When two massive earthquakes (magnitudes 7.7 and 7.6) devastated southern and central Turkey in February 2023, they did more than destroy towns and villages — they brought communities together in unexpected solidarity. An international research team, including Claire White, professor of religious...

A coalition of 18 state attorneys general including California AG Xavier Becerra has joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Hawaii’s challenge of the president’s latest travel ban in Trump v. Hawaii. The case challenges the unlawful provisions of President Trump’s revised travel...

Middle East scholar Mehrzad Boroujerdi will explore the growing tensions in the Middle East and the impact U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has on the region during a special lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at California State University, Northridge. The lecture, “United States and an Imploding...

By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News / Defense Media Activity   Military officials believe dozens of core al-Qaida leaders were killed in a U.S. strike in Jinah, Syria, on Thursday, according to a Pentagon spokesman. Speaking to reporters today and in a later written statement, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, the...

UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block Chancellor Gene Block and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh sent the following message to the UCLA campus community on Sunday, Jan. 29.   This past week, as most of you are well aware, President Trump signed an executive order that suspends entry into...

Well not so much. Yes, the president did launch against Muslims … in 1980. That was President Jimmy Carter. Carter’s attorney general at the time ordered all Iranian students holding a visa to report to immigration officials or face immediate deportation. A federal judge ruled it unconstitutional...

Two senior al-Qaida operatives were killed recently in separate U.S. airstrikes in Syria, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in two statements. Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi, an al-Qaida external operations leader, was killed by a U.S. precision airstrike Jan. 17 near Idlib, Syria, Cook said...

From a Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve News Release SOUTHWEST ASIA, July 15, 2016 — The Syrian Arab Coalition, supported by coalition strikes, maneuvered toward the center of the city of Manbij in Syria, denying Da’esh, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,...

On Nov. 19, U.S. Rep. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, wrote a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown about how California should not allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country because of the current threats that have been made by ISIL to our nation and worldwide. (See Knight’s letter below). It is understandable...

After the recent multiple terrorist attacks around the world, Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, was one of 407 Unites States Congress members who voted to approve an act that tightens visa waivers and travel laws. The “Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015”...