ISIS

ISIS is back on its heels in both Syria and Iraq, and the Iraqi government announced on March 24 that the all-important, yet much-delayed campaign to re-take the critical Iraqi city of Mosul has finally begun. Starting with attacks on towns south of the city, the campaign’s goal is to effect a “slow strangulation” of ISIS in Mosul, […]

With the help of U.S. commandos and JTACs calling in massive air strikes from the front lines, we just might push ISIS out of Iraq by next year.

A few days ago, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the “crash” of a Russian Mi-28H Havoc attack helicopter near the city of Homs. Both pilots were killed and their bodies were recovered by Russian special operations forces. The ministry asserted that “the helicopter was not shot down,” but we’re going to raise the Baloney Sauce […]

Mohammed Zeidani is out of a job — and the Islamic State group is to blame. The 26-year-old native of Benghazi, Libya, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, worked as a petroleum engineer with Schlumberger, the world’s leading oil and gas company, for four years before he became an independent contractor last year. […]

Poland’s foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski has urged NATO to deploy troops to guard its eastern flank against Russian aggression. Speaking at a security conference in Bratislava in Slovakia, Waszczykowski said he would appeal to NATO directly when the organisation visits Warsaw in July for a summit. He said Russia has the potential to destroy countries and […]

Fighters returning to their home countries from Syria and Iraq should be recruited to talk publicly about their experiences, the EU’s senior counter-terrorism official has urged. Gilles de Kerchove said that in cases where they were not considered a threat, such people could be used by governments to reveal details of the brutal conditions within the so-called […]

He was one man, not two. He had at least seven names, and was mistakenly pronounced dead four times. But the fog surrounding ISIS’s No. 2 is finally beginning to part.  The Pentagon calls him Haji Imam. His other nicknames include Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Alaa al-Afri, Hajji Iman, or simply the Hajji, the Arabic word […]

Kurdish Peshmerga forces – arguably the most effective ground troops battling the Islamic State terror group in Iraq – have been fighting for the past three months without a paycheck, according to experts and a top official from the region. “Unless we get direct [financial] support, we will not be able to continue the way we […]

Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria is a menacing force, overpowering moderate rebels even as it battles government troops. But in recent weeks, Jabhat al-Nusra has provoked a backlash that appears to be undermining its formidable power. Residents of opposition-held Idlib province in northwestern Syria have protested the group’s heavy-handed tactics. Its fighters have been forced to withdraw […]

Ten years ago, I found myself in the streets of Ramadi and saw the blood of my brothers and sisters fertilize a freedom we were tasked to export.

The United States has deployed tactical aircraft capable of attacking ISIS’s ability to communicate closer to the front lines of the battle against the terrorist group.  The U.S. European Command announced a squadron of Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft has been sent to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to support operations against ISIS. In addition […]

An internal German Army report released Monday reveals that 22 soldiers have joined ISIS in Syria or Iraq in recent years, while 65 active soldiers are under investigation on suspicion of having Islamist sympathies, The Local reported. MAD, the army’s military counter-intelligence service, identified the 22 soldiers and has relieved 17 from their duties, the […]