Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists not only destroyed but also dug tunnels underneath the shrine that is said to have housed the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, a key figure in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
A group of 25 Republican House lawmakers, joined by one Democrat, have sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to significantly increase funding to various programs aimed at developing an earth- and space-based “robust missile defense architecture” capable of protecting the U.S. homeland against “any threat from any nation,” not just Iran and North Korea.
The Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is urging followers to retaliate against the United States for killing senior leaders of the jihadist group during a recent raid.
The U.S. military under former President Barack Obama quietly hid “potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes” from the American public that likely killed hundreds of civilians in war-ravaged Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, Military Times has found.
Taliban jihadists, notorious for their sexism and misogyny, have reportedly killed at least two women in northeastern Afghanistan amid a spike in violence against women currently plaguing the war-ravaged country.
An estimated 300 Marines are reportedly gearing up to deploy to the Taliban stronghold and top opium-producing province of Helmand, Afghanistan, as part of a task force expected to train members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).
President Donald Trump’s administration has executed a new round of sanctions against 13 individuals and 13 companies involved in procuring materials and technology in support of Iran’s ballistic missile program and the country’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The chief judge of Arlington County’s Circuit Court in Virginia dismissed a misdemeanor charge that White House deputy assistant and former Breitbart News national security editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka had been facing for taking a legally owned unloaded gun through a TSA checkpoint at Reagan National Airport last year.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a terrorist group considered to be a front organization for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) jihadist group, organized protests across Pakistan after authorities placed its leader, one of the alleged masterminds behind the 2008 massacre in India’s Mumbai, under house arrest.
Radical Islamic terrorism concerns have reportedly prompted Kuwait to suspend the issuance of visas for citizens of five fellow Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
Iran will not bow to “useless” threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, declared a top adviser to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the Middle Eastern nation test-fired a ballistic missile reportedly capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
President Donald Trump’s deputies intend to overhaul President Barack Obama’s “Countering Violent Extremism” program to focus only on Islamist extremism, says Reuters.
Military and police officers in a northern Indian state that borders the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir have been placed on alert following the appearance of graffiti and posters announcing the arrival of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to the area.
A jealous husband in northern Afghanistan is on the run from authorities after he allegedly tied up his 21-year-old Afghan wife and severed both her ears, marking the latest in a series of similar high-profile domestic violence attacks in the war-ravaged country.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The “open, free, and rules-based international” order led and created by the United States is “under unprecedented threat” from Iran, Russia, China, and Islamic extremist groups, former CIA Director and retired Gen. David Petraeus told House lawmakers during a hearing aimed at assessing the state of the world.
Fear of being added to the list of Muslim-majority countries covered by President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting immigration has prompted Pakistan to arrest the prominent Islamist chief of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), according to The Washington Post (WaPo).
Pakistani authorities arrested a 70-year-old Christian father and his family, including his three children between the ages of 8 and 14, for an alleged act of blasphemy, reports the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA).
Efforts to eradicate opium in Afghanistan dropped by nearly 90 percent last year as the cultivation of the illicit drug, which as heroin provides an estimated 60 percent of Taliban funding, reached unprecedented levels.
Afghanistan, under the presidency of Barack Obama, lost control and influence of nearly half of its war-ravaged territory as armed clashes between the nation’s security forces and the Taliban reached unprecedented levels, reports a congressionally appointed watchdog agency.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to honor a request by Secretary of Defense James Mattis to exempt Iraqis who served as “interpreters, aides and other allies who risked their lives alongside U.S. personnel in Iraq” from the recent national security executive order.
One of the Islamic State’s most prominent decapitators, allegedly responsible for beheading more than 100 people, has been stabbed to death in the outskirts of northern Iraq’s city of Mosul, reports Iraqi News, citing the Arabic-language al-Sumaria News.
The U.S. government is working on a new report, mandated by legislation signed into law before President Donald Trump took office, to evaluate whether the Russian and Chinese leadership have the capacity to survive a nuclear strike.
An American service member died of injuries suffered during a January 28 raid in Yemen that killed an estimated 14 al-Qaeda jihadists, reports to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
Pakistan, which the Pentagon has repeatedly accused of serving as a sanctuary for terrorists, may be added to the list of seven countries covered by President Donald Trump’s recently signed executive order limiting immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries.
The new president of the Muslim-majority West African nation The Gambia, Adama Barrow, has removed “Islamic Republic” from the official name of his country, vowing more reforms.
Iraqi lawmakers have voted in favor of a reciprocal travel ban on U.S. citizens if President Donald Trump’s administration does not rescind its decision to prohibit the entry of Iraqis. When Barack Obama blocked Iraqi refugees from entering the United States for six months in 2011, the Baghdad-based parliament took no action.
The White House has refuted any association with a copy of an executive order allegedly drafted by President Donald Trump’s administration that inaccurately cites the date of the 9/11 attacks as “September 11, 2011.”
A group affiliated with a predominantly Shiite paramilitary force backed by Iran and legally operating as a component of the Iraqi military has reportedly bombed Kurdish Peshmerga positions in northern Iraq’s Sinjar region, Rudaw reports.
Jordan’s King Abdullah is scheduled to begin a visit Monday to the United States where he is expected to meet with key officials from President Donald Trump’s administration and members of Congress, announced the Jordanian embassy.
A spokesman for the Taliban terrorist group in Afghanistan told President Donald Trump in a recent letter it is time for the United States withdraw its troops and leave the war-torn country, noting that peace will be elusive.
President Donald Trump attended the swearing-in ceremony of retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as the 26th secretary of defense at the Pentagon, where Trump also signed two executive actions, including one to rebuild and expand the military.
A 70-year-old Christian man’s refusal to sell his home in Pakistan prompted Muslim arsonists to burn down the property while everyone inside, including his daughter and four-year-old grandson, were sleeping.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are expanding their territory in some parts of Syria, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump, the leaders of the world’s two largest democracies, have pledged to work closely and continue to cultivate the healthy relationship currently enjoyed by both countries.
The Department of Defense (DOD) knew that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, would travel to Syria before she did so this week.
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a Marxist terrorist group, has reportedly formed a new, armed group made up of members of the Yazidi minority in Iraq, drawing sharp rebuke from the mayor of the Yazidi-majority Iraqi town of Sinjar.
The U.S. military is alarmed that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq is using commercially available drones to drop small bombs with “pinpoint accuracy” in and around Mosul, the jihadist group’s last major stronghold in the country.
Relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would amount to a “declaration of war against Islam” that would require the formation of an armed group to liberate the holy city, said prominent Shiite Iraqi cleric and powerful militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
U.S. President Donald Trump, during a phone conversation in December, allegedly told his Afghan counterpart that he would mull over expanding the American military footprint in war-torn Afghanistan.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Wednesday that an an alleged draft executive order titled “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants” and obtained by various mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WaPo), “is not a White House document.”
