WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Defense has revamped its effort to assist so-called moderate Syrian rebels on the ground, shifting its focus away from training to providing them with weapons and other equipment to fight the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Turkey’s prime minister suspects Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists carried out the deadly bombings at peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara over the weekend that killed nearly 100 people and injured another 250.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked that, instead of funding Syrian rebels, the U.S. should have just given the money to Russia. The U.S. halted its training program after many rebels defected and U.S. weapons landed in the hands of al-Qaeda.
Turkey is banning relatives of those killed or wounded in Saturday’s twin bombing of a peace protest in Ankara from assembling and protesting the government, citing “sensitivities at this time.”
New evidence uncovered by French authorities investigating the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January has shown communication between killer Amedy Coulibaly and a possible handler in the Islamic State. Coulibaly received an email communication on 8 January. It arrived just hours after he shot and
An estimated 50,000 militants are operating in Afghanistan, the bulk of whom are Taliban terrorists, but there is also a rival 2,000 to 3,000-strong Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) presence that continues to grow, according to the Russian General staff chief.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that the Russian government used advanced cluster munition in an airstrike near Aleppo, Syria.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Mohammed bin Salman have agreed to military cooperation in Syria.
In a Facebook post Monday, Christian evangelist Franklin Graham denounced the world’s silence in the face of a true genocide being carried out by the Islamic State.
On Sunday, the Iraqi air force claimed it was able to target the convoy of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with an air strike. The status of the self-proclaimed “caliph” is unknown.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to migrants to come to her country has been described as “insane” by U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has predicted more violence will follow in the country as a result. Donald Trump, the Republican Party
The fifth season of Showtime’s spy thriller Homeland premiered last Sunday night. Once President Obama’s favorite TV show, this episode is downright contemptuous of U.S. — read Obama’s — foreign policy as regards the Middle East and Syria in particular. For somone who refuses to utter the words “Radical Islam,” Homeland is highly unlikely to be Must See TV for the Pres.
Two massive bombs exploded almost simultaneously Saturday in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara, killing at least 97 people and wounding hundreds more in the process, resulting in the deadliest terror attack in the history of post-Ottoman Turkey.
In the coming days, construction will commence on a new church in Egypt dedicated to the martyred Coptic Christians beheaded by the Islamic State in Libya in February.
Jamal Udeen Al-Harith, a former Guantanamo inmate from Manchester, has allegedly being able to leave Britain and join Islamic State (IS) in Syria without security services stopping him. The former Guantanamo inmate is believed to have left for Syria over a year ago, reports the
This week I stood up in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and spoke about an ‘inconvenient truth’. It was a speech that most in the chamber simply did not want to hear. To howls of derision, I told the European
“You shouldn’t enter a country through a hole in a fence,” the judge tells Mustafa, a Syrian migrant charged with a new type of crime created in Hungary only last month — illegally entering the country by crossing the newly-built
With astonishing speed, American influence—withered by years of Barack Obama’s indecisiveness—is fading, as Iraq realigns around Russia and Iran. Take it from the Iraqis, who are celebrating the arrival of “Putin the Shiite” in Syria, hoping he’ll swing into Iraq to pick up the fight against ISIS.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than half of Taliban terrorists may be open to peace negotiations with the Afghan government, the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan told U.S. lawmakers.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that dozens of American citizens are clandestinely communicating with the Islamic State from their homes in the continental United States.
A young Yazidi woman, known only as Noor, told CNN that Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants justified raping her because the action would make her Muslim.
The Russian Defense Ministry denied CNN reports that four missiles from a Russian ship in the Caspian Sea crashed into Iran instead of Syria.
The Islamic State has released a videotaped execution of three Assyrian Christian hostages, captured during a February offensive in Syria. The lives of hundreds more Christian captives remain in the balance, a point the savages emphasized by making three of them beg for ransom payments on camera.
Alexander Odoevsky, the second secretary at the Russian embassy in Canberra, Australia, asserted the world needs to respect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because Syrians “elected” him in 2014.
The latest in a string of ISIS videos to feature child soldiers features a boy, about ten years of age, brandishing a rocket-propelled grenade and threatening to behead President Obama unless the United States submits to the Islamic State.
