On Thursday, the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its Iraq border. Iraqi troops had reportedly abandoned the area, leaving the Saudi side of the border vulnerable to infiltration. Baghdad has denied the reports of the abandonment,
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is attempting to persuade Sunni Iraqis that may sympathize with the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to return to peace and trust his Shia government. On Wednesday, Maliki announced a general
Director Scott Derrickson, who delivered the truly frightening (and pro-Christian) “Exorcism of Emily Rose” in 2005, goes back to the well with “Deliver Us From Evil,” a blend of demonic possession and police procedural genres that reinvents neither but does
HOUSTON, Texas–3 million barrels of crude oil are now being produced in Texas each day, according to new federal data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). This means that the state has almost reached the production level of Iraq, the second-largest oil producer
DENVER (AP) — FBI agents tried more than once to discourage a 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who said she was intent on waging jihad in the Middle East before arresting her in April as she boarded a flight she hoped
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say rebel factions affiliated with a powerful tribe in an eastern stronghold of al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate have pledged allegiance to the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In an activist video posted online
The nearly 500 American troops sent to Baghdad to bolster security for the US embassy are equipped with Apache attack helicopters and small unarmed surveillance drones, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. President Barack Obama on Monday ordered 200 additional troops to
A sad postscript to yesterday’s post about the anti-Christian pogroms carried out by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and ISIS in Iraq, from Christian Today: The Chaldean Catholic Church’s Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, in Kurdish-governed northern Iraq, is reported as
The group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has taken issue with fellow Sunnis who do not pledge allegiance to their Islamic State (IS). According to reports, the IS has told other Sunni jihadist groups
A new IBD/TIPP poll finds that nearly 60 percent of Americans blame President Obama for the current wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants sweeping across our southern border, a wave that includes thousands of young children unaccompanied by
BAGHDAD (AP) — An extremist group’s declaration of an Islamic state in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria poses a threat to the entire region, Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday, warning that “no one in Iraq or any
BEVERLY HILLS — “It wasn’t supposed to be like this. It wasn’t supposed to end like this,” said Leehy Shaar, the aunt of Gilad Shaar, 16, one of three Jewish boys who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in
There has been a lot of handwringing in the UK media about what might happen if some of the “British” jihadists come home from Syria and Iraq with deadly new skills and an even greater appetite for killing infidels. It
The leader of extremist group ISIS has called on Muslims across the world to come to the territory his group has seized to help build an Islamic state. The Daily Mail reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of ISIS, declared
Iraq’s leadership was under increased pressure Wednesday to form a new government to deal with a Sunni militant onslaught that has threatened to tear the country apart, after parliament’s first session ended in disarray. Following a break called to calm
BREAKING: Sources tell me 3 people on terrorist watch list were detained crossing the border illegally into CA. More at 12p Fox 11 — Gigi Graciette (@GigiGraciette) July 1, 2014 Fox 11 News reporter Gigi Graciette tweeted earlier on Tuesday
Hacktivist group Anonymous is said to be planning a series of cyber attacks against countries it accuses of arming and abetting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant jihadist group. According to Forbes, the Anonymous campaign will be
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), sent a message to his fellow Sunni supporters to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Baghdadi wrote: Soon, by Allah’s permission, a day will come when
Tuesday at the Aspen Institute, former Gen. David H. Petraeus, who led the successful 2007 U.S. troop surge against the Iraq insurgency, discussed the growing threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Petraeus warned ISIS is eclipsing
Sunni Jihadists friendly to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) attacked a Shiite shrine in Samarra, Iraq, late Monday, killing six people, according to a television report from an Iraqi news channel. The report said that four mortars
The news over the weekend that the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) had declared as Caliph of the universal Muslim Ummah its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has shaken the Middle East (and the wider Muslim world). In classic
U.S. officials are calling the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) an “extremely high” threat to the United States, as the group has significantly more international ambition than similar terror cells. The news comes as Sunnis
Two Chaldean nuns from Daughters of Mary Order, Sister Miskintah and Sister Utoor Joseph, as well as Assyrians Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba, and Aram Sabah are feared to be missing, according to Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV. The two Sisters
British MPs and peers have lobbying for Britain to create business links with Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal. Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Conservative MP Ben Wallace and former Chancellor Lord (Norman) Lamont have criticised U.S. sanctions against
Despite sustaining a powerful hashtag diplomacy attack from the Obama Administration – in which everyone from State Department spokespersons to the First Lady took pictures of themselves holding up #BringBackOurGirls placards and looking sad – the Nigerian Islamist group known
