A trustworthy source confirmed to Breitbart News that Garland attacker Nadir Hamid Soofi indeed did not buy a 9mm; however, Soofi did purchase a High Point .380 caliber pistol from that Fast and Furious-associated Phoenix gun dealer in February 2010. This was during the notorious Fast and Furious operation involving a firearms dealer that federal authorities authorized to sell the gun to Soofi.
Sources told the BBC that Afghani Jalaluddin Haqqani, who founded the terrorist Haqqani network syndicate, died at least a year ago after a long illness.
According to the Kurdish Rudaw news agency, Turkish airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets destroyed a health clinic in the Amediye district of Duhok. The clinic is said to have serviced several nearby villages. No casualties were reported.
Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, called on Friday for world powers to unilaterally dismantle their nuclear weapons, while specifically demanding that Israel also follow suit.
Turkey Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu visited Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani to discuss Turkey’s plan with the United States to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The talks took place in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
A matter of days after 54 American-trained moderate Syrian Rebel Army fighters reported for duty, the New York Times reports that the commander of the unit plus seven of his fighters—including his second-in-command—have been kidnapped by the Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda franchise, while they were returning from a meeting in Turkey.
Samir Kuntar, a Hezbollah commander who became a hero in the Middle East after allegedly murdering a 4-year-old Israeli Jewish girl, has reportedly been killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on his position in Syria.
An Iranian nuclear official announced on Thursday that the country plans to build two new nuclear power plants in the country’s southeast, just two weeks after a nuclear deal was signed between world powers (United States, UK, France, China, Russia) and the Ayatollah’s regime in Tehran.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University and a Breitbart contributor, appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday to respond to a Rutgers University professor who recently claimed that the Islamic State terror group “is brutal, but [the] US is more so.”
Iran has stopped funding the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, according to a senior Hamas official. Financial aid from Iran has “greatly helped the resistance in Palestine; without this assistance it will be hard for us to cope,” Hamas’s Moussa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel reports.
Secretary of State John Kerry revealed this week that he will skip Israel on his forthcoming visit to the Middle East, a development some have pointed to as a sign that relations between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu-led Israeli government continue to deteriorate.
A Western New York man is in federal custody after being charged with attempting to join ISIS in the Middle East, the FBI said Wednesday.
They buy and sell the women, using them as slaves. They kidnap children, even infants, and detonate them as bombs. As the Islamic State tightens its grip on Syria and Iraq, the horror of its atrocities reaches unimaginable depths. And what remains of Christianity in the Middle East is dying, massacred through the torture, displacement, and murder of an entire population.
The Obama administration is extending the availability of Temporary Protected Status for current TPS beneficiaries from Somalia for another 18 months, through March 17, 2017.
Bahraini officials are accusing Iran of providing the weaponry used Tuesday during a deadly terror attack that killed two policeman in the archipelago nation.
Christians living in the Middle East are facing a dire situation in which comparable circumstances have not been observed for over a millennia, a recent study by the Pew Research Center has found, Christianity Today reports. The outlet notes that Christian populations in the Middle East have dwindled from 14 percent to four percent.
Republican members of the House made headlines for grilling Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, but Democrat Rep. Ted Deutch landed a solid punch by noting the Administration is absurdly downplaying how much damage Iran can do with all the money Obama wants to give them, long before they detonate a nuclear bomb.
Lifting economic sanctions on Iran will allow it to funnel more money to Hezbollah in Latin America, increasing the threat that terrorist group poses to the United States, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told Breitbart News.
In a heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry refused to say whether the Obama administration would commit to Congressionally-imposed sanctions against Iran, should congress overturn a presidential veto on the Iran nuclear deal.
According to reports, former Guantanamo Bay detainees were arrested near the Belgian city of Antwerp on terrorism charges. “We have dismantled a serious recruiting network for Syria,” a Belgian counterterrorism official said.
In light of the PKK’s recent string of assassinations of police officers, it is unethical and naive to think that the US should unconditionally support any and all Kurdish entities as a counter-balance to radical Islamism.
The States of New York and California have no intention of complying with the Iran deal’s requirement that state and local governments lift their own sanctions against the Iranian regime.
President Obama has begun a two-day visit of Ethiopia, the first sitting United States President to visit the East African country.
Bahrain has recalled its ambassador to Iran in protest of a Tehran-backed plot to smuggle arms and large explosives into the archipelago nation, Bahraini authorities said over the weekend.
(Warning for Government Employees and Contractors: Classified Information Below) In the final moments of negotiations concerning Iran’s nuclear program, the Obama administration allowed for Iran to never have to reveal its past nuclear weapons research and development. Iran’s past nuclear
