Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said President Barack Obama’s stated goal of “destroying” ISIS is “ambitious” because “we’ve been at war with al Qaeda for 13 years, we haven’t destroyed it.” Robert Gates argued
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” network senior foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz said President Barack Obama’s military advisers are “really worried” his insistence on no U.S. boots on the ground to combat ISIS will not work. Raddatz
LONDON (AP) — The wife of a British aid worker held hostage by the Islamic State group has issued a statement pleading for the militants to release him and respond to her messages “before it is too late.” The Islamic
On “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Congress is forfeiting its constitutional responsibility by letting President Barack Obama use the 2001 war authority to go after ISIS in Iraq. Schiff said, “The president has said this a war,
BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb and mortar fire attacks killed ten people in Shiite areas in and around Baghdad on Sunday, as Iraqi security forces said they succeeded in breaking a siege on soldiers who had been surrounded by Islamic State
The Islamic State captured Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in July, and within the month, reports surged that the jihadist terror group had either occupied or destroyed every Christian institution in the city. Not just the Christian legacy is threatened by
On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” anchor Jeanine Pirro argued the US was neither prepared nor ready for the threat posed by ISIS. “The simple truth, we are not prepared and certainly not ready. Lone wolves
LOS ANGELES — When Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) addressed members of California’s Republican Party on Saturday, he spoke to the audience like a presidential candidate, describing the type of leader he would be as a commander in chief. Paul told
From the New York Daily News: Notorious flame-thrower Pamela Geller has paid $100,000 for advertisements showing ISIS beheading victim and Adolf Hitler. The ads will appear on 100 buses and at the entrances of the E. 59th St. station and the
Authorities in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have discovered a decapitated body believed to be a victim of Islamist radical group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis. The terrorists claimed four decapitations in August. This body was found in North Sinai near the capital of Al-Arish. Officials
On Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks explained that the current U.S. strategy in Iraq to combat ISIS is on track to include more than just air strikes, but potentially special forces as well. “What’s
In an exclusive interview, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Thursday will go do as a “dark day” in Senate history, with Senate Democrats blocking GOP legislation addressing the Islamic State (ISIS) and President Obama’s threat of executive amnesty. “Unfortunately the
President Barack Obama touted the size United States-led coalition against ISIS and America’s air campaign against the group while promising “I won’t commit our troops to fighting another ground war in Iraq, or in Syria” during his weekly address on
Jihadist fighters in Syria are calling on ISIS to release British hostage Alan Henning, saying that killing him would be “haram” (forbidden in Islamic law). The Times reports that extremists are openly dissenting over the group’s threat to kill Henning,
The self-proclaimed Islamic State has freed 49 Turkish hostages from the country’s besieged consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The freed men were greeted with crowds waving Turkish flags when they arrived back in the city of Ankara
On his Friday show, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that Americans were overreacting to the threat of ISIS, and that the murders journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff did not show ISIS was a threat to the US
![[EXTREMELY GRAPHIC] ISIS Video Features Two Men with American Accents](http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Breitbart-TV/2014/09/19/ISIS%20Thumbnail.jpg "[EXTREMELY GRAPHIC] ISIS Video Features Two Men with American Accents")
A new propaganda video, “Flames of War,” released by ISIS on Youtube features two men with what appear to be American accents speaking perfect English. One of them, the video’s narrator refers to the “dark wave the crusader force” over
Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) is running nearly ten points behind his GOP challenger–Representative Cory Gardner (R-CO-4th Dist.)–and one of the reasons is a backlash against Obama. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released September 18, Gardner is currently ahead 48
James Woolsey, who served as CIA Director during part of the Clinton administration, criticized the Obama administration for ruling out the use of combat troops to fight ISIS because of an obsession with the “narrative” that terrorism is no longer
While the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, continues to conquer and hold territory–expanding its influence–an al-Qaeda cell formed from Osama bin Laden’s operatives and bomb experts have emerged in Syria. The cell goes by the name “Khorasan,”
(Reason)The administration debates various plans to cripple ISIS. Approximately 90 seconds. Written and performed by Remy. Video and graphics by Meredith Bragg. Music tracks by Ben Karlstrom. To see more Remy/Reason TV videos, go here. Lyrics are as follows: These ideas
Nigerian officials have reported capturing one of the top commanders of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram Thursday during a battle for the strategic town of Konduga in Borno State. Major-General Chris Olukolade, Nigeria’s Director of Defence Information (DDI), said
On April 14, 2014, members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram raided a girls’ school in Chibok, a town in northern Nigeria, and abducted 276 girls between the ages of 17 and 20. In spite of a worldwide outcry
“To be victorious, you must know the enemy,” Warned Breitbart National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka in a debate yesterday on BBC World Update. While many are questioning the value of allowing Islamic State propaganda– particularly the gruesome beheadings of UK
A nurse in Turkey told authorities she is tired of treating members from the Islamic State. The nurse, only known as E.G., works in a hospital in Mersin, which is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and across the
