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This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: Is the Pontiff of Peace advocating war? No, but the self-proclaimed “Caliph” Ibrahim wants his fight to be a true holy war on both sides, and his strategy seems to be succeeding.

Editors Note: This article ran today in The Daily Beast. We reprint here. In The Gambia, Africa’s smallest country, located perilously closely to the affected territories, uncertainty is growing. Walk-in centers at its two hospitals remain full, spilling over with

This article originally appeared in The Daily Beast: The President didn’t want to strike ISIS in Iraq this week, but he has no choice. But there is still no plan to defeat the group, which gets more powerful by the

When Barack Obama vaulted onto the national stage a decade ago, part of his appeal was that he seemed to be from so many places at once. All corners of the country could lay claim to him: He was Hawaiian

Does the Daily Beast want someone to shoot Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)? Is the Daily Beast calling for the assassination of Rand Paul? Is the Daily Beast hoping Rand Paul is terrorized by death threats? Back in 2011, a mere

Tel Aviv police are searching for a would-be bomber who called them to say he came from Hebron “to carry out an attack” but had changed his mind and simply “wanted to go home.”  After receiving the call on the

Editors note : The spring primary between Mitch McConnell and Matt Bevins caused a breech with grassroots groups because of the vitriol. The Daily Beast reports on the ongoing divide. The Senate minority leader, long reviled among many on the

Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah believes conservatives “love seeing Arabs get killed.” Using his Twitter account late last week, Obeidallah asked and answered his own question in the affirmative: — Do conservatives defend Netanyahu bc they share same values or

The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, is taking advantage of the anti-Semitism in Europe to recruit new members to achieve its dream of a worldwide Caliphate. Protests that start as pro-Palestine slip into violent ant-Israel rallies, and it is

Editors Note: China announced a quarantine of a city due to bubonic plague. Today’s Daily Beast had this update from Kent Sepkowitz which we reprint. China! The plague! A city quarantined! It sounds like a dismal new episode of the

On Friday’s “McLaughlin Group” on PBS, Daily Beast contributor Eleanor Clift argued that Israel deserves some blame for shooting rockets into “densely populated areas” and that Gaza’s residents should be given “access to the outside world.” After National Review’s Rich

Via the Daily Beast:  A commander of Moqtada al Sadr’s newly renamed “Peace Brigades” describes plans to reunify Iraq–with a little help from Iran. Will they fight ISIS as hard as they fought the U.S. Army? SADR CITY, Iraq —

You have to take with a big grain of salt any kind of analysis that uses a one-off as evidence that our diverse, fickle, impossible-to-nail-down culture has crossed some kind of Rubicon. The Daily Beast looks at Summer 2014’s terrible

A source told the Daily Beast that “The working theory of who” leaked copies of Daniel Halper’s upcoming book Clinton Inc.:  The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine, is “Somebody who wants to come across as a conservative.” Broadside Books

The U.S. government has created a widely popular song about the “death train” to discourage Central Americans from risking their lives in pursuit of the amnesty that they believe awaits them across the U.S.-Mexico border. The Daily Beast reported that

Jack Schwartz at The Daily Beast argues in what is surprisingly not a metaphor that the Tea Party is for all intents and purposes a religion – and as such has crossed lines that endanger American democracy: America has long been

On this weekend’s “The McLaughlin Group,” Daily Beast liberal columnist “McLaughlin Group” regular Eleanor Clift admitted there is more President Barack Obama could have done, at least from a public relations standpoint with his handling of the problems along the

From the Daily Beast: The GOP Senate campaign committee illegally funneled funds on behalf of Sen. Thad Cochran, two operatives say. In an ugly, barren press conference, they demanded a new election. There’s “no proof that this theory is true

This week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), immigrants rights groups, and a prominent law firm sued the United States government in a class-action lawsuit demanding legal representation for illegal immigrant children in deportation hearings.  According to the ACLU, the

With a new article on the rush of illegal immigrants swarming the US southern border, it is almost as if The Daily Beast just noticed that there is an immigration crisis. On July 2, The Daily Beast apparently realized that

Left-leaning Daily Beast columnist and former Clinton administration official Kirsten Powers argued that Hillary Clinton’s reaction to the Hobby Lobby ruling was “way over the top.” Powers did state that she supports “government mandated contraception,” and “the government paying for

From the Daily Beast: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighters loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have at times been as close as six miles to Baghdad, according to Iraqi and Kurdish commanders interviewed by The Daily Beast.

Note from Senior Management: Lawrence O’Donnell and his brother Michael lived through a horrific accident this past April while on vacation. His initial rehab complete he returns to MSNBC this week. Veteran journalist Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast interviews

The child rape victim in Hillary Clinton’s 1975 sexual abuse case has finally broken her silence to The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. As a young lawyer in Arkansas, Clinton defended the accused rapist, which resulted in a reduced sentence after

In a recent interview with the Daily Beast that focused on the “bigotry” and “xenophobia” of Americans who are opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants, Boston archbishop Cardinal Sean O’Malley said, “Obviously, the fear is not rational, and I think

From Eli Lake and Kimberly Dozier at The Daily Beast: A top intelligence official told lawmakers in a classified Senate briefing last week that he expected four out of the five Taliban leaders released by the Obama administration to eventually return

On June 8 The Daily Beast ran a column by Dean Obeidallah which argues gun rights opponents either need to get serious about opposing gun control or forget it. It is time to go big or go home. According to

On Thursday’s broadcast of Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Daily Beast national security correspondent Eli Lake detailed Qatar’s previous failures to control terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay. Lake told the story of Jaralla al-Marri, who was supervised under circumstances “very similar”

Infantry Officer Bradley Bethea was in Afghanistan’s Paktika province on June 30, 2009, the day Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl was reported missing.  Bergdahl’s unit was the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. Bethea was part of that same battalion

Clearly distancing herself from Barack Obama as regards exchanging Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five high-level Taliban terrorists, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making it known she “was personally and intensely involved in the debate over swapping five Taliban commanders

In a piece that former Daily Beast head Tina Brown declared a “conclusive” account about the newly freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a fellow soldier serving in Bergdahl’s same battalion recounts the story of how Bergdahl simply walked away from his military

HOUSTON, Texas–A Veterans Administration whistleblower claims that the VA hospital system in Texas is an “organized crime syndicate.” Now, it appears that VA administrators in Texas may be attempting to cover up policies that have allegedly created fake waiting lists

On May 27, The Daily Beast’s Cliff Schecter took a different tact from other gun control proponents, who have simply ignored the fact that Elliot Rodger stabbed and killed as many people as he shot and killed, when he tried