Syrian Province Falls To Al-Qaeda Militia
A group consisting of fighters from al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) and US-backed rebel groups captured the Syrian town...
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Al-Qaeda Capitalizes on Strategic Opportunities in Yemen
As the heavy Saudi-led airstrikes continue against the Shiite rebels loyal to President Hadi, the chaos has allowed Al-Qaeda in...
Somali-American Indicted On Terror Charges
Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, a 23 year old man from Columbus, Ohio, was indicted by a federal jury on three counts...
Palestinian Jihadi Group Clashes with Islamic State over Refugee Camp
On April 2, 2015, Palestinian fighters and Syrian rebels moved to retake a refugee camp in Syria’s capital of Damascus...
Sunni Jihadists Gain Ground in Syria
The al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front seized the provincial capital of Idlib in northwestern Syria this past weekend. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s...
Iran Outsourcing Nuclear Program to Rogue Nations
The world’s focus is on the ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 partnership. In the meantime,...
ISIS Reportedly Deploys Chemical Weapons Against Kurds
Since October and the battle over Kobane, Kurdish fighters have repeatedly accused Islamic State of deploying chemical weaponry, chlorine gas...
Lt. Kasasbeh’s Death Spurs Jordan On
The murder of Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Moath Kasasbeh has galvanized the nation and its leadership. Jordan's air force has...
Kurds Take Kobani – What’s Next?
On January 26th, Kurdish resistance fighters ousted Islamic State fighters from the northern Syrian city of Kobani, a day after...
Hezbollah Retaliates against Israel for death of Jihad Mugniyeh
Israel's military reports that two soldiers have been killed and another seven were wounded in a Hezbollah ambush on a...
Why is ISIS Minting It’s Own Currency?
The media was fascinated this week by reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) is moving to produce its own currency,...
The Obama Administration’s Strategic Schizophrenia
Last week in the Wall Street Journal it was reported that the Obama administration sought an agreement on fighting ISIS...
Discussions of Broad ISIS- al-Qaeda Merger Overblown
Al- Qaida disavowed ISIS (formerly known as al-Qaida in Iraq or AQI) officially back in February 2014 after months of...
Obama’s Strategy on the Iraq/Syria Crisis Collapsing as Americans Go to the Polls
On September 10, 2014, President Obama announced his strategy to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State and to arm and...
The Key to Defeating ISIS: The Kurds
As the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate in the war against the Islamic State, one wonders how long...
The Clearing of the Pawns
It is now being reported that Al Qaeda's Syrian group, the Al Nusra Front has accepted the surrender of the...