HUFFPO: ISIS’ recent victory in seizing the key Iraqi city of Ramadi — a defeat that even the State Department called a major setback in the U.S.-led fight against the group — is forcing top Obama administration officials to wrestle with an uncomfortable reality: its main regional ally may not be up for the fight.
This weekend on “Fox News Sunday,” former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said the Obama administration is losing to ISIS because “they are blinded by their own ideology.” When asked about President Barack Obama’s claim last week that
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” in commenting on the city of Ramadi falling to ISIS last week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter suggested he had a lack of confidence in the Iraqi army’s ability to take on ISIS. Carter said,
Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week” highlighted ISIS’s new claim that the Islamic terror group is growing financially so quickly it could buy its first nuclear weapon within a year. ABC News’ Alex Marquardt reported, “This morning, ISIS is on
Five former pupils of a north London school dubbed the “socialists’ Eton” have died fighting as jihadis in Iraq and Syria. Holland Park School, founded in 1958 gained a reputation as the left-wing Eton thanks to luminaries of the socialist movement,
The UK must confront IS in Syria and Iraq by putting fighting troops on the ground. To do anything else will enable radical Islam to continue marching on through North Africa and potentially into southern Europe and the Balkans – the historic
Another scene from the ongoing collapse of President Obama’s Iraq policy comes to us from the crucial Iraqi oil refinery of Beiji, where Iranian artillery and heavy weapons are backing Iraqi forces against ISIS, while the Obama Administration watches helplessly and hopes the media doesn’t notice.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews declared, “it doesn’t look like our policy, our program of going after ISIS is working” on Friday’s “Hardball.” Matthews said, “right now, it doesn’t look like our policy, our program of going after ISIS is working
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has published an article in the latest issue of its magazine, Dabiq, by jihadi bride Umm Summayyah, estimating that First Lady Michelle Obama is only worth $40 on the terrorist group’s slave market. Summayyah also defends the rape of thousands of Yazidi females.
CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, warning that more “black days” loom ahead in a direct challenge to the rulers of the Sunni kingdom.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) captured Palmyra, a historic city in Syria that serves as a home to a treasure trove of ancient artifacts. Dread filled historians as pictures surfaced of an ISIS flag on a 100-year-old castle.
U.S. News & World Report Chairman Mort Zuckerman argued, “we are going to be pushed out of large parts of that — the world” in a discussion on ISIS on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” After fellow panelist Tom Rogan said that
Charting President Obama’s relationship with the media that passively-aggressively adores him is tricky. More than once, he’s seemingly angered or dismayed them enough to trigger a paradigm shift, only to have the paradigm slip right back to the usual worship of a titan striding across history.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested two California men for aspiring to join ISIS.
ISIS jihadis are complaining in online forums that the best suicide missions in Iraq and Syria are being handed to those with the right “connections” through their Saudi Arabian friends and families. The Express reports that preacher Kamil Abu Sultan
The United States and its allies have staged 22 air strikes on Islamic State targets since Friday, including four near Ramadi, the city taken by the militants this week, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Contents: ISIS claims responsibility for major terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia; As ISIS grows, Saudis face conflict between stability and reforms
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claims it has access to nuclear weapons through the nation of Pakistan, according to an article by longtime ISIS captive John Cantlie in the latest issue of their official magazine, Dabiq.
ISIS has reportedly commenced beheading prisoners immediately in the captured Syrian city of Palmyra.
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel blasted the US’ ISIS strategy as “all over the place,” “confused,” and “self-contradictory” on Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. Engel started by agreeing with Richard Haass’ characterization that Iranians fighting ISIS is “putting
Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that “part of the solution” to fighting ISIS “would be Assad going into exile” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead.” “There’s a couple things I would do. One, I would
Syrian regime forces in Palmyra, demoralized and hollowed out after years of war, attrition, and corruption, were routed with apparent ease despite distress signals when the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attacked the ancient city, reports The New York Times.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has seized all border crossings between Syria and Iraq from Syrian regime troops, according to a monitor group.
While President Obama still opposes the use of combat ground troops in Iraq, the White House admits that he still wants the option of sending in special forces for combat operations against Islamic State terrorists.
The endless sectarian bloodshed between militant Islamists continues, with a deadly suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia that killed over a dozen people. According to the BBC, the Sunni fanatics of the Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack, with a Twitter message that included an image of the bomber.
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell argued that the White House’s optimism regarding the fight against ISIS “sounds more like wishful thinking” on Friday. During an interview with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), she remarked, “This march by ISIS unopposed by the Iraqi
NBC News reports that the FBI has arrested two men in Southern California on terrorism-related charges, specifically a plan to hook up with ISIS in Syria.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) continues to exploit the disastrous aftermath of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy in Libya, establishing a presence in what India Today calls “the third big stronghold for the Sunni Islamist group.” Over the past four months, ISIS has largely taken control of Sirte, hometown of late dictator Moammar Qaddafi.
While the women of Palmyra await their fate–which, in other ISIS-held regions, has included child sex slavery and worse–the young women of San Diego, California bared their breasts to protest unequal treatment of the male and female nipple.
PANKISI GORGE, Georgia (AP) — One day this April, instead of coming home from school, two teenagers left their valley high in the Caucasus, and went off to war. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 20-year-old stole her friend’s passport to make
Former White House counterterrorism adviser Dick Clarke said that the US is “kind of doing it half assed” in the fight against ISIS during an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Clarke began by saying, “We
The Iraq debate that has erupted three, seven, eight, twelve years too late may end up disproving the old adage, “Better late than never.” Why? Too many glaring omissions from the conversation. Let’s start with Numero Uno: Islam. Once again,
A new poll shows that a majority of Democrats want to limit free speech with laws that would prohibit so-called “hate speech.”
Columnist Charles Krauthammer declared, “The administration is sounding like Baghdad Bob during the invasion of Iraq” regarding the gains made by ISIS on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “The administration is sounding like Baghdad Bob during the
More than half of Syria fell under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) after the jihadist group captured the ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor group said.
In a disturbing sign of the Islamic State’s expanding influence, Israeli customs officials at Ben Gurion Airport have intercepted a suspicious package from Turkey that turned out to be packed with 120 shiny new ISIS rings, adorned with ISIS logos and slogans in Arabic, bound for Palestinian Authority customers.
“Overall, we are in the degrade phase of this effort and we are making progress in degrading the capability of ISIL,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest explains.
REUTERS– Islamic State militants overran Iraqi government defences east of the city of Ramadi on Thursday, police and pro-government tribal fighters said. The defensive line was breached at Husaiba, about 10 km (six miles) from the city, on Thursday afternoon
Thursday at the White House press briefing, when asked if he believes ISIS has a caliphate, press secretary Josh Earnest said, “No, I don’t believe that at all.” Earnest said, “No, I don’t believe that at all. What we actually
U.S.-led forces operating in the Middle East missed chances to stop the Islamic State advance to Palmyra, experts have declared, as the radical terrorist group beds down in the strategically important Syrian city. The takeover comes just days after ISIS
