An Army Captain Takes Obama to Court Over ISIS Fight

A 28-year-old Army officer on Wednesday sued President Obama over the legality of the war against the Islamic State, setting up a test of Mr. Obama’s disputed claim that he needs no new legal authority from Congress to order the military to wage that deepening mission. The plaintiff, Capt. Nathan Michael Smith, an intelligence officer stationed in Kuwait, voiced […]

Watch: Massive Tunnel Bomb Detonation in Syria

Al Nusra detonated a massive tunnel-bomb or deep buried improvised explosive device (IED), in Allepo, Syria. The attack was followed by an exchange of small arms, Grad-MLRS Rockets and improvised Volcano/Elephant IRAM. https://youtu.be/joING4FvYAA Aleppo remains trapped in an intricate exchange between Syrian Forces (SAA), Daesh [ISIS/ISIL], Free Syrian Army (FSA), Kurdish, and a string of other oddball […]

Kenya police ‘foil anthrax attack’ by ‘IS-linked group’

A man, his wife and another woman have been arrested. Rewards have been offered for two other men. Police did not name the network, but said it stretches across the country and outside its borders, including to Somalia, Libya and Syria. In a statement, the police said Mohammed Abdi Ali, a medical intern at a […]

Dutch Vipers Rarely Used Over Syria

Good evening, FighterSweep faithful! Word out of the Middle East is that the Dutch are seldom able to employ their Vipers over Syria. Lack of SATellite COMmunications is the issue, and it’s a BIG one (so to speak). With so many targets of opportunity and so few troops on the ground, SATCOM is absolutely crucial […]

Defeating ISIS: The Military and Economic Options

The first mistake we must not make in fighting ISIS is to assume the task is simple. The challenge is stupefying in its complexity, involving, among other things, the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims, a bitter history of Western interventions including blowback from America’s war in Iraq, overlapping power struggles today among at least […]

U.K. Obtains Cache ‘Secret Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] Files’ Identifying 22,000 Terrorists Across the Globe

A U.K. media outlet. Sky News has obtained access to thousands of documents, which contain the names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of 22,000 Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] jihadist fighters. The identities of previously unknown jihadis which remain in Daesh controlled territory, as well as those who have returned home to the United States, Canada, Europe, the U.K., across northern […]

Bombing ISIS: US Official Shares Lessons From 6 Months of Airstrikes

After more than a year of airstrikes, the US military and coalition partners are beginning to see progress in the fight against the Islamic State group, Pentagon officials say. But these gains could not have happened without the airmen of the 37th Bomb Squadron and their fleet of B-1B Lancers, who recently spent six months […]

Is This Frenchman Running ISIS Terror Networks in the West?

A French national who allegedly conceived and planned last November’s horrific terror attacks in Paris has been promoted to a top position in the so-called Islamic State’s foreign intelligence branch, according to a former ISIS intelligence operative who has since defected. Abu Suleyman al-Firansi, the nom de guerre of this rising star in terrorist ranks, is believed […]

CIA raises eyebrows by live-tweeting bin Laden raid – 5 years later

Usama bin Laden was just found in a third-floor room and killed over the weekend – at least, that’s what you might think if you were following the CIA on Twitter. The CIA raised eyebrows for its decision to “live tweet” on Sunday the daring SEAL Team 6 raid on bin Laden’s Pakistani compound – […]