You think Ebola is scary now, just wait until Doctor Obama gets through with it. Declaring the deadly viral epidemic a national security threat, the president who invented Obamacare is dispatching our military to West Africa. Into the jungled Hot
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told The Associated Press on Saturday he is prepared to give whatever support is needed in the fight against the Islamic State group but called for a “comprehensive strategy” to tackle the roots
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks explained that the current U.S. strategy in Iraq to combat ISIS is on track to include more than just air strikes, but potentially special forces as well. “What’s
The watchdogs of social media criticized Katherine Heigl after she seemingly confused the setting of her new show “State of Affairs” with Afghanistan, rather than Iraq. The actress, who is playing a CIA analyst in the series, posted a photograph
President Barack Obama touted the size United States-led coalition against ISIS and America’s air campaign against the group while promising “I won’t commit our troops to fighting another ground war in Iraq, or in Syria” during his weekly address on
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s military campaign against Islamic State group extremists has already crept beyond the narrow parameters he first outlined three months ago. But military experts both inside and outside of the administration argue that even more
(Reuters) – Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkeyon Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. Security sources told
Belgian authorities have prevented several attacks by jihadist fighters returning home from Syria and by sympathisers with the Islamic State extremist group, a report said Saturday. The daily L’Echo cited unnamed sources as saying the planned attacks could have been
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say hundreds of Kurdish fighters are crossing into Syria from Turkey to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local Kurdish official Nawaf Khalil said
The self-proclaimed Islamic State has freed 49 Turkish hostages from the country’s besieged consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The freed men were greeted with crowds waving Turkish flags when they arrived back in the city of Ankara
A secret left-wing “Journolist”-esque group is not ready for Hillary Clinton in 2016. In fact, they think establishment Democrats like her who supported the Iraq War and are cozy with Wall Street should be “punished.” The Hill obtained and “reviewed hundreds
In response to Rand Paul: Obama Starting An Unconstitutional War ‘Not An Unusual Thing For Him’: I know it’s fashionable to hit Senator Paul from both Left and Right for the tortured evolution of his position on ISIS, and particularly
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation requested by President Barack Obama authorizing the military to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State militants in the Middle East is headed for his signature after a sweeping Senate vote. The bipartisan 78-22
MOSUL, Iraq, Sept. 18 (UPI) — The Islamic State on Thursday released a video of British journalist John Cantlie, who’s been a hostage for nearly two years, delivering a message on behalf of the terror group. In the video, Cantlie
PARIS (AP) — Joining U.S. forces acting in Iraqi skies, French fighter jets struck Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot, Iraqi and French officials said. A pair of Rafale fighter jets accompanied by support planes
KOBANE, Syria, Sept. 18 (UPI) — Islamic State forces captured 16 Kurdish villages in northern Syria, in the Kobani region near the border of Turkey, Thursday. There was no assessment of casualties, but a leader of the battle-tested Kurdish People’s
The Los Angeles Unified School District is giving up “three grenade launchers” it acquired for its police department, but it will keep the “60 M16” rifles and an armored vehicle. According to the Associated Press, the district received the grenade
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Islamic State plot to carry out random beheadings in Sydney alleged by police is a simple and barbaric scheme that has shaken Australians. But terrorism experts on Friday questioned whether the ruthless movement had the
The United States is taking the lead in an international coalition aimed at repelling and defeating the Islamist extremists marauding across parts of Iraq and Syria. Jihadists from the so-called “Islamic State,” still referred to by US officials by their
PARIS (AP) — France has agreed to carry out airstrikes requested by Iraq to bolster its fight against the Islamic State group’s fighters who’ve captured swathes of the country, President Francois Hollande said Thursday. Hollande stressed that France wouldn’t go
In uniting the world’s bitterest enemies in at least a verbal campaign against it, ISIS has done what few ever thought possible. Even though President Obama’s hopes to craft an international military coalition against ISIS looks to be stillborn, in
Sen. Rand Paul delivered these Senate remarks on the growing threat of the Islamic State in the Middle East If there is one theme that connects the dots in the Middle East, it is that chaos breeds terrorism. What
With the debut of a new host and a presidential appearance in the runup to Obama’s pre-emptive war in Iraq, it would have been impossible for Meet the Press to achieve anything other than first place two weeks ago, which
Even before Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey testified Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee that limited use of US ground forces could prove necessary in the US lead fight against ISIS terrorist forces in Iraq and Syria, some of
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DALLAS, Texas — For decades, Advanced Placement (AP) has been a respected name in high-quality high school accelerated learning. Texas students represent a respectable 10 percent of the program’s market; however, this year, the AP US History (APUSH) has undergone
