The notorious Islamic State group has apparently beheaded yet another journalist. The Japanese journalist Kenji Goto whom the group had taken hostage, and demanded $200 million from the Japanese...
Egypt's President Sisi is an autocrat who appears to perceive himself as a forward-thinking revolutionary leader of the Egyptian nation. In light of the Islamist attacks in Paris earlier this month...
One of the most compelling scenes in Selma takes place towards the end of the movie. Martin Luther King Jr. is standing on a bridge surrounded by religious leaders of every denomination. They all...
On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...
At Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Amazon series Transparent took two awards: best comedy or musical series, and best actor in a comedy series (Jeffrey Tambor). The world promptly took to the...
Northeast of Syria's largest city Aleppo sits the small town of Dabiq. Before the war which continues to ravage Syria began in 2011 its population was below 4,000. It is noteworthy for the simple...
It hasn’t been the best month in Australia. As we hurtle towards the year’s end and summer takes hold, the headlines have been far from the usual froth and bubble of December lifestyle...
Waqar-Ullah Khattak is a Pakistani teacher at an army-run school in the city of Peshawar. He was invigilating an exam in the morning when he and the school's other occupants by armed militants...
When Michigan Governor Snyder first began installing emergency managers in different cities throughout the state, it couldn’t have been more deeply unpopular. The emergency managers came with the...
Martin Chulov of The Guardian newspaper got quite the scoop the other day. He got to interview a top-ranking member of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Ahmed. Ahmed...
