By Guy Taylor – The Washington Times – Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Well before Russia’s military came to Bashar Assad’s aid in Syria, the Obama administration calculated that the Islamic State’s expansion in the region would force the Syrian president into negotiating with Washington, according to…

Christine Rousselle |Posted: Jan 11, 2017 9:30 AM Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) have introduced a bill to ask the Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an international terrorist organization. The bill, dubbed the “Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act,” states that the group has met the criteria of…

JAN. 11, 2017, 9:32 A.M. REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON  Roiling an already turbulent relationship with the country’s top spies, Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that U.S. intelligence officials may be behind the leak of unproven allegations that Russian spies had collected information to blackmail Trump.…

Published October 14, 2016  New York Post   George Clooney’s human rights lawyer wife nearly caused an international incident at the Iraqi UN Mission in Manhattan when she lectured the ambassador on ISIS and showed up with an unauthorized camera crew, The…

29 September 2016 An elderly man left for dead by two jihadists at a church in the French city of Rouen has spoken of the terrifying ordeal for the first time. Guy Coponet was forced by the killers to film the murder of 85-year-old Fr Jacques…

Business Insider Sat, Sep 3 10:00 PM PDT There’s no question that ISIS forces are losing ground in territories in Syria and Iraq — after making so many enemies from several countries and across numerous ethnic lines, the group might have bit off more than it could chew. Forces seem to be losing territory so…

Iraqi counterterrorism forces face off with Islamic State militants in the Nuaimiya neighborhood of… Read more CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi military’s advance into Fallujah was stalled Wednesday by fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters and concerns over protecting tens of thousands of civilians still trapped inside the strategic city, officials said.…

Sam Lane On Thursday, futurist architect Zaha Hadid died at the age of 65. Hadid contracted bronchitis earlier during the week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in the hospital. Hadid was widely…

BY DAVID SOLWAY There is a troubling hint of something very un-American about the American president. I am not alluding to the birther controversy but rather to something in the president’s character, attitudes, personal aura, and worldview. He could just as well have been born in Podunk or Dogpatch and yet an un-American flavor would…

BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 3/19/16 AT 11:56 AM As Nadia Murad, a 22-year-old Yazidi woman, addressed the United Nations on Wednesday, the silver nameplate around her neck caught the light. Spelled out in Arabic was the name of Murad’s hometown, Kocho, from which she was kidnapped by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. After surviving three months in captivity, she has since become the public…

Yazidi teenager escaped Islamic State, appeals for help for sex slaves By Magdalena Mis LONDON, March 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was a “black morning” two years ago when Islamic State militants seized the Yazidi town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, abducting thousands of civilians including a 15-year-old girl and 27 members of her…

Kerry weighs ‘genocide’ label for Islamic State 5 hours ago Secretary of State John Kerry signaled today that he plans to decide soon whether to formally accuse the Islamic State of genocide amid what sources describe as an intense debate within the Obama administration about how such a…

George Clooney and wife Amal meet with German chancellor about Syrian refugeesFriday FEB12, 2016 Taking a break from promoting his latest film, “Hail, Caesar!,” in Germany,George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, paid a visit to Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday. The actor-activist and the human-rights attorney sat down for a…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, left, attend a joint press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press) By Associated Press February 11…

Obama says US, allies, hitting Islamic State group harder than ever; aims to reassure nation By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday said the U.S.-led coalition is making progress against Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria, as he delivered an update on the campaign aimed at reassuring…

By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne Published December 07, 2015 FoxNews.com EXCLUSIVE – A $28,500 deposit was made to Syed Farook’s bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre, a source close to the investigation told Fox News Monday.…

By: AMANDA LEE MYERS and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Updated: 4:37 PM, Dec 7, 2015  The San Bernardino killers had been radicalized “for quite some time” and had taken target practice at area gun ranges, in one instance just days before the attack that left 14 people dead, the FBI said Monday.…

14 dead, more than a dozen wounded in San Bernardino shooting Two suspects killed By: Associated Press, 10News Digital Team Posted: 11:28 AM, Dec 2, 2015 Updated: 1 min ago  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – At least two heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled Wednesday, killing…

By: Kate Grumke 8:37 AM, Nov 16, 2015 When President Obama spoke about the Paris attacks, he reiterated that he isn’t changing his stance on the fight against ISIS. “While we are very clear-eyed about the very, very difficult road still ahead, the United States in partnership with our coalition is…

BY SAMUEL SMITH , CP REPORTER November 11, 2015|5:59 pm   Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have united to defend a biblical Syrian Christian town from being conquered by the Islamic State terrorist organization, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church has said. As IS militants continue to push west toward the Syrian…