On Sunday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended himself against critics pointing to his decision to help then-President George W. Bush remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 as the reason ISIS has taken over a large section of Iraq. Blair
Former Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli spoke with ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz and fill-in host Jonathan Karl about al Qaeda-affiliated ISIS’s invasion of Iraq. When asked by Karl if the chaos meant the
Sunday during a discussion on the ISIS’s invasion of Iraq, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) what could be done to stop ISIS, which is now in control of portions of
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told moderator David Gregory that President Barack Obama’s inaction played a large role in the al-Qaeda affiliate ISIS being successful in invading Iraq. Romney also took aim at
BAGHDAD (AP) — As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers. The pictures on
Al Qaeda’s offshoot Isis (Islamic State In Iraq and the Levant) will bring jihad to Britain if it is not confronted immediately in Iraq, claims the former British Defence Secretary Liam Fox. Writing in the Sun newspaper today, Mr Fox
In response to news that the al Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), had seized control of Mosul and surrounding territories in Northern Iraq, the Times journalist David Aaronovitch summarised the desperate situation as follows: Isis [now] loosely controls a big
As he was being released from an American detention camp in Iraq in 2009, the man who will go on to head the powerful ISIS group issued a menacing warning to his former captors. ‘I’ll see you guys in New
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Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) told host Jake Tapper that it’s time to get U.S armed military drones over Iraq to help the Iraqi army fight off the invasion from the
On Friday’s broadcast of his radio show, conservative talk show host Sean Hannity warned that the current crisis underway in Iraq as the radicalized militia ISIS closes in on Iraq’s capital city Baghdad, is shaping up to be something far
Baghdad looks to be the first place where Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters meet serious resistance on their blitzkrieg through Iraq. However, this has not stopped the Al Qaeda splinter group’s forces from announcing their intended
As hundreds of thousands flee before the onrushing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist army, media defenders of the Obama administration are rushing to prop up the ailing Obama foreign policy. “Who lost Iraq?” writes the Washington Post‘s
While the advances by jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claim most headlines regarding the current turmoil in Iraq, a growing humanitarian crisis threatens hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians who may find themselves under the rule
On February 5, 2014 in testimony before Congress on resurgence of al Qaeda in Iraq, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran Brett McGurk read a statement from the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Friday in London at an international summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the unfolding crisis in Iraq by admitting it was a direct consequence of the Syria civil war left unchecked. Kerry seemingly
Friday, a defiant President Barack Obama gave a statement on the White House lawn after making a brief statement on the unfolding crisis in Iraq. The president said he will not be sending U.S. troops to stop the advancement of
Iranian troops have helped the Iraqi government retake the City of Tikrit from the Islamic fundamentalist force – ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIS). The government in Baghdad is said to control 85 percent of Tikrit thanks to
In response to ISIS Issues Rules for a New Islamic Caliphate: Meanwhile, on a different planet, the president told Tumblr users, Wednesday, that the world has never been less violent or more tolerant than it is right now. You guys are
On Friday’s “Morning Joe,” NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reported on the deteriorating situation in Iraq as ISIS forces approach the nation’s capital city of Baghdad. Part of that includes Sharia Law having been imposed in parts of the
The onslaught against the Iraqi government by al Qaeda splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is threatening to overtake the American embassy in Baghdad, and as the bad news spreads from city to city in the nation,
The seizure of Iraq’s second largest city by a group too ruthless to make it in “core” al Qaeda represents the culmination of years of history and a U.S. foreign policy that has failed to properly conceive of and counter the Al
Islamist terrorists in Iraq and Syria have begun creeping toward neighboring countries, sources close to the Islamic fundamentalists revealed this week, according to a report from the Gatestone Institute. The terrorists, who belong to The Islamic State of Iraq and
