WASHINGTON, DC — The Sheriff of an Arizona county that shares a border with Mexico warned that terrorists could use “VIP” tunnels along the southwest border to enter the United States. Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, Arizona testified today before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
American authorities returned around 65 stolen artifacts to Iraq after a very long investigation to retrieve the stolen items. The items were handed over at the Iraqi consulate in Washington, DC.
The ongoing battle between the Islamic State and the hacker group “Anonymous” rages as two other “hactivist” groups, GhostSec and Ctrlsec, teamed up with Anonymous to produce a list of 9,200 Twitter accounts linked to ISIS.
Today, the Iraq government issued a surprising statement that they were suspending the battle for Tikrit, ostensibly because they’re worried about collateral damage to the city and civilian casualties.
The Islamic State (ISIS) released an unintentionally hilarious propaganda video showing its “elite special forces” in training, but far from showing off their fearsome skills, it makes them look like a clown act.
The moderate movement in Syria no longer exists, according to the International Business Times (IBT).
Baghdad museum director Fawzye al-Mahdi claims the “invaluable artifacts” at a Mosul museum that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed in a video are in fact replicas.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, told NRG news that there is no place for a Palestinian state in the world under current conditions, given its present leadership—making his position on the “peace process” crystal-clear just hours before Israelis are set to vote for the leadership of their next government.
Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, at the behest of Iran, is expected to send around 800 of its elite militants to fight alongside Iraqi forces and Shiite militias to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper.
The French defense ministry unveiled France’s 2015 defense strategy last week, which was revised following the terrorist attacks in Paris and the Islamic extremist threat stemming from Africa, reports Vice News.
A crowd estimated at 2,000 turned out for the funeral of Ivana Hoffmann in Duisburg, Germany, over the weekend. Hoffmann, 19, was killed fighting ISIS in Syria as a volunteer in the Kurdish YPG force.
A former hostage of the Islamic State who was imprisoned alongside executed Westerners Alan Henning and Peter Kassig, among others, reports that the terrorist group had built a rudimentary replica of America’s Guantánamo Bay facility in Syria with the intention of filling it with Western citizens and torturing them.
Recent years have seen an increasing reluctance on the part of the Vatican to speak of the traditional “Just War Doctrine,” as Church officials have urged the exhaustion of diplomatic solutions before even considering the use of force. This reluctance seems now to be giving way to a grittier realism in the face of a relentless enemy with whom constructive, rational dialogue is impossible.
A notorious Iranian commander, who has reportedly been leading the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), said in a video that Iraq needs expert jihadists.
Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.
According to a statement from the Kurdish Regional Security Council, the Islamic State has crossed that fabled WMD “red line” by deploying chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces fighting along the Iraqi border with Syria, near the captive city of Mosul.
The tomb of Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein was virtually leveled in heavy clashes between militants from the Islamic State group and Iraqi security forces in a fight for control of the city of Tikrit.
The common cause of repelling the Islamic State from Iraq has brought about a sectarian team-up that was considered unthinkable before: Asaib Ahl al-Haq, a Shiite militia in Iraq, picked up 250 Sunni recruits and formed the first Sunni unit in its history.
LONDON (AP) — Turkish authorities have detained three male teenagers who left Britain planning to travel to Syria, British police said Sunday. The trio is believed to be the latest in a growing number of Britons trying to travel to
TOULOUSE, France, March 14 (UPI) — French schoolchildren identified a preteen boy who was seen executing an Islamic State hostage last week as a former classmate. Students at Vauquelin secondary school recognized the boy, who has not been named, after
ERBIL, Iraq, March 14 (UPI) — Iraqi Kurdistan leaders say Islamic State fighters employed chemical weapons against Kurdish peshmerga forces in a January bombing. The Kurdistan Region Security Council issued a statement over the weekend claiming that lab tests confirm
Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken announced a plan to provide the Syrian opposition with $70 million in non-lethal aid. If Congress approves the aid, the grand total of aid to Syria in the past four years will amount to $400 million.
CIA Director John Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an “Islamic” terrorist organization in a Friday speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, repeating White House rhetoric.
Argentine outlet Infobae has a video that purportedly shows masked Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists executing nine accused “spies” in the Fallujah province of Iraq.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with the Washington Post for a wide-ranging interview, covering a plethora of issues in which his country remains deeply involved, including the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood and global jihadi terrorism and Egypt’s promising relationship with the state of Israel.
