Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum argued the US should send more troops into Iraq to fight ISIS, but that Syria isn’t “a viable front” for the US on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” Santorum said regarding the counter-ISIS
The Turkish government is looking to increase its military cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, particularly in the fight against ISIS.
The church of Saint George in Baghdad, which was closed down in 2007 after being firebombed by Islamic militants, was finally reopened Monday, but local clergy worry that there are no longer any Assyrian Christians left to worship there.
President Obama struggled to keep his “no boots on the ground” talking point alive on Monday, saying in an interview with NBC News that U.S. special forces about to be deployed in Syria do not count, because they are not supposed to fight front-line combat operations against ISIS, and smaller units of special operations troops have been working in Syria for some time.
Kentucky Senator Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul argued the president’s anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria is “unconstitutional” and said he “mostly” agrees with banning the box from federal job applications and “generally” agrees with the president’s prison release on
SINJAR MOUNTAIN, Iraq– While the U.S. is claiming to be on the move against ISIS, the reality on the ground is that ISIS has brought in more than 100 vehicles as reinforcements in the Sinjar area alone, with an increase in heavy shelling by Islamic State on Sinjar Mountain.
The Vicar of Baghdad has gone the extra mile to deal with Islamist terrorism in Iraq. He even invited ISIS terrorists to dinner, despite their putting a $157 million bounty on his head.
Across the world, 60 million people have been displaced from their homes, more than any time in recorded history, according to The New York Times.
The Islamic State released video of their beheading of four captured Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers at the site of the October 22 raid by American and Kurdish forces.
State Department Spokesperson John Kirby stated that “there’s a combat role here for US forces” who are launching airstrikes, ground forces will “absolutely” “be exposed potentially to combat operations,” and Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler “died in an act of combat”
Contents: Iran’s Rafsanjani admits to nuclear development since 1980s; Khamenei’s nuclear fatwa and the Iraq war; Rafsanjani and Khamenei publicly disagree on the nuclear deal
Reuters, citing two Obama Administration officials, reports that U.S. special operations in Iraq and Syria may occur in the near future.
Contents: Sunni jihadist suicide bomber targets Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia; Russia’s military intervention in Syria inflames jihadists in Saudi Arabia
While being questioned by Lindsey Graham about the means through which the Obama administration intended to secure the ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter conceded that such efforts were “principally political.”
The video below was released by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council. Its opening moments offer helmet-cam footage from the rescue of some 70 hostages from the ISIS prison near Hawija, Iraq.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, indicated that the death of Delta Force Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler in Iraq will probably not be the last American ground combat fatality in that country.
A Kurdish man from the beleaguered Syrian border town of Kobani set himself on fire upon learning that his daughter had left home to join the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, the all-female YPJ, in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Representative Steve Russell (R-OK), an Iraq War veteran who was part of the team that tracked down Saddam Hussein, argued Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “wrong” to say the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein in power on
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter insisted in a press conference on Friday that the anti-ISIS raid in which Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler was killed does not mean American troops have a “combat role” in Iraq.
In a meeting with Chaldean bishops from Iraq and Syria Monday, Pope Francis used some of his strongest language to date to condemn what he called the “fanatical hatred” of Islamic terrorists that has provoked a “hemorrhage” of Christian faithful out of the Middle East.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally apologised for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS). The frank confession comes after 12 years in which he steadfastly refused
In truth, a number of congressional investigations have lasted much longer than 17 months, including the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations from 1957-1960, and the truly immense investigations conducted after the Civil War and World War II. The Benghazi probe has a long time to go.
The “courageous” American soldier who was fatally wounded in a rescue mission in Iraq sacrificed his life to save 70 hostages whose “graves had already been dug” and were about to be “brutally” executed by the “barbaric” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters at the Pentagon.
Addressing intelligence officials on Friday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a stunning estimate of 900 investigations currently in progress against suspected ISIS operatives, recruits, and individuals “inspired” by the Islamic State, and the number of investigations is slowly growing.
In an interview in CatholicVote.org, Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bawai Soro explained the Islamist threat confronting the West and why it’s important that his fellow Iraqi Christians retain their ancestral home in the cradle of Christianity.
