A Danish al-Qaeda recruit turned CIA informant is taking full advantage of the mainstream media’s fascination with his “de-radicalization.” Native-born Danish bad boy Morten Storm set the Internet ablaze after he converted to Islam, got high-fived by al Qaeda, then
The father of one of the British militants suspected of being ‘Jihadi John’ has admitted in court that he plotted with Osama bin Laden to blow up American embassies in 1998. The Daily Mail reports that Adel Abdul Bary wept
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said al Qaeda will struggle to recruit members in the world’s second-most populous nation and he praised Indian Muslims for their commitment to fight for the country. Al Qaeda announced the formation of its
Six Egyptian police officers were killed by a roadside bomb near the border town of Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula Tuesday morning. According to ABC News, the Egyptian Interior Ministry and a security official said the attackers hid the bomb
In an appearance on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in both the Obama and Bush administrations, argued that in order to achieve objectives to destroy the threat of ISIS, including Vice President Joe
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says that ISIS may be targeting Times Square, as the terrorist group has made threats on an online message board. ISIS put out messages to recruit “individual wolves in America” to initiate attacks on the
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have come together to call upon the Muslim world, both Sunni and Shiite, to stop fighting each other and unite against the West, specifically the
Although President Obama opposed the Iraq War and the Congressional action legalizing it, he will be using the Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) “for supplementary legal justification” in his coming campaign against ISIS. TIME reports that news
President Barack Obama vowed to “degrade and destroy” ISIS with a “targeted, relentless counterterrorism campaign” during his weekly address. Transcript as follows: As Commander in Chief, my highest priority is the security of the American people. And I’ve made it
On September 10 President Obama gave a speech citing the mixed results against terror in Yemen and Somalia as models for how the U.S. will fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen
Dozens of young redheaded men and women are replacing the ritual bullying of the playground with the ritual strictures of radical Islam, perhaps – at least according to some experts – as a result of the bullying and persecution they
This article originally appeared in the New York Post: When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions. Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev‘s ideology was not their own, the
Following Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attack against the United States, Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera was introduced to the U.S. public as the channel that received the tape where Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the worst terrorist attack on
(Reuters) – A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia’s al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group’s leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as a fighting force
In a press conference in Wales, President Obama vowed to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, frequently speaking about American and international efforts to “degrade” the capability of terrorists. See all six ‘degrade’ mentions below: “Secretary Kerry will now travel to the
Thursday, at a panel discussion on U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the former Central Intelligence Agency Acting Director under President Barack Obama, Mike Morell, said both ISIS and al Qaeda are capable of carrying out a 9/11-style terrorist attack tomorrow. Morell said
This article originally appeared in BBC: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a videoed message the creation of an Indian branch of his militant group to “raise the flag of jihad” across South Asia. In the 55-minute video posted
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) reported that ISIS has “found this influx of people and resources in a way that we’ve just never seen before … [not even with] al Qaeda pre-9/11. They had that time and
“If we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities, to the point where it is a manageable problem…what we’ve got to do is make sure
Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” former CIA director Mike Morell warned not enough attention is focused on events in Libya because the ISIS takeover in Iraq is being replicated by al Qaeda groups in Libya. Morell said, “What’s happening in
In his commentary segment on Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Special Report,” Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume explained how in his view the Obama administration has been able to downplay the threat of terrorism and therefore avoid taking more
Fox News reports that the General Atomics defense contractor in San Diego is among the terror targets mentioned in a new English-language Al Qaeda magazine called Palestine–Betrayal of the Guilty Conscience Al-Malahem. The magazine, which is published by AQAP, the media wing
Wednesday on CNN, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk said, “ISIS is al Qaeda” because he said there are many groups that have morphed from each other now all “competing” for the “global jihad mantle.”
Transcript as follows: Aerial attacks launched from Egypt into Libya underscore, yet again, the abject failure of the Obama administration’s policy in the Middle East. Nations relatively aligned with us now face alone the predictably awful results of America’s involvement
Wars are never simple. With the incredible success of the terrorist group ISIS, now called the Islamic State, and the recent news that Egypt and UAE have engaged in air strikes against the jihadists in Libya, Breitbart News has decided
