by MARY CHASTAIN A Russian Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighter Abu Muhammad Ar-Rusi justified the massacres committed by the terrorist group because Islam’s Prophet Muhammed killed many people. The message in the video is directed to Muslims “who speak Russian.” [youtube gPlABtVADSE nolink] “You accuse us of the mass killing of Muslims, saying that we are […]
An Iraq veteran was banned from his daughter’s high school after objecting to a required homework assignment about Islam. Kevin Wood, father of an 11th-grader at La Plata High School in Charles County, Md., was upset to discover a teacher had asked his daughter to write a three-page essay about Islam’s Five Pillars, Mecca and […]
(CNSNews.com) – Russia is unhappy about recent remarks by President Obama and a senior NATO official, which Moscow views as equating its intervention in Ukraine with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) threat – and in Obama’s case, to the Ebola outbreak too. Speaking at a private Democratic fundraiser in Chicago on Monday, […]
“Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.” GAZIANTEP, Turkey — While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled […]
Reports that ISIS has surrounded Baghdad and is quickly closing in on the Baghdad International Airport (armed with MANPADS, no less) are troubling. Baghdad itself has been rocked by a series of VBIED attacks in the past 24 hours by ISIS, indicating that the battle for Baghdad has begun. The possible fall of Baghdad could […]
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, who has chronicled U.S. military action in Iraq for years, said today that America and the world are in “a mess” in the fight against the Islamic State, the brutal terrorist group also called ISIS or ISIL. President Obama “has clearly gone through a wake-up call,” Woodward told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” adding: “He’s […]
by EDWIN MORA: President Barack Obama had “leverage” to maintain a residual U.S. military force in Iraq, but decided against it, a mistake that allowed jihadists to breed in the country, argues Leon Panetta in his new book. Panetta, who served as Obama’s CIA director and then Secretary of Defense, made those revelations in his […]
On “60 Minutes,” Obama blamed US spies for failing to predict the rise of ISIS. There’s one problem with that statement: The intelligence analysts did warn Obama about the group. Nearly eight months ago, some of Obama’s senior intelligence officials were already warning that ISIS was on the move. In the beginning of 2014, ISIS […]
In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, President Obama mentioned the need to help Christians and other minorities, expelled from cities and villages in northern Iraq, return from where they came. “We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homeland,” […]
By Dr. Jan Van Visser: An Irate Senator John McCain attempted to argue that the Kentucky Senator Rand Paul doesn’t have the authority to disagree with US policies regarding ISIS because he hasn’t met up with members of the terror group, unlike McCain himself, who only was in Syria a few hours and actually stayed […]
