The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has gained access to radioactive material from hospital and research centers in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria, prompting fears that it could develop a large “dirty” bomb, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told The Australian.
The decision to send additional troops comes shortly after Obama admitted that his administration didn’t have a “complete strategy” yet on the proposal of recruiting and training more Iraqis to fight ISIS.
Britons who want to join ISIS are using Canada as a staging post on their journey to foreign battlefields, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has warned. He said the tactics used by radicalised extremists to escape detection were becoming ‘increasingly
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In a recent Delta Force-led raid against an Islamic State cell in Syria, American troops were able to extract a treasure trove of information related to the terror group’s leadership and financing structure, officials told the New York Times Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man convicted of threatening FBI agents who were conducting a terror investigation was released from custody Tuesday and his sentencing was postponed as a federal judge weighs whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will affect the case.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two California men who authorities say aspired to join the Islamic State group have pleaded not guilty in the case.
Recent reports from Syria suggest the military forces of dictator Bashar Assad are crumbling under the strain of fighting a five-year-long civil war, and dealing with the rise of the Islamic State, which has been scoring military victories in Syria as well as Iraq.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians when it ambushed a human smugglers’ caravan south of Libya’s capital Tripoli last week.
Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “Newsmax Prime,” while discussing President Barack Obama admitting yesterday that his administration dose not have a “complete strategy” to defeat ISIS, former NSA and CIA director General Michael Hayden said Obama’s “overly reflective” leadership style is
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” veteran journalist and author of “Obama’s Wars” Bob Woodward said America needs to face the fact that President Barack Obama “does not like war.” Woodward explained Obama believes the Untied States should be the “humble
On June 5, at a Pentagon press conference, Lieutenant General John W. Hesterman III, Combined Forces Air Component Commander, vigorously championed both the success of the bombing in Iraq and Syria, and the Defense Department’s method for controlling air strikes. The briefing illustrated how, as in Vietnam, the military becomes politicized and loses focus.
Horror stories of sexual brutality against teenage girls continue to emerge from Iraq and Syria as UN officials hear firsthand accounts of what has been transpiring under the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) reign of terror.
Teachers in Britain are scared of reporting suspected Islamist extremism among their students out of fear of being labelled ‘Islamophobic’, the head of an anti-radicalisation group has said. From July this year, British teachers will have a legal requirement to
Teenage girls abducted by Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria are being sold in slave markets “for as little as a pack of cigarettes,” the UN envoy on sexual violence said. Zainab Bangura visited Iraq and Syria in April,
Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S., and Shiite militias linked to Iran, seized back “key parts of the northern refinery town of Baiji” from Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists on Sunday, according to media reports.
Monday morning, President Obama stated, “We don’t yet have a complete strategy,” with regard to training and equipping Iraqi soldiers. This is not the same as saying we don’t have a strategy at all, as he claimed last year, but
In 2014, thousands of Westerners traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISL) as the terrorist group expands its caliphate. But now some are realizing the life of a jihadist is not nearly as grand as advertised, forcing Western countries to contend with the mass return of citizens with ties to the terrorist group.
Evidence continues to mount that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group has staked claims over territory that is mere miles from Israel’s territory in the Golan Heights, which borders southern Syria.
The strain of dealing with the massive wave of refugees pouring off the coast of war-torn, ISIS-threatened Libya and flowing across the Mediterranean is proving too much for Italy. A backlash is growing against the migrant wave, although it is unclear what any faction of the Italian body politic, or the wider European Union, is prepared to do to stop it.
Monday, MSNBC cut into an already-in-progress press conference about the Texas police officer who has been suspended after video of him roughly taking down a teenage girl in a bikini at a pool party emerged and Rev. Ronald Wright, executive director
Troops loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, backed by Kurdish fighters, repelled an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) offensive to capture the city of al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, a monitor group reports.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is recruiting “highly trained professionals,” including some from Western countries, to develop chemical weapons, warned Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Australia’s ABC reports.
Monday on CNN’s “At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan,” anchors John Berman and Kate Bolduan were shocked President Barack Obama admitted he doesn’t have a complete ISIS strategy and said “All these months later and there’s still no strategy,” adding
Obama said that the United States was “reviewing a range of plans” for how to accelerate and recruit additional Iraqi forces, but that it would take time.
