In a move unusual for a group known to have a sophisticated propaganda outfit, the jihadist terror group the Islamic State “apologized” yesterday after a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff surfaced online. The admission that the
The first live captured suicide bomber known to be working with the Islamic State in Syria says the area is teeming with jihadists from all over the world– from everywhere in the Middle East, Asia, and the West. In an
In response to the growing threat to Iraq’s capital, President Obama approved sending 350 additional troops to protect the United States embassy in Baghdad this week. The additional troops were announced after the Islamic State terrorist group published a video
Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” former CIA director Mike Morell warned not enough attention is focused on events in Libya because the ISIS takeover in Iraq is being replicated by al Qaeda groups in Libya. Morell said, “What’s happening in
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A top Saudi security official said Tuesday that police had arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an al-Qaida cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident
BAGHDAD (AP) — An international rights group accused the extremist Islamic State group on Tuesday of systematic “ethnic cleansing” in northern Iraq targeting indigenous religious minorities, as well as conducting mass killings of men and abducting women. In a new
The UK government will consider “every possible option”, including air strikes, to retrieve the the British hostage threatened by ISIS before he is killed, says Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. The Cabinet Office’s emergency committee COBRA met this morning to discuss
ISIS fighters are capturing civilians and using them as slaves, transporting them enormous distances and separating them from their families forever, according to the testimony of a Yazidi girl in today’s Times. The 16-year-old girl, called Sama, says that she
A Danish mosque spokesman has announced that his place of worship fully supports the Islamic State terrorist group that is waging a war of genocidal aspirations in Iraq and Syria. “An Islamic State will always be what Muslims long for,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 1,000, officials said Tuesday.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued that democracy may not work in Iraq and that attempting to form American-style democracies in the Middle East tends to lead to “chaos” on Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” “A strongman, Hussein, ruled disparate people …
California State Senator Joel Anderson is sponsoring a bill calling for President Barack Obama to eliminate quotas and speed up the process for Iraqi Christian refugees to enter the United States. Fox 5 reported that Bill SJR17 directs the State
Kheidr Wissam, Yazidi father and his toddler son Abu were in Israel for Abu’s heart surgery as the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), slaughtered his neighbors and relatives in Sinjar, northern Iraq in August, Vocativ reported. : Perched on his son’s
Captured American journalist Steven Sotloff has reportedly been executed by a member of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. IS has released a video that purports to show the beheading of Sotloff. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at
ISIS has released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, saying that the murder is in retaliation for US air strikes against the group in Iraq. Sotloff is the second American journalist to be killed by the
(Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, the SITE monitoring service reported on Tuesday. Show full story at Reuters.
Labour would allow terrorists back to the UK, opposing plans announced yesterday by David Cameron to refuse to allow British nationals who engage in terrorism to come back to the country. The comments came from a spokesperson for Shadow Home
In response to Feinstein: Obama is a Too Cautious Man Without a Plan: Obama isn’t cautious about ISIS, he’s annoyed. He has stuff he wants to do to the United States, and he was really enjoying the luxurious perks of
British Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the prospect of Britain joining America in launching air strikes against ISIS, saying he could even go ahead with first consulting parliament. His comments come despite a poll saying that the majority of
A French court has upheld a ban on a Muslim Nuclear Engineer from accessing his place of work because he is alleged to have links with a Jihadist group, and a radical Imam who actively recruits young men to fight
A Saudi Arabian newspaper reports that NATO is ready to back Jordan against the Islamic State. According to The Jerusalem Post, the Saudi paper Okaz reports that Jordan has its intelligence services “deploying their full range of tools to counter
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has pledged weapons and ammunition to Iraqi forces battling the threat of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. He issued a statement saying: The United States government has requested that Australia help to transport stores of military
Plans to demolish the final resting place of the Islamic prophet Mohammed could further inflame the sectarian conflict developing between Shia and Sunni Muslims. The site in Medina is threatened because the al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque is desperately in need to
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for a few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers that it’s in Germany’s interests to arm the Kurdish fighters who are battling Islamic extremists in Iraq. The government decided Sunday to send 16,000 assault rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition,
This story originally appeared at BBC: The UN says it has received reports from Iraq that “reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale”. Deputy Human Rights Commissioner Flavia Pansieri said Islamic State (IS) was believed to have committed systematic and
Monday, Sky News reported on 23-year-old Horr Jaffer from Chechnya, the first captured ISIS foreign suicide bomber who was caught when his car bomb partially exploded killing four people in Iraq. Jaffer joined ISIS when his family was killed in
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Thirty seven people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed Humvee military vehicle into a construction site, used by the army and police, according to two police officers and a medical official. The blast killed
The United States, sometime in the first quarter of 2014, passed Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of petroleum liquids, with daily output exceeding eleven million barrels per day (bpd), according to the International Energy Agency. Growth from January
A whopping 95 percent of respondents to a BBC straw poll have said that they think multiculturalism in Britain is a failure. The poll was taken yesterday morning during the BBC’s Saturday Morning Live show, and asked “Is multiculturalism working?” Just 5 percent said
In sharp contrast to President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet to deal with the lightning progress and horrific brutality of the ISIS terrorist army, a new report published in the journal “Sentinel” by the Combatting Terrorism
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s domestic intelligence chief says he expects Islamic extremists who have traveled to Syria and Iraq will return and commit terror attacks. Hans-Georg Maassen told Deutschlandfunk radio on Sunday that there was an “increased abstract threat” of
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen on Sunday broke a six-week siege imposed by the Islamic State extremist group on the northern Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli, following U.S. airstrikes against the Sunni militants’ positions, officials said.
Breitbart News spoke Friday with Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the Islamic State’s rapid advances throughout the Middle East and how America and the Western world should concretely respond.
Britain is facing the “greatest and deepest” threat from terrorism in the country’s history, according to Prime Minister David Cameron. Speaking after the UK’s terror threat level was raised to “severe”, meaning that an attack is “highly likely”, Cameron said
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has finally commented on the situation in Iraq and Syria, saying that Britain “cannot ignore Isis or simply shrug our shoulders and hope it goes away.” Writing for the Independent, Mr Miliband called for a
WASHINGTON (AP) — The case of Mehdi Nemmouche haunts U.S. intelligence officials. Nemmouche is a Frenchman who authorities say spent 11 months fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria before returning to Europe to act out his rage. On
(AFP) — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is “rapid” action. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has prompted widespread concern
A leading Conservative MP has said that British Prime Minister David Cameron would win a vote in Parliament on bombing ISIS. The Daily Mail says that Sir Richard Ottaway, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said that a majority
