Wall Street Journal Middle East Correspondent Matt Bradley said that there has been “very little evidence” to back the Obama administration’s claims of success against ISIS on Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC. “The administration has been flogging this idea that they’re
Secretary of State John Kerry declared “there is an uptick in the level of terrorism” on Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC. Kerry clarified and stuck by his earlier comments that “there is actually less threat and less probability of people dying
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that the Middle East is “coming apart” on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN. During a discussion on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, Feinstein touted the importance of a deal with Iran
WASHINGTON — Dr. Sebastian Gorka, national security editor for Breitbart News, passionately argued against Libertarian Gary Johnson’s notion that Americans are less safe because of U.S. military intervention.
Pope Francis once again denounced the atrocious situation in the Middle East on Sunday, promising closeness to the victims of kidnappings and violence and praying for a prompt end to the “intolerable brutality” brought upon the region by Islamic State militants.
Having established themselves in Mosul, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has continued its efforts to destroy the history of the second-largest city in Iraq. The terrorist group published a video of militants destroying thousands years old artifacts with glee and smiles on their faces.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND– Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who is Breitbart News’ National Security and Foreign Affairs editor and serves as the Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University, spoke as part of an expert panel on Friday at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) titled, “Lowering the Boom: When to Stand Up to Rogue Nations.”
USA Today reports on the efforts of Assyrian Christians to put their own army together and fend off the Islamic State, which has been raiding Assyrian communities in the Nineveh Plains, taking hundreds of women and children for use as hostages and slaves.
FBI agents intercepted 18-year-old Abdullahi Mohamud Yusuf of Minnesota at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport last May while en route to Syria to join ISIS. He had obtained a passport under false pretenses, claiming that he wanted to visit Istanbul on vacation. He was later formally arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and entered a guilty plea on Thursday. He could spend up to 15 years in prison.
The man federal authorities say provided money and organizational support to aspiring ISIS members in Brooklyn, one of whom allegedly wanted to assassinate President Barack Obama, was in America illegally.
The latest ISIS terror video is apparently running behind schedule—it was supposed to be released on Wednesday—but all indications are that it will include a threat to murder their Christian hostages, including women and children, if the bombing campaign against the Islamic State is not halted.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that President Obama’s ISIS strategy is “to keep the status quo…and hand it off to his successor” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “This is an unserious campaign. I think Obama’s strategy is
Scotland Yard is trying to have a fifty-page “how-to” manual published by ISIS for foreign recruits taken offline.
A domino show showcased this month in Gonabad, Iran, culminated in an “explosive” finale, with the falling dominoes launching a model missile into an Israeli flag to raucous applause.
The presence of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) in the United States can be felt in all 50 states, according to the director of the FBI.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) addressed an enthusiastic audience on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), laying out what sounded like a presidential campaign speech in all but name. Cruz challenged conservative activists to judge him and his potential 2016 competition by their actions, not just their words, and what they had actually done to fight for conservative causes.
“Jihadi John,” as he’s been known, turns out to be Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old British citizen who was born in Kuwait and grew up in a comfortable West London family.
More details have emerged about Wednesday’s news of three Uzbekistani men arrested in New York City for allegedly plotting to join ISIS and possibly carry out terror attacks in New York: one of the men, 19-year-old Akhror Saidakhmetov, turned out to have dual citizenship in Kazakhstan, not Uzbekistan, and the senior member of the group, 30-year-old Abror Habibov, was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, not at his residence in Brooklyn.
While the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq have managed to hold back the Islamic State (ISIS) from key areas, including the stronghold of Erbil, Sunni Arabs displaced by ISIS attacks are protesting that the Kurdish army is not allowing them to return home following the pushback.
Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio in Damascus, says that Syria’s ongoing civil war and its war with ISIS have produced one of the most catastrophic humanitarian crises since the Second World War, with “upwards of 200,000 deaths, more than a million casualties, more than 7 million IDPs and 4 million refugees.”
Thursday at Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said 2014 was the most lethal year for global terrorism in 45 years the data has been collected. Clapper said, “When the final counting
President Barack Obama has done little to stop the terrorist militias of the so-called Islamic State from abducting and murdering Christians in Iraq and elsewhere in the region. As a junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, however, Obama was outspoken on the fate of minorities in Iraq. Obama wrote two letters to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, demanding to know what the Bush administration was doing to secure Assyrian Christians and other minorities in Iraq.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), that “Pledging allegiance to ISIL is not necessarily joining the fight.”
Outgoing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) both praised and chastised fellow Democrat and Secretary of State John Kerry during Tuesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. On Iran, Boxer said point-blank that Iran cannot be trusted “for one second.” She then went on to clarify her belief that while the people of Iran could be trusted, the government and regime cannot be.
LONDON (AFP) – World leaders have proved “shameful and ineffective” in failing to protect civilians from groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Amnesty International said on Wednesday, calling 2014 a “catastrophic” year.
