Tag: Al Qaeda

It’s an old American saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!” President Obama’s National Security Adviser went on another Sunday show last weekend. She proceeded to tell the nation and the world that the

This morning in an interview on WMAL Radio, a former Special Forces commander called for justice and an apology from recently released Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl ​to​ the families of those soldiers that died trying to find and rescue the then

DUBAI (Reuters) – A video of French hostage Serge Lazarevic, appealing to France’s President Francois Hollande to negotiate his release after two years in captivity in the Sahara, was aired by Dubai-based Akhbar Al Aan TV on Tuesday. In the

After deserting his forward operating base in Afghanistan in 2009, Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal left behind a note saying that he wanted to renounce his American citizenship, according to Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin. Griffin said Tuesday on the Fox News Channel

If we use the terrorists’ methods, the old canard goes, we become just as bad as they are–or worse. Well, the Taliban and Al Qaeda live in a lawless society dominated by strongmen–and now, increasingly, so do we. Empathy aside,

Breitbart News had the exclusive opportunity to sit down with Lt. Col. Rudy Atallah, former head of African counterterrorism for the Pentagon to discuss Boko Haram and Islamist movements in Africa. Rudolph Atallah is the former Africa Counterterrorism Director for the

(AFP) Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday vowed total war against terrorism as the country’s security forces stepped up efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists 45 days ago. Nigeria returned to democracy on May 29,

On Tuesday, The New York Times ran as its feature op-ed a story titled “The New Danger in Benghazi.“ Author Ethan Chorin wrote of a Libyan general by the name of Khalifa Haftar who is mounting an offensive against radical

On Sunday, President Barack Obama traveled to Afghanistan to do a photo op with the troops amid fallout from the burgeoning Veterans Administration scandal. Announcing his visit, the White House promptly released a list of guests, including the name of

Despite a promise during peace talks that they would not engage in any terrorist activity during the course of the nation’s presidential election, reports have surfaced of at least three different incidents of attempted terror attacks by the Revolutionary Armed

Father Paolo Dall’Oglio was abducted by an “Al Qaeda-linked militant” in Syria in July 2013, and was believed to still be alive.  However, according to Mid East Faces, “ISIS defector” Abu Mohammad Assuri indicates Father Paolo was shot 14 times

The Hague’s International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) recently released a report that shatters leftist talking points on the political situation in North Africa.  The report, titled “Security in the Sinai: Present and Future,” details not only the Sinai peninsula’s decent

Mr. Abdul Fattah Sisi has run a quiet election campaign. The former Egyptian general and Minister of Defense rose to prominence after siding with ​the protest by ​33 million ​​Egyptian​s​​​​ that toppled the M​​uslim Brotherhood​ rule of Muhammad Morsi. ​Sisi​

On Friday, Egyptian security forces took out the leader of Muslim Brotherhood affiliated terrorist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in the Sinai Peninsula. An Egyptian army spokesman said the operation was a success, as forces neutralized six “extremely dangerous criminal elements.”

Former Pentagon Spokesman J.D. Gordon has seen the facilities at Guantánamo Bay and can attest personally to the fact that the al Qaeda operatives being detained at the naval base received better and faster care than veterans in the United

The past year has seen an ongoing debate among U.S. policy makers over what exactly happened in Egypt last summer. The Obama administration and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton very visibly supported the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohammed Morsi.

An al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group fighting in the Syrian Civil War has reportedly reached Israel’s Golan Heights border with Syria. According to Reuters, the Syrian al Qaeda-linked al Nusra Front rebels have staked their claim to the land. One of the

As the Colombian presidential election scheduled Sunday inches nearer, the candidates continue to flesh out their opinions on fighting the FARC, a terror group that nearly turned the nation into a failed state in the 1990s. Óscar Iván Zuluaga, the

While the Obama administration was publicly declaring Al Qaeda was on the run during the 2012 election cycle, behind the scenes they were pushing to “scale back the fight” against Al Qaeda. One problem–the intelligence community would not play along. 

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that there are more than 100 Americans fighting on behalf of Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria. Not only that, the jihadist Americans were apparently making their way back to the United States uninhibited. A