Watch: New (ISIS) Daesh video has footage of Las Vegas Strip, San Francisco
The Daesh video also contains and image of President Obama and French President Francoise Hollande surrounded by flames.
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Think tank releases four key strategies for conquering ISIS
To defeat ISIS the Center for New American Security (CNAS) has identified four issues with the U.S. approach and outlined four interlocking recommendations.
Watch: Daesh (ISIS) bound nuclear smugglers foiled in Moldova – Again
In the vehicle, SIS agents uncovered what they were looking for – dangerous nuclear material, which was even more dangerously transported, in aluminum foil.
SIS agents also gun recovered counterfeit identification documents, guns and knives. Thus far, the Chisinau Prosecutor has only released that two of the arrested were Moldovan citizens, and the pair will face ten years on the radioactive smuggling charges alone.
CIA Chief: Current GWOT Tactics, Creating More Terrorists
Unfortunately, despite all our progress against [Daesh] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.
U.S. Apache Helicopters Strike Daesh (ISIS,) for First Time in Iraq
“The Apache strike destroyed a Daesh vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) near Qayyarah, Iraq,” he added. Qayyarah is south of Mosul, the Daesh’s main stronghold in Iraq.
Daesh (ISIS) ‘Will Target’ the Rio Olympics 2016 – Brazil’s Anti-Terror Chief
A tweet threatening Brazil sent in November by Maxime Hauchard, a French national identified as an executioner in Islamic State propaganda videos, was genuine.
The tweet read: ‘Brazil, you are our next target.’
Watch: American Volunteers with the Peshmerga- Clearing Houses in Bashir (Part 2)
After the fighting we head in to search buildings for any valuable resources that we turn over to the Peshmerga. After we complete our SSE (Search and Seizure of Equipment) our team exfils through an alternate route that is occupied by Hastalshabi forces (Shia militia), we were an unwelcome presence to them for sure. Image courtesy […]
Two-Thirds of the HMMWV’s the U.S. Supplied to Iraq, are Still in the Hands of Daesh (ISIS)
Daesh used more than 30 car bombs in its Ramadi offensive. Many of these involved armored U.S. HMMWVs and some of the bombs were large enough to level an entire city block.
Watch: American Volunteers with the Peshmerga- Turret Gunner Engages a VBIED (Part 1)
On the first day we make our way through several small villages to stage just outside the city. At first light we begin our push under mortar fire; Daesh sends a VBIED in from Hawija to stop our progression but to no avail. Image courtesy of Getty
Is sectarianism at the heart of the fight for Fallujah?
If Iraq is not careful, they will continue to alienate the Sunni population living within Fallujah and thus continue to provide the perfect environment to grow an insurgency again.
ISIS Speaks Out Against the Sykes-Picot Agreement 100 Years After it was Created
ISIS has always sought to dissolve the borders drawn by Sykes-Picot agreement and unite the Muslims under one ruling government as they claim Allah intended.
Special Operations Forces, Building Relationships for Tomorrow’s Battles
The first SOF Truth focuses on the critical relevance of people and relationships, no one knows this better than the global SOF community and therefore took full advantage of this year’s opportunity to solidify their alliances with one another.
