Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz stated that if ISIS took down the Russian airliner, it’s “an opportunity for the United States to focus Russia’s energy on ISIS” and expressed support for greater arming of the Kurds to fight
Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum argued the US should send more troops into Iraq to fight ISIS, but that Syria isn’t “a viable front” for the US on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” Santorum said regarding the counter-ISIS
The Turkish government is looking to increase its military cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, particularly in the fight against ISIS.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that, before talks on a cease-fire in Syria can move forward, Western powers must agree to identify the “terrorist” groups within the Syrian opposition.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Arab allies have discussed deploying their own ground forces to Syria to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a senior U.S. State Department official told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
On Wednesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told Yahoo News that President Barack Obama still has no clear strategy in Syria despite the 50 special forces U.S troops he announced last week he is sending to Syria.
Contents: US, Britain suggest ISIS bomb brought down Russian plane in Egypt; Plane bombing threatens Russia’s Syria strategy
One of the many Islamist factions borne of the Arab Spring, extremist group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last year, becoming ISIS Sinai in the process. The British government yesterday released a statement confirming suspicions that a
SARAJEVO, Nov 5 – A Bosnian Muslim cleric was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people joining militants in the Middle East. Husein
Terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf Philippines-based jihadi group, an affiliate of the Islamic State, have demanded over $60 million dollars for three Western hostages who were kidnapped at the country’s resort island of Samal.
The Pentagon is deploying to Turkey up to a dozen F-15Cs, specializing in air-to-air combat, allegedly to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which has no aerial fighters.
As Western intelligence agencies consider the possibility that ISIS destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt, killing 224 civilians, the Islamic State seems eager to take credit for the deed.
The church of Saint George in Baghdad, which was closed down in 2007 after being firebombed by Islamic militants, was finally reopened Monday, but local clergy worry that there are no longer any Assyrian Christians left to worship there.
Not long after British officials voiced suspicions that a bomb destroyed a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people, an American official said U.S. intelligence also has “a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane.”
10 Downing Street issued a statement suggesting a bomb might have caused the destruction of a Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a strong contender in Iowa who surpassed amnesty advocate Jeb Bush in support, tells Breitbart News Daily “immigration without assimilation is not immigration; it’s an invasion.”
WASHINGTON D.C.—The Pentagon has denied claims by Vladimir Putin’s defense ministry that the Russian air force held an air space cooperation exercise with its U.S. counterpart in Syria, aimed at staving off dangerous encounters between their warplanes.
The editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s largest publication in western Xinjiang province, China, was dismissed from his job and will be prosecuted for “serious discipline breaches” that include questioning China’s policy to combat Islamist Uyghur terrorism in the region.
Members of the ISIS-affiliated Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram have sent media outlets photos they claim prove the group is running a rocket factory deep in northeast Nigeria. The Nigerian military has dismissed the images as fabricated.
According to U.S. officials, satellite imagery shows a heat flash immediately before a Russian plane crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This evidence could disprove the theory the plane was shot down by a missile.
SINJAR MOUNTAIN, Iraq– While the U.S. is claiming to be on the move against ISIS, the reality on the ground is that ISIS has brought in more than 100 vehicles as reinforcements in the Sinjar area alone, with an increase in heavy shelling by Islamic State on Sinjar Mountain.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon lacks a reliable system to gauge whether the Afghan security troops are an effective fighting force capable of holding its ground against the enemies of Afghanistan, such as the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports a congressionally appointed watchdog agency.
Contents: Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) continues plan to exterminate Shias; Pakistan’s LeJ anti-Shia terror group may have links to ISIS; History of sectarian violence in Pakistan since Partition
Days after Metrojet’s Airbus A321 crashed in Egypt over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, officials from the airline are now saying the plane was taken down by an “external influence.” The plane, which carried mostly Russian passengers, was flying from a Red Sea resort to St. Petersburg, Russia.
Publishers, writers, and bloggers in Bangladesh have had enough of their colleagues being executed simply for expressing secular beliefs and critiquing Islam.
