
With only one year left in President Obama’s tenure, the White House continues to hint at the possibility that the President may use his executive powers to unilaterally shut down Guantánamo Bay prison without the consent of Congress.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Nov 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) showed Reuters a report that claims the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and another rebel group in Syria used chemical weapons.
by Mary Chastain6 Nov 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

One of the reasons American and British intelligence agencies suspect an ISIS-linked terrorist attack brought down the Russian Metrojet passenger plane over Egypt is the volume of online chatter between ISIS militants, who appear genuinely convinced their operatives bombed the plane. The Internet has proven useful for spreading both claims of such foul deeds and the knowledge needed to perpetrate them.
by John Hayward6 Nov 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ended its ceasefire with Turkey on Thursday after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development (AKP) Party swept parliamentary elections.
by Mary Chastain6 Nov 2015, 8:42 AM PST0

Iran state-media outlets are reporting that Iran has begun to blockade imports from the United States.
by Jordan Schachtel5 Nov 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

Federal authorities charged four men in Ohio for conspiring to raise money and aid for Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch and its former member, U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki.
by Mary Chastain5 Nov 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

Terrorists from the Abu Sayyaf Philippines-based jihadi group, an affiliate of the Islamic State, have demanded over $60 million dollars for three Western hostages who were kidnapped at the country’s resort island of Samal.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Nov 2015, 8:54 PM PST0

As Western intelligence agencies consider the possibility that ISIS destroyed a Russian airliner over Egypt, killing 224 civilians, the Islamic State seems eager to take credit for the deed.
by John Hayward4 Nov 2015, 7:51 PM PST0

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) are introducing legislation calling for the government to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Nov 2015, 2:35 PM PST0

Not long after British officials voiced suspicions that a bomb destroyed a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people, an American official said U.S. intelligence also has “a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane.”
by John Hayward4 Nov 2015, 12:57 PM PST0

As Iranian Dictator Ali Khamenei led the commonly-heard “Death To America” chants in Tehran on Tuesday, he argued that “Death to America” does not really mean what it sounds like.
by Jordan Schachtel4 Nov 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

10 Downing Street issued a statement suggesting a bomb might have caused the destruction of a Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
by Mary Chastain4 Nov 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

The editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s largest publication in western Xinjiang province, China, was dismissed from his job and will be prosecuted for “serious discipline breaches” that include questioning China’s policy to combat Islamist Uyghur terrorism in the region.
by Frances Martel3 Nov 2015, 7:15 PM PST0

According to U.S. officials, satellite imagery shows a heat flash immediately before a Russian plane crashed into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This evidence could disprove the theory the plane was shot down by a missile.
by Mary Chastain3 Nov 2015, 10:56 AM PST0

On Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded the House of Representatives for passing a bipartisan resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority (PA) for incitement.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

The office of Iranian ‘Supreme Leader’ Ali Khamenei has released a new video titled “Satan’s Confessions,” a threatening propaganda film that highlights a series of supposed faults of the United States.
by Jordan Schachtel3 Nov 2015, 8:16 AM PST0

If the Palestinian Ministry of Health is to be believed, Israeli forces are now harvesting the corneas of dead terrorists.
by Jordan Schachtel3 Nov 2015, 7:33 AM PST0

Days after Metrojet’s Airbus A321 crashed in Egypt over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, officials from the airline are now saying the plane was taken down by an “external influence.” The plane, which carried mostly Russian passengers, was flying from a Red Sea resort to St. Petersburg, Russia.
by Lee Stranahan2 Nov 2015, 8:59 PM PST0

Publishers, writers, and bloggers in Bangladesh have had enough of their colleagues being executed simply for expressing secular beliefs and critiquing Islam.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Nov 2015, 8:37 PM PST0

The Federal Bureau Of Investigation has suspended the unveiling of a new counter-radicalization website designed for kids after fringe Islamic advocacy organizations said the anti-terror programming discriminates against Muslims.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Nov 2015, 7:56 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization published a new video Sunday in its latest anti-Jewish propaganda series of clips, threatening to go to war against Israel and Jews as a whole.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Nov 2015, 2:02 PM PST0

Alan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard Law School professor and Middle East expert, won over Oxford University’s Oxford Union on Sunday in a debate over the Boycott Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel, defeating his opponent 137-101 in the heart of liberal academia.
by Jordan Schachtel1 Nov 2015, 8:41 PM PST0

Syrian-born San Diego resident and naturalized U.S. citizen Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati pleaded guilty this week to lying to federal officials about knowing members of ISIS. He admitted to being involved with another terror group, and lying about engaging in combat or firing a weapon in Syria during a March terrorism-related interview at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey.
by Michelle Moons31 Oct 2015, 1:10 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terror group says it is responsible for downing a Russian passenger jet that crashed Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
by Jordan Schachtel31 Oct 2015, 11:44 AM PST0

Sky News has declared a day of “celebration” following the news that Saudi citizen and former UK resident Shaker Aamer has returned to British soil following 13 years in Guantanamo Bay. As part of the package on Mr. Aamer’s return,
by Raheem Kassam30 Oct 2015, 9:51 AM PST0