As the ISIS threat continues to sweep across Iraq and Syria, Newsweek reports that one of the major cities of neighbouring Turkey has become a “recruiting ground” for the extremist group: When Deniz Sahin’s ex-husband phoned out of the blue
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — In front of a boisterous pub crowd of young voters here, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into President Obama over executive overreach and even vowed to repeal “all previous executive orders” in one of his first
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) took President Barack Obama to task over his ISIS strategy, slamming him by joking, after watching the presidents speech last night “I owe America a global apology, because John
Fox News Channel’s “Kelly File” host Megyn Kelly grilled Hassan Shilby, the Chief Executive Director of the Florida branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about radical Islam and President Obama’s declaration that ISIS was not Islamic on Thursday night.
On September 11, both Britain and Germany made clear that they will not be participating in President Obama’s planned airstrikes against ISIS. This came one day after Obama assured Americans that the United States would be “joined by a broad
After urging national Republicans not to make illegal immigration an issue in the midterms, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday warned that ISIS is trying to exploit the porous U.S.-Mexico border to carry out terrorists attacks on American soil. Appearing
On the news on Thursday that a new CIA assessment adjusted the number of ISIS fighters to over 31,500, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said there many be more than 10,000 jihadist with European passports that would not alert
Thursday on CNN Wolf Blitzer played a preview of Anderson Cooper’s interview with the mother of the journalist beheaded by ISIS, James Foley, who said she felt like she was treated like an “annoyance” by the government officials working with her family
On September 10 President Obama gave a speech citing the mixed results against terror in Yemen and Somalia as models for how the U.S. will fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen
President Obama in his September 10 speech to the nation officially confirmed that the United States has been “sending arms to Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian opposition.” While Obama did not state specifically what group(s) America is providing assistance
Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) was asked what President Barack Obama’s “Plan B” would include if a coalition of allies is defeated on the ground by ISIS. He replied, ‘I don’t think there’s a
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama owes former President George W. Bush and those Americans who died fighting in Iraq an apology, Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks said Thursday after attending a classified briefing on ISIS. Franks read excerpts from
Thousands of people will visit a West Sacramento memorial park over the next few days to commemorate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The park features thousands of small American flags, arranged neatly in rows; one flag for each
Pinal County, AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu reported that Border Patrol agents are making birthday cakes for the unaccompanied minors in their facilities at the same time that drug smugglers who have been deported multiple times keep re-entering the United States
Thursday on CNN in an interview with Elise Labott in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State John Kerry said America is not at war with ISIS. Kerry said, “What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation. It’s
President Obama came to office on the promise of ending America’s war in Iraq. Last night he committed the country to degrading and destroying ISIS in Iraq and Syria, albeit with relatively few boots on the ground. It’s not just
President Obama’s request for congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels to help combat the burgeoning threat of the Islamic State would be in serious trouble in the House if not for the unlikely support of liberal Democrats who savaged George
Thursday at his press briefing, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) voiced concern over President Barack Obama’s plan to destroy ISIS without American forces on the ground. The speaker said, “An F-16 is not a strategy. Airstrikes alone will not
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) blasted the Obama administration and members of Congress for engaging in “fear-mongering” over the Islamic State terror threat. “It’s fear-mongering. It’s what happened after 9/11. ‘Oh my God, they’ve got these planes crashing. Now they’re going
MSNBC’s “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews was critical of President Obama’s address to the nation on ISIS during MSNBC’s special coverage of the event on Wednesday. Matthews argued “I didn’t hear in there how we’re going to encourage the Arab countries,
Just after the 2012 election, after the mainstream media had allowed President Obama to repeatedly lie about Benghazi and the status of the War on Terror (I believe the word used was “decimated”), Democrats and Republicans were tied on the
In response to MSNBC Viewers Vote For Obama To Bypass Congress On Military Action Against ISIS: 88% of the MSNBC audience pronouncing itself comfortable with unilateral Obama war, with a symbolic nod toward the Bush congressional authorization of force that
Iraq’s only Yazidi Member of Parliament (MP), Vian Dakhil, alleged that the Islamic State (ISIS) militants are leaving some of the towns they conquered due to the strong smell from the bodies of those they killed to seize the towns.
In response to President Obama’s foreign policy speech Wednesday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the United States should approach toppling Middle East dictators more cautiously in the future, warning that radical Islam typically rose up to replace it.
On Thursday’s “New Day” on CNN, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reacted to President Barack Obama’s Wednesday night address to the nation laying out his policy on the ISIS threat in the Middle East. Rubio said he believed Obama had the
