The leader of Syria’s most powerful Kurdish faction has warned of a possible future war against “Arab settlers” in Kurdish areas of the country, only weeks after his party declared the establishment of an autonomous Kurdish region. Salih Muslim, who heads the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its powerful militia, the Committees for the Protection of the […]
As liberals are pushing for immigration reform it is found that several dozen Islamic terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan. The discovery in […]
President Obama’s facility for lying has taken center stage once again, as Americans grapple with the reality that they in fact can’t keep their health insurance if they like it. Yet while they remain focused on that debacle, another series of declarations made by the president, namely that al Qaeda was “on the run” and […]
September 15, 2013 16:42 by Pesach Benson Assad’s scattering his chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites, and even preparing to hide more in Iraq. The movements of chemical weapons by Syria’s elite Unit 450 could complicate any U.S. bombing campaign in Syria over its alleged chemical attacks, officials said. It also raises questions […]
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 […]
Sen. Barack Obama snatched the 2008 democratic nomination from Sen. Hillary Clinton for many reasons, none more important than Obama’s opposition to the Iraq War. All of Obama’s major opponents — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. and then-Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y. — had voted for authorization for war. […]
On Monday night Obama said to the world in an interview, that Saddam used chemical weapons against the Iranian people. There were accusations from several sources that Hussein had smuggled his WMDs over the border into Syria long before Bush attacked Iraq. Today, there is now video evidence of chemical and biological weapons having been […]
Sixteen people have been killed in an apparently sectarian attack on a Shia family south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Unknown terrorists blew up two adjacent houses belonging to brothers from a Shia family in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, after shooting dead sixteen members of the same family, according to eyewitnesses. Eight women […]
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 […]
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking Thursday at a joint appearance with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that there were “many al Qaeda leaders now operating in Syria”—where President Barack Obama decided two months ago to provide military support to rebel forces fighting alongside al Qaeda to overthrow the regime of Syrian […]
