Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist from Yemen, has been transferred from the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the island nation of Cabo Verde off the coast of West Africa, where al-Qaeda is believed to have set up sleeper cells and is recruiting jihadists to train in Yemen.
Communist China denied Indian media claims that the Chinese military has conducted regular patrols inside war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Planes linked to the joint Syrian-Russian offensive have dropped leaflets over areas in rebel-held eastern Aleppo telling the estimated 250,000 residents there, “Everyone has given up on you,” and warning them that they “will be annihilated,” according to Human Rights Watch.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some U.S. lawmakers who served in the military prior to joining Congress welcome President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of retired Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis to be his secretary of defense, despite criticism that it breaks tradition of naming a civilian for the post.
The Somali college student who used a vehicle and a butcher knife to attack people at Ohio State University (OSU) this week was inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and deceased Yemeni-American al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, according to the FBI.
Force management levels set by President Barack Obama for the ongoing wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan have induced the Pentagon to increasingly depend on contractors, as the number of troops it can deploy is strictly capped.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have claimed this week that they kidnapped two Turkish soldiers in northern Syria.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, in bidding farewell to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during a ceremony in Havana attended by various world leaders, quoted the island nation’s independence leader José Martí, saying, “Mexico is a land of refuge.”
President Barack Obama’s parole-style board has approved the repatriation of an al-Qaeda-linked Saudi bomb-maker — held at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — who authorities believe may re-engage in terrorism against the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) only controls a “sliver of territory” in its Libyan stronghold, but the terrorist group may be “forming cells” elsewhere in the African country, warns the U.S. special envoy for Libya.
Somali college student Abdul Razak Ali Artan resided in Pakistan — known as a breeding ground for Islamic terrorist groups — for seven years before he was admitted into the U.S. and used a vehicle and a butcher knife to attack people at the Ohio State University (OSU) campus on Monday morning, wounding 11 people.
The repressive Cuban government urged its people to reaffirm their belief in a communist, single party system as they bid farewell to Fidel Castro by signing an oath of loyalty to the dictator’s ideology.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), the 9/11 mastermind, conceded that “the ferocity and swiftness” of former U.S. President George W. Bush’s response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the American homeland that killed nearly 3,000 people took al-Qaeda by surprise.
President Barack Obama has expanded the power of the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to track, plan, and potentially kill terrorists across the globe in places beyond the traditional war zones of Iraq, Syria, and Libya, The Washington Post (WaPo) has learned.
State-sponsor of terrorism Iran may be seeking to establish naval bases in Yemen or Syria, according to the chief of staff of the Shiite Islamic Republic’s military.
Irek Hamidullin, a former Russian army officer who defected to fight against U.S. troops in Afghanistan on behalf of jihadists linked to the Taliban, has reportedly argued before a U.S. federal court that the government should treat him as a “lawful combatant” and prisoner of war (POW) who is immune to the civilian court system in the United States.
Through his new book, a retired commander and the first Navy SEAL combat veteran to be elected to the U.S. Congress, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), shares his experience in leading and training some of America’s greatest warriors, while repeatedly reminding readers that “restrictive rules of engagement” are preventing American troops from fighting to win.
The annual Ms. Veteran America competition, aimed at showcasing the woman beyond the uniform, is helping some of the more than 204,000 women currently serving in the U.S. military find their identities, CBS News reports, citing some participants.
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), warned the U.S. military at least twice about a possible suicide assault by a Bagram airbase employee before an unprecedented attack inside the heavily-fortified facility left four Americans dead and 16 others wounded.
Pakistan’s air force chief Marshal Sohail Aman has warned India against escalating the dispute over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir into a full-scale war amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
The number 2 leader of Shiite Iran narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, echoing other jihadist groups, has denounced President-elect Donald Trump as “racist.”
The Thanksgiving holiday has reached the thousands of U.S. troops fighting terrorist groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan, ensuring Americans at home enjoy a peaceful day next to their loved ones.
State-sponsor of terrorism Iran has boasted that the Islamic Republic Navy’s 44th flotilla of warships has entered the Atlantic ocean for the first time via state-controlled media.
The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, in an interview with Breitbart News after meeting with various government officials in South America last weekend, warns that the nexus between radical Islamic terrorists and criminal groups in Latin America is “growing” and poses a major threat to the United States.
The U.S. federal government, in an alert to local law enforcement, warned that Thanksgiving parades and holiday shoppers may be targeted by “international terrorists or homegrown violent extremists,” a week after an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) magazine cited New York City’s famed Thanksgiving Day Parade as “an excellent target.”
Outgoing President Barack Obama appears to remain adamant in his quest to shut down the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a campaign promise he made prior to his first-term.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating a Kansas-based international food company that owns a 50 percent stake in Butterball, one of the largest turkey producers in the United States, for alleged ties to Shiite Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has learned.
The highest court in Egypt has quashed the life sentence imposed on the country’s former president, Mohamed Morsi, of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) is expanding its terrorist activities and getting stronger in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as it loses fighters and territory in the Middle East, reports Voice of America (VOA), citing Afghan officials and analysts.
The death toll among Iranian-recruited Shiite troops, including many Afghan citizens, fighting on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria has surpassed 1,000, according to an official from the Shiite Islamic Republic.
President-elect Donald Trump has recently discussed national security and diplomacy with retired Gen. John Kelly, the longest serving Marine general in U.S. history, with nearly half a century of military service under his belt.
Some women in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled Mosul have said they are “much more afraid” of the jihadist group’s all-female “morality police,” or Khansaa Brigade, than the battle-hardened male terrorists, reports NBC News.
The only Christian mayor in Turkey, a U.S. NATO ally, has been removed as part of a purge by the ruling Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following an abortive coup earlier this year.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a military combat veteran, met with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss foreign policy issues, including President Barack Obama’s war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria, which she considers illegal.
Not only has the U.S. government wasted $85 million to construct a major hotel and an apartment building in Afghanistan deemed abandoned and uninhabitable, American taxpayers are also footing the bill for security at the buildings, located near the U.S. Embassy, according to an Afghan reconstruction watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
Amnesty International has accused state sponsor of terrorism Shiite Iran of “broadcasting forced ‘confessions’ extracted through torture” to justify recent mass executions, particularly the hanging of up to 25 Sunni men accused of terrorism in early August.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), as it loses territory in the Middle East, is infiltrating Latin America, warns Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) in a letter sent to President Barack Obama this week.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said this week he is willing to join a “new world order” created by communist China and the rogue Russian regime.
Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications, following a third-quarter loss of $30.5 million on revenues of $735 million, is expected to lay off between 200 and 250 editorial and business-side employees — nearly six percent of its workforce.
The Russian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly launched a blitz in and around the city of Aleppo this week, bombing hospitals, a blood bank, and areas near schools in the rebel-held territory of the provincial capital and killing at least 87 people, including children.
