Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been sentenced to life in prison, stemming from charges that he was responsible for countless murders and violent acts during riots in Cairo last year. The trial was known as
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve estimated that roughly 930 of his citizens, including upwards of 60 being women, are waging jihad on behalf of Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria. France is set to host a summit in Paris on
Exxon and Russia’s state-oil company have recently inked a deal to tap billions of barrels of crude oil in Russia; despite sanctions passed against the Kremlin by both the United States and the European Union. However, the Western entities have
Hamas Chairman Khaled Mashaal is reportedly considering leaving Qatar after news broke that several Muslim Brotherhood officials have been politely asked to depart the country. A Tunisian newspaper reported that Mashaal is contemplating a move to Tunisia, Turkey, or Malaysia.
John Yoo, former legal counsel to the George W. Bush White House, weighed in on President Obama’s unilateral authority to go after the Islamic State terrorist group without requesting congressional approval. Despised by the Left, Yoo is best known for
The Assyrian community and the Kurds of Iraq have staked a claim to areas throughout the region, including the Nineveh province in the State’s north. Due to the Islamic State’s surge through the country, geopolitical ramifications have caused both entities
German and Turkish officials have announced that they will not send fighter jets to Iraq and Syria as part of a coalition effort to conduct air strikes against the Islamic State terror group.Turkey has in addition also refused its airspace
President Obama in his September 10 speech to the nation officially confirmed that the United States has been “sending arms to Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian opposition.” While Obama did not state specifically what group(s) America is providing assistance
A McKinley Middle School teacher in Washington, D.C., has announced that he or she will apologize for assigning a controversial homework assignment to students–asking them to find comparisons between Adolf Hitler and George W. Bush and record them on a
Tim Arango, Baghdad Bureau Chief of the New York Times, lit up President Obama’s Middle East policies in a recent “Ask Me Anything” Q & A session with users of the online forum Reddit. One user asked, “How do you
China is moving forward with plans to create a fifth branch of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), one which will be dedicated to space operations, Japanese media reports. Japanese paper Yomiuri Shimbun reported last month that Chinese-party officials submitted an
Some 130 Canadian nationals have gone overseas to fight in Syria and Iraq on behalf of radical Islamist groups, according to a recent report by Public Safety Canada. The report added that, specifically, the conflict in Syria–with Sunni Islamist forces fighting against
British-Iranian Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, has been locked up in Iran’s infamous Evin prison for over two months because she dared to attempt to watch a men’s volleyball game in Tehran. On June 20, Ghavami and over a dozen others tried
Israel is supplying satellite photos as part of an omnibus intelligence package to assist in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, a Western diplomat told Reuters on Monday. Israel’s spy satellites reportedly are located in a position to
Mohamed Elibiary has left the Department of Homeland Security. Formerly a senior adviser to DHS, Elibiary announced on his Twitter page last week that he had moved on. The circumstances surrounding Elibiariy’s sudden departure have not yet been made public.
Breitbart Contributor Anne Bayefsky spoke at the UN Headquarters in New York City on Monday. “I will get right to the point,” she said. “The UN is not having a conference on the threat that global anti-Semitism poses to international
The US-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Al Nusra Front, and the Islamic State have paired together in order to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Armed Forces, according to statements from multiple commanders from within the FSA. “We are collaborating with
A bouncer and “part-time” actor has played an influential role in recruiting fellow Australians for the Islamic State and placing them on the battlefields in Syria and Iraq, according to an ABC Australia report. Mohammad Ali Baryalei, a 33-year old
An 11-year-old boy who resides in China’s eastern Jiangsu province stumbled upon a 3,000-year-old bronze sword while swimming in a river, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. The boy, 11-year old Yang Junxi, found the sword while he was
Because some in the West have decided to place blame upon Islamist ideology for the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, average Middle Eastern citizens have decided to approach a more edgy lifestyle and take up arms with Islamist
Nigerian Christian leaders have said that Islamic terror group Boko Haram has killed over 350 Christians in just the past week, forcing the closure of churches and Christian schools. Officials from the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) said
Arab League nations have signed off on a statement which calls upon the member states to “act to suppress the flow of foreign fighters, financing and other support to Islamist extremist groups in Iraq and Syria.” The organization’s foreign ministers
A senior commander from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood-connected jihadi group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) spoke with Reuters about how the Islamic State has helped train its terror outfit and organize its operations. “They teach us how to carry out operations.
Hussam Qawasme of Hebron was allegedly paid by terror group Hamas $61,500 dollars for masterminding the June 12 abduction and subsequent murder of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha’ar, according to a report that has been cleared
Following Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 attack against the United States, Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera was introduced to the U.S. public as the channel that received the tape where Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the worst terrorist attack on
Christianity is no longer a religion, former Turkish official Erdogan Bayraktar said at a recent conference sponsored by Turkey’s ruling (AKP) party. Bayraktar, Turkey’s Environment and Urbanism Minister until December 2013, said at the conference: The biggest three countries in the
Forty-four-year-old British humanitarian worker David Haines is in the hands of the Islamic State jihadis, awaiting his execution along with an Italian aid worker. Both were likely captured while they were volunteering their time helping with the humanitarian crisis in
A recent gathering consisting of thousands of supporters of the Islamic State (IS) took place at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Israel’s Channel 10 News reported on Wednesday. The report was part of a story set to broadcast in full next week, which
In Xinjiang, China, home to a large swath of the country’s Uyghur Muslim population, Chinese officials are encouraging inter-ethnic marriages through cash bribes among other means, the New York Times reports. The Xinjiang region has been hit with a recent
The Islamic State has claimed on social media that it is utilizing captured Syrian pilots to learn how to fly stolen jets, according to a CNN Arabic report over the weekend. The Syrian pilots, which are part of the Syrian
A Danish mosque spokesman has announced that his place of worship fully supports the Islamic State terrorist group that is waging a war of genocidal aspirations in Iraq and Syria. “An Islamic State will always be what Muslims long for,
Israeli intelligence identified and neutralized an Iranian “Yasir” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that was violating the country’s air space in the Golan Heights, Israel’s Channel 2 news reports. The drone was shot down by a MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM)
Last month, Islamist radicals seized Tripoli International Airport and took possession of as many as 11 commercial jetliners, according to a report from Magharebia, an online news site covering North Africa. News of the stolen planes have now created concerns
Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey announced Monday that Kiev has been threatened with a nuclear attack should it continue its battle against pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. According to Heletey’s statement on Facebook, “The Russian side has threatened on several occasions
Captured American journalist Steven Sotloff has reportedly been executed by a member of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. IS has released a video that purports to show the beheading of Sotloff. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has pledged weapons and ammunition to Iraqi forces battling the threat of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. He issued a statement saying: The United States government has requested that Australia help to transport stores of military
The White House has rejected a recent report that claims president Obama took as long as a month to initiate a rescue mission into Syria to attempt to save James Foley, the American journalist recently beheaded by a member of
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.
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
This week, Italian paper Il Tempo reported that Pope Francis was “in the crosshairs” of the Islamic State (IS), with the jihadi group calling him the “bearer of false truth.” Il Tempo reported that according to their sources within Italy’s
