BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with Islamic State group on Wednesday shot down an Iraqi military attack helicopter, killing the two pilots on board in the second such incident in a week and raising concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack
BAGHDAD (AP) — After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has hardly dented the core of the Islamic State group’s territory. The extremist fighters have melted into urban areas when needed to elude the threat, and they have
Former President Jimmy Carter slammed President Barack Obama on Tuesday for his early inaction in combating the Islamic State (ISIS) terror network. “We waited too long,” Carter told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We let the Islamic State build up its
On his Wednesday broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough excoriated President Barack Obama for his tepid action in opposing ISIS in Iraq and Syria. According to Scarborough, Obama is only half-committal on doing what needs to be
The FBI has taken to the Internet to crowd source the identification of several English-speaking terrorists who have been seen in ISIS propaganda videos. On its webpage, the FBI has posted a form for people to use to submit potential
AUSTIN, Texas — The question of how best to address the threat from the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, (sometimes referred to as ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) was a
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that remarks made by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in multiple interviews were “utterly devastating” to President Obama on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “What he [Panetta] said, the content
HOUSTON, Texas — A citizen of Iraq was caught, attempting to illegally enter the U.S., by Border Patrol agents in the state of Washington. The Iraqi already had a pending order of removal from the U.S. government and had seemingly
The Danish Foreign Ministry has altered its publicised travel information for 28 Muslim countries thanks to their military involvement against ISIS in Iraq and the general atmosphere in those countries. Although Danes are not explicitly advised to avoid the countries,
The brother of the latest ISIS hostage to be murdered has called on the British government to send in ground forces to defeat his killers. Reg Henning said that he had been through a “living a nightmare” but had been
The US military has dominated the airstrike campaign against ISIS, having carried out nearly 90% of air strikes to date in Iraq and Syria, according to US defense officials. Arab and European coalition allies have carried out less than 200
Iowa Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley, now running for Senate against GOP state senator Joni Ernst, joined some of the most liberal members of the House Democratic caucus in 2010 on a letter urging President Obama to work to force Israel
(Reuters) – The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq, saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted. The group’s spokesman Shahid Shahidullah said
The BBC has published a report detailing the reasons why Western women are drawn to Iraq and Syria to join jihad. The report by Dr Katherine Brown of Kings College London cites examples of numerous women, saying that social media
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.S. military expands war in Iraq with Apache Helicopters Thousands of villagers in Kashmir flee India-Pakistan clashes Ebola expected to reach France and Britain within three weeks Liberia and Sierra Leone introduce School by
(AFP) Few people had ever heard of Iraq’s Yazidis until Vian Dakhil, who received the Anna Politkovskaya human rights award Monday, made a poignant appeal to save her hunted minority from jihadists. On August 2, the Islamic State group launched
Fifty police officers had to be deployed to break up an enormous brawl between Kurds and Muslims in North-West Germany last night, as angry migrants took to the streets to vent frustrations as the violence being visited upon the Yazidi
Fresh air strikes by the US-led coalition on Tuesday hit positions held by Islamic State jihadists in the southwest of the key Syrian border town of Kobane, according to an AFP journalist just across the border in Turkey. The strikes
President Barack Obama had “leverage” to maintain a residual U.S. military force in Iraq, but decided against it, a mistake that allowed jihadists to breed in the country, argues Leon Panetta in his new book. Panetta, who served as Obama’s
Leon Panetta, who served as Obama’s CIA director and Pentagon chief, said that the president should not rule out the option of deploying ground troops to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a conflict that may last “30
The first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper has been released by Warner Bros. American Sniper is an adaptation of the New York Times best seller American Sniper: The Autobiography of the most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History, which was
In response to Are You Ready For Hillary-Krieg? : I’d say good ol’ Leon Panetta is riding in the vanguard of that Hillary-krieg, doing the important work of setting up an implicit contrast between Madame Secretary and the semi-retired amateur
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group on Sunday publicly killed six Iraqi soldiers captured in an embattled western province where the extremists continue to advance despite an expanding U.S.-led campaign of airstrikes, residents said. The killings took
BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 (UPI) — An Apache helicopter was used in air assaults against the Islamic State over the weekend, the first such strikes utilizing the Army’s premier attack helicopter. In a statement on its website, CENTCOM reported a series
Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats would block any further plans to bomb ISIS, potentially shattering coalition unity on the subject. He warned that although his party supported attacks in Iraq against ISIS they would oppose any efforts to
