Wednesday on CNN during reactions to President Barack Obama’s speech on American’s strategy to destroy ISIS, former White House press secretary Jay Carney did his best to obfuscating responsibility for the administration ignoring the growing threat of ISIS in Syria
Liberals on and off Capitol Hill are warning President Obama he must seek congressional authorization to engage in additional military action to combat ISIS. “Congress must weigh in when it comes to confronting ISIL through military action,” Reps. Keith Ellison
Wednesday night on the eve of the 13th anniversary of September 11, 2001 terror attacks, President Barack Obama said U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and potentially Syria with a “broad coalition” on the ground which he repeatedly insisted would not include American
Wednesday at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on cybersecurity, the under secretary for intelligence at DHS, Francis Taylor, told Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that ISIS are using social media to plan for infiltrating the United States
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that President Obama will not ask for a war or military effort against ISIS during the network’s special coverage of the president’s remarks on Wednesday night. “We’re told the president will announce not a war effort
In this hyperpartisan age, there is one point of agreement between Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy–that is, in addition to the newfound conviction that Congress need not exercise its constitutional authority over war: namely, that there shall be no
A Colorado teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The conspiracy started earlier this year when 19-year-old Shannon Conley
The rise of ISIS and the 13th anniversary of 9/11 are heightening security concerns in Washington, especially for tomorrow, the anniversary itself. Some Senate staff were told to keep their car keys and wallets on their person at all times
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) detailed a private classified meeting she had with the FBI to ask if any citizens from Minnesota were fighting with ISIS. Bachmann said she was told there are
Former CIA analyst and current Lignet.com Chief Analyst, Fred Fleitz argued that reports that Steven Sotloff was sold to ISIS by Syrian rebels “[reflect] the reality that the Syrian rebels have been thoroughly infiltrated by Islamists” on Wednesday’s “Your World
While preparing for his speech on the threat posed by Islamic State terrorists, the White House invited a few top writers to the White House to likely discuss the president’s foreign policy vision. New York Times Columnist David Brooks, Gerald
A vote on the continuing resolution to fund the government has been postponed, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday on the House floor. The House had been scheduled to vote on the CR Thursday but a last minute request
Recently, seventy members of Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority escaped a brutal Islamic State (IS) prison after a month of captivity in Mosul, Iraq. Some of those prisoners, including young girls, chose to tell the media about the horrific treatment Yazidis
19-year-old Shannon Conley pled guilty today on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization today. She’s the suburban Colorado gal who got nicked by the FBI while trying to board a plane to join up
Christianne Boudreau lost her son to the Islamic State. 22-year-old Damian Clairmont died fighting for the jihadist group in Syria after converting to Islam and radicalizing in Canada. Now, Boudreau is organizing a support group for Western mothers of slain
The Islamic State has established a market in the Middle East for oil stolen from conquered fields in Syria and Iraq, depending heavily on oil sales to pay for ammunition and basic goods for its mujahideen. Reports claim that it
President Obama personally called the House Appropriations Committee Chairman at 5:00pm Tuesday to request congressional authorization to arm Syrian rebels, prompting a scramble on Capitol Hill to digest the proposed policy change and decide how to bring it up for
In August, the leader of the terrorist jihadist group Boko Haram of Nigeria, Abubakar Shekau, shocked many with the declaration that northeast Nigeria was now an Islamic Caliphate, under his rule. The declaration–along with claims that Boko Haram would not harm
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has debuted a video of a girl it claims is the youngest female fighter in its ranks. The video, posted online by the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC), features both a speech from
A report by The Telegraph indicates U.S. drones are flying over Raqqa, Syria, in search of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to the report, Raqqa residents “have captured photo and video footage of remotely-piloted planes, which Western weapons
Whatever you take from the White House, they want you to know that President Obama is dedicated to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State terrorists of ISIS. Members of the White House have feverishly repeated the phrase since Obama admitted
The day President Barack Obama is scheduled to address the threat of ISIS in the Middle East, former Vice President Dick Cheney took Obama to task for what he described as limp responses to international problems and laid out a
A North-London hate preacher who was released early from Prison in 2010 has published a BuzzFeed style top-ten listicle of benefits of joining ISIS to his thousands of Facebook and Twitter followers. Describing the perks of traveling to ISIS territory,
It is a commonplace that the chief victims of war are children, but sometimes this takes unusual forms. FidesNews Agency has reported that in Gaza where schools were set to reopen onAugust 24 the date has been moved to September
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a withering repudiation of President Obama’s foreign policy record in a speech on the Senate floor speech Wednesday and urged the president to seek congressional authorization in his speech on the burgeoning terrorist threat
