In an appearance to promote the recent launch of their organization “The Alliance for a Strong America,” former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter who is serving as the president of the organization, Liz Cheney, were interviewed by Fox
Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab attacked a coastal town in Kenya, killing 48 people through a series of shootings and fires. The group claimed responsibility and asserted that it would target World Cup viewings and highly populated places in Kenya, warning
On Monday at the State Department daily briefing, spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined to say that Islamic extremists are on the march, in light of al Qaeda affiliate ISIS invasion of Iraq as an attempt to establish a “caliphate. When asked
Policy decisions and politically driven censorship of the American national security establishment have helped strengthen Al Qaeda’s successor and hastened the collapse of the nation of Iraq. The current administration and the President represented Operation Iraqi Freedom as the “wrong
On June 13 former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the Iraq War and the decision to “topple” Saddam Hussein, adding that the violence in that country today is due in part to Barack Obama’s decision to pull U.S. troops
In response to news that the al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), had seized control of Mosul and surrounding territories in Northern Iraq, the Times journalist David Aaronovitch summarised the desperate situation as follows: Isis [now] loosely controls a big
Mohammad Fazl, one of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees whom President Obama traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, did not have a hand in planning the September 11, 2001 attacks but was key to Al Qaeda’s pre-9/11 planning and “served
Baghdad looks to be the first place where Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters meet serious resistance on their blitzkrieg through Iraq. However, this has not stopped the Al Qaeda splinter group’s forces from announcing their intended
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (ISIL) the group that has been described by some as “worse” and “more reckless” than Al Qaeda itself. Some see al-Baghdadi as a threat comparable
Obama’s weak and dangerous foreign policy is once again demonstrating to America’s enemies that the U.S. is willing to negotiate with terrorists, and comprise its national security, as well as the security of those countries who rely on the U.S.
Fox News Channel’s Catherine Herridge reported Mohammad Fazl, one of the five top Taliban commanders that were swapped for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, played a key role in al Qaeda’s planing of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On September
In October 2011, President Obama stated that the last American troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year. “Today,” he chortled, “I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by
The seizure of Iraq’s second largest city by a group too ruthless to make it in “core” al Qaeda represents the culmination of years of history and a U.S. foreign policy that has failed to properly conceive of and counter the Al
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani took to the airwaves Thursday. “Continue your march as the battle is not yet raging,” he reportedly said. Adnani warned Baghdad that it was within sights of the
Khair Mundos, one of the top officials of radical Islamist terror group Abu Sayyaf, has been arrested in a Manila slum Wednesday after escaping from prison in 2007. Among other duties, Mundos was responsible for keeping ties with al Qaeda.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) described the situation in Iraq as “an unmitigated disaster” in an interview on The Laura Ingraham Show on Thursday. Rogers relayed figures that say Iraq’s al Qaeda affiliate had gained $400 million
The UK is ruling out military involvement in Iraq’s efforts to retake Mosul from an Al Qaeda splinter group. According to BBC News, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said his country will “[consider] sending humanitarian aid” from their “very large”
There have been suggestions among some in the media that the Haqqani Network (who were the terrorists Bowe Bergdahl was with) is somehow a separate entity from the Taliban. Al Qaeda is not even being mentioned in this regard, which
The chaos that is unfolding in Iraq is being portrayed in the media as an unexpected development. It certainly is an unnecessary fate for a country that had, until recently, a chance of survival. Yet it is not only the
On June 11 Iraq announced it will join with Kurdish forces in an attempt to drive insurgents from Mosul. Mosul was “seized” by “an Al Qaeda splinter group” on June 10. According to Reuters, Iraq foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said:
The Al Qaeda-affiliate Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan now claim they were ultimately responsible for the assault in Pakistan on Karachi’s international airport. The militant Islamist group said they fought side by side with the Pakistani Taliban during the raid that
Retired Air Force Col. Jim Waurishuk told Fox News “Your World” host Neil Cavuto on Thursday that the five Guantanamo Bay detainees released in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl will re-join terrorist efforts against the United States and pose a threat
The controversial British MP George Galloway has claimed that he urged Syria’s tyrant president Bashar al Assad to go to the ballot box and stand for election in the war torn country. Galloway – who has previously praised Saddam Hussein’s
Note from Senior Management: Sir Max Hastings is one of the foremost journalists, war correspondents, and military historians of our time. A former Executive Editor of the Daily Telegraph, he is the author of over 25 books including Bomber Command;
