From California to New York, and everywhere in between, the Islamic State has been able to recruit dozens of young Muslims, and Muslim converts, over social media and through other means, to wage jihad against America.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Monday his nation would work to take on a broader role in the international war against terrorism, promising Russian President Vladimir Putin China would be at his disposal to aid in anti-terror efforts. Russia has deeply involved itself in the Syrian civil war on the side of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig says terrorists “want unarmed citizens” and he thinks the growing number of citizens armed for self-defense could dissuade terrorists from targeting the Motor City the way they targeted Paris.
Contrary to all the hot air emitting from Paris, there isn’t much global warming. If only the real threat we face, Islamist terrorism, fell as far short of its hype as global warming does! Last weekend, Matt Ridley and Benny Peiser noted at the Wall Street Journal that world temperatures “have gone up only very slowly, less than half as fast as the scientific consensus predicted in 1990 when the global-warming scare began in earnest.”
Army Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS), said Sunday that jihadists appear to be deserting the group in growing numbers, leaving ISIS strongholds badly secured but prompting new concerns that defecting jihadists will return home battle-hardened and ready to execute “lone wolf” attacks.
Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has been outspoken in his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the Islamic State before, but his new interview in Der Spiegel contains some of his toughest words yet, and he offers stern criticism of the Bush administration as well.
On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
The Islamic State (IS) terror group has been able to hold territory in both Iraq and Syria for some time, turning from a mere terrorist organization into a full-blown insurgency.
A loyal subordinate of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent her an email just days after the Benghazi terrorist attack, assuring her that some of the attack’s consequences were a win for her and the dead ambassador Chris Stevens.
On November 25, President Obama signed the NRA-backed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) containing provisions to protect lead ammo, expand military-to-civilian gun sales, and give local commanders the ability to allow base personnel to be armed.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan warned on Monday that it had received “credible reports of an imminent attack,” potentially within the next 48 hours.
In the most recent issue of Nikkei Asian Review, Romanian born political scientist and military analyst Edward N. Luttwak lays out a persuasive theory explaining how Italy has been so successful in thwarting Islamic terror attempts. In a word: Italy is not afraid to deport those it considers to be a threat to national security.
Former New York Police Commissioner Howard Safir warned Sunday on New York City’s AM 970 “Cats Roundtable” that the city is still susceptible to terror attacks like the ones earlier this month in Paris that left 130 dead and around 350 more injured.
Swedish national recruited by Hezbollah has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for spying for the Lebanese terror group, Israel’s Central District Court said Sunday.
Iran’s government recently came out in praise of its latest so-called anti-terrorism measures, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the official news agency of Iran reported.
TEL AVIV – An overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the current wave of terrorism against Israelis until it achieves its goals, a new opinion poll found. In a poll conducted by the Watan Research Center on 1,167 Arabs, 72% of
At least 50 U.S. soldiers arrived in Kobane, Syria, on Thursday to train Kurdish People’s Protection Unit soldiers against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
A Palestinian jihadist from the Gaza Strip who broke out of prison there in June has been killed in an Iraqi and coalition airstrike targeting the Islamic State, Abu Al-Ayna al-Ansari, leader of an ISIS-aligned Salafi jihadist group in Gaza, told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Russian bombers are dropping cluster munitions over Raqqa, Syria, the city known as the de facto capital of the Islamic State terror group, sources inside Syria confirmed to Breitbart News. Sources say Moscow is also indiscriminately targeting civilians neighborhoods populated by Sunni Muslims, killing innocent women and children in the process.
Environmental concerns, along with worry about the fortunes of Syrian civilians after ISIS is gone, kept the Obama administration from striking Islamic State oil targets, claims former CIA director Michael Morell.
It was a bombshell development last month when FBI Director James Comey estimated his agency was running over 900 active investigations against suspected ISIS operatives in the United States. On Friday, Fox News reported that at least 48 of those suspects are so high-risk that the FBI has deployed its elite Mobile Surveillance Teams to keep track of them.
The Islamic State’s affiliate in Bangladesh claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed one person and injured three others.
Iran’s state-media claims it was behind the rescue of a Russian pilot whose jet was downed by Turkish fighter jets, utilizing Hezbollah terrorists and Syrian forces to complete their mission. The Russian plane had violated Turkish airspace, causing Ankara to
Majdal Shams (AFP) – Shortly before sunset, Nidal Salah stared across the fence towards his new life in Syria with the Islamic State movement — paraglider at the ready.
In a surprise early morning police raid Tuesday, some 60 Italian cops in riot gear, accompanied by police dogs, entered a refugee welcome centre in Rome asking to see the papers of those staying there, and arrested 27 undocumented individuals from Maghreb,
In a Today Show interview that aired Thursday morning, presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio emphatically stated that he would do whatever was necessary to defeat Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, signaling urgency to do so as soon as possible.
Thanksgiving dinner promises to be especially rough for liberals this year. At home, there’s the collapsing enrollment, soaring premiums, agonizing deductibles, and shaky insurance company finances created by ObamaCare. Overseas, Islamic terrorists are making life difficult. What we really need is a handy guide for discussing global warming with your crazy ISIS relatives.
Pundits expected the terrorist attacks in Paris to shove the GOP’s primary race towards national-security debates and to boost the experienced pols, including Sen. Marco Rubio.
A federal judge is fed up with the Obama administration for its insistence upon adding additional hurdles to Guantánamo Bay detainee hearing procedures, while at the same time demanding the close of the base.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) released ten Assyrian Christians they kidnapped over nine months ago.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) styles itself as America’s largest Muslim civil rights advocacy group. Its executive director, Nihad Awad, recently took advantage of a reporter’s inflammatory article on a likely miscommunication with a presidential candidate to tweet to his English audience, “Exactly what #ISIS wants: #DonaldTrump’s recent call to force American Muslims to carry special ID.”
On this busiest travel day of the year, if – Allah forbid! – you should find yourself in some blood-spattered transportation hub, begging an ISIS-affiliated, Kalashnikov-wielding thug for mercy, do you open your backpack to show him your dog-eared copy of “Koran for Dummies?”
“One of the things that Rudy Giuliani innovated was bringing in an office of emergency management that coordinated the efforts of the police, the fire department, the environmental department, and everybody else,” Larry Levy says. “They figured out what to do to be prepared. We monitored hospital admissions in emergency rooms to see if there were signs of poisoning … things of that nature.
Erik Prince, the former head of defense contracting company Blackwater, which developed an infamous reputation for controversy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, appeared on Breitbart News Daily to discuss security measures the American people must take to protect themselves amid threats against the nation.
The Kosovar government has banned sixteen non-governmental organisations thought to be linked to Islamist groups, according to media reports from within the country. The Interior Minister of Kosovo, Skender Hyseni, signed an executive ruling revoking the licenses of the 16
An Arab-Israeli from northern Israel was arrested Tuesday after sending an SMS to his father informing him he was going to carry out a terrorist attack – prompting his father to turn to police.
As the UN on Monday marked the annual Palestinian Solidarity day by passing a series of 20 anti-Israel resolutions, Israel’s envoy to the global body sought to highlight the country’s struggles with Islamic terrorism on one of the worst days of violence in the course of the recent upsurge in terror.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, a 2016 presidential candidate and billionaire businessman, for the first time ever brought his wife and kids on stage before a rowdy crowd in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Tuesday night.
Iranian media are denying a report circulating in various Arab media sources, which has reached the White House, claiming that General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s notorious special Quds Forces, was injured in Syria by rebel fire while fighting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced Tuesday that the government would be allocating an additional billion euros to beef up its security forces throughout the country.
