ISIS

The Mahdi Army was disbanded in 2008, replaced by the Peace Brigades, which helped push back Daesh from near Baghdad in 2014 under a government-run umbrella, and maintains a presence in the capital and several other cities.

There are thought to be a total of 180 B61 bombs in Europe, in Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands as well as Turkey. The tactical weapons are legacies of the cold war and largely seen as militarily obsolete. However, in the absence of a NATO consensus on removing them, they remain in place as tokens of US commitment to Europe’s defense.

Newly revealed testimony on the Bataclan massacre suggests that what happened on the second floor was not just mass murder but ritualized torture so brutal that some French officials are still straining to write it off as “rumor.”

With Thursday’s tragic mass killing by a resclusive, truck-driving Tunisian maniac in Nice having been violently drowned out by the frentic late Friday news of a failed (and perhaps staged) coup in Turkey, the news cycle has once again shifted its attention away from a far greater threat to the global economy than whether Erdogan […]

The failed coup against Turkey’s president will have ripple effects that extend far beyond the borders of the country. An uprising within NATO‘s second-largest military — and the one that’s closest to ISIS‘ center of power — spells trouble for the international fight against the terrorist group, experts say. Friday night, a faction within the […]

Turkish authorities told the U.S. they were closing the air space above Incirlik Air Base until they could be sure all Turkish air force assets were under government control. US aircraft had to suspend operations against ISIL. Friday’s attempted coup in Turkey against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had a major impact on […]

US Air Force fighter pilots, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, spoke about the precision capabilities the air coalition is employing, and the strategic targets, that are diminishing enemy resources

Five people have been in arrested in France in connection with a lorry attack that killed at least 84 people in the city of Nice, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the carnage on the country’s main national holiday. The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Saturday that police had arrested […]

Albeit, a Special Forces squad has been taken into custody by the police. The factionalization of the Turkish government, military, and police is dynamic and total.

Special Forces and civilians have retaken control of the TV station.

These sick, psychopathic enemies were not only unimaginably hideous, but also treacherous and torn. At one point we actually had determined that the material on the laptops was up to 80% pornography.

Demand that our senior intelligence leaders always tell the truth and be prepared to back their analysis up. And find new ways to rapidly share information with our foreign partners around the world.