Big Ike Striking ISIS in Hot Gulf Temperatures

Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike), with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3, began missions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) from the Arabian Gulf, July 22. Big Ike has made its way from its homeport of Norfolk, VA through the Mediterranean, and now to the Arabian Gulf.  The Eisenhower Strike […]

Watch: Footage of the aftermath from the ISIS suicide attack that killed 80 in Kabul

The video below shows some of the aftermath of the ISIS suicide bombing in Kabul that has killed at least 80 people and wounded over 200. A suicide bomber detonated a device during a Hazaras protest. The group was protesting because they wanted the location of a main electric power line to be moved to include their province. According to AP, a […]

80 dead and 207 wounded from Islamic State attack on protest in Kabul

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan that has killed at least 80 and wounded 207 people. A suicide bomber detonated a device during a Hazaras protest. The group was protesting because they wanted the location of a main electric power line to be moved to include their province. According to AP, a spokesman for Afghan President Ashram Ghani […]

Three Palm Beach men charged with conspiring to help Islamic State

A West Palm Beach man first talked with an FBI informant a year ago about his desire to travel to Syria to help the terrorist cause of America’s No. 1 foreign enemy, the Islamic State. Gregory Hubbard, also known as “Jibreel,” told the informant that he had a local friend “in touch” with a Syrian […]

‘I Was an ISIS Jihadist—Until They Arrested and Tortured Me’

Abu Omar says he didn’t give a damn about the apocalypse, or learning the ways of “true” Islam, or joining a world-historical movement. It was 2013 and he just wanted guns and money. Strange as it may sound to Western ears, particularly those trained to a 24-hour news cycle three years later, this deserter from […]

Exclusive Syria Update: American and Canadian volunteers fight ISIS in Manbij

Sandwiched between ISIS held and Kurdish held Syria, lays a city under siege.  Manbij is a medium sized city south of Kobani and North West of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa.  While many civilians have already fled the city, thousands more are trapped inside.  With coalition airstrikes backing up the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]

ISIS Trying to topple Saudi king with attack on Mohammed’s mosque

Current and former U.S. officials say a recent ISIS attack on the tomb of Mohammed in Saudi Arabia — Islam’s second holiest site — shows the terror group is now directly challenging the kingdom’s ruling family and trying to topple the monarchy. “The Saudi king’s tiles include ‘Protector of the two Holy Cities,” said one […]

Nice attacker plotted for months and had accomplices – prosecutor

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the man who drove a truck into a crowd on the promenade in Nice on Bastille Day, killing 84 people, plotted his attack for months and had accomplices, the Paris prosecutor has said. Francois Molins said his office, which oversees terrorism investigations, said five suspects currently in custody are facing preliminary terrorism charges […]

Is al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria no longer a ‘sideshow’?

The Obama administration has begun to see Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, as a global threat that could eventually rival the Islamic State, echoing a Russian argument that it has long resisted. A new U.S. proposal to coordinate counterterrorism operations in Syria with Russia, discussed by President Obama last week with Russian President Vladi­mir […]

Iraq’s ‘Black Devils’ strike fear in the ISIS terrorists they hunt

Within the Kurdish people’s rugged army is an elite unit that specializes in rooting out ISIS sleeper cells and responds first when the black-clad jihadist army strikes in northern Iraq’s no-man’s land. They are called the “Black Devils” by the terrorists they hunt, and they embrace the name. Made up of 400 of the Kurdish […]