The Pentagon said on Tuesday that U.S. forces in Syria were compelled to conduct a “self-defense” strike against rocket launchers, mortars, and at least one tank in eastern Syria, where a jihadi insurgent group is fighting the Syrian government.
Iran expert Rich Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump could remove the Houthis in Yemen as a threat on taking office.
A report published on Thursday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies warns Chinese cyber espionage is the “single greatest threat to U.S. technology,” siphoning over $300 billion per year from the U.S. economy.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is calling on Middle Eastern nations to increase aid to Palestinian refugees.
Fox News reports: As protests continued for a third day in the southern Iranian city of Kazerun, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted his support for the protesters in that country.
WASHINGTON, DC — The American military’s refusal to support the Kurds in their fight against Turkey in northern Syria’s Afrin region is likely to push them to join the Iranian- and Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad coalition, according to an analyst who recently traveled to the Middle East as part of a United States military delegation and a former U.S. ambassador.
WASHINGTON, DC — The roots of the ongoing protests in Iran go deeper than just economic problems, but involve growing anger towards the ruling theocracy, argued experts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think-tank on Friday.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch — considered the “wealthiest” — likely generates tens of millions of dollars annually through drug trafficking linked to violent Latin American cartels like the leftist terrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and other criminal activities, reveals the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank.
Taliban jihadists control or contest 45 percent of Afghanistan as U.S. President Donald Trump begins to escalate the American military footprint in the country, reports the Long War Journal (LWJ), echoing assessments from the United States government and the terrorist group itself.
During a Heritage Foundation panel titled, “Iran’s Nuclear, Regional and Proxy Challenges,” there was a consensus among top national security and foreign policy experts that the Iran deal was a grave mistake with lasting consequences.
The number of individuals willing to commit suicide on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has reached alarming levels, dwarfing the “cult of martyrdom” affiliated with its al-Qaeda rival and other jihadist groups, a think tank expert tells a House panel.
Former President Barack Obama’s administration “systematically disbanded” U.S. efforts to disrupt terrorist activity in the Western Hemisphere linked to Iran and proxy Hezbollah, a former American counterterrorism official told Congress.
After dropping a monster bomb on its fighters, then targeting its leader, the US military is looking to destroy the Islamic State group’s Afghan branch before battle-hardened reinforcements arrive from Syria and Iraq.
Jihadists from the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), considered by the United States the most dangerous branch of the terrorist group, have fought alongside U.S.-backed Yemeni factions, claims the leader of the organization.
The United States will deploy about 6,000 American soldiers to Europe and Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Army.
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is growing stronger with the resurgence of the Taliban in recent years and “remains a direct threat” to America more than a decade and a half after the United States began targeting both terrorist groups in response to 9/11, an expert tells House lawmakers.
President Trump made defeating radical Islamic terrorists a key part of his presidential campaign. So far in his first 100 days, experts say he is making good on that promise.
The Basij, Iran’s paramilitary forces, this week awarded President Trump their 5th annual “Wet Gunpowder Award” for being the most “anti-Iranian” and “wicked.”
The Obama administration is secretly preparing to transfer up to 24 prisoners out of the U.S. military detention center Guantánamo Bay in Cuba by the end of the summer, the Guardian and Fox News report, citing unnamed sources.
The following is an exclusive Breitbart News interview with Victoria Coates, Sen. Ted Cruz’s national security adviser.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) is blasting the Obama administration for “whitewashing” information on a potentially nuclear Iran because the revelations could damage the controversial Iran deal.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama agreed to legislation that will allow Congress to vote on a nuclear deal with Iran because the bill will not prevent the president from delivering a final agreement even if lawmakers disapprove of it, argued Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
