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The views in this World View article are those of the author, John Xenakis, based on Generational Dynamics analyses of historic and current events, and do not necessarily represent the views of Algora Publishing.

The Airborne Ranger serving as the U.S. Senator from Arkansas blasted President Barack Obama on Monday for his stage management and failure to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the State of Israel for its settlements on land it seized after Arab nations attacked it in 1967.

The Turkish government is responding to a critical situation in Syria, announcing the death of 16 of its troops in al-Bab after the release of an Islamic State video showing jihadists burning two other soldiers alive.

Britain’s Prince of Wales has spoken out on national radio in an appeal for persecuted Christians and minorities across the world, but the Royal also moved to criticise “populist groups”.

There are still about 9,000 families from the Yazidi minority community displaced in and around Iraq’s Sinjar district without fuel, food, clothes, and electricity amid a ferocious winter, Rudaw has learned.

TEL AVIV – Islamic State sympathizers and militants are celebrating an incident on Monday in which a lorry ploughed through a crowd of shoppers in a busy Christmas market in Berlin, reportedly killing nine people and injuring more than fifty.

With all eyes on Syria and a global order decayed by invasions, interventions, and arming of rogue factions by the Kremlin, the Democratic Party appears poised to lay the blame for Russian aggression at the foot of President-elect Donald Trump.

The number of “battle-ready” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis in Iraq and Syria has plummeted to “its lowest point” ever, dropping by more than half from up to 25,000 earlier this year to between 12,000 and 15,000 now, according to the White House.

Britain’s most senior professional military officer has given a stark warning on the dangers of radical Islam, the migrant crisis, and cyber-security in a wide-ranging and major address in London. Appointed as Chief of the Defence Staff — the professional

The estimated 40,000 Christians in Aleppo are not among the civilians who are dreading the fall of the city to the Russia and Iran-backed regime of dictator Bashar al Assad, according to a charity group that helps persecuted Christians.

The Pentagon announced this weekend that President Barack Obama has approved the deployment of 200 additional U.S. troops to Syria amid reports that the embattled city of Aleppo had nearly fallen to Russia and Iran-backed forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

A Gaza-based jihadi said he was encouraged by the Islamic State’s recent victories in Iraq and Syria.

ExxonMobil executive Rex Tillerson is rumored to be President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, but who is the man who could be the United States’ representative around the world?

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lost 50,000 jihadis at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria over the last two years, Fox News has learned from an unnamed American military official.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a former Republican Florida congressman and combat commander in Iraq, who recently met with Donald Trump’s presidential transition team, joined fireballer Curt Schilling on Whatever It Takes Wednesday to talk about his visit to Trump Tower and what Pearl Harbor means now.

Perennial Islamic State hostage/spokesman John Cantlie has once again resurfaced in an ISIS propaganda video, this time touring the destruction in the ISIS-held areas of Mosul and interviewing local men sympathetic to the terrorist group, who appear increasingly frustrated with the lack of resources and difficultly getting around the city.

The House Homeland Security Committee released its “December Terror Threat Snapshot” report on Tuesday and found the threat of Islamist terrorism worse than at any time since 9/11.

President Obama delivered his last major speech on national security at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Tuesday, boasting that “no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack” in the U.S.

A top Gaza jihadi has denied media reports that the leader of the Islamic State organization, Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, may have been killed in battle in the Iraqi flashpoint city of Mosul.

The Middle East Media Research Institute has published a translation of an interview from late September in which Child and the Future Cultural Center director Hamid Sadeghi talked about Iran’s new City of Games for Revolutionary Children Park.

U.S.-led coalition officials involved in the operation to eradicate the Islamic State from Mosul say they have succeeded in curbing the number of vehicle-based suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi troops on the ground by “cratering” the city’s roads and knocking down its bridges.

Retired Marine General James N. Mattis, named on Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, is a larger-than-life figure with a fascinating career. Following are some choice details from his biography, and some lines of attack the Trump team might want to be on guard against.

Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, and he is one of the most quotable figures in modern public life.

Contents: Mediterranean migrant traffic to Italy and Greece continues, despite cold weather; Europeans wonder if Turkey will reopen the refugee floodgates

On Tuesday, Reuters published an interesting set of interviews with captured Islamic State militants in Kurdish custody. They talked about the appeal of the Islamic State and illuminated the difficulty of putting ISIS-dominated cities like Mosul back together again.

A fleeing seven-year-old child was among dozens of civilians allegedly executed by the Islamic State group in Mosul in recent weeks, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The Iraq Parliament voted on Saturday to integrate an Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia into the national army, sparking fears among the country’s sizable Sunni population.

The month-old operation to rid the Iraqi city of Mosul of the Islamic State terrorist group continues, with Iraqi officers confirming nearly 1,000 jihadi deaths since it began. The tedious street-by-street assault has left a sea of bodies in its wake, however, and civilians demanding the government do something to clear the streets of blood.

Contents: Iraq sending Shia militias to Mosul, directly violating promise to Turkey; The chaotic operation to liberate Mosul

The Islamic State organization has increased its “business as usual” propaganda effort despite the military campaign waged against it in Iraq and Syria

The Thanksgiving holiday has reached the thousands of U.S. troops fighting terrorist groups in the Middle East and Afghanistan, ensuring Americans at home enjoy a peaceful day next to their loved ones.

The Islamic State has published a picture of a Palestinian jihadi who blew himself up among Iraqi troops near the city of Mosul.

The Turkish government has issued a warrant for the arrest of Salih Muslim, one of the leaders of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The PYD’s military wings, the YPG and YPJ, are longtime American allies on the ground against the Islamic State in Syria.

A new study finds that the Islamic State has used chemical weapons 52 times in its “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, following reports that fighters seeking to liberate the city of Mosul fear increased use of such weapons the closer the jihadists get to defeat.

You’re probably heard the criticism of Ambassador John Bolton by the left that he would not be a good choice to be the next Secretary of State because Bolton was an architect of the Iraq War and a hawk who has little use for diplomacy.

Some women in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-controlled Mosul have said they are “much more afraid” of the jihadist group’s all-female “morality police,” or Khansaa Brigade, than the battle-hardened male terrorists, reports NBC News.