The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) destroyed the 4th century Mar Behnam Catholic monastery in Iraq on Thursday. The terrorists have vowed to erase all Christian history within their territories conquered in the Middle East.
The story of Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh is disturbing, but not entirely unique, as a report from NJ.com notes. A federal indictment charges that the New Jersey man–a born-and-bred American who served four years in the Air Force–began following the Islamic State online and decided to join the jihad by arranging a “vacation” to Turkey, with an eye toward slipping across the border into Syria.
On Monday, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed they kidnapped 20 foreign doctors and nurses in Sirte, Libya. Arab media reported the majority of the kidnapped came from the Philippines, while others were from Ukraine, Serbia, and India. However, reports from the respective countries contradict the terrorist group.
The Editorial Boards of both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times went into full meltdown mode on Wednesday following the landslide victory of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s elections.
Radical Islamic Twitter accounts, mainly associated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), cheered the slaughter of twenty-two innocent civilians at a museum in Tunisia.
The alarming, but fortunately well-controlled, incident on United Flight 1074 remains a mystery two days later. The plane was headed from Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., to Denver when a man rushed the cockpit shortly after takeoff, screaming a number of alarming things, including the word “jihad.”
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong arrived in Havana this week, just in time for the resumption of talks between Cuba and the United States. In public statements praising the Cuban government, Ri praised Cuba’s continued “fight against American imperialism” and vowed that North Korea would remain a loyal ally to Cuba.
As Israelis vote Tuesday, one critical factor may be the youth vote, newly-energized by a contested race (and by millions of dollars in foreign donations, including from U.S. taxpayers, to left-wing get-out-the-vote efforts). One critical factor in the expected strong performance by the Zionist Union opposition to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is that young Israelis voting for the first time will have had no real memory of the Oslo peace process–and its failure.
We’ve known for years that most Americans support the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance apparatus. Poll after poll shows that about roughly 53 percent of Americans think the government should prioritize investigating terrorism over privacy.
Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News that the United States is now willing to negotiate with (and accept as a legitimate ruler) Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a striking contrast from the administration’s prior insistence that regime change would be the only tolerated approach for Damascus.
Britain needs to be vigilant as many more young Muslims are travelling to Syria to join ISIS than previously realised, a senior politician has said. Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, made his comments last night following the
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On Sunday, Pope Francis decried the massacre of Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, and denounced a worldwide effort to conceal the reality of Christian persecution.
Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.
Nigerian troops reported this week that they discovered a facility they are describing as a “bomb factory” run by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram in northeast Borno state.
CIA Director John Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an “Islamic” terrorist organization in a Friday speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, repeating White House rhetoric.
On Fox & Friends this morning, Breitbart National Security editor and Major General Horner Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Dr. Sebastian Gorka warned that any intervention against the Islamic State in Iraq on the part of Iran was not a positive development for the United States, as the warring factions of Islam are both fighting to establish a caliphate.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with the Washington Post for a wide-ranging interview, covering a plethora of issues in which his country remains deeply involved, including the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood and global jihadi terrorism and Egypt’s promising relationship with the state of Israel.
Rasmieh Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist who had previously been convicted of assisting in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for omitting her involvement in the jihadist act on her U.S. immigration papers, according to reports.
Reuters reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, using an undercover operative, have thwarted a plot by a Pakistani man to attack the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in the financial district of Toronto.
In a demonstration of close ties between Tehran and the Palestinian terror group, Hamas chairman Khaled Mashaal, who has made a home in Qatar, met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larjani on Wednesday during his visit to Doha.
Between 2006 and 2007, at least twelve Democratic Congressmen agreed to meet with Iranian officials in the Ayatollah’s regime at the behest of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) President Trita Parsi, according to a report by Hassan Dai of the Iranian American Forum.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined others in calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Great Sphinx and Pyramids. In a statement out this week, said it is a Muslim’s “religious duty” to destroy the monuments. The monuments are the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World still in existence.
The Kurdish town of Kobane opened up the first school since the town was liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.
Former Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) hostage Nicolas Henin, 39, spoke out recently about his ten months with the jihadist group. He told the BBC the militants enjoyed Teletubbies and Game of Thrones. He also claimed there were some who could not come to terms with the blood the group spills on an almost daily basis.
The Saudi Arabian government has responded with fury to suggestions that its jailing and vicious punishment of a liberal activist was in any way unjustified.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), the chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, released a manual to help Americans prepare for terrorist attacks and cyber crimes.
As recently as last night Eastern Time, reports circulated that the Colombia government had approved the extradition of major Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist Eduardo Cabrera (alias ‘The Priest’) to New York, where he awaits a 16-year prison term. Hours later, the government has rescinded its agreement with the United States.
In 2014, Saudi Arabia passed India as the largest weapons importer in the world, according to a new report on world defense trade by the London-based IHS Jane’s organization. The figure covers all defense imports, except for munitions and small arms, leaving out anything under 57mm caliber.
A 20-year-old man who planned to murder the president and attack the U.S. Capitol with pipe bombs confessed he made the plans in sympathy with ISIS. In an interview from jail, he warned that the group has followers in every state and claimed additional attacks are on the way.
Two teenage boys were stopped by Aussie authorities while they were attempting to fly out of Sydney Airport and join the Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihad in Syria and Iraq.
As the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) expands, members are reporting rifts in various factions of the group. Those who have fled the group and residents in areas the jihadist group controls claim that the more fighters the group recruits, the more problems ISIS leaders have begun to face.
Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, the Islamic State terrorist responsible for butchering multiple Western hostages, has reportedly apologized to his family for the troubles his unmasking has caused them. However, Jihadi John did not apologize for his barbaric murders of innocents.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly destroyed Khorsabad, nine miles from Mosul, the third city over the weekend. Residents alerted Iraqi officials on Sunday about possible looting.
(Reuters) – A series of bombings killed one person and injured nine in Egypt’s second city of Alexandria on Sunday and an attack by unidentified gunmen in another province wounded two others, security and medical sources said.
Social media is ablaze with rumors that Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died. Iranian state-media has yet to confirm or deny such rumors.
Maiduguri, Nigeria, the capital of Borno State, faced at least five suicide bombings in four areas on Saturday, which left over 50 people dead and 139 injured. Authorities reported at least one suicide bomber was a female. The country rescheduled its February 14 presidential election to March due to violence.
Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reports that the government has officially confirmed that an Islamic State commander is receiving treatment for his battle wounds at the Pamukkale University Hospital.
A 30-year-old high school biology teacher from Manchester named Jamshed Javeed was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for his plan to join up with ISIS.
Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress, where he warned about the grave threats to the world posed by a potentially-nuclear Iran, the Jewish leader has received surprising support from a group of popular Saudi columnists.
