US General David Petraeus, a former commander of US forces in Iraq, said Friday he would support targeted strikes against jihadists behind an offensive in the strife-torn country, who he said were developing into a “terrorist army”. Petraeus, who won
The Kurdish judge who sentenced former Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein to death has himself been captured and executed by ISIS. Raouf Abdul Rahman, was killed by militants in retaliation for the killing of the former Iraqi dictator, according to Al-Mesryoon. Jordanian
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Israeli troops kill two Palestinians during hunt for kidnapped teens Israeli air strikes hit Syria after cross-border attack Pakistanis fear nationwide blowback from military offensive against Taliban Jordan on alert as ISIS captures more
In the past few months, as many as 15 Somali-American men have left the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in order to join radical jihadist insurgents in Syria, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. One of the Minnesota residents told MPR
A week after the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) announced its takeover of the Iraqi city of Mosul, staggering figures of the money the Sunni jihadists have plundered from the nation are beginning to surface. Sunni jihadists aren’t
The Iraqi military ran out of Hellfire missiles last week. According to reports, the United States is hoping to resupply the Iraqi government as hastily as possible. This new revelation leaves Iraq with a non-existent air force until they are
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) currently gaining a safe heaven in Iraq where they are promising to form a caliphate is an “urgent counter-terrorism matter,” that
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the U.S. intelligence community did not know he Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants would be able to invaded and take over
Sunday on CNN’s “State of The Union,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the “Middle East is in chaos” because we have armed radical Islamist in Syria. Paul called Iraq “a Jihadist wonderland” blaming it on “too little involvement.” Paul laid
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships, which starts tomorrow, is now a key target for Muslim extremists, according to the Sunday Express. The threat comes as the Prime Minister describes the presence of around 500 British nationals in the extremists ISIS group as
Much has been made of Iraq’s ethnic Kurds’ role in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a group of Sunni jihadists aiming to overthrow Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. While the Kurds struggle to establish their own
The Danish government refused to say who kidnapped him or why he had been released, but Daniel Rye Ottosen is coming home. The 25-year-old photographer had been detained in Syria for 13 months, his captivity kept secret for security reasons.
Nasser Muthana, a 20-year-old medical student from Cardiff, and his 17-year-old brother Aseel Muthana went to Syria to fight with ISIS are featured inviting fellow Muslims to travel to Iraq and Syria to join the ISIS militants in their attempt
The British jihadist who calls himself Abu Rashash Britani, has called for the beheading of the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary in a violent twitter rant. The man, who is currently believed to be fighting for ISIS in either
ISIS’s Sunni Islamist militants have successfully overtaken what was once former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s chemical-weapons production site. US government officials believe that the site contains a decent quantity of old weapons. However, most are unsure if they can be
David French at National Review makes some of the same points I did the other day, about how the new “everyone who supported the Iraq war needs to shut up now” narrative assumes an idyllic alternate timeline where the lovable
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the group that overran Mosul in Iraq last week and has been pushing south towards Baghdad, announced it is also preparing an offensive in northern Syria. In a statement dated June 17,
Michelle Obama’s #bringbackourgirls tweet has become the laughingstock of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the militant jihadist group terrorizing Iraq. Jihadists have allegedly doctored the original photo of the First Lady brandishing a hashtag and added “#bringbackourhumvee,”
Friday morning, people from around the world united on the Twitter social media platform to pledge allegiance to Sunni Islamic terror group ISIS. Using the hashtag #AllEyesOnISIS, the jihadis promoted their brand, and hoped to find new recruits worldwide. Unfortunately
The offensive by the jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Iraq has featured not only the murderous brutality expected in a war to impose fundamentalist Sharia law, but a shockingly rich library of Internet memes,
While the use of air power is a tempting alternative to “boots on the ground” and appears to be the emerging strategy, ISIS is actively developing its own tactics and strategy to mitigate the effectiveness of air strikes against ISIS
The government of India is considered among the worst bureaucracies of Asia, notorious for government inaction and general sloth. New Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking aim at changing the government’s culture by keeping bureaucrats off the golf course and
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Warlord Suleiman becomes Iraqi Sunni anti-government spokesman President Obama orders more U.S. military involvement in Iraq Nato reports new Russian troop build-up on Ukraine’s border Warlord Suleiman becomes Iraqi Sunni anti-government spokesman Sheik Ali
