There are signs that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL or ISIS) is in decline as the U.S. prepares a massive attack to retake Mosul from the jihadists, according to a U.S. Central Command official.
The UK Daily Mail reports that a young British soldier—as of yet unnamed due to concerns for his safety and not yet officially considered AWOL—has left his post in Cyprus to join up with Kurdish forces in Syria and battle ISIS.
Reuters reported on Thursday afternoon that “the United States and Turkey have signed an agreement to train and equip moderate Syrian opposition fighters,” an agreement that will evidently include several hundred U.S. troops, including special operations forces, training five thousand Syrian fighters over the next three years at bases outside Syria.
A horrific video of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters brutally murdering three Syrian soldiers in Raqqa, Syria, after a bearded cleric reads out charges against the men has resurfaced thanks to The Daily Mail. However, as The Right Scoop points out, the video was uploaded in November 2014. Raqqa is the capital of Islamic State’s self-declared “caliphate.”
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China’s government-run Xinhua news service gives us the Politburo’s thoughts about the threat of “violent extremism,” repeatedly referring to the U.S. as a “terrorist breeder.”
Men who left the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed sixteen letters from commanding officers that detail horrifying orders to bomb and murder innocent civilians. Each letter received a stamp to indicate the province it is from.
The Obama administration says it expects the number of Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. to quadruple in 2015 and 2016, triggering concerns that some terrorists may be among the refugees allowed in.
Women living under control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed to The Guardian the militant group has imposed more restrictions on females since taking over new territories. The terrorist group forces people to live under strict Sharia law, which treats women like second-class citizens. Rules include double-layered veils and marrying off girls as young as 9.
More girls and young women have escaped ISIS to tell the horrors they endured at the jihadists’ hands.
According to an article at the Kurdish outlet Rudaw, Peshmerga militia forces have had to turn back a high number of foreign fighters attempting to join the war on the Islamic State. Repeated attempts to discourage the foreign fighters and request arms aid instead have failed to stop the flow into Iraq.
The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) established “morality police” reportedly attacked a woman in eastern Syria because her eyes were exposed.
ISIS fighters are “buying their wives kinky underwear,” demanding Viagra to better their performance, and subjecting their wives, concubines, and sex slaves to sadistic sexual practices, according to Syrian doctors forced to treat jihadists in conquered territories.
Jordan Matson, a US veteran fighting against ISIS in Syria declared “politics is the reason that a lot of people are still dying over here” on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “Politics is the reason that a lot
Kayla Mueller’s Syrian boyfriend claims he did everything he could to save her from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). He told her to tell the terrorists she was married to him since they would not imprison a Muslim man’s wife. She decided instead to tell the truth.
President Bashar al-Assad must be involved in any peaceful solution to the war in Syria, said the United Nations envoy to Syria, according to various media reports.
As uncertainty continues to plague the Middle East, Marines in Barstow, California have begun undergoing training to prepare for a a second round of deployments this spring into the war-ravaged region. In light of the recent closure of several U.S. embassies in countries such as Yemen, these “crisis-response capability” troops could be ordered to assist with evacuating embassies that have come under siege in the same way.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is forcing residents in Raqqa, Syria, the capital of their “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, to donate blood for their injured fighters. In January, Yazidi sex slave girls told the media the militants also forced them to donate blood.
For centuries, Westerners have been lured by the “mysterious” East. Fortune hunters, explorers, adventurers, businessmen, diplomats, journalists, artists, missionaries, and humanitarian aid workers have all fled the confines of the West for lives of drama and danger.
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State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted that the US’ policy in Libya has not succeeded in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. After she was asked “the problem that the United States has now
Senator Marco Rubio appeared in a pre-taped segment for Fox News’ Megyn Kelly show to discuss foreign policy, where he made the case for authorizing continued military force to defeat the radical Islamic terror group ISIL. Rubio disagreed with Senator
Since the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) began establishing its Caliphate across Syria and Iraq, they have taken to destroying historic shrines and temples to prevent the practice of “idolatry.” With the surviving priceless artifacts going to fund ISIS on the black market, a group of Syrian “Monuments Men” are racing against time to save the country’s precious history.
The Syrian Armed forces under Bashar al-Assad, who are being assisted by Iranian-proxy terror group Hezbollah, continue to move into a Syrian region south of Damascus that is within miles of Israel’s Golan Heights territory.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told the U.S. House Committee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on Tuesday that the U.S. needed a more aggressive course of action against the Iranian regime.
