Senator John McCain was just sure he could pick moderates in Syria worth supporting. To prove his point he made a trip to Syria this spring to demonstrate how much the insurgents were just like us, struggling for democracy and equal rights for all. But his trip was organized by the Syria Emergency Task Force’s […]
Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: George Mulala/Polaris/Newscom) Who is al-Shabaab? Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group operating in the Horn of Africa. The group emerged in 2006 as a radical youth wing of the Islamic Courts government in Somalia. Al-Shabaab has been very successful in attracting foreign recruits to Somalia to join al-Shabaab. The […]
Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the Americans killed in the attack on the Benghazi consulate just over one year ago, gave gripping testimony on Capitol Hill, but one major component was missing during her remarks. Most of the committee’s Democratic members weren’t even in the chamber to hear Smith and other family members […]
Now here is a frightening story, as political correctness allows Muslims to screen bags and people at our airports. A Muslim airport security screener at Los Angeles airport (LAX) was charged with making terrorist threats, and authorities were scrutinizing a website linked to the Muslim that contains letters criticizing America as evil and promising something […]
Opposition forces battling Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria now number around 100,000 fighters, but after more than two years of fighting they are fragmented into as many as 1,000 bands. The new study by IHS Jane’s, a defence consultancy, estimates there are around 10,000 jihadists – who would include foreign fighters – fighting for powerful factions linked […]
As I write, the city of Maaloula in Syria has become a ghost town after being briefly occupied by members of the al Qaeda–linked jihadist group al-Nusra Front. Conflicting reports claim that al-Nusra fighters have desecrated churches and statues in what may be one of the oldest Christian cities in the world, a place where […]
With the launch of missiles fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday, the organization behind the attack identified as “Global Jihad” presented a recent video in which they brutally attack the Iraqi military and set the base camp aflame. In the video, which Arutz Sheva has seen but will not show due to its graphic […]
By Onan Coca The problems in the Middle East offer the United States a no win proposition. Yet our government year after year, continues to try and solve the unsolvable. It’s time for us to wash our hands of the problems in the Middle East. The events in Syria are heartbreaking. Over 100,000 people have […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — al-Qaida-linked terrorist that US congress will soon vote on if to support these terrorist or not next week, seized control of a Christian village northeast of the capital Damascus, Syrian activists said Sunday. Government media provided a dramatically different account of the battle suggesting regime forces were winning. The reports from […]
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid returns to Washington to begin the procedural motions to bring to a vote an authorization of military strikes against Syria. Given the extended time-frame for debate in the Senate, it is likely then that the vote to end debate and pass a resolution for military action would occur […]
