Former military boss Lord Richards has hit out at the coalition’s plans to cut military budgets, claiming the move is more suited to a “banana republic”. General Richards said the move from full-time to part-time soldiers would be a problem
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has spent much of its time after gaining ground in Iraq promoting a softer, almost philanthropic image of their jihadist cause on the internet. Meanwhile, in Syria, video surfaces of the jihadists
A Norwegian Islamist extremist with links to Anjem Choudary, the London-based hate preacher who wants to establish an Islamic state in Britain, has launched a Facebook campaign against the Europride festival in Oslo this week. The Local reports that Ubaydullah Hussain
As events rapidly proceed in Iraq, the footprints of the Iranian regime’s meddling in the country’s crisis become increasingly evident. The Iranian regime, visibly shaken by recent developments in Iraq, is taking practical measures to preserve its interests in the
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syrian regime warplanes bomb ISIS on Iraq border, becoming our ally Saudi Arabia’s armed forces on high alert as ISIS approaches Four questions ISIS uses to tell Sunni from Shia Thousands of Ukrainians flee
BAGHDAD, June 26 (UPI) —Additional U.S. forces have arrived in Baghdad, bringing the total number of American service members in Iraq to 500, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Pentagon spokesman Col. Steven Warren said, of the 500 American military personnel in
The Islamic State of Syria and Sham (ISIS) and their Sunni tribal allies reached the strategic Mahmudiyah district southwest of Baghdad in large numbers on June 26th. Kurdish officials said that militants had seized the towns of Iskandariyah and Mahmudiyah.
One of the 140 Kurdish schoolboys taken in a mass kidnapping last month by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) spoke with CNN Wednesday about what his day-to-day life in captivity entailed. They forced the 15-year-old
Fighters from the Al Nusra front, the group known as Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate, has taken an oath of allegiance to support the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant Islamist group. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human rights
On June 25 a French court ordered Jewish Museum murder suspect Mehdi Nemmouche to be extradited to Brussels, Belgium. Nemmouche is the suspect in the incident where “four people were fatally shot in [an May 24] attack, in broad daylight
How could a force of less than 15,000 fighters overrun a lavishly equipped modern army 20 times its size with no outside help? In the case of ISIS, the answer is that it could not, and did not, overrun Sunni
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — A French court has ordered the man suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum to be extradited to Belgium. The Versailles court decided Thursday that Mehdi Nemmouche should be handed over to Belgian
Already noted by those notoriously hawkish hacks at the Washington Free Beacon, it is quite apparent that the below clip from the hit British political sitcom ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ is the best summing up of the West’s foreign policy position
Wednesday at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said that the Obama administration had ignored intelligence reports for more than a year, which explained al Qaeda affiliate Islamic State of
BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up in his room at a Beirut hotel Wednesday as Lebanese security forces raided the premises, causing an explosion that sent flames and a dark cloud of black smoke billowing out of
Syrian fighter bombers hit the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) targets in the Iraqi border town of Qaim in Anbar province on June 24th. The bombings were not the first time that the Syrian Air Force has acted against ISIS targets
On June 23 Israeli planes and rockets “struck nine targets in Syria…in retaliation for a missile attack from Syria on Sunday that killed an Israeli teenager and wounded his father along the border in the Golan Heights.” An Israeli Defense
While the United States has been pondering whether or not to take military action in Iraq, other actors such as Bashar al-Assad’s Syria are replacing the opening in the power vacuum created by the ongoing sectarian bloodshed. Syrian fighter jets
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The Iraqi catastrophe worsens as European youth join ISIS ISIS conducts sophisticated media campaign to attract European youth Russia may revoke its March 1 resolution authorizing Ukraine invasion Boko Haram in Nigeria abducts 60
The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, is under fire for calling for members of his United Malays National Organization (UMNO) Party to follow the example of radical Islamist terrorists the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS),
On Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was interviewed by host Greta van Susteren about a full Senate briefing held moments earlier about the pending situation in Iraq and Syria involving ISIS given
An estimated 150 to 300 Australian citizens are fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria, making the Aussies the highest foreign per-capita contributors to the militant Islamist group. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said of the increase in radicalized jihadis
Few events in recent years have sparked the kind of global outrage that accompanied Edward Snowden’s revelations, through documents stolen from the National Security Agency, that the organization had been spying on millions of private citizens around the world. Political
At least 1500 British militants have fought for the jihadi group ISIS according to a Labour MP. Khalid Mahmood MP says that young men are being radicalised at events like “pop-up restaurants” according to the Sun. As reported on Breitbart London
A powerful jihadist group pushing toward Baghdad is waging a parallel war online, flooding social media with updates and riding the football World Cup frenzy to spread its message with corporate-like sophistication. As militants, led by jihadists from the Islamic
