Seeking to demonstrate its nuclear arms capacity at a time of rising strategic tensions with Russia and North Korea, the U.S. military test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a week on Thursday night.    Late at night the unarmed Minuteman III missile was launched...

Qataris & Kuwaitis are urged to avoid travelling to Lebanon. Following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia, another two Arab countries, Qatar and Kuwait urge their citizens those who are “already in Lebanon” to leave the city, while both the countries issued “a travel warning” for their citizens...

As a mark of protest against Saudi Arabias heavy bombing campaign in Yemen, members of European Parliament have voted for a European Union-wide arms embargo against the gulf country.   Citing the “disastrous humanitarian situation” as a result of “Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen”,...

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" threatened Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey with violence because of accounts closed in relation to terrorist content. ISIS released a new video, one of which shows photographs of Zuckerberg and Dorsey, riddled with bullets. Authors of a new 25-minute video...

A draft resolution that would expand sanctions against North Korea over its latest nuclear test will be submitted by the United States to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nation said.   "Ambassador (Samantha) Power intends to submit for...

Personal safety is one of the key components of life. Each year, Mercer - one of the largest HR-agencies in the world - publishes its report Quality of Living Index, which also indicates the safest cities to live and work. This rating is one of the most comprehensive, and is prepared to help...

A coalition of security companies that jointly investigated the Sony case for more than a year have concluded after the investigations that the perpetrators of the 2014 cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment were not activists or disgruntled employees, and likely had attacked other targets in...

A national online poll conducted by Reuters found that nearly half of Americans support Apple Inc's decision to oppose a federal court order demanding that it unlock a smartphone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook.   While 35 percent said they disagreed and 20 percent said they did...

As the Assad government said it would accept a “cessation of hostilities” on the condition that attacks on Islamic State, al-Nusra and other UN-identified terrorist groups can continue, a preliminary hurdle to the start of a US and Russian-brokered ceasefire in Syria was cleared.   The...