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Australian officials announced on Thursday that they had thwarted a massive jihadist terror plot that included the planned beheadings of Australian citizens wrapped in an Islamic State (IS) flag. Eight hundred officers from special anti-terrorism police units raided several areas

Scotland’s First Minister and independence campaign leader Alex Salmond has been blasted for comparing the democratically elected government of Israel and the terrorist organisation ISIS following the beheading of British aid working David Haines. Salmond, speaking on the BBC’s Andrew

On Sunday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends Weekend” on the Fox News Channel, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the national security editor of Breitbart, discussed ISIS’s use of social media to further their cause by using it to bring in new recruits.

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron is summoning military and security chiefs for an emergency meeting Sunday in response to the beheading of a British hostage and a threat against another. The meeting comes after Islamic extremists released a

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed it executed British aid worker David Haines, in retaliation for British leader David Cameron entering a coalition with the United States against the militants. This would be the third such execution in recent weeks,

In politics, gallons of ink and countless hours of argument and debate can be swept aside or solidified by a single inflection point. Carter battling the “killer rabbit,” Reagan thundering that he “paid for this mic” or Bush prematurely swaggering

Did President Obama watch the videos of two American journalists being beheaded by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group? That’s what MSNBC’s Chuck Todd wanted to know during an interview with Obama on Sunday’s Meet the Press. Obama halted. “I’m

This article originally appeared in the New York Post: When it was revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers attended a Cambridge, Mass., mosque, its leaders were quick to disavow their actions. Elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev‘s ideology was not their own, the

Despite the best attempts of the Obama administration to declare ISIS a “regional threat” and label their ideology rootless, the truth has now penetrated the public consciousness: ISIS has global reach, largely because their ideology does as well. The latest indicator

President Barack Obama told NBC News on Sunday that he regrets the “optics” of going golfing just minutes after making a speech about the beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorists. “I’ve got to ask. During that vacation,

On September 2, Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) responded to ISIS’s beheading of a second American journalist by suggesting a wait-and-see approach that involves appeals to “moderate Sunnis,” continued “targeted strikes,” but no boots on the ground.  Udall said ISIS is

In a move unusual for a group known to have a sophisticated propaganda outfit, the jihadist terror group the Islamic State “apologized” yesterday after a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff surfaced online. The admission that the

In response to the growing threat to Iraq’s capital, President Obama approved sending 350 additional troops to protect the United States embassy in Baghdad this week. The additional troops were announced after the Islamic State terrorist group published a video

In a press statement Tuesday regarding the report of a second ISIS beheading of an American citizen, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said that though President Obama stated he “currently has no strategy to deal with ISIS,” a fact that

Vice President Joe Biden delivered a passionate speech at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, vowing to bring Islamic State terrorists to justice. Mentioning the deaths of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Biden referred to the Islamic State

Confusion within the ISIS propaganda machine led to a hasty apology being issued yesterday as the video showing the brutal execution of Journalist Steven Sotloff was apparently accidentally leaked before the agreed time. Despite this it seems to have still

This post originally appeared in The Daily Beast: In the wake of ISIS’s latest alleged killing of an American journalist, leading lawmakers from both parties are calling for a bigger role in the U.S. war against the terrorist group. Leading

President Obama confirmed that the beheading video of American journalist Steven Sotloff was authentic during a press conference in Estonia and offered his condolences to the family. Obama added that the prayers of the American people were with the family

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday condemned an Islamic State video apparently showing a militant beheading of a second US reporter and threatening to kill a British captive as “disgusting”. He said it was an “absolutely disgusting, despicable act”

Adrianne Jeffries, a reporter for The Verge, sent out a tweet to @ISIS Tuesday requesting an interview. “@ISIS Hi, I’m a reporter for @verge. I’d like to interview you. Email me…” Twitchy reports that she deleted the tweet after her

Tuesday ISIS released another disturbing video titled “A Second Message to America,” that purports to show the beheading of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff.  Last month, Sotloff’s life was threatened in the ISIS video that showed the beheading of fellow American journalist

Andrew Norfolk is the heroic, crusading Times chief investigative reporter who broke the Rotherham child sex story. But admirable though he surely is, does anyone else find something a bit disturbing about this statement he made this week? “I didn’t

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

ISIS has released a video showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, saying that the murder is in retaliation for US air strikes against the group in Iraq. Sotloff is the second American journalist to be killed by the

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news of a second American journalist beheaded by ISIS. Earnest said that he hadn’t seen the reports but that the administration had been watching the situation “very carefully.” Just minutes before

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for a few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on

Within just days of a video surfacing showing ?the decapitation of four Egyptian nationals, the Cairo government took decisive military action and killed the leader of the Jihadist group alleged to have been responsible .  Several sources have reported that on Sunday,

The jihadist terror group Islamic State (IS), formerly known as ISIS, has become a particularly dangerous threat to the West through its guerrilla-style war tactics and decentralized organization, making targeting leaders more difficult for Western militaries.  ISIS leaders are now

From The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Al-Hayat Media, an important part of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine, released the third issue of its English-language jihadist publication Dabiq Friday. It released its first two editions of the magazine written in the

Controversial Member of Parliament George Galloway is suing a Northern Irish campaigner over allegations that Galloway supports terrorism, made during a protest outside Galloway’s Saturday night show in Belfast. Despite local councillors calling on the Council to drop the booking,

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), the co-chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Caucus argued that the beheading of American journalist James Foley was “just a preview” of what ISIS is capable. “It’s very important to push back aggressively, and

Forensic analysts have raised the possibility that the video depicting the beheading of American journalist James Foley may have been staged in parts to extract maximum propaganda effect against the West, reports The Times. After a segment on U.S. President

Sunday, Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin said both American and British intelligence officials suspect a British-born rapper is the jihadist seen on video beheading journalist James Foley. “A senior Western intelligence official told Fox News that 23-year-old London rapper Abdel