President Obama’s defenders are floating a theory that he didn’t have to say anything in Paris because the U.S. military has already spoken for him in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s so much wrong with this dopey bit of excuse-making that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Criticism is mounting against French officials for not doing more to prevent Wednesday’s terrorist attack by means of closer surveillance of the two brothers who carried out the attack.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) said it is possible terrorist attacks could start occurring weekly in Europe given of the large number of jihadists returning from training and fighting in Syria. When
Russia is on a long-term holiday that started two weeks ago and ends on Monday, January 12. At that time, the banks and the stock exchange will reopen, and it’s feared that both the ruble and the Moscow stock exchange will fall sharply.
Residents in southern and western Mosul, Iraq discovered a mass grave with over 320 bodies, including children, allegedly murdered by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The UK Mirror, a tabloid magazine, is reporting that Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have beheaded a popular street magician in Syria for defying their strict interpretation of Sharia law with his performances.
A video recently surfaced that allegedly shows a branch of the Syrian army forming a platoon of suicide bombers. The video, uncovered and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on December 30, has not been independently verified outside of MEMRI experts.
A senior ISIS militant who oversaw the beheadings of captives has been killed, along with five other militants, by Syrian civilians in revenge attacks. As ISIS continues to impose draconian Sharia law across the territory it holds, civilians are increasingly
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is reporting that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has shut down more schools in Syria, leaving over 670,000 children without access to education.
Lebanon has implemented a new law requiring Syrian refugees to retain a visa before entering the country in an attempt to limit the prodigious flow of refugees from war-torn Syria into their nation.
Islam forbids drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes, but rumors have spread for months indicating that members of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist groups engage in drug use. Those rumors were at least in part confirmed by a discovery this week when VICE journalist Joakim Medin identified cocaine in the house of dead Islamic State leader Emir Abu Zahra just south of Kobane, Syria.
The corpse of a top member of the Islamic State’s (IS, ISIS, ISIL) self-declared police force in Syria, which has carried out beheadings, was found decapitated with signs of torture and a cigarette stuffed in the mouth, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
The government of Libya, a state currently fighting a civil war, has banned all Palestinians, Sudanese, and Syrian nationals from entering their country.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attempted to capture Kobane, Syria, in September, but have faced intense backlash. The Kurdish Peshmerga and People’s Protection Unit (YPG) now prepare to completely take back the town from the terrorist group.
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has reportedly budgeted $2 billion dollars for its upcoming 2015 jihad, according to Arabic media. Additionally, the budget expects to collect a $250 million dollar surplus throughout the year.
The year 2014 saw more global persecution of Christians than any other year in recent history, and can only be compared to the first centuries when Christians were hunted down as criminals in the Roman Empire. The policy of the Emperor Diocletian, in fact, who reigned from 284-305AD, was remarkably similar to that taken by the Islamic State and Boko Haram: “Convert or die.”
Two U.S.-led operations to save hostages held captive by the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) in Syria, including the Jordanian pilot, “ended in failure” amid heavy fire from the jihadist group, reports the International Business Times (IBT).
As Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) jihadists seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria, the death toll in both countries reached a grim milestone: at least 76,000 Syrians and 15,000 Iraqis were killed in 2014, making it one of the deadliest years for the two war-torn nations.
Jordanian military pilot 1st Lt. Muadh al-Kasasbeh—who was captured by the Islamic State after his plane crashed while conducting exercises against the terrorist group—has been executed, according to a report from Lebanese news agency Al Mayadeen.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their caliphate across Iraq. Residents near Mosul told Assyrian website Ankawa the militants’ plan to blow up the walls of Nineveh, which date back to almost 700 B.C.
A YouTube account believed to be affiliated with jihadist groups uploaded a video of two Italian women kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jabhat al-Nusra in August in Syria. The women beg their government to secure their release.
The year 2014 saw the death of at least 90,000 people as a result of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq brought on by ISIS jihadists, more than double the figure for 2013. According to reports, at least 76,000 were killed in Syria and another 15,000 in Iraq.
Two young Italian woman who have appeared in a video on Youtube begging Italian leaders for help to secure their release. The video, which was posted on 31st December, features Vanessa Marzullo and Greta Ramelli, who were abducted by gunmen in
In drama on the high seas, the Italian coast guard has rescued two large merchant ships in the Mediterranean, packed with migrants from Syria, Eritrea, and Africa.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited his Syrian troops in Jobar to discuss the damage various anti-government factions have done to the state. Speaking just northeast of Damascus as the beleaguered country entered its fourth year of a civil war, he had little hope to offer his troops.
