Taliban Fast Facts
Facts:Reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has led the Taliban since the early 1990s. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most members are Pashtun, the largest…
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ISIS claims to behead 21 Peshmerga soldiers, releases video of them in cages
The video includes scenes showing Peshmerga prisoners still alive in cages and paraded in the streets of Kirkuk, which ISIS has shown in a previous video earlier this month. –…
Inmates in Texas being relocated after disturbance
The inmates were put on lockdown but some broke out of their housing units, MTC said. About 2,000 prisoners went into the recreation area, though none breached the outer fences,…
Inmates free hostages, shoot themselves dead after Taiwan prison siege
The prisoners had broken into the prison’s armory and seized a number of weapons, including rifles, handguns and more than 200 bullets, Justice Minister Lou Ying-shay told reporters Thursday. Warden…
White House Won’t Say Whether Obama Has Opinion On Jordan’s Retaliation Against Islamic State
If President Barack Obama has any thoughts on Jordan’s execution of two prisoners, he’s keeping them to himself. – H/T The Blaze
Tom Cotton Wants Terror Detainees To ‘Rot In Hell,’ But He’ll Settle For Gitmo
WASHINGTON — If new Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) had his way, the detainees at Guantanamo Bay would “rot in hell” instead of being held in the prison. – Sen. Joe…
Jordan Executes 2 Prisoners After ISIS Killing Of Pilot, Official Says
A Jordanian government spokesman says Jordan has executed two prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber from al-Qaida. – This is a developing story. More to come…
How ISIS’ new hostage strategy is shifting the goalposts
Three of the prisoners ISIS apparently wants back are womena failed suicide bomber, an alleged bomb maker and a woman tied to the head of ISIS. The fourth is a…
Remember ‘The Great Raid’ of 1945
It doesn’t come to mind as quickly as the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II draws near. September 2, 1945. The day the Japanese formally surrendered in…
How The New York Times Reported The Liberation Of Auschwitz In 1945
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops moved through the town of Oswiecim, Poland, and liberated the concentration camp complex of Auschwitz. In the weeks before, the majority of the prisoners…
The Holocaust’s Forgotten Victims: The 5 Million Non-Jewish People Killed By The Nazis
Six million Jewish people were murdered during the genocide in Europe in the years leading up to 1945, and the Jews are rightly remembered as the group that Adolf Hitler’s…
Intimate Portraits Pay Tribute To Auschwitz Survivors
On Jan. 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet army entered the gates of Auschwitz in southern Poland, liberating the largest and most notorious network of Nazi concentration camps. Just 7,000…
Interactive map: Nazi death camps
Auschwitz, where more than 1 million Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and others were killed. But as horrific as they were, they were only three camp complexes…
Auschwitz’s forbidden art
In the midst of that horrorindeed, in perhaps the most horrific place a Jew could land at the timeprisoners sought to take their images back and made sure that art…
Muslim ‘angels’ ease American’s prison days in UAE
An American in Abu Dhabi, he found himself frightened even though the other prisoners were sleeping. Movie scenes from “Midnight Express” and “Brubaker” swirled through his head. He sat at…
Cuba releases 53 political prisoners
The names of the prisoners were not given. The move comes as part of a deal announced December 17 to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba. – According…