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Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice claimed that in light of ISIS continuing to advance the administrations of goal of degrading and destroying them will not be reevaluated but instead “we will do what we

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,’ Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that America and our coalition of the willing is losing in the fight against ISIS. McCain said, “They’re winning and we’re not. The Iraqis are not winning, The peshmerga, the Kurds

The Times of India claims eyewitnesses reported at least one anti-India protestor waving the ISIS flag from atop the gate of one of Kashmir’s largest mosque’s during an anti-India demonstration Friday following Muslim prayers in Srinagar, capital of the majority

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that the Jihadist terror group ISIS (Islamic State) had threatened his life, in addition to the lives of his employees, during Vanity Fair‘s 20th New Establishment Summit in San Francisco this past week. “Obviously that’s

DALLAS, Texas — Brazoria County is home to Alvin ISD where ABC-13 was among the local TV news outlets that reported on parents outraged by a sixth grade assignment on the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). At

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the British Army has deployed a “small specialist team” to help train the Kurdish Peshmerga trying to hold back ISIS. The team is the latest initiative in the desperate effort to stop Kobane on

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York and a self-described feminist, argued that the leftist mantra that any criticism of the doctrines of Islam is Islamophobic is “the new McCarthyism”

President Obama was met with protests from two groups with starkly opposing ideologies on the war as he prepared to head into his only scheduled fundraiser in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.  The chants ranged from “Stop ISIS, save Kobani”

Crossroads GPS is out with a new ad blasting Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) for her recent admission that she missed Armed Services committee hearing on ISIS for a New York City fundraiser. The ad comes as her Republican opponent, state

This analysis by Riyadh Mohammed was originally published in The Fiscal Times. We reprint in part here. As ISIS continues to advance on the Syrian town of Kobani and close in on Turkey’s border, experts in Islamic radical movements think

Note from Senior Management: Blackwater’s founder knows from where he speaks about fighting wars in bad neighborhoods. This note on his company’s website we reprint. As someone who spent many years operating in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other underdeveloped countries facing

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The daily needs of a single Ebola patient U.N. envoy makes highly emotional appeal to Turkey to save Kobani Renewed violence in Central African Republic despite peacekeepers The daily needs of a single Ebola

In this week’s Republican address, New Hampshire senatorial hopeful, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), took aim at President Barack Obama’s shortcomings on foreign policy. Brown identifies ISIS in the Middle East, Ukraine’s vulnerabilities to Russia in Eastern Europe and the

ISIS commander Tarkhan Batirashvili–aka, “Omar the Chechen”–warns that Russia will soon be targeted by the Islamist group. According to The Moscow Times, “Batirashvili has gained a fearsome reputation throughout the conflict in Syria.” Bloomberg News reports that he now seeks “revenge”

British security services are monitoring thousands of would-be terrorists or those perceived as a threat to Britain’s security, new information has suggested. The Telegraph reports that the “thousands” number, given by Mayor Boris Johnson during an interview, suggested that the

Former Clinton administration Special Counsel Lanny Davis, blasted the president’s press team because they have “failed to get out in front of stories” on Friday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “I have said it myself, that President Obama

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared he thinks he “meets [the] criteria” to be president in an interview on Friday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. Paul was asked whether he was qualified to be president, and responded, “I think other people have

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Deputy Director and former US Air Force Intelligence Officer Col. Cedric Leighton argued that the United States essentially has “no air campaign” against ISIS on Friday’s “Shepard Smith Reporting” on Fox News Channel. “It is

Thousands of Yazidis in Iraq escaped the genocidal wrath of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) but remain in miserable conditions at refugee camps. One shelter in Khanke, Iraq, took in over 70,000 people in August. The conditions there have not improved.

Friday on CNN’s “Wolf,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said we should not arm Syrian rebels because they can not hold them and the resulting “irony,” is that U.S. forces are now fighting against their own weapons. Paul said, “I think

A national security expert tells Forbes magazine that the Ebola threat could be potentially multiplied should the virus fall into the hands of a terrorist organization like the Islamic State (ISIS). Sending ISIS terrorists to West Africa to bring back toxic

This article originally appeared at the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Note: This analysis has been excerpted, with the approval of the author, from a much longer scholarly article that will be published in an academic journal. “Which will come first,

A recently released Pew Center survey found Americans extraordinarily disengaged from news surrounding the 2014 midterm elections. While the poll results are notable, what is capturing Americans’ attention may be even more telling: the Ebola virus, and not the threat of

On Friday’s broadcast of Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) criticized House Speaker John Boehner for his reluctance to take the debate over the U.S. military actions against ISIS in Syria and Iraq to the floor of the

US air strikes have been important to hold back ISIS, according to Iraqi Patriarch Louis Sako, but “we need a long-term strategy to destroy the sick ideology that drives the action of the violent.” ISIS is “a danger to the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkey and America play a game of ‘chicken’ over ISIS and Kobani Russia makes farcical demand for Security Council resolution on Kobani Iran blames Pakistan for terrorist attacks The continuing realignment of the Mideast

Turkish, British, and Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, all key United States allies in the military campaign against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL), have indicated that airstrikes alone will not defeat the jihadist group.   

After an 800-man brawl outside a mosque in Hamburg on Tuesday German police deployed 1,300 officers on Wednesday night, but were still unable to separate warring Islamic fundamentalists and Yazidi Kurds in violence which again led to a hospitalisation for

Republican state House Speaker Thom Tillis charged that Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and President Obama do not have a plan to keep the United States safe from Ebola Thursday evening, during the third North Carolina U.S. Senate debate.  “The president

Author Sam Harris defended the stance on radical Islam he took during a discussion on last Friday’s “Real Time” during an appearance on Thursday’s “The Last Word” on MSNBC. Harris addressed to the objections of New York Times columnist Nicholas

Kobani resident and Editor of the Hawar News Agency, Perwer Muhammad Ali, stated that American airstrikes against ISIS “really are not effective” in an interview on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.  “It is the impression of people here

On Thursday, Oscar winning Actress Gwyneth Paltrow concluded her introductory remarks about President Obama at a star studded fundraiser held in the backyard of her upscale Brentwood home in Los Angeles, saying that she was turning the microphone over to

Republican state House Speaker Thom Tillis’ campaign for U.S. Senate is wasting no time taking the news that Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) skipped a classified hearing dealing with threats to national security for a New York City cocktail fundraiser to

Supporters of the jihadist terror group the Islamic State (ISIS) have begun to circulate photos of a ten-year-old boy known only as Abu Ubaidah, reportedly killed alongside his father while fighting on behalf of the terrorist organization. According to the

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said, “Secretary Kerry is being tone deaf to the importance that Kobani has taken on in social media.” When Mitchell asked about Kerry saying Kobani is not