Public StoningIranian courts still order public stonings, and those sentenced are often severely whipped before they are stoned. Women are buried up to their necks before a stoning. If convicted of adultery, Iranian law requires the stones not be too big or too small so that the probable death is...
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012, three soldiers for Britain’s 1st Battalion of The Royal Gurka Rifles were shot and killed at Nahr-e Saraj in the Helmond Province of Afghanistan. Officials report the shooter was an armed Afghan man impersonating a police officer and that a third man, believed to be...
The U.S. Army has identified the man shown captured in a video filmed by the Taliban in Afghanistan as an American soldier. The military mentioned that his name was Pte Bowe Bergdahl. He is 23 years old and belongs to Ketchum, Idaho. He was captured by the Taliban from a U.S. military base near...
Nato and US military leaders are worried after Taliban insurgents have mounted highly successful surprise attacks against US and Afghanistan troops. A recent poll shows Americans growing weary over the seemingly pointless front against the Taliban and would love to see their troops brought home....
UK’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair will give all the proceeds of his forthcoming autobiography to a charity that helps war veterans, his office announced on Monday.The book, which is entitled "A Journey", will be published on September 1. It will be Blair’s first personal account of...
Running an army is kind of like running a day care, only instead of rattles, the children have bombs and guns. Hey, it may not be easy to win a war, but we should at least expect military leaders to be more adept than some kid playing Starcraft.
A North Carolina man named Daniel Patrick Boyd has been charged along with six of his alleged recruits with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in "violent jihad." The indictment said Boyd, a U.S. citizen, trained in Afghanistan and fought there between 1989 and...
Osama bin Laden is known today as a notorious terrorist who leads a group of fundamentalist and extremist Muslims that caused so much turmoil in the United States during the September 11 attacks. Osama bin Laden is a son of a multi-millionaire Saudi Arabian patriarch named Mohammed Awad bin Laden....
In this infographic entitled The Secret Side of Military Spending there's a section titled The Wastes of War that caught our attention. From: OnlineMilitaryEducation.org Some examples of the waste of war include: Each year, $360 million spent by the US ends up in the hands of the Taliban via...
http://www.visitashbourne.co.uk/ashbourne-royal-shrovetide-football/ There are plenty of sports out there, and plenty of weird sports at that; Aussie Rules Football for instance, or boot tossing. However, there are none in the world as bizarre, as unhinged and downright potty as the ten sports...
