Will the Erdogan regime become to that continent what Saudi Arabia became to the Middle East? When the Carter and Reagan administrations began supporting Islamists in Afghanistan, few policymakers recognized the Pandora’s box they were opening. The great global threat, after all, was Communism. And even if radical Islamism was …
Read More »Hezbollah sees U.S. war on Iran as unlikely: report
The Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah believes a U.S. war on Iran is unlikely and U.S. President Donald Trump would not be able to control the results of a conflict that could engulf the region.
Read More »Pentagon sees Islamic State resurgence in Libya amid Tripoli fighting
The Donald Trump administration is seeing a “small” resurgence in the Islamic State’s numbers in Libya since strongman Khalifa Hifter began a bloody march on the capital Tripoli more than two months ago, the Pentagon’s second-ranking military official said.
Read More »Al Qaeda’s Master Terrorists Are Still on Facebook and YouTube
Facebook and YouTube say they have scrubbed tens of thousands of violent extremists posts. But we found 105 from the most dangerous preachers of jihadist terror.
Read More »Trump Imposes New Iran Sanctions, Targeting its Supreme Leader
U.S. President Donald Trump imposed what he described as “hard-hitting” new financial sanctions on Iran Monday, specifically targeting the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Read More »Islamic State’s Sinai province renews allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The Islamic State’s Sinai Wilayah (or “province”) has released a short video in which a small cadre of jihadists renew their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Their ringleader is identified as Abu Jafar al-Ansari, a masked man seen at the center of the screen shot above.
Read More »Iraqi intelligence apprehend 3 terrorists in Diyala
Iraqi Intelligence Directorate announced, on Thursday, apprehending three terrorists in Diyala. It also indicated that one of them participated in a terrorist attack during the Islamic State offensive on the province.
Read More »Dozens killed in heavy fighting in northwest Syria
More than 100 combatants have been killed over the past 48 hours in fighting between Syrian forces and rebels in the country’s besieged northwest, a war monitor has said. Ongoing clashes and aerial bombardment centred on the village of Tal Meleh in the north of Hama province, the UK-based Syrian …
Read More »Trump Warns Iran that US 'Cocked & Loaded' but 'In No Hurry'
The United States was “cocked & loaded,” ready to strike three sites in Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. drone over the Strait of Hormuz but called off the attacks at the last possible moment to spare Iranian lives. The revelation by U.S. President Donald Trump on …
Read More »US Senate Scrutinizes Saudi, UAE Arms Sales
Later this week, the U.S. Senate is expected to mount an effort to block an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as many American lawmakers continue to seethe over Riyadh’s human rights record, the war in Yemen and last year’s murder of journalist Jamal …
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