Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) currently gaining a safe heaven in Iraq where they are promising to form a caliphate is an “urgent counter-terrorism matter,” that
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) responded to last weeks op-ed by former Vice President Dick Cheney in The Wall Street Journal criticizing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy as the cause for the current chaos in
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” investigative journalist Bob Woodward said he should have been more diligent when reporting on President Barack Obama’s withdraw from Iraq because he said “the experts, the generals were saying — I mean they
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the U.S. intelligence community did not know he Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants would be able to invaded and take over
Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the “Middle East is in chaos” because we have armed radical Islamist in Syria. Paul called Iraq “a Jihadist wonderland” blaming it on “too little involvement.” Paul laid
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China sends four new oil rigs into South China Sea In a turnabout, Pakistan refugees flood into Afghanistan India’s PM Narendra Modi government in crisis over Iraq hostages In strategic victory, ISIS captures Syria-Iraq
Much has been made of Iraq’s ethnic Kurds’ role in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a group of Sunni jihadists aiming to overthrow Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. While the Kurds struggle to establish their own
The Danish government refused to say who kidnapped him or why he had been released, but Daniel Rye Ottosen is coming home. The 25-year-old photographer had been detained in Syria for 13 months, his captivity kept secret for security reasons.
Friday, the United Nations refugee agency released their latest annual report which found for the first time since World War II, more than 50 million people were displaced by conflict and war worldwide. The increase has mainly been caused by
ISIS’s Sunni Islamist militants have successfully overtaken what was once former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s chemical-weapons production site. US government officials believe that the site contains a decent quantity of old weapons. However, most are unsure if they can be
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com With Syria destabilizing, number of refugees back to WW II levels Ban Ki-moon says that Syria and Iraq are becoming unstable Both America and Europe face floods of mother and child refugees Financial advisors
BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint in eastern Lebanon, while troops raided two hotels in the capital, arresting 17 suspected members of an al-Qaida breakaway group allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in the
David French at National Review makes some of the same points I did the other day, about how the new “everyone who supported the Iraq war needs to shut up now” narrative assumes an idyllic alternate timeline where the lovable
The father of a British man who left to fight in Syria said on Saturday he “wants to cry” after his son appeared in an online video aimed at recruiting jihadists. Ahmed Muthana identified the man in the 13-minute video,
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the group that overran Mosul in Iraq last week and has been pushing south towards Baghdad, announced it is also preparing an offensive in northern Syria. In a statement dated June 17,
The Obama administration has announced that the Department of Defense is appointing U.S. Army Major General Kenneth Dahl to investigate the alleged desertion and recovery of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. Gen. Dahl will seek to determine the facts surrounding Sgt. Bergdahl’s
Australia is sending troops to Baghdad to protect Australian embassy personnel in the city. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Defense Minister David Johnston described the deployment as a “small Australian Defense Force… to support security arrangements.” The Australian troops
Michelle Obama’s #bringbackourgirls tweet has become the laughingstock of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the militant jihadist group terrorizing Iraq. Jihadists have allegedly doctored the original photo of the First Lady brandishing a hashtag and added “#bringbackourhumvee,”
Friday morning, people from around the world united on the Twitter social media platform to pledge allegiance to Sunni Islamic terror group ISIS. Using the hashtag #AllEyesOnISIS, the jihadis promoted their brand, and hoped to find new recruits worldwide. Unfortunately
The offensive by the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Iraq has featured not only the murderous brutality expected in a war to impose fundamentalist Sharia law, but a shockingly rich library of Internet memes,
While the use of air power is a tempting alternative to “boots on the ground” and appears to be the emerging strategy, ISIS is actively developing its own tactics and strategy to mitigate the effectiveness of air strikes against ISIS
The government of India is considered among the worst bureaucracies of Asia, notorious for government inaction and general sloth. New Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking aim at changing the government’s culture by keeping bureaucrats off the golf course and
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Friday, Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reiterated remarks he made earlier this week in a congressional hearing condemning the United States swap of five Taliban for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Warlord Suleiman becomes Iraqi Sunni anti-government spokesman President Obama orders more U.S. military involvement in Iraq Nato reports new Russian troop build-up on Ukraine’s border Warlord Suleiman becomes Iraqi Sunni anti-government spokesman Sheik Ali
