134 House Republicans demand ‘assurances’ as US eases Syria sanctions

By Elizabeth Elkind | Fox News | December 19, 2025 Congress’ annual defense policy bill includes a repeal of Syria sanctions More than 100 House Republicans are demanding increased oversight of Syria as the U.S. prepares to repeal longstanding sanctions against the country. Reps. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., and Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., are leading 134 fellow GOP lawmakers…

RELEASE | 2026: The Year the CCP’s Unrestricted/People’s War Goes Kinetic?

For Immediate Release December 19, 2025 CONTACTS: Oleg Atbashian [email protected] “2026: The Year the CCP’s Unrestricted/People’s War Goes Kinetic?”  1:00–2:15 p.m. ET, December 19, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C.— 2026 will be a challenging year. The United States will be preoccupied with potentially game-changing mid-term elections. Western European nations seem likely to slide further into what Team…

Secure Freedom Minute: Will We be Living Dangerously in 2026?

2026 will be a challenging year. The United States will be preoccupied with potentially game-changing mid-term elections. Western European nations seem likely to slide further into what Team Trump calls illegal immigrant-induced “civilization erasure.”  Then, there’s Russia’s intensifying bloodletting in Ukraine and  Western civilization’s unfinished wars with jihadists in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.  The question…

RELEASE | Save the Persecuted Christians Releases Original Song Dedicated to Leah Sharibu, a Christian Nigerian School Girl Held Captive by Terrorists since 2018

PRESS RELEASE ChristianNewsWire | Dec. 17, 2025 Save the Persecuted Christians Releases Original Song Dedicated to Leah Sharibu, a Christian Nigerian School Girl Held Captive by Terrorists since 2018 Washington, DC – December 17, 2025 /Christian Newswire/ — Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) today released an original music video and song titled “Leah, Did You Know?” dedicated to Leah Sharibu,…

Secure Freedom Minute: Trump 2’s Most Important National Security Decision

President Trump will soon make what may be the most important national security decision of his second presidency. And scarcely anyone even knows it’s impending, let alone how fraught the wrong choice would be.  Given the incredibly high stakes for our people and constitutional Republic, the lack of the necessary public awareness and national debate…

The Conviction of Jimmy Lai, a Hero for Fundamental Freedoms

Today’s false conviction demonstrates the Catholic media magnate’s personal heroism, and the demise of Hong Kong’s independence from Communist China’s oppressive regime. By Nina Shea | National Catholic Register | December 16, 2025 Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai is a hero for all people who cherish the fundamental freedoms of speech, press and religion. Yesterday, he…

Secure Freedom Minute: Tis the Season for Sharia’s Jihad

’Tis the season for celebrating traditions of the great Abrahamic faiths. Christmas markets and Hannukah parties. Increasingly, however, adherents to sharia – which is actually not a religion, let alone one the Bible’s Abraham would embrace – are emulating Mohammed’s jihad against Christians and Jews. It’s a reasonable bet that those jihadis are inspired –…

Secure Freedom Minute: Ignoring Jihad Ensures We’ll Get More of It

Missing from official comments and press reporting about the murder this weekend of three Americans in Syria and sixteen Jewish Australians on a Sydney beach is the word “jihad.” That failure is deliberate – a symptom of, and a contributor to, a metastasizing danger. Fifteen years ago, our group called “Team B II” published a…

Secure Freedom Minute: Don’t Submit to Sharia’s Jihad – Ban the Brotherhood

Too many Americans remain unaware of the threat posed to this country, its Constitution and freedoms by what President Trump has called “the ideology of Radical Islam.” The Muslim Brotherhood is the prime-mover behind translating that ideology known as sharia into action worldwide – meaning, jihad and conquest. Doctrinally, when sharia’s enemies exhibit weakness and…

Faith Leaders and Advocates Decry Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Omission of Mark Walker from Critical Confirmation Hearing

Washington, DC – December 11, 2025 – A coalition of prominent faith leaders and organizations dedicated to supporting persecuted religious communities worldwide today expressed profound disappointment over the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s decision not to include President Trump’s nominee, former Congressman Mark Walker, for U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom in today’s confirmation hearing. Despite an urgent letter sent…

President Trump: Stand up for Syria’s Persecuted Christians

Secure a Humanitarian Corridor from Hader to Suwayda On Monday, November 10, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as al-Jolani) will meet with President Donald J. Trump at the White House. Meanwhile, in Syria, Christians, Druze, and other minorities are facing an ever-growing humanitarian crisis. People everywhere watched with horror when HTS and Bedouins attacked…

Secure Freedom Minute: Prevent “Civilization Erasure” HERE – Ban the Brotherhood Now!

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy has offended Europeans with its warning that they face “the prospect of civilizational erasure.” While several reasons for that dire prognosis are offered, the key one appears to be “migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife.” Unsaid, but clearly a factor in erasing Western civilization in…

Secure Freedom Minute: Don’t Help the CCP Get “FrankenAI” First

Artificial intelligence and its seemingly limitless financial prospects are raising concerns that it may be a bubble about to burst. What should be even more worrying, however, is what’s coming out of the pell-mell race to create ever more powerful AI technology justified by the imperative of staying ahead of China’s counterpart efforts.  I call…

Secure Freedom Minute: Two Key Governors Have Banned the Muslim Brotherhood; POTUS Must Do So, Too

Yesterday, Governor Ron DeSantis joined Texas Governor Gregg Abbott in designating the Muslim Brotherhood and its preeminent American front group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, as foreign terrorist organizations.  As a result, Florida agencies have been directed to undertake “all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources…

LEAH, DID YOU KNOW? (Original Music Video)

A song for Leah Sharibu, a Christian Nigerian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram and held in captivity, refusing to leave her faith. Credits: Dede Laugesen and Oleg Atbashian Leah, did you know That your faith in Christ would cost you earthly freedom? Leah, did you know That your faith in Christ would anger men of…

Bring The Children Home This Christmas (Original Music Video)

Dedicated to over 250 children abducted by Islamist militants from a Catholic boarding school in Nigeria. UPDATE: The terrorists stormed the school on Nov. 21, 2025 at about 9:30 a.m., taking 303 students and 12 teachers. Fifty hostages escaped within hours, leaving 265 in captivity. With 100 now freed, as of December 8, 165 remain…

Secure Freedom Minute: Memo to Dimon – Stop Undermining U.S. Security and Resiliency

On Sunday, the “Titanium Lady,” Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, lit up one of the worst perpetrators of the sort of treachery her three-part “Underwriting the Enemy” series has relentlessly exposed: J.P.Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon. While Dimon was given a chance to tout his company’s commendable commitment to invest $1.5 trillion in enhancing U.S. security and…