[caption id="attachment_55254924" align="aligncenter" width="3213"] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (R) attend the opening ceremony of the first official train service of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 30, 2017...
[caption id="attachment_55253516" align="aligncenter" width="7360"] A Coptic clergyman shows a picture of a man whom he says is one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by ISIS group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, during a memorial ceremony in the village of al-Awar in E...
[caption id="attachment_55253746" align="aligncenter" width="3200"] SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon launches the Scottish National Party manifesto at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena, EICA Ratho, on April 20, 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Although Labour have rejected a coalition with the SNP, S...
[caption id="attachment_55253882" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] French President Emmanuel Macron (R) gestures next to his wife Brigitte Macron (L) as they exit voting booths at a polling station during the first round of the French legislative elections in L Touquet, on June 11, 2017. / AFP PHO...
[caption id="attachment_55254023" align="aligncenter" width="1694"] Hezbollah member seen at Lebanon's border region of Arsal, Lebanon July 12, 2017.[/caption]
A convoy of refugees began leaving the Lebanese border region for Syria on Wednesday, a security source said, the second group to return und...
HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) - Emergency crews raced to pull people from cars and homes as flood waters rose across southeast Texas on Sunday, rescuing more than 1,000 people around Houston as Tropical Storm Harvey pounded the region.
Harvey came ashore late Friday as the most powerful hurricane to hit ...
[caption id="attachment_55254541" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] Demonstrators, including one bearing a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin and another waving a flag of the European Union, march to protest against tomorrow's scheduled visit to Budapest by Putin as well as against the gov...
[caption id="attachment_55254888" align="aligncenter" width="5612"] Chinese tourists wear masks as protection from the pollution outside the Forbidden City during a day of high pollution on December 1, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Getty)[/caption]
by Thomas J. Shattuck*
As the famous Communist “anthem” ...
[caption id="attachment_55254894" align="aligncenter" width="4000"] Blindfolded suspected self-styled ISIS group members are transported in a police vehicle after being captured in a village in Marawi City on the southern island of Mindanao on June 3, 2017. (Getty)[/caption]
by Richard Javad Heydari...
