Breitbart News spoke Friday with Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the Islamic State’s rapid advances throughout the Middle East and how America and the Western world should concretely respond.
Britain is facing the “greatest and deepest” threat from terrorism in the country’s history, according to Prime Minister David Cameron. Speaking after the UK’s terror threat level was raised to “severe”, meaning that an attack is “highly likely”, Cameron said
Transcript as follows: A broken clock is right twice a day. And even a president not given to truthfulness occasionally is candid. One such blue moon occurred yesterday when Barack Obama responded to questions about what his administration was going
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has finally commented on the situation in Iraq and Syria, saying that Britain “cannot ignore Isis or simply shrug our shoulders and hope it goes away.” Writing for the Independent, Mr Miliband called for a
WASHINGTON (AP) — The case of Mehdi Nemmouche haunts U.S. intelligence officials. Nemmouche is a Frenchman who authorities say spent 11 months fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria before returning to Europe to act out his rage. On
(AFP) — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is “rapid” action. The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has prompted widespread concern
As many as 12,000 foreigners have gone to Syria to fight the government of Bashar Assad. Many have joined extremist groups, including the al-Nusra front, an al-Qaida affiliate, and the Islamic State group, which now controls a territory straddling Syria
“But I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. We don’t have a strategy yet.” With those words, President Barack Obama summarized the weakness and incompetence of his own administration. Nearly six years into office, and several years after
Approximately forty-three peacekeepers from the UN Disengagement Force (UNDOF) have been kidnapped while stationed in the Golan Heights area near the border of Syria and Israel. Initial reports have stated that the 43 are all Fiji nationals. Many blame the
The United Nations said the number of Syrian refugees registered in neighboring countries since 2011 will pass the three-million mark as of Friday, according to Reuters. That figure is one million refugees higher than last year. In addition, another 6.5
Amid reports that as many as 300 Americans are fighting along ISIS in Iraq and Syria and citing his own record of having introduced two bills while serving in the Senate that would have stripped U.S. citizenship from those “providing material
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest took great lengths to explain why President Obama’s comment about having no strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Syria. Earnest acknowledged that he responded quickly on Twitter to clarify Obama’s “no strategy” statement
As the threat from Islamic State grows, one Australian Muslim has written that his religion has problems with extremism, which all Muslims need to confront. Writing for the Brisbane Times, Glenn Mohammed, who is an officer with the Australian Army
British Prime Minister David Cameron reported that “the first ISIL-inspired terrorist acts on the continent of Europe have already taken place,” and declared the group “a greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before” in a
On Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough suggested there was more than meets the eye to President Barack Obama’s “no strategy” remarks given at a press conference a day earlier pertaining to take the fight to ISIS in
In an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” White House press Secretary Josh Earnest attempted to walk back President Barack Obama’s remarks from Thursday in which he said the United States did not have a “strategy” to deal with ISIS in
On Thursday, President Obama held a press conference in which he humiliated himself entirely on the question of America’s handling of the terror group ISIS. Explaining that he had to consult Congress and check the pulse of Americans, Obama stated,
The British government has raised the terror threat level today from SUBSTANTIAL to SEVERE, indicating the increased likelihood of an attack on British soil. Home Secretary Teresa May announced the raising of the terror threat on television on Friday afternoon.
Alastair Crooke, a former British intelligence officer and expert in the Middle East writing in the Huffington Post, connects the history of Saudi Arabian Wahhabism to the rise of the brutal terrorist jihadi group Islamic State. The dramatic arrival of
From The National Interest: In places across Indonesia, small collections of political Islamists have “openly pledged their allegiance” to the extremist terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS). One of those who have voiced their support is Abu Bakar Bashir, the
Before leaving for New York for a series of fundraisers, President Obama held a press conference at the White House to discuss his lack of strategy on Syria. Obama told reporters that his strategy was still developing, and that he
On August 27, the identity of a second American killed fighting for ISIS was revealed, “Abdirahmaan Muhumed from Minneapolis.” According to FOX 9’s Seth Kaplan, Muhumed was profiled by Minnesota Public Radio in June. MPRNews reported Muhumed was one of
SAN DIEGO, California — American citizen Douglas McAuthur McCain, recently killed in Syria after reportedly fighting alongside ISIS militants, has been at the center of new concerns over home-grown terrorists in the United States. McCain lived for years in San
In response to Report: Second American Killed Fighting for ISIS Identified: I’m afraid that the media reporting of all future American jihadists killed in Syria and Iraq will only continue to project U.S. foreign and domestic policy weakness to Islamists,
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Europe tries to deal with increasing flood of migrants from Africa United Nations accuses Syria of continuing use of chemical weapons Israel’s army exchanges fire with Syria’s al-Nusra front Europe tries to deal with
