by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Jan 26, 2015 | Monitor
5 Key World News Stories At Least 43 Police Officers Killed in Counter-Terrorism Raid in Mindanao Government officials in the Philippines said Monday at least 43 members of the elite Special Action Force were killed in a counter-terrorism raid, making it the...
by Sophia Dahodwala | Nov 10, 2014 | Monitor
International News Coverage ISIS, Iraq, Egypt Effort to Arm Sunni Tribes in Iraq against Islamic State Faces Hurdles Loveday Morris | The Washington Post The mass killings of Sunni tribesmen battling the Islamic State have added urgency to Iraqi government efforts...
by David Hudson | Sep 2, 2014 | Monitor
Watch on YouTube In a video released this morning, President Obama addresses the people of West Africa about the Ebola outbreak that is currently affecting the countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Nigeria. The President reiterates in the video that, along...
by Naman Jain | Aug 26, 2014 | Monitor
Defeating the ISIL Threat – For Good Fadi Elsalameen / Huffington Post ISIL is barbaric and violent. The brutal murder of journalist James Foley last week showed the true realities of ISIL to an American audience, but throughout the region under their control, their...
by Naman Jain | Aug 25, 2014 | Monitor
Boko Haram Leader Says Ruling Nigerian Town by Islamic Law Reuters The leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza “by Islamic law”, in the first video to state a territorial...