Car bombs were detonated throughout Nigeria following explosions at a number of churches on Christmas Day.   Nigeria’s Escalating Holy War A week of violence and terror in the country has many fearful of a developing alliance between the Boko Haram Islamist movement and the Sahara fraction of al-Qaeda. Written by Agathe Panaretos. A spokesman [...]

Today, Obama reassured that U.S. support for Israeli security will continue regardless of the rising tension regarding a Jewish settlement being constructed in East Jerusalem. Robert Gibbs, one of the president’s spokesman, said that Obama expressed his determination to establish peace in the Middle East to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, while they attended a [...]