A senior commander from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-connected jihadi group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) spoke with Reuters about how the Islamic State has helped train its terror outfit and organize its operations. “They teach us how to carry out operations.
The Jabhat al-Nusra jihadist group, a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, set its eyes on Mhardeh, which is one of the last Christian cities in the war-torn country. Locals claim ten-year-old Shaza Bitar was killed in one attack on September
Islamic State militants, buoyed by military success yet squeezed online by Western cyber-security initiatives are now openly recruiting in European mosques, according to claims published by The Guardian. In the recent past, the ‘radicalisation’ process that foreshadowed young men and
On September 4, speaking at the NATO Summit in Wales, UK Prime Minister David Cameron lectured fellow NATO leaders against making ransom payments to the Islamic State (IS) militants. According to The Guardian, Cameron used a G8 statement opposing ransom payments
It has been a long, hot summer here in America and abroad. ISIS is on the march and has brutally beheaded two American journalists. The threat is so large that you even have liberal United States Senators like Dianne Feinstein
Friday on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) attacked Republicans concerned about President Barack Obama’s handling of the ISIS threat to America by saying they are simply using ISIS to attack the president before the midterm elections.
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In a press conference in Wales, President Obama vowed to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, frequently speaking about American and international efforts to “degrade” the capability of terrorists. See all six ‘degrade’ mentions below: “Secretary Kerry will now travel to the
Friday at the State Department press briefing, deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said America will not necessarily lead or even decide who can join the coalition currently being formed by the Obama administration to fight ISIS. Harf said, “This isn’t about
For the past week or so, Russell Brand and I have been jabbing at each other on the web and TV. It all began when Brand attacked Fox News Contributor and Wall Street Journal editorial board member Jason Riley for
Patriarch Louis Sako, leader of the Iraqi Christian Chaldean Catholic Church, has attacked the United States as “indirectly responsible” for the plight of Christians in that nation at the hands of the violent jihadist group the Islamic State. In a
A photo allegedly released as part of the propaganda campaign waged by the Islamic State (IS), also known as ISIS, shows an infant surrounded by guns and grenades “lying on an ISIS flag.” According to Mail Online, the photo, posted
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he will introduce legislation to prevent American citizens who join ISIS from returning to the United States, when the Senate is back in session next week. “Americans who choose to go to Syria or
Breitbart News recently reported that the FBI did not include Islamist terrorism in its report, “National Threat Assessment for Domestic Extremism.” As Bill Gertz originally wrote, “the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 assessment published this month that the threat to
Ten Israeli Arabs have united with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, to fight in Iraq and Syria, according to reports based on Israeli Shin Bet security services sources, The Times of Israel reports. Israeli Arabs’ interest in jihadi
UKIP leader Nigel Farage met with prominent American Senator Rand Paul in Washington DC this morning. The two men are understood to have discussed global affairs during the early-morning meeting, as world leaders meet at the Nato summit in Wales
Claiming there is no clearer “renunciation of (U.S.) citizenship than choosing to join ISIS,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas plans to file the Expatriate Terrorist Act (E.T.A.) of 2014 when the Senate returns to work on Monday, September 8th. Currently, it’s
Friday after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Wales, President Barack Obama said there will be no U.S. troops on the ground in Syria. The president said, “With respect to the situation on the ground in Syria we will
This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal: Tucked away in a recent New York Times story on military operations against ISIS by Iraqi special forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga was a brief description of what these troops discovered when they
The jihadist group the Islamic State has made mass abductions and murders a staple of their terrorist tactics in both Iraq and Syria. Last week, reports began to surface on social media of a massacre at Tabqa Airbase in northern
Echoing a tactic of another jihadist terror group–Nigeria’s Boko Haram–the Islamic State (IS) is now reportedly conducting mass abductions, kidnapping and taking away 50 men from a Sunni village north of Baghdad this week. The Associated Press reports that Islamic State
Three people were yesterday being questioned in Copenhagen for selling stickers which openly declare support for the Islamic State. The arrests come just days after a Danish mosque declared support for the Caliphate, saying: “Muslims should have their own state
The terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS, or ISIL) have taken their fight beyond their initial enemies–the U.S. and their Arab/Muslim rivals–and have declared their intent to challenge powers far beyond, including Russia. The notion of a global conflict might
Two different survivors of a massacre committed by ISIS at Camp Speicher near Tikrit, Iraq back in June, tell two different stories. And the explanations for what happened range from mere cowardice on the part of the Iraqi commanders, to
