The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization published a new video Sunday in its latest anti-Jewish propaganda series of clips, threatening to go to war against Israel and Jews as a whole.
The Vicar of Baghdad has gone the extra mile to deal with Islamist terrorism in Iraq. He even invited ISIS terrorists to dinner, despite their putting a $157 million bounty on his head.
Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a new audio recording on Sunday, in which he called for an Islamist alliance against Russia and the West, and said his organization was ready to work with its previously despised offshoot ISIS against those common foes.
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The Islamic State has begun shutting down gynecology clinics in its conquered Syrian capital of Raqqa, according to a report at Foreign Desk News.
The administration of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month extension to a state of emergency it imposed on parts of the northern Sinai Peninsula as the country’s military launches counterterrorism operations against jihadists in the region.
Syrian-born San Diego resident and naturalized U.S. citizen Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati pleaded guilty this week to lying to federal officials about knowing members of ISIS. He admitted to being involved with another terror group, and lying about engaging in combat or firing a weapon in Syria during a March terrorism-related interview at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group says it is responsible for downing a Russian passenger jet that crashed Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said, “we have to work with the rebels in Syria to be able to find out who’s best to be able to bring stability to that country” on Saturday’s “Fox &
Hillary Mann Leverett, who served on the National Security Council under both Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush stated that the deployment of US special forces to Syria isn’t a significant change to the Obama administration’s strategy, which “for the past
NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Luke Russert said that there is “near universal belief” on Capitol Hill that the 50 commandos sent to Syria are “not enough” and that liberal Democrats oppose the move, with some making “Vietnam analogies” on
DNC Vice Chair Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) criticized Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s advocacy for the wars in Iraq and Libya, and “the administration is essentially working hand in hand with the Islamic extremists” in Syria
The Islamic State released video of their beheading of four captured Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers at the site of the October 22 raid by American and Kurdish forces.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) declared, “I don’t think we have a plan for destroying ISIL,” and “I think our objective today is to degrade them, to keep them on their heels” on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” Murphy said, “There’s no
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel stated that the US troops who will be sent to Syria “are going to be involved in combat” on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” Engel said, “These troops are going to be involved
Airstrikes launched from unidentified warplanes targeted the southern and western region of the Mediterranean port city of Sirte in Libya, which has become the de facto base for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing in the North African country, a witness told Reuters.
NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and “Andrea Mitchell Reports” anchor Andrea Mitchell declared, “the United States looks very weak diplomatically” in the Middle East on Friday. Mitchell said, “we are not showing the muscle militarily, the US isn’t, that
ISIS is a fear merchant. It depends heavily upon using fear to intimidate those opposed to it.
The head of the Syrian rebel group the Raqqa Revolutionaries Front has announced in a video uploaded to YouTube that his group will “soon” announce a military offensive on Raqqa, the “capital” of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) terrorist group.
Among the most recent transferred detainees from Guantanamo Bay was 45-year-old Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, sent home to Mauritania after 13 years in U.S. custody.
The White House officially “announced” on Friday that small teams of U.S. special forces would be deployed in Syria, totaling up to 50 commandos on the ground.
A German rapper who joined the Islamic State group and publicly threatened President Barack Obama was killed in a US air strike in Syria, a defense official said. Denis Cuspert, also known by his artist name Deso Dogg, used to
The Nigerian military said they conducted an extremely successful operation against the ISIS-aligned terrorists of Boko Haram. They reportedly took out two of the terrorist camps in the Sambisa Forest, killing some thirty militants and rescuing 338 hostages, most of them women and children.
One of the factors spurring Russia to action in Syria was the success of ISIS recruitment in certain parts of Russia. A notable example of this is the province of Dagestan, which has a large and impoverished Muslim population, a history of unrest, some hot spots of radical Salafist Islam, and lingering resentment against heavy-handed police tactics.
