Since the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) began establishing its Caliphate across Syria and Iraq, they have taken to destroying historic shrines and temples to prevent the practice of “idolatry.” With the surviving priceless artifacts going to fund ISIS on the black market, a group of Syrian “Monuments Men” are racing against time to save the country’s precious history.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” in discussing Obama’s ISIS war powers request, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said ISIS has become a “dominant threat to peace in the world today,” and, “We’re either going to fight them there or fight
The Syrian Armed forces under Bashar al-Assad, who are being assisted by Iranian-proxy terror group Hezbollah, continue to move into a Syrian region south of Damascus that is within miles of Israel’s Golan Heights territory.
In contrast to others, I confirm Radical Islam exists. Political scientists, including Muslim political scientists, know it as Islamism. Only part of Islamism expresses violence – violence frequently identified as terrorism. Much of Islamism pursues non-violent ambitions devoted to a new but entirely 20th Century totalitarianism, which is now the preeminent threat of our age. Islamism is the new totalitarianism.
Ever since the holiday season, the White House has made a variety of vague assurances that ISIS recruitment is ramping down, the flow of fighters into the Islamic State has been choked off, and the weakened terror state is on the run. This is certainly a development to be hoped for, but it does not seem to have happened yet. A burst of news reports over the last few days state that, on the contrary, ISIS recruiting is still going distressingly well, both in the Middle East and West. The Pentagon has also conceded that ISIS is expanding into Afghanistan, with some success at convincing Taliban groups to swear fealty to them.
New information about the email members of ISIS sent to Kayla Mueller’s family about their daughter’s death supposedly contained three images of her body, sources say.
It was Vince Lombardi who famously intoned that “winning is not everything, it’s the only thing.” And he was just talking about football! Of course, more and more all the time we learn of the excesses that have accompanied that kind of zealotry in the world of sports, and even the great Lombardi is known to have been pretty cagey with the rules on occasion in pursuit of “the only thing,” but it’s not football that’s on my mind today, it’s war.
Wednesday President Barack Obama asked Congress for formal authority to use the U.S. military force to fight ISIS. Transcript as follows: Good afternoon. Today as part of an international coalition in 60 nations, including Arab countries, our men and women
The CyberCaliphate, an ISIS-affiliated hacker group, is sure to make a great deal of American blood boil with their latest stunt: they hijacked the Twitter account of a support group for called Military Spouses of Strength, which “aims to improve mental health awareness by providing resources and knowledge through tangible programming” in the words of their mission statement.
After a day spent in denial, the Obama administration finally seems ready to admit that an attack in Paris last month was anti-Semitic. But the denials were fun while they lasted.
Wednesday at the daily press briefing, White House press secretary John Earnest told CNN’s Jim Acosta the wording in the resolution asking Congress for the authorization for use of military force against ISIS is “intentionally” fuzzy. Earnest said, “We believe
For the tenth time since taking him hostage, the Islamic State (ISIS) has paraded British journalist John Cantlie as the “host” of one of its propaganda videos, this time giving a guided tour of the contested Syrian city of Aleppo, which ISIS seeks to portray as functional and productive under its control.
Some Yazidis are taking up arms against the Arab Muslims in Iraq whom they believe collaborated with Islamic State to rape, enslave, and slaughter other Yazidis.
The people of Sydney, Australia, dodged a bullet–or, more accurately, a machete and a hunting knife–on Tuesday, as the authorities moved against a pair of alleged Islamist terrorists on the very day they reportedly planned to carry out an assault on police officers, according to the UK Daily Mail.
Washington, D.C.– A group of internationally-recognized scholars, national security practitioners, and high-ranking government officials convened at the Defeat Jihad Summit to discuss “The Record to date in Defeating the Global Jihad Movement.”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave a half-hour interview to the BBC on Tuesday in which he discussed, among other things, just how much his government is cooperating with the United States and its anti-ISIS coalition.
Despite all we already know about the so-called Islamic State terrorist organization, the murder of American Kayle Mueller still manages to be shocking. And her defiant declaration of faith, in a letter to her family, is both heartbreaking and uplifting. Her death–which ISIS had the nerve to blame on Jordanian bombing–cries out for vengeance, not just “justice”–the term the president chose, one that may denote retribution but might also offer the undeserved dignity of civilian trial.
The recent, brutal beheadings of Japanese citizens Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto by members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have shocked and awakened the people of Japan to the growing threat of radical Islam, which may prove to be a turning point in the country’s global role.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments” Mark Levin declared “the United States needs to be more like George S. Patton” on Tuesday. “This is war. This is World War III, and we’re fighting Islamonazis, we’re not even
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) argued that Iran is taking advantage of the desperation of President Obama and John Kerry on Tuesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I think that the Iranians believe that Barack Obama and John Kerry
In an address on September 10, 2014, President Obama touted Yemen as a counterterrorism success story and said it would be the model for the US’ strategy against ISIS. “This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort
Kurdish peshmerga fighters fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) are facing a shortage of military supplies, according to media reports.
MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews declared “I just don’t know how long we can take this as human beings” in response to the death of Kayla Mueller on Tuesday. While Matthews said he agreed that ISIS couldn’t be destroyed by
The President, who refuses to identify the terrorists, now seems to have refused to identify their victims.
Tuesday in an interview with BuzzFeed News, President Barack Obama said the U.S. government did everything they could to rescue Kayla Mueller, the 26-year-old aid worker killed while being held by ISIS. When BuzzFeed News’ editor-in-chief Ben Smith suggested, considering
