BAGHDAD, Sept. 10 (UPI) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to meet with Iraq’s new leadership regarding the threat posed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIL. Kerry tweeted upon landing that Iraq
(Reuters) – Australian police on Wednesday arrested two men suspected of helping Australian citizens fight alongside militants in Syria on terrorism-related charges, officials said, after the intelligence chief warned of mounting threats. The two, aged 21 and 31, were arrested following a
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Last week, Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako issued an impassioned plea to theinternational community to speak out and take action on behalf of persecutedArab Christians and other minorities. This latest statement came a month after120,000 Iraqi Christians were forcibly displaced
A report from the Daily Mail suggests that the United States has hit more than four times as many Islamic State targets in Iraq as the Pentagon has been leading the public to believe, as what the military defines as “one
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer offered his recommendations for President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on Tuesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “I know how to write speeches for Democrats. What he ought to do is
A Washington Post-ABC poll released Tuesday finds that the majority of Americans support military action against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist terror group, while also largely disapproving of the job President Obama has done as head of the nation’s foreign
Israel has provided intelligence, including satellite imagery, in support of the U.S.-led aerial campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, according to a Reuters report. According to the diplomat cited in the Monday report, the information has often been shared by
The Islamic State is a radical jihadist group that developed out of al-Qaeda and eventually grew to stand on its own after splitting with al-Qaeda leadership and making significant gains in recruiting Muslims from the West to fight in Iraq
Because some in the West have decided to place blame upon Islamist ideology for the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, average Middle Eastern citizens have decided to approach a more edgy lifestyle and take up arms with Islamist
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals that Americans are strongly supportive of military air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) terrorists in Iraq. Seventy-one percent of respondents support President Obama’s decision to launch air strikes against the Sunni insurgents
PARIS (AP) — French Muslim leaders are calling on imams to use their pulpit to weigh against the Islamic State group and offer a message of support for Christians in the Middle East. Christians there are fleeing the militant organization
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon on Tuesday called for world intelligence agencies to work together against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group. “In order to stop and overcome the Islamic State, we have learnt since 9/11 that there must be
(Reuters) – A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives. Some had brought spades to
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week to meet with Mideast leaders about confronting threats from the Islamic State militant group. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki (SAH’-kee) said the meetings
The Obama administration is launching a three-phase campaign against ISIS that is expected to last 36 months or more. The New York Times reports the campaign will consist of airstrikes, followed by training of the Iraqi military, Kurdish fighters, “and
On September 6, Islamic State (IS) militants executed two female doctors and a female parliamentary candidate in Mosul, then took the bodies with them. IS also executed three males. These are but the latest executions in IS’s continuing practice of
LONDON, United Kingdom – London’s Luton Airport was evacuated Monday following the discovery of a “suspicious item” outside the terminal. According to a statement from the airport, “a suspicious item was found in the security search area,” prompting the airport
Christians in Muslim-majority countries may be the most vulnerable people on Earth, and Islamist attacks on these minorities are the great under-reported evil of our times. Such attacks recently entered the spotlight after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Five British ISIS fighters have been locked up in a Syria torture camp after pleading to be allowed to return home because they had become disillusioned with the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The Express reports that the men have been nicknamed
Arab League nations have signed off on a statement which calls upon the member states to “act to suppress the flow of foreign fighters, financing and other support to Islamist extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.” The organization’s foreign ministers
In the last few days, the British media has reported that some British jihadists in Syria have had second thoughts about their jihad and now want to ‘come home’. In response several experts have suggested that these jihadists should be
The jihadist militants who have seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria are intent upon creating “a house of blood”, the UN’s new human rights chief said Monday. Islamic State’s actions “reveal only what a Takfiri (extremist) state would look
Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press,” Andrea Mitchell criticized President Barack Obama’s attempt to avoid having to follow ISIS into Syria where they began and would no doubt retreat to if the United States is successful in degrading their capabilities
Arab states agreed Sunday to take the “necessary measures” and were prepared to cooperate internationally to confront Islamic State militants, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said. At the start of a foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo, Arabi had called for
