Jihad

MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across Syria are given political orientation. During the lectures, conscripts and career officers alike are repeatedly...

By Kari Howard The stories I read spark musical connections every day. It’s a bit more rare when the walk to work does. But one of my favorite moments this week came when I was strolling down Broadway past Grand Park in downtown LA, a section...

WASHINGTON — Long before Sept. 11, the war on terrorism and two pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon, a young Muslim from Egypt walked into the ballroom of a New York City hotel and shot to death an outspoken Jewish rabbi. El Sayyid A....

WASHINGTON — The head of the FBI said Thursday that there were lapses in tracking accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's visit to Russia last year, saying that U.S. security officials failed to act on "text" alerts to a U.S. Customs agent about...

Purchasing Plan B As a liberal-minded individual who believes in a woman's right to choose, I believe 15-year-old girls should not be purchasing the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill without their parents' knowing. Most 15- through 17-year-old girls are...

The Benghazi cover up/lie is snatching the daily headlines; dynamic duos such as Batman and Robin, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Cisco and Pancho are a few of the fictional protectors of justice of yesteryear. A twosome of real life evil minded, self-...

If you're the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it's like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free...

An American Muslim man was standing in a parking lot the other day when a passing motorist shouted something familiar at him. "Go home!" The Boston Marathon bombing offered new fuel to people who have difficulty distinguishing, not just between...

Ahmad Tounisi leaned forward on the courtroom bench, intently following the judge's detailed observations as he ruled on whether Tounisi's son should be released from jail while awaiting trial on terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Edmond...

The rebels of Christian Caryl's "Strange Rebels" are a motley lot. They include Margaret Thatcher, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers, Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiaoping, and the Afghan insurgents who fought back against the Soviet invasion...

Prosecutors fighting the release of an Aurora teen accused of signing up to fight for a terror group in Syria filed an appeal today calling him an advocate of "violent jihad" who "wanted to die killing others." In the 16-page appeal, the U.S. attorney'...

The following blog is unverifiable — but apropos: On April 20 the Czech Ambassador wrote: We are not Chechnya. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two different countries. The Czech Republic is in Central Europe; Chechnya is a part of the Russian...