President Obama has weighed in the Ground Zero Mosque. If you believe in freedom of religion, you’re for the mosque. If you’re against the mosque, you’re obviously against one of America’s founding principles, the right to worship your own God, in your own way. But that’s not the argument. The …

Forty years ago this month the Arabs and Israelis fought their last war against each other. Prior to that, they had fought every decade or so, but the fallout from those earlier wars was rarely felt beyond the region. The 1973 war was different. It led to an Arab oil …

By now you’ve seen the video — a Planned Parenthood doctor discussing baby livers and Lamborghinis over dinner. They were haggling over body parts — harvested from Planned Parenthood’s killing fields. The doctor went on to explain how they perform less crunchy abortions so that profitable organs aren’t damaged. Click …

CAIRO – Egypt has named a new ambassador to Israel nearly three years after it had recalled the last one at the outset of the 2012 Israeli offensive in Gaza. A statement released Sunday said President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi named ambassador Hazem Khairat as part of a regular reshuffle of Egypt’s …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Balking at European Union rules, Hungary’s government says it will temporarily not take back any asylum seekers who registered in Hungary but moved elsewhere in Europe before their requests were resolved. According to the EU’s Dublin regulation, refugees can be sent back to the country where they …

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia has sharply criticized Hungary’s insistence on building a border fence to stop the flow of illegal migrants and has urged the EU to say whether it wants such structures on its territory. “I thought the Berlin wall had fallen,” Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says the Islamic State group now has a presence in three provinces but that the government is determined to drive it out. Zafar Hashimi, the Afghan president’s deputy spokesman, said Sunday that the group — which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria — …

BERLIN – German prosecutors say they’ve charged a 22-year-old German-Turkish dual national with murder and membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he fought with the radical Islamic State group in Syria. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Kerim Marc B., whose last name wasn’t given in accordance with German privacy laws, …

BAKU, Azerbaijan – A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced nine people to prison terms of up to 15 years on charges of fighting alongside the Islamic State group in Syria. The convicts have been in custody since their arrest in September by Azerbaijani authorities. Among those convicted Wednesday was Vugar …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A government-linked Saudi news website says that King Salman has ordered an investigation and trial against a pro-Muslim Brotherhood scholar and a television host after an episode that was critical of King Abdullah’s policies toward the outlawed Islamist group. Sabq news website, quoting unnamed Information …