Ever since the holiday season, the White House has made a variety of vague assurances that ISIS recruitment is ramping down, the flow of fighters into the Islamic State has been choked off, and the weakened terror state is on the run. This is certainly a development to be hoped for, but it does not seem to have happened yet. A burst of news reports over the last few days state that, on the contrary, ISIS recruiting is still going distressingly well, both in the Middle East and West. The Pentagon has also conceded that ISIS is expanding into Afghanistan, with some success at convincing Taliban groups to swear fealty to them.
by John Hayward12 Feb 2015, 8:24 AM PST0
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told the U.S. House Committee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on Tuesday that the U.S. needed a more aggressive course of action against the Iranian regime.
by Adelle Nazarian12 Feb 2015, 6:50 AM PST0
Journalists in post-Gaddafi Libya are being threatened and even murdered “with impunity” for doing their job, according to a report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
by Edwin Mora11 Feb 2015, 9:59 PM PST0
**Update added (see below)** In a report that aired on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly revealed U.S. Marines stationed to guard the U.S. Embassy in Yemen were instructed by the State Department to surrender their weapons
by Jeff Poor11 Feb 2015, 7:29 PM PST0
The Southeast Asian Jihadist terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah reportedly planned to kill Pope Francis during his recent trip to the Philippines by detonating a bomb along the route of the papal motorcade, but the attempt was prevented by adjustments to the Pope’s program.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Feb 2015, 8:39 AM PST0
Many expect a smoking gun to be found in the 28 still-classified pages of the official 9/11 Commission Report, evidence linking Saudi Arabia to Al Qaeda. The truth about the Kingdom’s links to the Global Jihadi Movement is historic and already established.
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka7 Feb 2015, 9:17 AM PST0
Al-Qaeda is condemning ISIS’s “deviance” following the burning of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh.
by Frances Martel6 Feb 2015, 10:24 AM PST0
Based upon a search after seeing a Brian Williams quote via Twitter, a September 2007 Media Research item, Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower, indicates NBC’s Brian Williams used a story now shown to be false as part of his coverage undermining then-U.S. General David Petraeus.
by Dan Riehl5 Feb 2015, 11:32 AM PST0
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) executed six people after they condemned the terrorist group for burning Jordanian pilot Mu’ath Kasasbeh alive. Muslims from around the world condemned the burning because “such a form of killing was considered despicable by Islam, no matter the context.”
by Mary Chastain5 Feb 2015, 10:07 AM PST0
Zacarias Moussaoui, the “20th hijacker” from the 9/11 terror plot, has been in U.S. custody for the past 13 years under a sentence of life in prison. Last October, he gave testimony from the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, as part of a civil suit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia.
by John Hayward4 Feb 2015, 6:44 PM PST0
In George Orwell’s landmark novel 1984, Big Brother’s dictatorial state uses “newspeak” and its Ministry of Truth to turn falsehood into manufactured “truth” and reality into lies. The administration’s explanation of what drives the terrorists responsible for 9/11, the Fort Hood shooting, and the Boston bombing sounds everyday more and more like a product of The Ministry of Truth.
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka3 Feb 2015, 8:19 AM PST0
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Robert M. Gates, who served both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama as secretary of defense said since we have been fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for over a decade, to
by Pam Key1 Feb 2015, 8:05 PM PST0
Al Jazeera’s New York and Washington, D.C. journalists have reportedly received strict orders from Qatari management: please don’t use the words “terrorist,” “militant,” “Islamist,” “jihad” and “extremist” in your reporting.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jan 2015, 12:03 PM PST0
Sadiq Khan, the Labour MP famous for being closely associated with a convicted terrorist, has climbed eight points’ polls for the London Labour Mayoral nomination. He has climbed from 11 percent in December to 19 percent, putting him in second
by Andre Walker29 Jan 2015, 7:23 AM PST0
Yesterday, Jordan reportedly agreed to swap a female al-Qaeda terrorist for captive Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kasaesbeh, held hostage by ISIS since his fighter jet went down near the city of Raqqa in December.
by John Hayward29 Jan 2015, 6:09 AM PST0
ISIS-linked group takes credit for hotel bombing in Tripoli Libya; Libya’s oil production plummets because of conflict; S&P lowers Russia’s bonds to junk status
by John J. Xenakis28 Jan 2015, 6:31 AM PST0
Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, former vice chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Jack Keane, said President Barack Obama’s “policies have failed” which has allowed al-Qaeda to “grow fourfold in the last five years.” Keane said,
by Pam Key27 Jan 2015, 10:40 AM PST0
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) , Feinstein said she is one democrate who does not support a “rapid pull out of american troops.” from Afghanistan because it will cause the Taliban and al Qaeda to
by Pam Key25 Jan 2015, 9:33 AM PST0
The jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or IS) is gaining ground in Yemen, where al-Qaeda and Houthi rebels are already causing havoc.
by Edwin Mora23 Jan 2015, 7:15 AM PST0
The resignation of United States-backed Yemen President Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was deemed a strategic “win for Iran” and al-Qaeda, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) in an interview on CNN Thursday. The war-torn nation’s Prime Minister Khaled Bahah also resigned.
by Adelle Nazarian22 Jan 2015, 8:18 PM PST0
WASHINGTON — Obama’s State Department wants to keep the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital open for as long as possible, but the Pentagon is pushing for an evacuation before the situation worsens.
by Edwin Mora21 Jan 2015, 12:43 PM PST0
Two Yemeni nationals linked to al-Qaeda have been charged with conspiring to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan and providing material support and resources, including personnel, to the jihadist group.
by Edwin Mora21 Jan 2015, 6:43 AM PST0
After President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier noted Obama failing to mention al Qaeda was the first time since 2001 al Qaeda has not been used in a State of the Union speech. Baier
by Pam Key20 Jan 2015, 8:21 PM PST0
A former Al Qaeda operative and Guantanamo detainee has been freed from an American citizen and sent home to the gulf state of Qatar.
by Jordan Schachtel20 Jan 2015, 4:41 PM PST0
Yemeni rebels have begun shelling the nation’s presidential palace in the capital city of Sanaa, and some reports suggest they have stormed the building.
by John Hayward20 Jan 2015, 11:37 AM PST0
