Confessions of a captured ISIS fighter

He had a ringside seat for the entire, bloody rise of ISIS, and by his own count killed dozens of innocent men, women and children. Now facing likely execution, Thahir Sahab Jamel disavows the black-clad Islamist army, but his Kurdish jailers say they’ve heard it all before. In a jailhouse interview with FoxNews.com in the […]

Islamic State reportedly preparing for end of its so-called caliphate

Islamic State terror leaders are reportedly preparing for the fall of its so-called caliphate after the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed forces made significant gains in recent months in Iraq and Syria. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the terror group’s leaders in Syria are bracing for its strongholds to fall, but vow to continue its […]

Enemies see America as vulnerable prey

Here is a sampling of some recent news abroad: A Russian guard attacked a U.S. diplomatic official at the door to the American Embassy in Moscow, even as NATO leaders met to galvanize against the next act of Russian aggression. The Islamic State continued its global terrorist rampage with horrific attacks in Baghdad and Istanbul. […]

Defeating the Islamic State will take more than Gunpowder

With the beginning of separate offensives against the Islamic State (IS) in Fallujah and Raqqa many analysts are highlighting that this is the beginning of the end of IS, with Mosul next in the sights. However, there is one key issue with this analysis; these offensives do nothing to address the structural failures in both Iraq and Syria that led […]

U.S. intel warns: ISIS not desperate, just ‘adapting’

Recent raids against ISIS targets have given the U.S. intelligence community a better understanding of how the terror group is structured and organized and about its plans for attacks outside areas it controls in Syria and Iraq, according to a senior administration official. They also have made it clear that for some time ISIS was […]

Double game? Even as it battles ISIS, Turkey gives other extremists shelter

To his Turkish hosts, Rifai Ahmed Taha was a tiny, elf-like man with an oversize beard and colorful past. To U.S. officials, he was a dangerous terrorist who would be tracked and targeted — if ever he left his Turkish sanctuary. The opportunity came in early April, when Taha ventured across the border into Syria […]

Ohio man admits to planning terrorist acts for Daesh (ISIS)

Abdulkader’s plans included abducting a military employee at home and filming the employee’s execution. After executing the employee, he would attack a police station in the Southern District of Ohio using a firearm and Molotov cocktails.