A U.S. intelligence officer told NBC News the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will not likely team up with Nigerian radical Islamic group Boko Haram in any official capacity due to the group’s racism against black Africans.
The nation of Kyrgyzstan has escalated its efforts in fighting radical Islam with the arrest of Rashot Kamalov, a popular Imam who law enforcement say has allegedly been attempting to convince Kyrgyz youth to join the jihad in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State.
The UK Daily Mail describes the latest Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda video as an “incredible show of force on Europe’s doorstep.” After chopping off the heads of 21 captive Egyptian Christians, the Islamic State staged a parade of jihadi “police cars,” flying the black Islamist flag before a throng of cheering men, women, and children, in a city that looks an awful lot like Benghazi, although other sources place scenes from the video in Derna and Sirte.
A horrific video of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters brutally murdering three Syrian soldiers in Raqqa, Syria, after a bearded cleric reads out charges against the men has resurfaced thanks to The Daily Mail. However, as The Right Scoop points out, the video was uploaded in November 2014. Raqqa is the capital of Islamic State’s self-declared “caliphate.”
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told Euronews the CIA and Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, took part in the creation of the Islamic State and Boko Haram. He also suggested forces not focus on military action against the radical Islamic terrorist groups, since violence could cause more extremism.
Thursday at the White House summit to address combating violent extremism, Secretary of State John Kerry said the debate going on in America media over how to fight ISIS is “silly.” Kerry said, “There’s been a silly debate in the
Thursday during President Barack Obama remarks on fighting counter-terrorism at the White House Summit to Counter Violent Extremism he said, “We must address the grievances that terrorists exploit,” by finding programs in “entrepreneurship and science and technology. ” The president
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration refuses to back Egypt’s attacks against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL), which were launched after the jihadist group savagely beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians.
According to recent reports, the Italian Secret Service fears an air attack by ISIS, compounding the already existent danger of terrorist infiltration among with throngs of immigrants coming to Italy by boat from neighboring Libya.
After weeks of shocking publicity about the life women have to lead in the so-called Islamic State ‘caliphate’, including covering themselves from head to toe, being property of the jihadi fighters they are married to and having virtually no rights,
Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations accused the Islamic State (ISIS, IS, or ISIL) of committing genocide against Muslims, Christians, and other religious minorities.
The president’s speech at the conference on combating violent extremism Wednesday wasn’t nearly as bad as some of his other recent statements on the topic. He did not repeat the silly claim that ISIS is not Islamic. He did not refer to the Crusades or the Inquisition. And he at least attempted to explain why he refuses to adopt the phrase “Islamic extremist.”
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) dubbed President Obama “an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists” on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “What undermines the global effort [against terrorism] is for the President of the United States to be an
The most outrageous thing about President Barack Obama’s “extremism” summit Wednesday was not that it failed to identify Islamic terror as the primary threat. Nor was it that there were several Muslim representatives with extremist views present. Nor was it that the president still refuses to acknowledge ISIS (or ISIL) as “Islamic”—even while referring to it by an acronym whose first letter stands for “Islamic.”
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters repelled a “major attack” by Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) terrorists near Erbil in northern Iraq, various news outlets report.
“No religion is responsible for violence and terrorism,” President Obama insists at a White House summit.
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that Islam is not the cause of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) brutality.
A State Department spokesperson wonders why the world isn’t focused on Joseph Kony these days. But the reason is simple: African atrocities tend to be ignored, in part because there are a lot of them.
TELEGRAPH: The beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by forces sympathetic to Islamic State over recent days is sadly not an isolated case.
China’s government-run Xinhua news service gives us the Politburo’s thoughts about the threat of “violent extremism,” repeatedly referring to the U.S. as a “terrorist breeder.”
ROME, Italy — As the Islamic State gains strength in Libya and threatens to overrun Italy with immigrants, Italy finds itself exposed with no way to handle the onslaught.
Two men who appear to resemble Australian nationals Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar are featured in a new Islamic State (ISIS) video that shows the beheading of a man the terror group claims is a spy.
Men who left the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed sixteen letters from commanding officers that detail horrifying orders to bomb and murder innocent civilians. Each letter received a stamp to indicate the province it is from.
President Obama’s chief spokesman insists that the war against ISIS “is not a religious war, this is not a war on Islam.”
It sounds as if Facebook might have to do some hard thinking about its new “Legacy” feature, whose first high-profile user was Copenhagen terrorist Omar El-Hussein.
Women living under control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed to The Guardian the militant group has imposed more restrictions on females since taking over new territories. The terrorist group forces people to live under strict Sharia law, which treats women like second-class citizens. Rules include double-layered veils and marrying off girls as young as 9.
The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on Tuesday defending President Barack Obama’s policy of confronting ISIS (Islamic State) through “strategic patience” and rallied behind his long-held opposition to sending U.S. troops to the Middle East. However, most of America doesn’t agree.
Former Republican Senator from Maine and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton William Cohen said that the US’ handling of the Syrian Civil War “emboldened” America’s enemies by failing to enforce its red lines in a speech at the Center
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf declined to backtrack on remarks she had made previously on the the same network’s show “Hardball” earlier this week in which she said that the United States
As Islamic State militants establish a foothold in Libya, Britain has been warned to brace itself for ‘boats full of terrorists’ by Egypt’s Ambassador to the UK. Nasser Kamel made the comments after 2,163 migrants were rescued at sea in
Taliban claims responsibility for bombing in Lahore, Pakistan; Russians ignore Ukraine ‘ceasefire’ as 5,000 Ukrainian troops are trapped; New Zealand debating military help for Iraq against ISIS
On February 17, CNN reported that the Charlie Hebdo gunmen texted the Kosher deli gunman an hour before launching their January 7 attack on the satirical newspaper.
Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Rep Peter King (R-NY) said the Paris terror attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher supermarket were a joint operation between Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and ISIS. Notably at
The Obama administration made a kind of parlor game out of refusing to connect the Islamic State with Islam. The president himself said it most directly last year when he announced in a prime time TV address, “ISIL is not ‘Islamic.’”
Tuesday on the “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” in calling out specifically Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, host Rush Limbaugh made the point that the left’s relentless attack on President George W. Bush’s 2003 Iraq war has brainwashed a generation
Islamic State terrorists burned forty-five people to death in the ISIS-held town of Al-Baghdadi, a local police chief told the BBC.
More girls and young women have escaped ISIS to tell the horrors they endured at the jihadists’ hands.
The leader of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah urged the Middle East to unite and join the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
The government of Italy appears to be taking seriously the threats posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) to its nation. Italian officials said on Monday that they are considering sending 5,000 troops into Libya to combat the country’s burgeoning jihadist presence.
CNN’s religion editor dubbed last week “religion’s week from hell.” Religion in this case is just a weasel word being used in place of another word which would be accurate: Islam.