U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster blocked Blackwater founder Erik Prince from debating the merits of his private security proposal at the recent high-level Afghanistan war strategy meeting at Camp David, the former Navy SEAL confirms to
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan war plan is expected to include an increase in the number of American troops fighting terrorists in the country, prompting some analysts to suggest the “new strategy” is only an extension of the failed status quo.
U.S. President Donald Trump has adopted a new strategy to deal with the nearly 16-year-old war in Afghanistan following a “sufficiently rigorous” process, declares Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
State sponsor of terrorism Iran has denied the appeal of an American citizen, sentenced by the Islamic Republic to ten years in prison for allegedly spying on behalf of the United States, revealed the defendant’s former employer Princeton University.
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the American military to elevate the Pentagon’s Cyber Command to a new unified combatant command, signaling a growing emphasis on combating cyber attacks.
The United States will remain involved in the fight against terrorism in Syria long after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) falls, reportedly envisioned the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish led and dominated group fighting the jihadist group.
Some pilots from the U.S.-backed Afghan Air Force (AAF) claim to have received deaths threats from Taliban terrorists, prompting alarm among the American military, reports Reuters.
The rebellion against the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has attracted the support of military women in increasingly embattled Venezuela.
The Afghan Taliban, in an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, advises the commander-in-chief to ignore U.S. officials who are trying to push him to prolong the nearly 16-year-old war and suggest that he disregard any private contractor plan to end the conflict.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have added a new email subscription service to their “virtual caliphate” as part of their efforts to disseminate propaganda and news updates about the terrorist group’s ongoing operations.
The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon has announced that President Donald Trump’s administration has delivered military equipment to the Hezbollah-linked Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), namely Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliated group, did meet with “working level officials” at the U.S. State Department, an administration official confirmed to Breitbart News.
The chief of Iran’s military recently visited Ankara to find common ground with Turkey on the regional conflicts affecting both neighboring countries and to discuss the independence aspirations of Kurds in Iraq.
Beijing has reportedly denied any knowledge or involvement in an alleged attempt this week by Chinese troops to get into a territory controlled by India, China’s neighbor and regional rival.
Christianity is spreading in North Korea as fewer citizens in the hermit state consider dictator Kim Jong-Un a god, the Telegraph has learned from an anonymous defector.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a plan drawn up by former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince to hire a private army to end the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, Breitbart News has confirmed.
WASHINGTON – A proposed piece of U.S. legislation that places a clear priority on helping Christians and other victims of Islamic State-perpetrated genocide in the Middle East may be able to help President Donald Trump’s administration keep its promise to help persecuted minority groups in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has indicated that the United States is considering various options for dealing with the war in Afghanistan, including increasing the American military footprint by thousands of forces, the complete withdrawal of troops, and using private contractors.
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Inspire, is urging its sympathizers and followers in the West to carry out mass casualty terrorist attacks, particularly against the “vulnerable” rail network in the United States.
The U.S. military has ruled out enemy contact as the cause of the recent deaths of two American service members and injury of five others while they were participating in the U.S.-led offensive against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq Sunday.
Vice President Mike Pence made an urgent plea to President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia on Monday to act to reduce record cocaine production in that country during a visit to Bogotá Monday.
A Baghdad-sanctioned umbrella organization in Iraq, made up mainly of Iran-backed Shiite militiamen, has trained about 280 child soldiers in the use of weapons, Rudaw has found.
Hope has returned to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world as they struggle to bring life again to their historical homeland in northern Iraq, where they suffered a genocide campaign at the hands of the now crumbling Islamic State.
Turkish authorities reportedly arrested yet another man for attacking a statue of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Istanbul on Friday.
Islamic and nationalist protesters in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world, demanded this week that the government destroy a 100-foot Chinese deity statue located in a temple complex in the city of Surabaya.
Communist state authorities in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, the largest province in China, have sentenced a distinguished theological scholar to ten years in prison for “illegal religious activity,” reports Radio Free Asia (RFA), citing local sources.
India is trying to convert the New Delhi-controlled portion of the disputed Kashmir region into a Muslim-minority area, a Pakistani official alleged this week.
Iran is not abiding by its commitments under the controversial nuclear deal struck by the former U.S. commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump stressed Thursday.
During a meeting in Washington on Tuesday, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich agreed that an American aircraft carrier would sail to Vietnam next year, marking the first such visit since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
Pushing the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of its de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria may take months, predicted a commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces fighting against the jihadists, according to Reuters.
The al-Qaeda wing in Syria may have succeeded its Yemen-based counterpart as the jihadist group’s largest and strongest affiliate, the U.S. government and some experts suggested this week.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, an al-Qaeda ally, stand accused again of joining forces to carry out a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan that left up to 50 mostly Shiite civilians dead and hundreds of others in captivity
The efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to officially label the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a foreign terrorist organization has earned the support of various Arab allies of the United States, Fox News has learned.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its alleged rival al-Qaeda are expanding their Sunni jihadi operations into the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, claimed by Pakistan, India, and China, according to a report published Wednesday.
The Pakistani branch of the Taliban, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has published the first edition of a propaganda magazine aimed at persuading women to engage in jihad on their behalf.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to flee Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) holdouts in Iraq as U.S.-backed local forces intensify the pressure against the jihadist group, according to the United Nations.
The U.S. is reportedly deploying dozens of additional Marines to join an estimated 300 others in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an opium-rich Taliban hotspot located along the Pakistan border.
The Taliban and its affiliate the Haqqani Network, two terrorist groups fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan, have established bases in neighboring Pakistan with the knowledge of Islamabad, suggested U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster in an interview with MSNBC.
About 30 percent of the territory the American-led coalition has retaken from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been liberated under U.S. President Donald Trump’s watch, a senior State Department official tells reporters.
The president of northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, in commemorating the 84th anniversary of the former Iraqi kingdom’s massacre of thousands of Christians in the country, declared that history would not repeat itself in an independent Kurdistan, vowing that the Kurds will protect the “demands and rights” of Assyrian Christians.
