Nina Shea’s year-end review in World Affairs analyzes the rising Islamist threat to Christians in the Middle East as the Islamic State terrorist group conquers land and gains influence. In a brief, nationally televised announcement on August 7th regarding the
A video purporting to show the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig has been posted on the internet by Islamic State. The video shows a militant dressed in black standing before a severed head, which he claims belongs to
Jihadi John, the London-born ISIS terrorist who has brutally beheaded four American and British hostages over the last few months, is understood to have been injured by a coalition airstrike. The strike took place last week, and was the same
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would have voted against the Iraq War, but believes the US has to destroy ISIS to prevent them from threatening US interests on Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO. “I’m not for sending any troops
The Islamic State group is locked in a war of attrition in the Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes are mounting fierce resistance. Two months after IS launched a major offensive to try
Christians all throughout the Middle East have been fleeing the rise of radical Islamist guerrillas since the start of the Syrian Civil War, quickening their pace after the Islamic State emptied Mosul, Iraq, of its Christian population. Several thousand Syriac
British jihadists who travel to fight for Islamic State and other terror groups will be banned from returning to the UK for at least two years, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. The Prime Minister announced the new policy as
Palestinians are most likely to support the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group, according to a recent poll that surveyed Arab citizens of the Middle East. The polls were conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, which is
CAYKARA, Turkey (AP) — Their collars pulled up against the evening cold, a group of men and women peer through binoculars, scanning the fields along a barbed wire fence. A few kilometers (miles) away across the Turkish border, black smoke
CAIRO (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar. A website affiliated with the group posted the order
British police forces are sharing platforms with Islamic extremists from discredited Islamist organisation MEND, formerly known as iENGAGE—and even co-hosting events with them—throughout November as part of Islamophobia Awareness Month, a Breitbart investigation has revealed. In November, Mark Burns-Williamson, police and crime
ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level
(AFP) The Egyptian military said one of its navy vessels came under “terrorist” attack in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, leaving five servicemen injured and eight others missing at sea. Four boats used by the assailants were destroyed and 32 of
Immortalizing a photo that became an icon of the Iraq war, the No Man Left Behind memorial sculpture was unveiled Wednesday at Camp Pendleton with the artist and one of the soldiers depicted present. Hope for the Warriors writes, regarding
Washington, D.C. — The highest-ranking U.S. military official suggested to a House panel on Thursday that the United States prematurely withdrew its military from Iraq at the end of 2011, leaving behind a country that was a “work in progress.”
The world’s richest terrorist group, the Islamic State, has begun making strides in Iraq’s Anbar province, now a new epicenter of fighting for the soul of that country. Rumors that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been wounded
In an effort to aid hundreds of thousands of Christians being martyred for their faith in Iraq and Syria, producer Mark Burnett and actress Roma Downey have launched a relief fund for the cause: Cradle of Christianity. The pair has
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says the plight of people fleeing Syria’s civil war has reached “a new level of hopelessness” as overstretched neighbors make it more difficult to escape and developed countries like the United States resettle
(Washington, D.C.) — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a House panel that the U.S. military is considering having American ground forces accompany their counterparts in Iraq on complex operations. “There are some places along the path
The Islamic State released a letter on Thursday, which it claims was written by its “Khalifah,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the letter, Baghdadi explained that his subordinates were carrying out their Muslim duty to wage jihad against the Kufr, or
CAIRO (AP) — Two car bombs and an explosion struck Wednesday in two eastern Libyan cities that are temporary homes to the nation’s elected parliament and government, inflicting an unspecified number of casualties, officials said. The attacks were a worrisome
(Reuters) – A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors on a crowded street in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting “Yankee go home” and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the U.S. embassy. Video
A key terror suspect has skipped bail and fled to join the Islamic State in Syria after British police failed to confiscate his passport, merely asking him to hand it over instead. Siddhartha Dhar, 31, was arrested with eight other
(Reuters) – About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin
Forbes Israel ranked the ten richest terrorist groups, listing them in order by estimated annual income. The following ranking and revenue data was provided by Forbes Israel: Islamic State (Iraq, Syria & Jordan), Annual Revenue: $2 Billion Hamas (Gaza Strip and
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 people, including civilians, since they began in mid-September, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
The report by Sharia Watch UK, which we reported on yesterday, highlighted a number of individuals who have spoken at, or been invited to speak at British universities. The group believes that universities have been turned into “hotbeds of Islamic
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed paths during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit while meeting with world leaders, taking group photos, planting trees, watching fireworks, and attending a formal dinner. At one point, Putin paused to clap Obama on
London, November 11 (QNA) – The UK carried out its first drone attack on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq over the weekend, the UK Ministry of Defense said. An RAF Reaper drone was involved in coalition missions near Baiji,
Of the thousands of veterans I’ve met over the years, I cannot recall any who have sought recognition for their service. More often than not, they instead tell me they were “just doing their job.” Yet their profession, the defense
Kurds battling the Islamic State jihadist group in Kobane reportedly made advances Tuesday in the south of the flashpoint Syrian town on the border with Turkey. Top Kurdish officials told AFP their fighters were advancing “street by street”, voicing confidence
Jordan’s minister of Islamic Affairs told a recent mandatory gathering of several hundred of his country’s Muslim clerics that they must preach “moderate” Islam or face expulsion from the country. Minister Hayel Dawood told his audience, “You clerics are our
British Muslim jihadis are preferred by Islamic State to undertake suicide bomb attacks because they get more publicity, claims the cousin of the most recent attacker. Faheed Hussain, the former Mayor of Derby, was speaking after reports into the death
President Obama on Sunday said the deployment of 1,500 additional American soldiers to Iraq signals a “new phase” in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State jihadists, one that will help Iraqi forces go on the offensive. On Nov. 7, Pentagon
In a rhapsodic radio performance on Monday that was at times operatic in its tone, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin delivered an on-air reading of the new Holocaust memoir by Martin Greenfield, Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that comments by the president about focusing more on the US and cuts to the defense budget “send[s] the signal that the US is pulling back,” which he believes is “a concern” in an
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in western Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such an attack or
The United States is reportedly interested in closer relations with Iran, attempting to resume diplomatic activity with Tehran for the first time since an Islamic revolution created an Islamic Republic in Iran, according to sources within the country. The Obama
A British man is behind a suicide bombing that killed eight people, including a top-ranking police officer, in the Iraqi town of Beiji, a counter-extremism analyst has said. Kabir Ahmed, 32, who is originally from Derby, drove a truck full
The self-declared leader of the Islamic State, believed to have been travelling in an armoured convoy destroyed by an American air-strike on Friday, may have been critically injured in the attack, although it is now thought early hopes of him