Islamic State and al-Nusra Front jihadists were on the brink of capturing Syria’s second city as hundreds of militants assailed the newly appointed governor’s office in Idlib, the provincial capital, according to a news report. On Oct. 27, International Business
During a recent visit to London, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri advocated for an expansion of the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) to confront extremists causing havoc in North Africa, such as the Muslim Brotherhood. According to The Telegraph, Egypt
A prominent Chechen commander has been dispatched by the Islamic State to the fight in the strategic town of Kobani along the Syria-Turkey border where the jihadist group has suffered heavy fatalities, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported. An unnamed source
Hundreds of Canadians paid tribute to slain Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as a procession carrying the fallen soldier to his hometown of Hamilton rode on Ontario’s Highway of Heroes on Friday. According to various news outlets in Canada, Cpl. Cirillo’s motorcade
The United States can only evacuate four Ebola-stricken American soldiers per week from West Africa to the United States for treatment, according to the Pentagon. That may change in January of next year when the Pentagon is expected to procure
U.S. intelligence is helping French forces monitor al-Qaeda weapons deliveries from Libya to the Sahel region in Africa. A top French military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to discuss the matter publicly, told the Associated
U.S. forces stationed in Canada “will comply” with the country’s directive ordering Canadian soldiers not to wear their uniforms in public during off-duty activities, U.S. Northern Command told Breitbart News. The edict was issued by Canada’s Department of National Defense
The father of the man accused of killing a Canadian soldier at the War Memorial in Ottawa and then unleashing a fusillade of bullets in Canada’s Parliament Hill before being fatally shot Wednesday appears to have fought alongside anti-Gadhafi rebels
The lethal Ebola virus is spreading rapidly in Western Sierra Leone, and more than 20 people are dying per day as a result. Claude Kamanda, a member of parliament who represents a western district in Sierra Leone, told local newspaper
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee does not think it is necessary to reconvene Congress and hold emergency hearings on the Ebola mission in West Africa, despite comments by two top generals raising concerns about the safety of
Australia has finalized a deal with Baghdad to deploy 200 soldiers from its special forces to train and assist Iraqi security troops to fight against Islamic State jihadists, according to various news outlets. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced that she
If any American soldiers in Liberia contract the deadly Ebola virus, they will be quarantined, stabilized, and evacuated to a medical facility for treatment, said the Ebola mission commander, adding that the U.S. military hospitals that will admit potentially infected
Islamic State jihadists are being trained to fly captured war planes by Hussein-era Iraqi pilots who have joined the group, reported a group monitoring the Syrian war. However, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the commander of U.S. Central Command, today said
Washington, D.C.–The Pentagon press secretary refused to explicitly say whether the United States-led coalition is winning or losing the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. Talking to reporters in the Pentagon on October 15, Rear Adm. John
The Hussein-era chemical weapons compound seized by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in June contains materials that may still be toxic, according to the Pentagon. However, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby, during an October 15 press briefing, asserted that
The United States military secretly encountered thousands of chemical weapons during the Iraq war in Iraqi territory that is now controlled by the Islamic State, The New York Times reported. Nevertheless, Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, told
The first large wave of soldiers from the U.S. Army’s legendary 101st Airborne Division arrived in Liberia over the weekend to battle the deadly Ebola virus, according to the Pentagon. During a press briefing Tuesday, Army Col. Steve Warren, a
Islamic State jihadists may have used chemical weapons to kill Kurdish fighters defending the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane, a number of disturbing and graphic photos obtained by the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) suggest. The pictures show Kurdish
Kurdish fighters in Syria told the BBC that they have retaken a strategic hilltop from the Islamic State militants in the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane. U.S.-led air strikes reportedly assisted the Kurdish fighters in recapturing the hill known as
The U.S. Army will make public the results of its investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s alleged desertion of a base in Afghanistan and subsequent capture by Taliban militants in 2009. A Pentagon spokesperson clarified that, contrary to various media reports,
President Obama’s strategy to transition security responsibilities and rush the United States out of Afghanistan is a recipe for failure, revealed a scathing report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Anthony Cordesman, former intelligence director at the
(Washington, D.C.) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson revealed that there were an estimated 480,000 illegal immigrants apprehended along the Southwest border in fiscal 2014, with more than half arrested in Texas. During an October 9 discussion
A spokesperson for the House Select Committee on Benghazi told Breitbart News that it “expects to talk” with Leon Panetta, who served as President Obama’s CIA director and Pentagon chief. Amanda Duvall, a spokesperson for the Benghazi Select Committee, made
Turkish, British, and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, all key United States allies in the military campaign against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL), have indicated that airstrikes alone will not defeat the jihadist group.
The commander of the U.S. Southern Command said al Qaeda raises “a lot of money” by allowing Latin American drug cartels to traffic cocaine into Europe through West Africa, explicitly associating the two enterprises. “We know that the cocaine that
