
Addressing intelligence officials on Friday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a stunning estimate of 900 investigations currently in progress against suspected ISIS operatives, recruits, and individuals “inspired” by the Islamic State, and the number of investigations is slowly growing.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:40 PM PST0

Speaking at a rally in South Africa, Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal promised there would be more stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians, describing the wave of terror attacks as the “Jerusalem intifada,” and comparing them to South Africa’s struggle against apartheid.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:29 PM PST0

A dispute has arisen in Syria over the disposition of a fifty-ton ammunition shipment from the United States, supposedly intended for Syrian Arab rebel groups. The munitions were instead taken by the Kurdish YPG militia, according to both Arab and Kurdish commanders, although the Pentagon officially insists the shipment reached its intended recipients.
by John Hayward23 Oct 2015, 9:16 PM PST0

A Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese parliamentarian has responded to the possibility of Qatar entering the Syrian Civil War, tweeting that “Doha will be shelled” if Qatar enters the conflict.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Oct 2015, 6:48 PM PST0

In an interview in CatholicVote.org, Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bawai Soro explained the Islamist threat confronting the West and why it’s important that his fellow Iraqi Christians retain their ancestral home in the cradle of Christianity.
by Breitbart News23 Oct 2015, 6:20 PM PST0

Women sold as slaves. Women beaten in the streets. Women raped for sport. Girls as young as 8 or 9 years old forced into marriages with strangers, and bound to sexual servitude.
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)23 Oct 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Nigeria’s police chief is warning civilians to avoid any abandoned iPads, iPhones, or other expensive technology, as there is evidence that Boko Haram terrorists are making bombs disguised as these items and leaving them in populated city centers.
by Frances Martel23 Oct 2015, 12:20 PM PST0

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, reacted “positively” to the idea of working with some rebel groups in the region against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), particularly the Kurds.
by Frances Martel23 Oct 2015, 7:25 AM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) allegedly destroyed Mosul University’s Faculty of Agriculture buildings. They captured the city in June 2014.
by Mary Chastain23 Oct 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

The United States reportedly gave Niger two military surveillance aircrafts as attacks by suspected Boko Haram jihadists continued along its southeast border with Nigeria.
by Edwin Mora23 Oct 2015, 7:05 AM PST0

A portion of the al-Shabaab Islamist group under the spiritual leadership of Sheikh Abdulqadir Mumin has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), occasioning a further fracture within the Somalia-based jihadist organization.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 Oct 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

A young Iraqi priest living in Jordan has helped more than 2,000 people escape from the clutches of the Islamic State in Iraq by personally sponsoring their entry into Jordan, securing them food and lodging and facilitating their international recognition as refugees.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 Oct 2015, 5:24 AM PST0

The latest CNN/ORC International poll on the war against ISIS paints a glum portrait of a disillusioned public with no confidence in President Obama’s leadership and no sense that any progress is being made against the terror state.
by John Hayward22 Oct 2015, 7:40 PM PST0

Aside from the outrageous fact that Netanyahu is drawing much more fire for this than Mahmoud Abbas ever does for his praise for the murderers of Jews and calls to kill more, there is one central problem with the denunciations: Netanyahu was right.
by Pamela Geller22 Oct 2015, 2:34 PM PST0

Turkish state-run media outlet Anadolu Agency is reporting that police have evidence the original target of the bombing of a Kurdish peace rally in Ankara on October 10 was the headquarters of the Kurd-friendly People’s Democratic Party (HDP).
by Frances Martel22 Oct 2015, 1:42 PM PST0

The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an American soldier was killed during a mission to rescue Kurdish hostages from ISIS near the Iraqi town of Hawija.
by John Hayward22 Oct 2015, 11:40 AM PST0

Thursday while questioning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) repeatedly asked a stone-faced Clinton to refer to the email on “tab 31” of the materials provided.
by Pam Key22 Oct 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

Libya, four years after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, finds itself without a Western-backed government after opposing factions refused to endorse an interim unity government brokered by the United Nations.
by Edwin Mora22 Oct 2015, 8:12 AM PST0

The central anti-terrorism unit of Belgium’s police force has just one part-time worker monitoring internet radicalisation and the online activity of returning jihadis, according to police services watchdog, the Standing Police Monitoring Committee (Committee P). The fact the Belgian police unit charged with monitoring internet
by Sarkis Zeronian22 Oct 2015, 5:03 AM PST0

Israel National News reports on an interview with Amar Abu Sarhan, published in the Hamas newspaper al-Risala, in which the veteran terrorist advises Palestinians to escalate the carnage from the current wave of knife attacks by putting poison on their blades.
by John Hayward21 Oct 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, traveled to Erbil and met with Masoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, on Tuesday, to discuss the war against ISIS.
by John Hayward21 Oct 2015, 8:53 PM PST0

Former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova, who represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson, told Breitbart News that Rep. Trey Gowdy’s investigative committee has not reached out to him, his client, or the other Benghazi whistleblowers.
by Patrick Howley21 Oct 2015, 2:10 PM PST0

Infighting among high-ranking Afghan Taliban members over the appointment of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour as their new leader continues weeks after the terrorist group’s most important military success since they were dethroned by the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, Reuters has learned.
by Edwin Mora21 Oct 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said that he would revoke passports from those who travel to fight for ISIS, but expressed reservations about the constitutionality closing mosques, and that if such a step is taken “we better
by Ian Hanchett21 Oct 2015, 11:30 AM PST0

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump comments that he would shut down mosques in America to combat racial Islam would be a violation of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of religion.
by Pam Key21 Oct 2015, 10:43 AM PST0