In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that America’s strategy is not to contain ISIS, but to destroy them, and that he “wasn’t aware” of President Barack Obama’s comments about making ISIS “a manageable problem.”
“If we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities, to the point where it is a manageable problem…what we’ve got to do is make sure
Iraq’s minister of defense posted two pictures of an alleged Chinese Islamic fighter with the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, formerly known as ISIS. This would be the first confirmation of a Chinese national within the jihadist group. The Facebook post
An estimated one thousand relatives of Iraqi soldiers that have gone missing since surrendering to the Islamic State terrorist group in June stormed the Iraqi Parliament on Tuesday, demanding legislators act to retrieve their family members. According to Agence France-Presse,
It’s very good news that the stricken aid workers and doctors brought back to the United States for ebola treatment have responded well to the experimental drugs they were given. But after weeks of assiduously downplaying the scale of the
Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden went off on ISIS saying America will “follow them to the gates of Hell” to get justice. Biden said, “When people harm Americans, we don’t retreat. We don’t forget. We take care of those who
Senator Franken sent a letter to Attorney General Holder Tuesday in which he was critical of President Obama’s handling of the response to ISIS. “I was troubled by the President’s recent suggestion that the Administration has not yet developed a
In a move unusual for a group known to have a sophisticated propaganda outfit, the jihadist terror group the Islamic State “apologized” yesterday after a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff surfaced online. The admission that the
The Islamic State has claimed on social media that it is utilizing captured Syrian pilots to learn how to fly stolen jets, according to a CNN Arabic report over the weekend. The Syrian pilots, which are part of the Syrian
National Journal Senior Political Correspondent Ron Fournier said that President Obama’s comments that ISIS can be made “a manageable problem” were “awfully passive” and “unsettling” on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “That’s awfully passive language to be using about
The family of Steven Sotloff, the latest American journalist beheaded by ISIS, is reportedly “outraged” at the Obama administration for “deliberate leaks” they interpret as “an attempt to absolve the administration of inaction.” This reporting comes Wednesday from no less
Steven Sotloff, the US journalist beheaded by ISIS, was Jewish, had moved to Israel to study, became an Israeli citizen, and, while in captivity, risked his life to fast on Yom Kippur and pray towards Jerusalem. The Israeli government Wednesday
The first live captured suicide bomber known to be working with the Islamic State in Syria says the area is teeming with jihadists from all over the world– from everywhere in the Middle East, Asia, and the West. In an
The Obama administration seems to have finally recognized the ISIS threat, calling the beheading of an American journalist “a terrorist attack on the United States” and vowing to confront the “militants” and “extremists” in Syria and Iraq. A worthy goal
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is calling for President Barack Obama to convene a joint session of Congress and make the case that the United States must “destroy” the Islamic State terrorist organization. “If I were president, I would call a
In a press statement Tuesday regarding the report of a second ISIS beheading of an American citizen, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said that though President Obama stated he “currently has no strategy to deal with ISIS,” a fact that
Vice President Joe Biden delivered a passionate speech at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, vowing to bring Islamic State terrorists to justice. Mentioning the deaths of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Biden referred to the Islamic State
At a press conference in Estonia, Wednesday, Obama sent conflicting signals about his ultimate goal in the fight against ISIS, saying initially that the objective is to “degrade and destroy” the terror group, but moments later saying the objective is
President Barack Obama said that ISIS can be shrunk to “a manageable problem” if the international community works to “isolate” it on Wednesday. “If we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence,
Questions have been raised across the political spectrum about whether it would be legal under European Law to stop British jihadis returning to the UK. Both Labour and UKIP questioned whether such a move would breach the human rights of
Confusion within the ISIS propaganda machine led to a hasty apology being issued yesterday as the video showing the brutal execution of Journalist Steven Sotloff was apparently accidentally leaked before the agreed time. Despite this it seems to have still
On Wednesday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC, network White House correspondent Jon Karl pointed out the mixed messages President Barack Obama has sent in deal with ISIS in that in the same set of remarks he conveyed two different takes
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group carried out a mass killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers captured when the extremists overran a military base north of Baghdad in June, a leading international watchdog said Wednesday. The incident
Weird how things work out among the White House Press Corps and the White House. After eight months, two beheadings, and weeks of being a top story, a reporter finally asked White House spokesman Josh Earnest about President Obama’s January
This post originally appeared in The Daily Beast: In the wake of ISIS’s latest alleged killing of an American journalist, leading lawmakers from both parties are calling for a bigger role in the U.S. war against the terrorist group. Leading
This is part two of the Huffington Post’s Alistair Crook’s analysis of ISIS. We reprint here. BEIRUT — ISIS is indeed a veritable time bomb inserted into the heart of the Middle East. But its destructive power is not as
It is embarrassing that the U.S. has to follow the U.K.’s lead when it comes to the war on terror. Who all agrees with me? Our Commandant-in-Chief admitted to not having a plan to combat ISIS, yet the U.K.’s PM
The UK government will consider “every possible option”, including air strikes, to retrieve the the British hostage threatened by ISIS before he is killed, says Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. The Cabinet Office’s emergency committee COBRA met this morning to discuss
AUSTIN, Texas — Americans were horrified today when the terrorist group ISIS released a video that purports to show a militant beheading the American journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been held hostage since being captured in Syria in August 2013.
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) reminded me of an eat-as-much-as-you-like curry buffet: there’s loads to choose from but its all crap. Talk of ISIS was filled with so much regret, so much anger and no desire to do anything to
President Obama confirmed that the beheading video of American journalist Steven Sotloff was authentic during a press conference in Estonia and offered his condolences to the family. Obama added that the prayers of the American people were with the family
ISIS fighters are capturing civilians and using them as slaves, transporting them enormous distances and separating them from their families forever, according to the testimony of a Yazidi girl in today’s Times. The 16-year-old girl, called Sama, says that she
According to the indispensable government watchdog group Judicial Watch, the U.S.government has evidence that the jihadist Islamic State (IS) is present in Juarez, Mexico – acrossthe Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Worse yet, the Texas Department of Public Safety
NEW YORK CITY, New York, United States – UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage appeared on the popular Hannity programme on Fox News tonight, discussing UK sovereignty, ISIS, David Cameron, and Islamist radicalisation. Farage, who was stopped and praised numerous
A Danish mosque spokesman has announced that his place of worship fully supports the Islamic State terrorist group that is waging a war of genocidal aspirations in Iraq and Syria. “An Islamic State will always be what Muslims long for,
“Duck Dynasty” patriarch and author of “unPHILtered: The Way I See It,” Phil Robertson, said that the only solution to deal with ISIS is to either “convert them or kill them” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News
KMSP-TV According to a report from Minnesota Twin Cities FOX affiliate KMSP that aired Tuesday night, Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the second known American killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, previously worked for Delta Global Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta
UK Independence Party (UKIP) Leader and member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage declared that international regulations will prevent the UK from keeping ISIS militants out of the country on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Farage commented that
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk said to “stay tuned” for the Untied States’ plans to combat ISIS. “We are putting the features in place,
How could a pair of food-related films like Chef and The Hundred-Foot Journey compete with the summer’s noisiest blockbusters? Talk about an unfair fight. Yet both Chef and Journey, films that traffic in the wonders of a well-cooked meal, are hanging
