Reports surfaced over the past week of Islamic State (ISIS) terror attacks on the much-abused Kurdish border city of Kobani in Syria, but it now appears ISIS only recaptured parts of the town for a few days. Kurdish forces have reportedly driven ISIS from Kobani for the second time this year. The victory came at horrible cost, as NPR reports ISIS may have killed about 300 civilians over the past 24 hours, many of them slaughtered in a brutal house-to-house massacre.
by John Hayward29 Jun 2015, 6:21 AM PST0
Former CIA Deputy Director and CBS Senior Security Contributor Michael Morell said the warning of terrorist attacks on the 4th of July is not a routine terror warning, “really resonates” with him, and he “wouldn’t be surprised” if there was an attack over
by Ian Hanchett29 Jun 2015, 4:50 AM PST0
This article originally appeared in The Independent: As the bloody events of Friday demonstrated, Isis has become a threat far beyond the borders of its so-called “Islamic State”. Yet one year on from its declaration of a caliphate, the international
by Breitbart News28 Jun 2015, 10:40 PM PST0
British man Matthew James, 30, is being hailed as a hero after shielding his fiancée Saera Wilson from gunfire when Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists opened fire on vacationers in Tunisia.
by Mary Chastain28 Jun 2015, 8:18 PM PST0
Sunday on New York’s AM 970’s “The Cats Roundtable” concerning possible terror attacks on the Forth of July weekend, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said, “We have to be extremely careful during this upcoming week.” King said, “With the Fourth of July
by Pam Key28 Jun 2015, 4:05 PM PST0
One of Britain’s leading counter-terrorism experts has issued a stark warning over an imminent UK terror attack, stating that an incident could even take place in the next 24 hours.
by Breitbart London28 Jun 2015, 1:48 PM PST0
French media is reporting that Yassin Salhi, the driver who decapitated his boss before before ramming a truck into the American-owned Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier near Lyon, has confessed to the murder. French authorities are still calling it a terrorist attack, however
by Sarkis Zeronian28 Jun 2015, 9:51 AM PST0
Friends and neighbours of the gunman who killed 38 tourists on a Tunisian beach in cold blood on Friday have described him as “good, good, good!” and speculated that he was driven to murder by poverty. 15 of the victims are
by Donna Rachel Edmunds28 Jun 2015, 6:11 AM PST0
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that France faces more terror attacks after Friday’s killing in which a suspected Islamist pinned the severed head of his 54-year-old boss on a gas factory’s gates. The latest killing came nearly six months after Islamist
by Sarkis Zeronian28 Jun 2015, 4:59 AM PST0
Yes, there’s an African invasion of Italy—it’s a mostly peaceful invasion, but still, as the Brits say, “invasion” is the right word for it—going on every day in the Mediterranean
by Virgil27 Jun 2015, 9:20 PM PST0
Author of “Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom,” Dr. Qanta Ahmed stated there is “no Churchillian resolve” against the “transnational, borderless assault on liberal secular democracy” by Islamists on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on
by Ian Hanchett27 Jun 2015, 11:26 AM PST0
Evil is on the march across the globe today, as a string of potentially ISIS-related atrocities is joined by a brutal attack on an African Union military base in Somalia by al-Shabaab, which has traditionally been an al-Qaeda affiliate, but has been courted by the Islamic State.
by John Hayward27 Jun 2015, 7:44 AM PST0
Video has surfaced of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis beheading 12 men they accused of being members of a rival anti-Assad group, which some believe belong to al-Qaeda or Jaish al-Islam, two Sunni terror groups that are considered enemies of ISIS.
by Jordan Schachtel27 Jun 2015, 6:40 AM PST0
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly attacked the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, an allegation that Ankara “strongly” denies.
by Edwin Mora26 Jun 2015, 8:29 PM PST0
Three Islamist attacks on separate continents Friday morning have been tentatively linked to ISIS: an attack against an American factory in France that included a beheading, a shooting spree in Tunisia, and a suicide-bomb attack on a mosque in Kuwait.
by John Hayward26 Jun 2015, 7:03 AM PST0
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) executed an Indonesian man infected with AIDS after he passed the disease to his Yazidi sex slave. The terrorists passed her around sexually before they learned of his disease.
by Mary Chastain26 Jun 2015, 6:49 AM PST0
On Friday, French President François Hollande reacted to news of attack on French factory near Grenoble with an immediate condemnation. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon
by Breitbart London26 Jun 2015, 6:13 AM PST0
Sky’s Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley discusses what we know so far about terror attack in France. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon
by Breitbart London26 Jun 2015, 6:04 AM PST0
Yemeni Houthi Shiite forces launched two separate attacks on Saudi border positions late Wednesday, killing three soldiers amid continuing escalation between both sides of the ongoing conflict in the war-torn country.
by Jordan Schachtel25 Jun 2015, 2:05 PM PST0
Members of Afghanistan’s intelligence service have accused a Pakistani intelligence officer in the country’s infamous Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) unit of helping the Taliban launch a sophisticated attack on the Afghan Parliament in Kabul on Monday.
by Jordan Schachtel25 Jun 2015, 11:46 AM PST0
A combined bomb and knife attack at a security checkpoint in western Xinjiang province has left at least 18 Chinese nationals dead, according to a Radio Free Asia report. The attack in the heavily Muslim-populated region, about which the Chinese government has offered sparse details, may be in retaliation for extreme religious restrictions during the holy month of Ramadan.
by Frances Martel25 Jun 2015, 11:10 AM PST0
Nigeria suffered the latest in a string of Boko Haram-affiliated suicide bombings on Tuesday, as a 12-year-old girl detonated herself in the middle of a market in northern Yobe state, killing ten and injuring dozens.
by Frances Martel25 Jun 2015, 10:01 AM PST0
This article originally appeared in New York Magazine: The nail salon in the picturesque village of Ras Baalbek looks like any other nail salon in Lebanon. Located in the northeast of the country, close to the Syrian border, the predominantly
by Breitbart News25 Jun 2015, 6:05 AM PST0
On Wednesday, the White House will release an executive order that will significantly alter the longstanding practice of not only refusing to negotiate with terrorists for the release of hostages, but threatening American citizens with prosecution if they attempt to do so.
by John Hayward24 Jun 2015, 9:19 PM PST0
Ever since the weird non-war against ISIS began, we have heard loud boasts from the Obama Administration about how many fabulously expensive airstrikes coalition forces were conducting. And yet, the Islamic State remains on the march in Iraq and Syria, and is confident enough to launch a new campaign for control of devastated post-Obama, post-Clinton Libya.
by John Hayward24 Jun 2015, 7:23 PM PST0
