of ISIS.”
At least 126 people—including an estimated 25 children—were killed in two separate bombings in Baghdad over the weekend, and the Islamic State has already claimed responsibility for the carnage.
Late Friday night in the diplomatic district of Dhaka, Bangladesh, ISIS gunmen carried out an attack at one of the city’s popular local restaurants. Two policemen have been killed in the vicious, ongoing standoff, and 30 have been injured.
At long, long last, President Barack Obama has finally let Donald Trump, a desiccated, hollowed-out pumpkin stuffed with wasps, really have it after the presumptive GOP blatantly linked POTUS to the mass shooting in Orlando earlier this week.
The Pulse nightclub rampage was the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, an unprecedented assault on LGBT Americans, just the worst and saddest and most horrifying shit imaginable. Now, though, it seems very important for people to argue about whether shooter Omar Mateen was motivated by ISIS or…
The Islamic State has only one real rule that keeps captured female prisoners from being raped, and it’s based on an obscure ruling in Islamic Law that says “a man must ensure that the woman he enslaves is free of child before having intercourse with her.”
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