Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his ministers on Sunday that the military campaign against Gaza militants would continue until peace is restored to southern Israel. “Operation Protective Edge will continue until its aims are achieved… it may take time,”
Do you consider yourself to be English or British? Personally I’ve always considered myself British. Although I’ve lived my life entirely in the south east of England I’ve never thought of our Scottish neighbours as foreigners. And as a libertarian,
The sadistic beheading of the American journalist James Foley by an ISIL killer apparently from Britain, just a few days ago, is the first such killing of an American by a jihadist with a British passport. But it is the
A notoriously fierce segment of the Kurdish security forces are striking terror into the hearts of ISIS terrorists – female fighters. The Jihadists have no problem slaughtering defenseless women but they don’t like facing armed female warriors in battle — because
Adi Kochavi and Matan Gilat writing at Vocativ: Any doubts about how ruthless and single-minded the Islamic State (commonly referred to as ISIS) had become were dispelled on Tuesday. A gruesome propaganda video began circulating that evening, showing the purported beheading of James Foley, an American journalist
The barbaric murder of American journalist James Foley by the radical Islamic caliphate Islamic State this week is a prime example of how President Obama just does not understand the world in which we live. Back in January, President Obama
(AFP) — A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned that Islamist militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada
What do you want to be? A jihadist, or to execute a martyrdom operation?” In the “caliphate” recently proclaimed by jihadists in Syria and Iraq, even young children are indoctrinated, and Sharia law is backed by the gun, according to
A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned that Islamist militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), on
As the world focuses its attention on London in the search for the Jihadi known as John who brutally murdered James Foley, a French journalist has spoken publicly for the first time about his time at the hands of the
Is the man who ran for President as the anti-war candidate about to take America to war in Iraq and Syria? Listening to the Obama administration this week, it certainly sounds that way. U.S. engagement with ISIS started as a
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the Sub-Committee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence said that “ISIS is more powerful now, and more deadly than Al Qaeda was on September 11.” He urged the president
(Reuters) – Authorities suspect around 130 people resident in Austria – most of them foreign nationals – have allied themselves with Islamist militants fighting abroad, officials in Vienna said on Friday, raising their estimate by nearly a third. Public safety
The Boston Globe headlines its editorial on the hideous murder of American journalist James Foley “Beheading of Foley Exposes True Nature of ‘Islamic State.’” I’m sorry, guys, but putting the name of the new caliphate into scare quotes is too
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader, or “caliph” of the Islamic State terror group is reportedly on the move from Iraq to Syria, according to a top Kurdish official. It was said that Baghdadi feared U.S. airstrikes were rapidly closing
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that the threat of the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant was “beyond anything we’ve seen.” He explained: They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq
The President of Indonesia called the actions of the Islamic State terror group “embarrassing” to the religion of Islam, AFP reports. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of Indonesia, the country with the world’s biggest population of Muslims, said, “It is shocking.
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In a speech Thursday at the Heritage Foundation, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered remarks about the border crisis. During a question and answer session, Perry was asked whether he believed there was a serious threat that the unsecured border could allow the
The former head of the British Army General the Lord Dannatt has called on the UK and America to open up discussions about working with Syria to defeat ISIS. Lord Dannatt appeared on the BBC Today programme to say that despite
Despite Obama’s claim that we have al Qaeda on the run, attacks by al Qaeda and other global jihadis have taken a sharp swing upwards says Sebastian Gorka in a recent article and interview. As events in Iraq and Syria
As the hunt for the ‘world’s most wanted’ man, Jihadi John, intensifies, the Daily Mail has reported that Britain’s security services are seeking to contact an NHS doctor and his brother, the latter of whom is believed to be fighting with
A spokesperson for the supposedly ‘non-violent’ group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) has appeared on video calling for Muslims around the world to rise up against the governments of the countries in which they live, with special reference to “going abroad and
PARIS (AP) — Two girls, aged 15 and 17, are under investigation in France for allegedly making plans to join jihadis in Syria. The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the girls, one from Tarbes in the southwest, the
(Reuters) – A British Muslim leader called for action on Thursday to tackle a jihadi sub-culture after an Islamic State video showed a suspected Briton beheading U.S. journalist James Foley, held hostage in Syria. In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
As women’s liberation campaigns go it’s fairly unusual, but a British woman who defected to ISIS has called for her right to behead. Khadijah Dare, who goes under the name Muhajirah fi Sham (‘Immigrant in Syria’) has taken to Twitter
