President Barack Obama ordered air strikes against ISIS targets inside Syria overnight. He received the full backing of Republican leaders in Congress. The attacks raise a number of military–and political–questions: 1. When did Congress authorize U.S. attacks in Syria? It
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes Monday night on Islamic State group targets in Syria, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group a safe haven.
On “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby offered a rough assessment of exactly what U.S. airstrikes the night before on ISIS targets in Syria accomplished. “We conducted against ISIL targets with our Arab
The British House of Commons is to vote on whether to to recognise the Palestinian territories as a country, in what is being talked about as a major coup for anti-Israel activists. The vote will be accompanied by a six
A new video featuring the British detainee John Cantlie has surfaced on the internet, just hours after the United States began air strikes against ISIS and Khorasan terrorists in Syria. Cantlie, who reads monotonously to camera during the high production
A US-led coalition hit Islamic State group targets in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor early Tuesday as well as in its Raqa province stronghold, a monitoring group said. Most of the targets hit were in the Deir Ezzor town
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has shot down a Syrian aircraft that infiltrated its airspace over the Golan Heights. The military says a “Syrian aircraft infiltrated into Israeli air space” on Tuesday morning. It says the military
An ISIS fighter captured by Iraqi Kurds has told local media that British jihadists are often considered “useless” by ISIS top brass and are good for nothing else but suicide squads, but regardless enjoy all the “perks” of ISIS life,
Western intelligence services claim to have identified an Al-Qaeda splinter group which is attempting to use the influx of Westerners to Syria as a vector to launch a new wave of 9/11 style attacks on the West, but frustratingly almost
The current and immediate past chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee have publicly backed President Barack Obama’s airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, despite the fact the president did not seek congressional approval for them “When in times of war
On Tuesday morning’s early morning coverage of U.S. air strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed her skepticism on a number of different levels as to whether or not this action was proper given strategic and
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, declared that the United States’ commencement of airstrikes against ISIS in Syria showed that the United States was at war “without a doubt” and that there was
During the 2012 vice-presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden criticized then-Republican presidential nominee former Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R-MA) statements that he would do more in Syria by asking Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) if he favored “putting American
Monday night has news had broken that the United States had begun hitting ISIS targets in Syria, in its breaking news coverage anchored by Shepherd Smith, the Fox News Channel aired what appeared to be amateur video on the ground
BEIRUT (AP) — Fighters of the Islamic State militant group are ready to battle a U.S.-led military coalition seeking to destroy it, the group’s spokesman said in a new audio recording in which he called on Muslims worldwide to kill
The Islamic State has reportedly massacred dozens of Kurdish members of their group because the men refused to extend their participation in jihad to the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria. The jihadists are moving towards the north to capture
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making headlines again for his remarks that the West can’t win against the Islamic State unless we put boots on the ground. In interviews with BBC Radio and on CNN’s State of the
A number of children, one aged just thirteen, have left Germany for Syria and Iraq to join Islamic jihadists. Some have already returned with battle experience. They join around 400 other Germans who have left for the Islamic State to
Children as young as thirteen have left Germany for the Middle East to wage jihad on behalf of the Islamic State, according to Hans-Georg Maaben, the head of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). “The youngest
This weekend some 130,000 Syrian refugees flooded across the border into Turkey, according to the Turkish Vice-Premier Numan Kurtulmus. The refugees, mostly Kurds, are fleeing Sunni extremist fighters from the ISIS who launched an offensive against Kurdish communities in northern
CAIRO, Sept 21 (Reuters) – A bomb blast beside Egypt’s foreign ministry killed three policemen on Sunday, including a key witness in a trial of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. The blast, the worst attack in Cairo for months, killed
(AFP) Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday warned Australians fighting with extremist groups in the Middle East they face lengthy jail terms if they return home. Australia has announced tougher counter-terrorism laws to target home-grown terrorists and those who fight
John Cantlie has featured in ISIS’s latest propaganda video in a bizarre ‘chat-show’ style film, in his second period of incarceration with ISIS, having already escaped captivity in 2012 and subsequently allowed himself to be recaptured. The period leading up
A British man has been punched and knocked unconscious after saying “f*ck Allah” in a kebab shop. The man was filmed by his attacker and the video was later posted on the video sharing site YouTube. In the video an
LONDON, United Kingdom – Piles of discarded placards in the streets are now all that remain of the festival of feel-good, eco-warrioring that was yesterday’s People’s Climate March in central London. Apparently blissfully unaware of their hypocrisy, marchers have left
