BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government on Tuesday reached a deal with the Kurdish local authorities in the country’s north to exchange oil from the autonomous region for a nearly 20 percent share of the national budget, officials said. The
Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based studio was targeted in a foiled terrorist truck-bomb plot in 2009 devised by an illegal alien, an individual who was waving an Islamic State flag from his car when he was arrested, and two of the FBI’s
A former RAF serviceman who converted to Islam has been arrested on charges relating to terrorism, Greater Manchester Police have confirmed. Stephen Gray, 31, was arrested in the Old Trafford area of the city on suspicion of ‘commission, preparation or
Canadian CF-18 Hornets escorted an Australian C-130J transport plane into hostile territory in Iraq, delivering 32 tons of humanitarian aid to stranded Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, Canada military officials said Thursday. The aid drops took place between November 20-23, when
Fifty years ago, in 1964, a Korean War veteran, electrical magazine editor, and self-taught expert on Communism named John Stormer published None Dare Call it Treason. It eventually sold 7 million copies. The premise of the book was fairly simple:
Although there is a coalition of 11 countries joined together to carry out airstrikes against ISIS, the US is carrying out those strikes by itself “85 percent” of the time. Details from a Pentagon report indicate the US has carried
On Friday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer explained why President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to use the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been to the detriment of the U.S. military efforts
The Islamic State terror group (IS/ISIS/ISIL) has taken to attacking the tribal structures in both Iraq and Syria, hoping to stave off any attempts to challenge its authority in the regions controlled by the jihadist outfit. The successfully-implemented tactics have
On November 28, Austrian police arrested 13 jihadist recruiters and seized “terrorist propaganda” during numerous raids on “homes, prayer rooms, and mosques” in Vienna, Graz, and Linz. According to The Local, “a Vienna-based Serbian preacher” was the main suspect and was arrested
Even U.S. service members who find themselves in the middle of a combat zone were able to enjoy a turkey dinner this Thanksgiving, courtesy of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). The U.S. Army News Service reports that DLA is bringing
Let us now praise famous men. This line from Ecclesiasticus 44:1 today finds human form in one Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Last week the former prime minister was presented with something called the Global Legacy Award by the Save the
The shots fired by members of SEAL Team Six which killed Osama Bin Laden were the combination of tactics and technology pioneered seventy years ago by men like Frank Monteleone, who is now one of the last of the first
Islamic State militants executed two former female parliamentary candidates in Mosul after they were sentenced to death in a Sharia court established by the brutal jihadist gang, Kurdish media service Rudaw reports. “ISIS gunmen executed two former female candidates in
RAQQA, Syria, Nov. 26 (UPI) — Syrian airstrikes in the city of Raqqa killed at least 95 members of the Islamic State Tuesday the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. At least 120 were injured in the attack targeting
A preacher identified as Ali Abu Ahmad delivered an impromptu sermon in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem that contained a hate-filled language towards Americans and Jews, but insisted on a caliphate similar to the one the Islamic State is attempting
In the towns where the Kurdish Peshmerga military, the Iraqi military, and ad-hoc Shiite militias have succeeded in eliminating the Sunni terrorist group the Islamic State, that power vacuum has led to contests between Kurds and Arabs over who is
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is almost finished with his new film about Scientology for HBO, but the premium cable channel isn’t taking any chances. According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO has already hired about 160 lawyers to defend the film
Some of the weapons recently supplied to the Iraqi forces by U.S. taxpayers have already ended up in the hands of Islamic State jihadist, reports The New York Times. That is a testament of the entrenched corruption in Iraq’s
A report from leading think-tank the Royal United Services Institute has again called into question the effectiveness Britain’s armed forces reforms, calling the lack of planning within government “unacceptable”. The report criticises Britain’s military elite for failing to properly capitalise
Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens’s new book, America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, presents the dangers of an isolationist foreign policy and prescribes a solution for bringing America back to the forefront of
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s terrorism watchdog has criticized the government’s proposed new security laws, describing some of the measures as an “announcement waiting for a policy”. A bill introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May on Wednesday is designed to crack
Almost 200 staff at the global charity Save the Children have signed a letter condemning its decision to give former British prime minister Tony Blair an award for his work on debt relief. The signatures were collected after the US
The Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) terror group has released a new video called “The Blood of Jihad Part 2,” which showcases the training of child soldiers at an undisclosed location in Iraq. The video shows dozens of pre-adolescent boys being given training
17-year-old Londoner Silhan Ozcelik boarded a train to Europe with a male friend in October, never to see her family again. Now, authorities suspect that Ozcelik, who is Kurdish, is on her way to Syria to fight against the terrorists
Saddam Hussein’s granddaughter Banin enraged Iraqis with photos of her expensive wedding preparations on social media. She is set to marry Badr Raad Mahmoud Nasser in Jordan’s capital Amman on Friday. Her mother, Raghad, Hussein’s eldest daughter, posted pictures of
