Iran said it wasn’t taking a South Korean oil tanker and its sailors as hostages, a day after its naval unit seized the vessel in the Gulf waters while demanding Seoul release billions of dollars in Iranian money frozen due to U.S. sanctions. Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps on Monday intercepted and captured the MT […]

OTTAWA—The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak in Latvia, where an unspecified number of troops have tested positive for the illness while guarding against Russian aggression in the region. The Department of National Defence confirmed on Tuesday that military personnel at Camp Adazi near the Latvian capital of Riga have contracted COVID-19, […]

A broken cellphone and a muddied wallet were the only possessions Alireza Ghandchi received from Iran after his wife and two children were killed in a Ukrainian plane crash last year. “No luggage, no dolls, no anything,” he said. His son, Daniel, was eight-years-old and his daughter, Dorsa, was just three days shy of turning […]

The Pentagon announced Sunday that the single U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Middle East, the USS Nimitz, will remain on duty in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran. It marks an abrupt reversal after acting defense secretary Christopher Milller said last week that he was sending the vessel home, a move that had […]

PARIS—The French presidency announced that two French soldiers were killed on Jan. 2 in Mali when an improvised explosive device hit their armored vehicle, five days after three others died in similar circumstances. The soldiers were participating in an intelligence mission in the Menaka region of northeastern Mali, as part of a larger operation aiming […]

DUBAI—Iran executed a man on Thursday who had been convicted of murder 12 years ago when he was 16, a Western rights group said, drawing condemnation from the U.N. rights office, which said it was prohibited under international law. There was no report of the execution on Iran’s media and judiciary officials could not be […]

At least $150,000 in U.S. taxpayer money went to an Islamic organization with ties to terrorism through a humanitarian organization from 2014 to 2015, a large amount of which was approved by the then-Obama administration despite being informed the Islamic organization was a sanctioned entity, a Senate report shows. On Dec. 23, Senate Finance Committee […]

The U.S. Department of Justice says it’s ready to prosecute the British terrorist who took part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, after a provincial court in Pakistan ordered the man’s release last week. Pakistani police had arrested Omar Sheikh in 2002 in connection with the abduction of Pearl, and he […]

Chinese state-owned enterprises were found to be recipients of Canada’s COVID-19 wage subsidy benefit. In an effort to push for transparency, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) launched a search registry on Monday to help Canadians track employers who have been receiving the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the recipients, Chinese […]

Commentary Middle East scholar Walid Phares warns in his latest book, “The Choice: Trump vs. Obama in U.S. Foreign Policy,” that a Biden presidency means a return to the disastrous foreign policies of the Obama administration. Phares played a key role in formulating Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy during the 2016 campaign. His book offers a […]

ZURICH—An Austrian of Afghan descent whose genetic material was allegedly found on the weapon that a jihadist used to kill four people in Vienna last month has been arrested, prosecutors said on Sunday. Authorities will seek court approval to put the 26-year-old into investigative custody, a spokeswoman for Vienna prosecutors said, confirming a report in […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday. In an announcement on Nigerian state TV, NTA, Katsina State Gov. Aminu Bello Masari said the 344 boarding school students were turned over to security officials and were being brought to the state […]

U.S. prosecutors have charged a China-based executive of Zoom over his role in disrupting video meetings held to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre this year, the Justice Department announced on Dec. 18. Zoom is a popular U.S.-based videoconferencing app, developed in China. Prosecutors allege that Jin Xinjiang, or “Julien” Jin, worked under the direction of […]

The United States on Wednesday said it has imposed sanctions on several companies that have been involved in the export of Iranian petrochemical.

Commentary One of the phrases in the mouth of managers or bureaucrats that indicates almost unfailingly that they are about to commit an act of betrayal is, “We believe passionately in.” The only thing that most managers or bureaucrats believe in passionately is their career, in the broad sense of that term: for they are […]

PARIS—The fugitive widow of an ISIS terrorist group gunman and a man described as his logistician were convicted Wednesday of terrorism charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket. The verdict ends […]

In this exclusive interview, the first of two parts, we hear from Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn about his experience these last four years, when “the deep state buried me six feet under the ground,” as he describes it. We discuss what attracted him to then-candidate Donald Trump, why he believes he was targeted, and his […]

Velma Anne Ruth, President and Founder of ABS Community Research President, was interviewed by NTD during a  rally in Washington D.C. on Dec 12, 2020. “I’ve done a lot of advocacy work around the world, the United States supports democracy, and the right to your vote and human rights and anti-terrorism in Iran and Egypt, […]

JAKARTA—Indonesian police said they have arrested one of the senior-most members of the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah who is said to be behind the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed over 200 people. Jemaah Islamiah’s stated aim is to build an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia. Zulkarnaen, one of the […]

Commentary On March 15, 2019, a terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand claimed 51 lives and wounded another 40 people. A NZ Royal Commission has now released a massive report on the attack, more than 800 pages, the most important point of which is that the terrorist was unknown to authorities until […]

Muslims placed on the “no-fly list” after refusing to act as informants for the FBI may sue individual federal officials personally for damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Dec. 10. The list, maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, is “a small subset of the U.S. government Terrorist Screening […]

WASHINGTON— The United States imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran’s envoy to the Houthis on Tuesday, a step possibly aimed at pressuring the group to reach an accord to end the five-year war in Yemen. The U.S. Treasury described Hasan Irlu as an official of Iran’s elite Quds Force, the overseas arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary […]

News Analysis Student groups at several Canadian universities are continuing to call for more robust social justice policies, but critics say that this approach clashes with the need for academic freedom and free inquiry on campus. The McMaster Graduate Students Association (GSA) passed a new anti-oppression policy on Nov. 12, which states that the GSA seeks […]

Liberal MP Dave Sharma has said that Australia’s intelligence agencies should tap into the country’s sizeable ethnic Chinese communities in the fight against foreign interference and intimidation from Beijing. In a brief published by the pro-Beijing China Matters policy institute, Sharma said Chinese Australians should be harnessed as “assets.” “Our security agencies need to better […]

The people of Britain should remain vigilant towards the threat of terrorism throughout the winter months and festive season, the UK’s Ministry of Defence police force warned on Monday. “With the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our lives, it is understandable that the threat from terrorism isn’t necessarily front of mind for everyone […]

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has said anti-terrorist agencies should regard all threats equally when asked if Australia should be more concerned about the growing threat of right-wing extremism. Speaking to reporters in Canberra on Friday, Dutton said he was worried about both right-wing and Islamic extremism. “If somebody wants to blow up a movie […]

An ancient and valuable find was unearthed by archeologists during excavations in Jerusalem in October when they discovered a juglet (small pottery jar) containing a hidden treasure: four 1,000-year-old gold coins. The extraordinary find, announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), was part of the Jewish Quarter Development Corporation’s plan to make the Western Wall […]

PARIS—France will on Thursday start investigating dozens of mosques suspected of fomenting Islamist ideology to combat the rising threat of religious extremism, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The government has launched what it calls an unprecedented action against “separatism” following several Islamic terrorist attacks in France this autumn, including the beheading of a teacher who […]

OTTAWA—The scars from the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill are part of the “heritage fabric” of the iconic Centre Block and will not be fixed during extensive renovations on the building, according to a senior government official who provided a behind-the-scenes tour of the project. That includes a series of bullet holes in the Hall […]

Commentary I always thought no one—including Israel—could pull off something as incredible as the July 4, 1976, raid on Entebbe, Uganda. To remind readers what happened that day: A week earlier, on June 27, two Palestinian and two German terrorists hijacked an Air France Tel Aviv to Paris flight with 248 passengers on board, which […]