The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the November 29 jihadi attack at London Bridge, where a Pakistani Islamist stabbed two people to death and injured three others. The suspect, 28-year-old Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist, was subsequently shot dead by police. Khan, from Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in February 2012 of plotting — on behalf […]
Skywatcher Captures Rare Image of Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane…
Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane. Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of the vehicle. […]
3 Germans Who Allegedly Operated Dark Web Marketplace with Over 1 Million Users Face U.S. Narcotics and Money Laundering Charges…
Following a nearly two-year international investigation involving U.S. law enforcement and authorities in Germany and the Netherlands, federal prosecutors have charged three German nationals with being the administrators of Wall Street Market (WSM), which was one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces that allowed vendors to sell a wide variety of contraband, including an […]
OPCW Executive Council Meets to Address Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic…
The Director-General shared with the Executive Council the immediate steps taken by Technical Secretariat experts to analyse the available information and their preliminary assessment that this was a credible allegation. He also shared that the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission has focused its work to investigate the incident in Khan Sheikhun and that it has collected samples, […]
Turkey Plays Nuclear Card, Warns EU it Will Flood Europe with Millions of Refugees…
Angela Merkel’s fragile deal to keep migrants (displaced by US/EU wars) contained within Turkey’s borders is about to fall apart, and with it so too goes what is left of the European Union. What is playing out could have been predicted back when the incompetent Merkel rushed off to Ankara to make a deal with […]
German MPs Call for Troop Withdrawal from Turkish Airbase Amid Rally Row…
Amid a row with Turkey over its presidential powers referendum, some German MPs are calling for the withdrawal of troops deployed at Incirlik airbase. Germany is flying reconnaissance sorties from the Turkish base as part of the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition. Concerns over the presence of German airmen at the base, which is located in […]
Netherlands Dispute Gives Turkey Perfect Election Fodder…
Netherlands Issues Turkey Travel Warning…
Dutch PM Says No Apologies…
10 Years Later, Fake U.S. Embassy Shut Down in Ghana…
One of the most curious details of this story is the way it was reported. The phony embassy was actually raided and shut down over the summer, but even though the U.S. State Department was a key part of the investigation, the raid wasn’t publicized in any news releases by State or its Bureau of […]