A U.S. non-governmental organization called the Syrian Emergency Task Force told Foreign Policy their field office in the Idlib province was hit by a Russian airstrike on Saturday. Other civilian damage in the area has been reported, and the strike is being cited as evidence Russia is not focusing its attention on Islamic State targets, as it frequently claims.
Radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was convicted in 2011 of running a terror camp in the Aceh province of Indonesia. On Tuesday, he appealed his 15-year prison sentence without actually denying that he broke the law. Instead, he argued that his actions were justified because he was obeying Allah’s orders.
In Afrin, Syria, located 40 miles north of Aleppo, the leaders within the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) continue to recruit new women to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama, in his final State of the Union (SOTU) address delivered Tuesday, only mentioned Afghanistan, home to America’s longest war, once, without highlighting that a resilient Taliban has managed to gain control of more territory than
A tense kind of quiet has characterized the Israel-Egypt border for the past year. The desert area has seen the threat of the Islamic State group grow in that time, leading the IDF to realize that it could end up affecting Israel directly – specifically its southern towns. The IDF has taken this danger to heart, and has been preparing.
The Islamic State suicide bomber who attacked Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 9 German tourists and a Peruvian as well as injuring at least 15 other people, slipped past border security by posing as a Syrian refugee, according to Turkish officials.
President Obama had a few words to say about discrimination against Muslims in his State of the Union speech, but nothing about discrimination against Christians – which includes assault, murder, and imprisonment globally. The omission was as shameful as it was unsurprising.
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In an oblique reference to Pope Francis, President Obama blasted those who refer to “World War III” when speaking of the state of the terror in the world today, calling such claims “over the top.” Pope Francis was the first
The director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted that Iran has plans to turn Syria into a province of the Islamic Republic, Business Insider reported. During a discussion at the Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC on
The Islamic State’s systematic pillaging and demolition of cultural artifacts in the Middle East is the worst large-scale destruction of the region’s cultural heritage since the Second World War, according to recent reports. The terrorists, who have struggled to finance
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz stated that President Obama “has underestimated ISIS in the past” and “there’s not enough progress yet” in the fight against the group during ABC’s coverage of the State of the Union. Raddatz said
President Barack Obama took aim at Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz during Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, going after Cruz with the same talking point that Marco Rubio uses in the Republican primary.
President Obama declared that “Both al Qaeda, and now ISIL, pose a direct threat to our people” during Tuesday’s State of the Union. Obama stated, “Priority number one is protecting the American people and going after terrorist networks. Both al
In the text released of his final State of the Union address, President Obama cynically attacks Congress for his own inaction against ISIS. Although — whether it’s flooding the country with illegals or restricting gun ownership for law-abiding Americans —
The Islamic State has begun to burn alive jihadists who participated in failed efforts to keep Ramadi, Iraq in the hands of the terrorist group.
Kurdish forces are planning to use a key Syrian military base in northeast Syria to launch an attack on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS).
Tuesday at the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell warned ISIS could expand it’s hold sphere of influence to parts of Libya.
Turkish Airlines removed two Russian women from a flight to Bahrain at Atatürk Airport on January 10 due to “unruly behavior.”
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu announced the suspected bomber in İstanbul is a member of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
TEL AVIV – An explosion rocked a square in Sultanahmet, the historic district of central Istanbul on Tuesday, reportedly killing 10 people and wounding at least 15 others, including foreign nationals.
Al-Qaeda has threatened Saudi Arabia and the United States, pledging retribution in response to Riyadh’s mass execution of several militants earlier this month, including members of the terrorist group.
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia’s annexation of Crimea but also pushed for more cooperation against terrorism in an interview with German publication Bild.
Islamic State jihadists have released a publication that teaches jihadis how to blend into Western society, acting “Christian” and avoiding mosques, while building terror cells.
In his most biting condemnation yet of the jihadists of the Islamic State, Pope Francis told members of the international diplomatic corps in the Vatican Monday that every true religion promotes peace, and by contrast, religious extremists who kill in God’s name—such as the Islamic Caliphate—are a perversion of real religion.
