U.S. President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview on Fox Business, described Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as a “butcher” and “truly an evil person,” noting that the relationship between Syria and Russia is “bad for mankind.”
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Wednesday, despite reports that the Kremlin leader had refused a face-to-face meeting with the top American diplomat, reveal various Russian state media outlets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may seek to capitalize on the chaos currently gripping Libya by filling the power vacuum that the U.S.-led NATO alliance has failed to fill since the removal of dictator Moammar Gadhafi nearly six years ago, reports Stars and Stripes, citing analysts.
Hundreds of migrants from West Africa are being bought and auctioned off at “slave markets” in Libya opened to the public, a United Nations agency has learned from survivors.
“More than 100 men” confirmed or suspected of being homosexual in the overwhelmingly Muslim Republic of Chechnya, an autonomous province within the Russian Federation, have been sent to a “concentration camp” where they are being tortured and killed, report various news outlets, citing the independent Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta and LGBT community activists.
Defeating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains the United States’ primary goal in Syria, not toppling the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to high-ranking officials in President Donald Trump’s administration.
The United States, as the “biggest stakeholder” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, must be involved in the Russia-initiated discussions to negotiate peace between Kabul and the Afghan Taliban, according to Pakistan.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who said “goodbye” to diplomacy with the United States last year, is now urging his American counterparts to work with Manila in combating terrorism and other mutual threats.
An American special forces soldier was killed while combating Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in their Afghanistan stronghold, located in the eastern part of the country along its border with Pakistan, revealed the U.S./NATO-led international coalition.
Muslim extremists murdered a Vogue cover model in Bangladesh for not wearing Islamic clothing, alleged the victim’s family after the authorities ruled the late 21-year-old’s death a suicide.
A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based international gold refinery has established a branch that launders money for criminal and terrorist groups alike in the small “criminalized” South American country of Suriname, according to a national security think tank.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine Rumiyah, eulogized a French-born U.S.-Syria dual citizen wanted by the FBI and considered a recruiter and essential operative in the jihadist group’s media efforts.
The majority of countries in the world, including Western nations, have been “cooperating” with the Syrian regime throughout the ongoing civil war, claimed the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad in an interview with a state-owned Croatian media outlet.
The Kurds in northern Iraq’s autonomous region plan to move ahead with a referendum on independence after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is defeated, according to a senior Kurdish official.
Russian nationals make up the largest number of jihadists from non-predominantly Muslim countries fighting on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), according to data from a U.S.-based intelligence consulting firm.
Jihadist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) are engaged in efforts to “radicalize and recruit” people in Latin American regions home to violent street gangs that maintain links with U.S. counterparts, namely MS-13, according to the top American commander in the area.
Turkey’s Kurdish minority is suffering from a “slow-motion genocide” at the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government as he pushes the country towards an “authoritarian system of governance,” the U.S. representative of a pro-Kurdish opposition party told a House panel.
The Marine Corps, under current funding levels, is expected to face “increasingly significant challenges” to the readiness necessary to deter aggression and win America’s battles, high-ranking military officials told lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s foreign minister blasted a resolution approved by the Organization of American States (OAS) criticizing Venezuela as an effort to “incriminate and condemn Venezuela in a kind of lynching.”
Christian and Yazidi Iraqis lament the dire future facing their minority communities in new video footage obtained by Breitbart News. Both groups have nearly been eradicated by the genocidal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is facing “significant challenges” sustaining its defense capabilities, both in the nuclear and conventional realm, and is at risk of no longer holding a military advantage over its enemies, warned the head of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) Tuesday.
The defense minister for state-sponsor of terrorism Iran referred to the United States to “an ignorant armed robber” in the Middle East as it warned America to leave the region.
Russia has provided assistance to two rivals in Libya — the prime minister of the United Nations-recognized government in Tripoli and the leader of a military faction that opposes him — in an effort to deepen military operations inside the North African country.
Pakistan has reportedly accused an Islamic extremist imam of “hate speech” for accusing activists of committing blasphemy and has ordered the radical to apologize in an apparent effort to portray the Muslim-majority country as tolerant towards minorities.
The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, the capital of the world’s top producer of opium and its heroin derivative, has fired at least six employees for allegedly using and distributing drugs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. needs to consider military action to disrupt Iran’s malign activities in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, which have intensified since the Islamic Republic signed a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, a top American commander warned American lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military has not “relaxed” the rules of engagement (ROE) put in place to avoid civilian casualties in the ongoing fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), commonly known for using the home of innocent people as shelter and the inhabitants as shields, the top American commander in the region told lawmakers.
Moscow is trying to reestablish Russia as a superpower and extend its geopolitical sphere of influence by undermining the United States and capitalizing on the chaos in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Libya, and beyond, according to American military officials and analysts.
President Donald Trump’s administration has substantially increased military support for the Saudi-led Sunni coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthis in Yemen, countering the growing investment Iran has made in its allies in the war-torn country.
Pakistan, where many religious minority groups face persecution at the hands of the Muslim majority, has allowed a 29-year-old dubbed the “last Jew” in the country to convert from Islam to Judaism.
Snipers from both the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the U.S.-backed Iraqi army are fatally shooting civilians who try to flee the besieged western side of the city of Mosul, reports the Independent, citing an eyewitness.
Pakistan’s announcement that it is already constructing a fence along its mutual border with Afghanistan has provoked the ire of Kabul.
The province of Punjab in Muslim-majority Pakistan has reserved five percent of all government positions for minority groups, including Christians, but the only type of employment allocated for them are generally low-skill janitorial “sweeper” jobs.
The U.S. and Russia-backed Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has offered the people of Raqqa the opportunity to join its autonomous federal region in northern Syria once the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is pushed out of the city.
Syrian groups affiliated with al-Qaeda are capitalizing on the U.S.-led coalition as well as the Iran and Russian-backed Syrian regime’s nearly single-minded focus to annihilate the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in the war-torn country.
Russia has dismissed accusations by the top American commander in Europe that Moscow may be supplying Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan as they continue to fight against the U.S.-NATO-led coalition in the war-torn country.
A convicted jihadist serving a life sentence in federal prison as the “20th hijacker” in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. homeland has reportedly offered to testify during the 9/11 trial to “expose the Saudi Royal double game with” the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
FBI Director James Comey reiterated his concern that an unprecedented “terrorist diaspora” will occur after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) territory is “crushed” by the U.S.-led coalition, calling the imminent phenomenon “the ghost of Christmas future.”
The U.S. military in Afghanistan is stepping up its fight against the growing Islamic State branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, vowing the defeat the jihadist group this year, Voice of America (VOA) has learned.
Defense attorneys for Guantánamo Bay jihadists accused of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. homeland are requesting a probe into whether government spy agencies are eavesdropping on their confidential conversations with their defendants.
