Counter terrorism expert Patrick Poole noted on Twitter Monday night after reports surfaced the United States hit up to 20 ISIS targets that the U.S. led Gulf War campaign was hitting 1,000 targets a day in 1991. Oh boy! We
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said in a statement Tuesday that he supports military actions against ISIS–like the airstrikes President Obama just launched–but that the Constitution requires Obama to obtain congressional approval for such action. “I support military action against ISIS
After weeks of highly graphic murders committed by ISIS against American and British citizens, another Islamic caliphate group has threatened to punish the French for their bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, in a video featuring a tourist
A report from the Associated Press claims Washington officials–and particularly Secretary of State John Kerry–alerted Syria of pending strikes before they began last night. Syrian officials had warned that any surprise strikes on its soil had to “be coordinated with
Former UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP has delivered a speech on the ‘weakness of the West’ at the Heritage Foundation today, during which he addressed global economics, the threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and of course, ISIS.
The chief spokesman of the Islamic State has made a comprehensive call for a new wave of ‘Lee Rigby’ style attacks against civilians and soldiers of Western nations, and supporters of the Caliphate already appear to be mobilising to follow
Islamic State jihadists, also known as ISIS, have destroyed an Armenian church in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, a memorial to the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The sixth-largest city in Syria, Deir ez-Zor has a Kurdish majority and was
President Barack Obama vowed the United States will “do what’s necessary to take the fight” to ISIS in a speech from the White House on Tuesday after the U.S. commenced airstrikes on terrorist targets in Syria last night. The president
The story originally appeared in New York Magazine: While ISIS has captured international attention with its very public, bloodthirsty tactics, a terrorist group some American officials say is more intent on actually striking the United States is operating in the
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour argued that the “vacuum” created by US non-intervention and failure to leave a residual force led to the rise of ISIS on Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “Most certainly…doing nothing for the last three years has
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Massive Hong Kong student demonstrations challenge Beijing Turkey braces for expected flood of hundreds of thousands more refugees Yazidis, Mosul Christians hold Obama responsible for ISIS Horse manure and climate change Massive Hong Kong
LOS ANGELES, California — Amidst growing alarm at low Republican affiliation in California, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tried to rally party members to unify at the state GOP convention last weekend. “We climb in the boat together, we
On Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to the Syrian airstrikes launched by the United States against ISIS the night before. Krauthammer explained that it was his view this is what ISIS intended the United States
President Obama will speak at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday after authorizing the bombing of several ISIS targets in Syria, according to the White House. The attacks were coordinated by the United States and five Arab countries and utilized a mix
President Barack Obama ordered air strikes against ISIS targets inside Syria overnight. He received the full backing of Republican leaders in Congress. The attacks raise a number of military–and political–questions: 1. When did Congress authorize U.S. attacks in Syria? It
Rumours are now rife in Westminster that Parliament will be recalled on Friday to debate the government’s response to the latest U.S.-led attacks on ISIS. The recall is said to be timed to avoid both Labour and Conservative Party Conferences,
(U.S. Navy) ARABIAN GULF, Sept. 23, 2014: The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) against ISIL targets. Philippine Sea is deployed as part of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Carrier Strike Group
On “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby offered a rough assessment of exactly what U.S. airstrikes the night before on ISIS targets in Syria accomplished. “We conducted against ISIL targets with our Arab
The British House of Commons is to vote on whether to to recognise the Palestinian territories as a country, in what is being talked about as a major coup for anti-Israel activists. The vote will be accompanied by a six
A new video featuring the British detainee John Cantlie has surfaced on the internet, just hours after the United States began air strikes against ISIS and Khorasan terrorists in Syria. Cantlie, who reads monotonously to camera during the high production
An ISIS fighter captured by Iraqi Kurds has told local media that British jihadists are often considered “useless” by ISIS top brass and are good for nothing else but suicide squads, but regardless enjoy all the “perks” of ISIS life,
Western intelligence services claim to have identified an Al-Qaeda splinter group which is attempting to use the influx of Westerners to Syria as a vector to launch a new wave of 9/11 style attacks on the West, but frustratingly almost
The current and immediate past chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee have publicly backed President Barack Obama’s airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, despite the fact the president did not seek congressional approval for them “When in times of war
On Tuesday morning’s early morning coverage of U.S. air strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed her skepticism on a number of different levels as to whether or not this action was proper given strategic and
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, declared that the United States’ commencement of airstrikes against ISIS in Syria showed that the United States was at war “without a doubt” and that there was
