Tag: Terrorism

U.S. President Donald Trump will attempt to mend some fences with the French as he arrived in Paris today. Trump a year ago characterized Paris as an unsafe city due to terrorism will mark the French national holiday, Bastille Day, hold counter-terrorism talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and mark the US’ 100th anniversary of […]

A senior NCO stationed in the US Army’s Schofield Barracks in Hawaii was arrested this weekend after allegedly attempting to provide military documents and a drone to the ISIS terrorist group. The soldier, an Air Traffic Controller, Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 34, was arrested late Saturday night by an FBI SWAT team at the […]

A U.S. Army soldier stationed with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii has been arrested on charges of providing material support to the Islamic State, according to a statement provided by the FBI on Monday. Ikaika Kang, 34, a Sergeant First Class and Air Traffic Control Specialist, was taken into custody […]

Nuclear power facilities have been among the targets of multiple hacking attacks in the United States since May, disclosed in a joint report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, the New York Times reports. Other energy and manufacturing companies have been victim of the malware attacks, which have reportedly been in […]

A recent Politico/Morning Consult poll shows that a majority of Americans support President Donald Trump’s travel ban on individuals from six Muslim-majority countries. The result of the survey shows that a full 60% of American voters support the ban in its current form, a relatively strong level of support for a President that has had […]

The armed conflict between the government forces of the Philippines and the Abu Sayyaf and other Islamist militant groups during the siege of Marawi has drawn the interest of other Muslim-majority countries in the region. The other Muslim nations are looking for signs that extremist activity is on the rise in their own countries Isnilon […]

Reports are surfacing from Northern Iraq that the Iranians have used artillery to shell Kurdish villages across the border in Iraq injuring at least three and forcing hundreds to flee their homes. The attack, which took place on Monday, was in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Haji Omaran region and targeted positions of Iranian Kurdish rebel groups Democratic […]

Omar Khadr, a Canadian-born man who killed an American Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15 while fighting for Al Qaeda, will receive an apology and $8 million from the Canadian government. The decision was made this week following years of political controversy in Canada over the plight of a man who had […]

The last vestiges of what just a few years ago was proclaimed as the Islamic State’s new ‘caliphate’ is crumbling under constant attack from Iraq’s forces as they push to retake Mosul. Iraqi military spokesmen say that the ISIS fighters remaining in what is left of their stronghold of Mosul are in a “fight to […]

With the wars against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria driving the terrorist group from each country, the prospect of peace in the region is even less likely as a possible power vacuum in Syria is setting up Iran in a position of strength. The government of Tehran has been propping up the government […]

American-backed ground forces are poised to recapture Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, the Islamic State’s de facto capitals. But while U.S. commanders are confident they soon will vanquish the militant group from its self-declared caliphate after three years of fighting, Washington has not defined a strategy in the next step for stabilizing the region. The […]

It doesn’t seem that long ago, but on July 4, 1976, the United States was set to celebrate its Bi-Centennial. Massive celebrations were set to take place across the USA but then a small Special Operations unit from a smaller Middle Eastern nation stole the spotlight with a daring raid that was stunningly executed. Israeli […]