Someone claiming to represent the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria, says the newest reinforcements for the U.S.-backed “moderate” Syrian force have already surrendered, according to a report in the UK Telegraph.
Al-Qaeda may pose a bigger longterm threat when compared to its rival, the Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL), concludes a study prepared for the U.S. Special Operations Command Center (SOCOM) at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
Iran is already spending the enormous cash windfall Barack Obama is giving them on a heavy investment in terrorism, according to a report in the Times of Israel.
Sky News reported last week that Iran has released five senior al-Qaeda operatives, including several possible successors to Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the organization, in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Yemen earlier this year.
GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul spoke Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” placing some blame on Hillary Clinton for the Syrian refugee crisis Paul explained that Clinton’s policies while secretary of state have contributed to the current migrant crisis and called it a “bad
Turkey’s escalating crackdown on journalism has gone well beyond incarcerating the odd foreign journalist for covering stories the government wanted to ignore.
Prime Minister Khaled Bahah—of the internationally recognized Yemeni government that fled to Saudi Arabia after the Iran-backed Houthis seized swathes of Yemen early this year—has returned to his homeland after months of exile.
Army General Lloyd Austin, in charge of the anti-ISIS war effort from the U.S. Central Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that only “four or five” members of the U.S.-trained moderate rebel force are still fighting the Islamic State in Syria.
Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.
ISIS has released a video to commemorate–and celebrate–the 9/11 attacks. “We are back in America,” the terrorist nation declares, warning that Americans can expect another attack on the scale of what their godfathers in al-Qaeda pulled off on September 11, 2001, and promising to deliver “cars full of explosives and suicide bombers.”
It is only a matter of time until terrorists hit the West once again, the former head of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has warned. In fact, he claims the risk of terrorists attacking the West has grown substantially since
Ayman al Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda’s “core”—the group that was responsible for carrying out the terror attacks against America on September 11, 2001—has released an audio message as part of his “Islamic Spring” recordings that calls for Muslims worldwide to strike America.
The United States Embassy in Chad, in response to a “credible threat” from the terrorist group Boko Haram, plans to keep its doors closed from Tuesday through Friday, September 11, Fox News has learned from a military source.
Contents: Huge construction crane in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca Grand Mosque crashes, killing dozens; 1979 takeover of Grand Mosque led to al-Qaeda and 9/11
On the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11, the fourteenth year of a war that began with the slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians, it is very difficult to say that the enemy is losing. There have been successes, to be sure. The status report is mixed, fourteen years on. But the Enemy is closer to reaching his objectives than we are.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the liquidation of Osama bin Laden, has released an audio message accusing ISIS leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of “sedition” and declaring war against the Islamic State.
Both ISIS and al-Qaeda recently published new editions of their magazines. The al-Qaeda mag, called Inspire, calls for “lone wolf” terrorist attacks to murder a list of wealthy Americans.
Iran-linked Houthis and their allies are willing to accept a United Nations Security Council resolution to end the brutal war in Yemen while Saudi Arabia appears unwilling to support a negotiated settlement in the near future, according to a leaked UN email.
A Syrian official confirmed the Russian government provided the country with more military experts in the past 12 months.
The Washington Post has decided to run an article from editorial page editor Fred Hiatt pinning blame for the Syrian catastrophe on President Barack Obama.
Sunday at the Hilton in Rosemont, IL, Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan blamed the United States for ISIS and al Qaeda, calling them “illegitimate children of U.S. foreign policy.” Farrakhan said, “Some of you are afraid of the Sharia. And the enemy
Former CIA director and retired Army general David Petraeus is suggesting America should team up with al-Qaeda to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The Turkish government quickly denied a report that stated authorities provided information to al-Qaeda group Nusra Front about U.S.-trained Syrian fighters. The al-Qaeda members kidnapped the fighters as soon as they crossed into Syria.
The reported emergence of a new terror group in Afghanistan, calling itself the “Islamic Commandos,” indicates that the country remains a safe haven for terrorist organizations.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is vanquishing Al Qaeda in the fight for the hearts and minds of jihadists, reports Foreign Policy (FP).
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) is disseminating “Wanted Dead” posters for several key al-Qaeda commanders, including the group’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Arutz Sheva reported.
The U.S.-backed unit of moderate Syrian rebels effectively disintegrated, following several kidnappings by the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front. The group has agreed to release 7 of its prisoners, in an announcement in which the freed refer to the al-Qaeda thugs as brothers.
In a sign that there could be dangerous times ahead for Afghanistan and the entire surrounding region, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri pledged allegiance to the newly-appointed Taliban “emir,” Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, in an audio tape released Thursday by the jihadist group.
The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria, is reportedly pulling back from the proposed buffer zone area, which suggests they think the Americans and Turks are serious about the project.
Back in July of 2014, California student Adam Dandach, then 20 years of age, pleaded not guilty on counts of passport fraud after FBI agents bagged him at the airport in Anaheim, allegedly en route to pledge his allegiance to ISIS in Syria.
As mentioned last week, President Obama’s desultory attempt to influence the bloody chaos in Syria with a mere handful of U.S.-trained and equipped Syrian rebels brought contempt and stunned disbelief from across the Arab world.
SITE Intelligence Group reported that the Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh branch of the al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), claimed responsibility for the death of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabartu, who used the pen name Niloy Neel.
The onslaught of ISIS in central Syria is threatening yet another Christian town, prompting human-rights activists to warn that hundreds of families could be in peril.
A month after Turkey agreed to allow U.S. and allied forces to use its airfields for operations in Syria, the first armed drone strike has been conducted by the United States.
The Jerusalem Post presents a dismaying roundup of reactions from the Arab world to the performance of the U.S.-trained and equipped New Syrian Force, the tiny group of “moderate” rebels that hit the battlefield just a few weeks ago, and was swiftly picked apart by al-Qaeda, with nearly two dozen of its fighters and officers taken captive.
President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made a terrible nuclear deal with Iran, a nation that has proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted.
Al-Qaeda has been replaced by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as the number one threat to the U.S. homeland, argue members of President Obama’s top intelligence, counterterrorism, and law enforcement team, who focus on national threats, reports The News York Times (NYT).
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an al-Qaeda-linked group largely made up ethnic Uighurs, commended the al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia for detonating a suicide car bomb that damaged the Chinese embassy in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
The awful humiliation of Obama’s strategy in Syria continues, as five more U.S.-trained “moderate Syrian rebels” have been kidnapped by al-Qaeda’s affiliate, the Nusra Front.
The increased level of Turkish cooperation with American efforts against the Islamic State (ISIS) has produced the uncomfortable side effect of the Turks declaring open season on our most vital ally, the Kurds. At least the Turks are making good on their promise to allow more extensive American use of their airbases, as the Pentagon says armed US drones are now operating from the Incirlik Air Base.
