Category Archives: War and Conflicts

U.S. and European Officials Becoming More Confident A Bomb Took Down Flight 9268

U.S. officials are becoming increasingly more confident that a bomb was used to cause the explosion that brought down Metrojet Flight 9268.  Intelligence experts are specifically interested in some private messages between ISIS affiliates that were intercepted and analyzed.  The …

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Missouri grad student goes on hunger strike until the schools president resigns

Jonathan L Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri has gained nationwide attention after starting a one-man hunger strike against his schools president, Tim Wolfe. Racial tension has been going on at the University for months now and …

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Missing boy found 13 years after taken

A missing boy from Alabama was found earlier this week, 13 years after he went missing. Julian Hernandez, a now 18 year old boy living in Ohio, was applying to colleges like any other normal high school senior, but what …

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Oklahoma State Homecoming parade turned deadly

Not all homecoming celebrations turned out as well as University of Central Florida’s this weekend. Early Saturday morning thousands were gathered in Stillwater at the Oklahoma State University homecoming annual parade before an Oklahoma State football game, when things turned …

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Airstrike in Syria Kills Al Qaeda Cell Leader

On Sunday evening, October 18, 2015, the Pentagon announced that the leader of a Qaeda cell had been killed in a military airstrike in northwestern Syria. The cell had allegedly been plotting attacks against both the US and Europe.

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Airstrike Kills Al-Qaeda Leader

The leader of a group that allegedly actively pursues attacking the West has been killed, by an airstrike in Syria. A U.S. led coalition was behind the airstrike. Sanafi al-Nasr was the highest ranking member of this group, known as …

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High-ranking Iranian general killed by ISIS in Syria

As humanitarian hardships worsen and violent conflict spreads like wildfire, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad struggles to maintain its authority. On Friday, Iranian general Hossein Hamedani and 20 other victims were killed by an ISIS-planted car bomb in …

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3 different school shootings since the end of last month

It seems like the amount of school shootings have increased in the recent weeks after the news reported 3 different school shootings since September 30th. The things is, since the beginning of the 2015 year, there have been  21 different …

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US Cargo Ship El Faro Missing because of Hurricane Joaquin

A United States cargo shipped called the El Faro departed from Jacksonville last Tuesday the 29th, when Hurricane Joaquin was still a tropical storm off of the coast. The cargo ship, which had 33 crew members- 28 from the United …

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Pope Francis visits the United States for 6 days in 10th overseas trip

Pope Francis began his 10th overseas tour earlier this week in Cuba. Here he urged the country to continue down their path of reconciliation with the United States. Straight from the resumption of diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba, …

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