Wall to be built around Baghdad to minimize ISIS attacks

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq says it has begun building a wall and a trench around the capital, Baghdad, to prevent militant attacks and reduce the number of checkpoints inside the city. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan told The Associated Press Wednesday that work began this week on the northern and northwestern approaches of […]

ISIS Gitmo transfers raise questions in Ghana

CNSNews.com – In reference to two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were transferred to Ghana in West Africa, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference there said it was a “wrong and dangerous” decision, that the two men were “not refugees but time-bombs” who clearly “pose a threat,” and that the government should send them “back to wherever […]

General dismisses Cruz’s carpet bombing strategy for ISIS

Washington (CNN) – The top U.S. commander for the fight against ISIS on Monday slammed the idea of “carpet bombing” the terror group. Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, who directs the coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, provided the most detailed military criticism to date about the concept and detailed why it’s militarily unacceptable. […]

Kansas based ISIS sympathizer pleads guilty over bomb plot

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas man whose lawyer says he is mentally ill pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with a plot to plant a bomb outside an Army post, acknowledging that he wanted to aid the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). John T. Booker Jr. of Topeka admitted in court to trying to […]

‘Voice of the Caliphate’ ISIS radio station destroyed by U.S. air strike

U.S. airstrikes have destroyed an Islamic State-operated radio station in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. “Voice of the Caliphate” radio was destroyed by two U.S. airstrikes, according to a U.S. military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media on the subject. Army Col. […]