President Barack Obama’s former top adviser conceded that voters in 2016 may be fed up with Obama’s dithering and want a president who projects a sense of certainty. “Even when a president is popular, people tend to seek the remedy
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says the plight of people fleeing Syria’s civil war has reached “a new level of hopelessness” as overstretched neighbors make it more difficult to escape and developed countries like the United States resettle
The notorious terrorist nicknamed the ‘White Widow’ has been shot and killed, according to a Russian news agency. Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was reported dead by the Moscow outlet Regnum, allegedly killed by a volunteer sniper in East Ukraine. The incident
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group and other extremists in Syria have killed more than 860 people, including civilians, since they began in mid-September, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human
The Shaam News Network posted a video of a young Syrian boy who ran into sniper fire to rescue a small girl. The incident allegedly took place in Yabroud, which is along the Syria-Lebanon border. The Telegraph reports people believe
CAIRO (AP) — Two car bombs and an explosion struck Wednesday in two eastern Libyan cities that are temporary homes to the nation’s elected parliament and government, inflicting an unspecified number of casualties, officials said. The attacks were a worrisome
In Germany, authorities arrested ten men on suspicions of robbing churches and schools to fund the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), Ahrar al-Sham, and Jund al-Sham in Syria. The men, aged 22 to 58 years old, resided in Cologne, Siegen, Bergisch-Gladbach, Kreuztal,
A key terror suspect has skipped bail and fled to join the Islamic State in Syria after British police failed to confiscate his passport, merely asking him to hand it over instead. Siddhartha Dhar, 31, was arrested with eight other
(Reuters) – About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin
Islamist forces have blown up a church dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the last Islamic Caliphate in 1915, burning the extensive library of manuscripts kept there and exhuming the bones of hundreds of
London, November 11 (QNA) – The UK carried out its first drone attack on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq over the weekend, the UK Ministry of Defense said. An RAF Reaper drone was involved in coalition missions near Baiji,
A bomb attack on a school by radical Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed the lives of 48 students and teachers, with a further 79 injured after a suicide bomber entered the school morning assembly yesterday. The school, a boys
Taurine-loaded Red Bull has become the energy drink of choice for Islamist fighters in Syria, as it is revealed dozens of lorries are crossing the Turkish border every week, carrying cargoes of the drink to fatigued fighters battling militias and
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed paths during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit while meeting with world leaders, taking group photos, planting trees, watching fireworks, and attending a formal dinner. At one point, Putin paused to clap Obama on
Kurds battling the Islamic State jihadist group in Kobane reportedly made advances Tuesday in the south of the flashpoint Syrian town on the border with Turkey. Top Kurdish officials told AFP their fighters were advancing “street by street”, voicing confidence
CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The announcement reflects the growing regional appeal of
In a welcome challenge to the barbaric gender apartheid practiced by ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all the Al-Qaeda offshoots, a group of Kurds in northeastern Syria have issued a women’s right decree which calls for “equality between men and women in all
CAIRO (AP) — Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a jihadi organization based in the Sinai Peninsula that has carried out several attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The announcement reflects the growing regional appeal of
British Muslim jihadis are preferred by Islamic State to undertake suicide bomb attacks because they get more publicity, claims the cousin of the most recent attacker. Faheed Hussain, the former Mayor of Derby, was speaking after reports into the death
In a rhapsodic radio performance on Monday that was at times operatic in its tone, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin delivered an on-air reading of the new Holocaust memoir by Martin Greenfield, Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to
Senior ministers have been warned that the sheer number of terrorist plots presently being planned in the UK means one slipping through the security service net is “almost inevitable”. Although the police, working with the security services and the government’s
A former member of the Islamic State told Newsweek that Turkey cooperates with the brutal Islamic State in Syria. The former Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) communications technician, now using the pseudonym “Sherko Omer,” said the Turkish army allows foreign fighters
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in western Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such an attack or
BEIRUT (AP) — At least four nuclear scientists and electric engineers were killed near Damascus after gunmen opened fire on their bus, a pro-government Syrian newspaper and activists said on Monday. There was no fighting around where the men were
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. conducted a series of airstrikes targeting Islamic State leaders near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. military officials said Saturday. The airstrikes on Friday night destroyed a convoy of 10 armed trucks believed to
