After President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier noted Obama failing to mention al Qaeda was the first time since 2001 al Qaeda has not been used in a State of the Union speech. Baier
A former Al Qaeda operative and Guantanamo detainee has been freed from an American citizen and sent home to the gulf state of Qatar.
Yemeni rebels have begun shelling the nation’s presidential palace in the capital city of Sanaa, and some reports suggest they have stormed the building.
Even though Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper won praise from many left-leaning media outlets during its limited release, there’s a major backlash from the hard left underway, now thatthe film is shattering records in wide release.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) gave one of the Charlie Hebdo jihadi killers $20,000 three years ago to conduct terror operations abroad, according to two unnamed counterterrorism officials speaking to ABC News on Thursday.
Turkey banned all media, including social networks, from reporting claims that the nation’s intelligence agency sent weapons to the rebels in Syria in 2014. Documents alleging this contradict Turkish government claims they do not aid the rebels, but only sent humanitarian aid.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the jihadist group’s affiliate in North Africa, has threatened France with more attacks.
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group’s leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube.
Most national security analysts had assumed that both of the Paris terrorist attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo by the Kouachi brothers and the shooting of a policewoman and attack on a kosher market by Amedy Coulibaly had been sponsored by al-Qaeda as one-upmanship in their rivalry with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). But after his death in a shoot-out, a video was released indicating Coulibaly was on an ISIS mission.
Both the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, or ISIL) and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have claimed responsibility for last week’s terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
A deceased Al-Qaeda terrorist leader who once studied at San Diego State University, and was considered a “moderate Muslim” before leaving the U.S. for Yemen, has been linked to two terrorists who killed 12 in last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack
SAS troops, counter-terrorism police and army personnel are joining forces to stage the biggest security operation on British streets since the 2012 Olympic Games. Their deployment comes amidst statements from Al Qaida warning Britain: you’re next. According to the Sunday
While officials have not demonstrably linked the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, websites of a number of towns in France fell victims to a cyber-attack replacing the content of their sties with Islamic State flag in apparent celebration of the mass shooting.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest declared that “it continues to be clear to this day that core al Qaeda has been decimated” during the September 26, 2014 White House Press Briefing. After stating that “it continues to be clear
On Friday’s airing of Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan explained that although the culprits of the Charlie Hedbo massacre ultimately lost their lives, it will be viewed by al Qaeda and some in
Twitter accounts associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) and radical Islam mourned the deaths of brothers Said and Cherif Kouchai and Amedy Coulibaly in France. French officials killed the two brothers, the men who allegedly slaughtered twelve innocent people at Charlie Hebdo, on Friday after they hid in a printing press building in Dammartin-en-Goele, just north of Paris.
The manhunt for the Charlie Hebdo killers led to a day of chaos in Paris, as the perpetrators – Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother Said Kouachi, 34 – went to ground in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, not far from Charles de Gaulle airport. At the same time, the man who murdered an unarmed French policewoman yesterday, now believed to be a member of the same terrorist cell as the Kouachi brothers, has taken hostages of his own, and reportedly offered to trade them for the brothers’ freedom – an offer the French authorities are unlikely to accept.
In the wake of the attack on a French satirical paper yesterday, the progressive left has renewed an argument which says anyone who believes Islamic extremism is at war with western culture is an extremist themselves.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has issued a statement, via their official radio outlet, praising brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi for the gruesome attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. ISIS calls the pair “heroes” for killing twelve people, including two police officers, as revenge against the magazine for mocking Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
A hacking collective that goes by the name “Cyber Caliphate” and claims to be affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) terrorist group has hacked two news organizations in the United States–one in Maryland and one in Albuquerque–and threatens many more similar breaches of privacy in coming months.
Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stéphane Charbonnier, also known as Charb, appeared on a hit list in the March 2013 issue of al-Qaeda’s Inspire propaganda magazine. Twitter accounts posted the same picture on Wednesday, but with a huge red X over Charbonnier’s picture.
Radical Islamists and supporters of jihad on social media used Twitter to celebrate the three gunmen who killed twelve people and wounded nearly a dozen others at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. The attack, a retaliation against the magazine for publishing satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad, received support and justification. All of these accounts talk about jihad and the Islamic State regularly, interrupting their ISIS updates to praise the attack.
Radical jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia kidnapped twenty Egyptian Christians in Sirte, Libya, which is 310 miles east of Tripoli. Identities were not released, but experts believe they were Coptic Christians.
A YouTube account believed to be affiliated with jihadist groups uploaded a video of two Italian women kidnapped by the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jabhat al-Nusra in August in Syria. The women beg their government to secure their release.
The latest edition of Al-Qaeda’s glossy recruiting magazine Inspire, released on Christmas eve has made a renewed call on the faithful to strike out against the West in lone-wolf attacks, taking on airlines and prominent public figures with home-made bombs.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the latest issue of Inspire magazine on Christmas Eve. The new issue contains a recipe for making a bomb powerful enough to bring down an air liner.
On Monday, the Al Qaeda affiliate stormed two Syrian military bases, Hamidieh and Wadi Deif, overtaking both sites within hours of its initial attack. The new advance shows a map where Nusra has control over the majority of Syria’s Idlib
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, one of the greatest victories in the history of the United States military. However, if not for a few brilliant maneuvers by Allied commanders and the incredible bravery and
Thursday, CIA Director John Brennan addressed the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA detention and interrogation procedures and set the stage for the decisions made at the time saying. “On the morning of September 11, 2001, when the North Tower
Several members of the intelligence community and military have fired back against the Democrat-led CIA “torture” report, with former high-ranking officials, officers, and operators describing the document as one that is “partisan” “one-sided,” will offer our enemies critical knowledge, and
The United States government has largely stopped financing and arming Syrian opposition forces, who were once regarded as favorable to western ideals and interests, according to a report. A number of Syrian opposition commanders told McClatchy on Tuesday that they
Terror group Al-Qaeda has finally found the limit of its own brutality in observing ultra-violent spin-off the Islamic State, and has banned it’s own followers from beheading captives in a statement from a senior cleric of the group as part
The Al-Nusrah Front, the main al-Qeada affiliate in Syria, has released photos that it claims shows a United Nations armored vehicle being used to carry out a suicide car bomb attack against the Bashar Assad regime, reports The Long War Journal.
Interpol (The International Criminal Police Organization) has requested the arrest of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and global Sunni Islamist diaspora, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whose radical past includes praising suicide bombers against innocents as martyrs and describing Nazi
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com AQAP in Yemen bombs Iranian ambassador’s house, killing six AQAP in Yemen threatens to kill journalist not saved by failed US rescue attempt AQAP in Yemen bombs Iranian ambassador’s house, killing six Aftermath of
Al Qaeda jihadists, possibly using plans organized by a Khorasan group bomb-maker, are planning what the Sunday Express called a Christmas “spectacular” in a report released by the British newspaper this week. Citing anonymous sources including a “well-placed security insider,” the report suggests that
Officials from Yemen and the United States announced Tuesday that a successful U.S.-led special forces operation freed eight hostages from the grasp of Al Qaeda terrorists, who were holding the captives for unknown reasons in eastern Yemen. The mission was
(Reuters) – The United States is preparing to increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a gap left in the NATO mission by other contributing nations, according to three sources with direct knowledge of
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, reacting to the loss of its strongholds to Shi’ite Houthi fighters, has accused its opponents of acting as a proxy for the United States and threatened renewed violence against them. In an
The United Arab Emirates declared over the weekend that their country recognizes two America-based Islamic groups as terror organizations. The organizations: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS), both have deep connections to the global
