Writing at the Weekly Standard, Frederick Kagan and Kimberly Kagan assert that, during President Obama’s announcement of his plan to bring a counter-terrorism strategy to an insurgency fight, he said two things that are not true. Observing that ISIL is
Today on the thirteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the media cycle is being driven by President Obama’s speech last night in which he informed the world of his plans for Iraq and Syria. How different would our response as
President Obama gave his official “war speech” last night, speaking about his planned military action to stop Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria, but he never actually used the world “war” to describe his strategy. In fact, the only
President Obama addressed the American people this week, assuring them that he now had a plan to defeat the terror group ISIS. Remember that just the other day, Obama said that he didn’t have a plan to counter ISIS. The
Female British jihadis are running brothels full of Yazidi women who have been kidnapped by ISIS militants in Iraq. The women, who are senior members of the al-Khanssaa religious police force, have been tasked with looking after the girls who
Looking back on Wednesday night’s presidential address to the nation, some analysts have wondered what, exactly, President Barack Obama intended to say. There was no real news in the speech, after all. The main point was to convey a four-part
Wednesday night on the eve of the 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001 terror attacks, President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the actions his administration is taking to combat the threat of The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Wednesday on CNN following President Barack Obama’s prime time address, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former Obama administration press secretary Jay Carney got into a heated exchange over Obama’s responsibility in allowing ISIS to grow in Iraq and Syria over
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File” following President Barack Obama’s prime time address to the nation about his policy to deal with ISIS in the Middle East, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume reacted to the speech. According to Hume,
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy praised President Obama for announcing his decision to take the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists seriously, but they questioned his resolve to fight a war on terrorism. Boehner praised Obama
Wednesday on CNN during reactions to President Barack Obama’s speech on American’s strategy to destroy ISIS, former White House press secretary Jay Carney did his best to obfuscating responsibility for the administration ignoring the growing threat of ISIS in Syria
By the time President Obama delivered his prime time speech this evening, he had already effectively softened the news of his decision to launch further military air strikes against Islamic State terrorists in both Iraq and Syria. Obama announced, however,
Wednesday night on the eve of the 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001 terror attacks, President Barack Obama said U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and potentially Syria with a “broad coalition” on the ground which he repeatedly insisted would not include American
In this hyperpartisan age, there is one point of agreement between Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy–that is, in addition to the newfound conviction that Congress need not exercise its constitutional authority over war: namely, that there shall be no
PARIS (AP) — France offered Wednesday to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq if needed, but insisted on a more careful tack for Syria. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called for international mobilization against militants from the
A Colorado teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The conspiracy started earlier this year when 19-year-old Shannon Conley
Tim Arango, Baghdad Bureau Chief of the New York Times, lit up President Obama’s Middle East policies in a recent “Ask Me Anything” Q & A session with users of the online forum Reddit. One user asked, “How do you
Israel on Wednesday voiced support for U.S.-led efforts to form an alliance to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq but expressed concerns of a rapprochement between Washington and Iran. On the eve of President Obama’s prime-time address on
Some 130 Canadian nationals have gone overseas to fight in Syria and Iraq on behalf of radical Islamist groups, according to a recent report by Public Safety Canada. The report added that, specifically, the conflict in Syria–with Sunni Islamist forces fighting against
Recently, seventy members of Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority escaped a brutal Islamic State (IS) prison after a month of captivity in Mosul, Iraq. Some of those prisoners, including young girls, chose to tell the media about the horrific treatment Yazidis
Yemeni police killed seven militants from the Shiite Houthi rebellion on September 9, when they open fired on hundredsof demonstrators trying to storm the government headquarters in Sana’a, capitalof Yemen. According to the organizers of the protest march, there were
Adam Frankel, former Senior Speechwriter for President Barack Obama, declared that the president “is not somebody who pays attention to the polls” on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “@This Hour.” “The president is somebody who does what’s right. The president is
The day President Barack Obama is scheduled to address the threat of ISIS in the Middle East, former Vice President Dick Cheney took Obama to task for what he described as limp responses to international problems and laid out a
Australian police Wednesday raided an Islamic centre and seized two men for alleged involvement in recruiting and sending jihadist fighters to Syria. The raids involving 180 police came a day after the country’s spy chief said he was “actively considering”
It is a commonplace that the chief victims of war are children, but sometimes this takes unusual forms. FidesNews Agency has reported that in Gaza where schools were set to reopen onAugust 24 the date has been moved to September
