Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala told reporters this week that the government has prevented more than 36,000 people from crossing into Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Barack Obama’s end-of-the-year press conference in which the president continued to say progress was being made in the fight against ISIS. Brooks said that claim was in
ZURICH – The Swiss attorney general has opened criminal proceedings against a director of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland on suspicion of violating a ban on groups including al Qaeda, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday. The council
Philip Haney, the former employee–now whistleblower of the Department of Homeland Security–writes about his experience at the federal anti-terror department, which he claims has been hampered by political correctness from the Obama Administration.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer stated that President Obama’s reported quotation that he didn’t watch enough cable news to understand the anxiety people had about terrorism was him stating people “are not as cool, intelligent, and far-seeing as I am” on Friday’s
The New York Times published and then removed an explanation for President Obama’s inability to grasp the national mood in the wake of the San Bernardino terror attack, even though it had been judged the highlight of the piece by CNN’s media reporter.
A Muslim pizzeria owner in upstate New York admitted to law enforcement he attempted to recruit fighters for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
MSNBC host Chris Matthews argued that President Obama has “16 days of golf coming” when it doesn’t seem to be” that ” he’s got something going against terrorism” and “We really don’t understand our strategy” and the president has “moved
A group of seven men sang a war-chant favoured by the Islamic State and tried to recruit fellow passengers while riding on the Berlin U-Bahn railway. Berlin police are investigating after a large group of suspected radical Islamists rode the underground
Two Palestinian origin men radicalised by Islamic State propaganda were arrested after they plotted to attack the Israeli embassy in Berlin. Arrested in July, the prosecution against 21 year old ‘Mohamed El-N.’ and ‘Ali El-I.’ — the German state does not provide
On December 17 the Los Angeles Times provided details of a 2012 terror plot based on court documents. The plot was not carried out, but the details of it show that an armed citizenry could have thwarted it in its tracks.
Friday at his 2015 year-end news conference, President Barack Obama said when we monitor terrorists on social media it “raises questions about our values.” Obama said, “The issue of reviewing social media for those who are obtaining visas I think
Yazidi activists released a video that shows the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) tearing apart families and abducting the girls and women to be their sex slaves.
Because of the recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris, in addition to school shootings and threatened bombings that have taken place in recent years, school districts examining how best to deal with threats have found a common thread:
The affidavit filed against Enrique Marquez – who was arrested this week in connection to the December 2 jihadist attack in San Bernardino, California – reveals a man who had long been indoctrinated by radical jihadi sentiments.
The largest piece of terra nullius in the world is one step closer to having an internationally-recognized government again. The two governments of Libya have signed a UN-brokered agreement to begin building a state in Tripoli, though members of both factions have loudly protested any such deal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted to pass a Senate-approved bill that imposes tough new sanctions on financial institutions that knowingly do business with Shiite Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah, clearing the way for President Obama to sign the bill into law.
With the country still nervous in the wake of November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, French churches are ramping up Christmas security to stop symbolic attacks by jihadi terrorists. The French Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, issued a three-page note warning police
The Obama administration, continuing its goal of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, is readying the “transfer” of 17 “lower-level detainees” from the country, officials told The New York Times.
The Chinese government is launching an international campaign to keep Islamic State and other terrorist propaganda off the internet following a new push by the jihadi group to recruit Chinese nationals to fight in Syria and Iraq.
Authorities in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg have closed down a Muslim association and mosque which is believed to have raised funds and recruited for Islamic State terrorists. According to Baden-Württemberg’s Interior Minister Reinhold Gall, the Muslim association in question — the
For the first time in months Islamic State militants mounted a major attack in northern Iraq late Wednesday, but its forces were soundly repelled by Kurdish Peshmerga forces aided by U.S. and coalition air strikes.
President Obama’s address to the nation after the massacre in San Bernardino California was not particularly revelatory or comforting. Now more than ever, Americans want to hear that we are safe and protected. It remains unclear if anything has or will be done to make us feel safe again.
Much discussion of encrypted online communications after the Paris terror attack has transpired, though no evidence existed that the ISIS operatives, who killed 130 people, employed such techniques–until now.
On Thursday, federal authorities confirmed that criminal charges are being prepared against Enrique Marquez, the friend and neighbor of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
