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On his Thursday broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” host Sean Hannity interviewed former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) on the heels of the announcement of his intentions for to seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. When asked about his foreign policy

The Obama White House made clear on Thursday that the United States is in no way “responsible” for defending Iraq from the Islamic State.

On Wednesday, Paul blamed fellow Republican colleagues for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) existence, stating that “ISIS grew stronger because of the hawks in our party.”

LOS ANGELES, California — 2016 presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson sat down with Breitbart News during a visit to Los Angeles recently, where he weighed in on Hollywood’s creeping liberalism, social issues, and the ongoing war on terrorism in the Middle East.

  AP– Australia plans to strip citizenship from Australian-born children of immigrants who become Islamic State fighters in its crackdown on homegrown jihadis, a minister said on Thursday. The government wants to change the Citizenship Act to make fighting for

As part of a final nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, Germany, France, Russia, China), Tehran has demanded at least twenty-four days notice before inspectors are allowed to review their nuclear enrichment sites, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has reportedly disclosed.

President Obama is giving short shrift to real threats as he focuses on climate change as a national security issue, according to Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX).

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart News’ National Security Editor, appeared on Fox and Friends Sunday to talk about his experience serving as an expert witness in the Dzokhar Tsarnaev trial.

On Tuesday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed onto a pact between 12 regions in seven countries, including four U.S. states, binding each to reduce greenhouse gas emissions drastically. The goal of the cuts is to keep the rise in global average surface temperatures below 2º Celsius. However, recent revisions by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change suggest global temperatures are projected to rise by less than 1º C over 30 years–and perhaps by less than 0.5º C.

REUTERS– A visit to Moscow by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is a sign that relations between Russia and the United States may be improving, the Kremlin said on Monday. Nuland’s trip comes days after U.S. Secretary of State John

REUTERS– The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. It was the third time in as

Fighter jets belonging to a Saudi-led coalition launched strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen on Tuesday, just one day after a five-day truce between the two parties expired.

REUTERS– A senior Israeli official took a swipe at the United States on Tuesday over Iran’s reported purchase of second-hand civilian aircraft, saying the acquisition violated international sanctions and went ahead despite a tip-off from Israel. Iranian Transport Minister Abbas Akhoondi was

Regardless of what one may think about the journalistic practices of Seymour Hersh, it cannot be denied that he has reignited important discussion about how the United States came to find Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden and the role of the Pakistani government in harboring the terrorist.

Due to the diligence and hard work of our military and intelligence agencies, we haven’t seen a large-scale terrorist attack on our homeland since September 11, 2001. But our enemy has adapted its methods and is now using a digital network to radicalize individuals thousands of miles away from any ISIS camp.

Instead of participating in a Camp David summit of Gulf leaders – which was organized by U.S. President Barack Obama to garner support from Gulf Arab leaders – the King of Bahrain decided to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, where he met on Friday with Queen Elizabeth II and other British royalty.

The United States Consulate in Melbourne, Australia, has received intelligence indicating a “likely” terror attack on Aussie soil.

Iran has deployed a “humanitarian aid” ship carrying 2,500 tons of unknown supplies to Yemen, setting up a situation where Tehran is attempting to openly defy a U.S. order not to dock its ships in the country’s ports.

Former United Nations ambassador John Bolton announced on Thursday that, despite previously considering it, he won’t run for president in 2016.

Journalist Seymour “Sy” Hersh has written a piece in the London Review of Books alleging that U.S. President Barack Obama engaged in a massive coverup surrounding the 2011 operation that resulted in the death of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

In 2007, Ann Corcoran successfully stopped the State Department from discreetly unloading Muslim refugees in her hometown in Maryland, and now she has written a book directing other Americans to do the same, warning that the immigration is part of a religious obligation to spread Islam.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Saturday that Liberia is now officially free of the deadly Ebola virus, closing the case on an epidemic that killed thousands in the west African nation.

U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn of the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee, joined Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon Saturday for an exclusive radio interview at the South Carolina Freedom Summit. The two honed in on the war on radical Islamic terrorists and critical national security issues facing the U.S. following the Texas terror attack and the military’s heightened threat level.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina – Gov. Scott Walker, likely GOP presidential candidate, said that, as Governor of Wisconsin, “We did some pretty big things.”

A top commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told a state-run media outlet on Wednesday that Iran is prepared to go to war with the United States and will even “welcome war” to show off Tehran’s power.

FBI and intelligence community officials are openly admitting how difficult it has become to track the thousands of potential American jihadists on social media.

A Kansas City mosque that once petitioned the White House to ban criticism of Islam will host the funeral of deceased terrorist Nadir Soofi, who was one of the two jihadis who attempted an attack on a “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas on Sunday.

A group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem has continued to challenge the Gaza-ruling Palestinian entity Hamas. The ISIS-linked Salafists are attempting to stir enough discontent in the Palestinian territory to pose a challenge to the rival jihadi outfit.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American Muslim advocacy group with deep ties to the global Muslim Brotherhood, advised Muslims to “use caution” when talking to the FBI about its 2010 investigation into Elton Simpson, who on Sunday carried out a jihadist attack on a “Draw Muhammad” free-speech event in Garland, Texas.

Hundreds of captive Yazidis have been shot and killed by Islamic State jihadis near Mosul, Iraq, according to sources from Yazidi and Iraqi officials, and local news outlets.

Great Britain has revealed to a United Nations sanctions committee that Iran is attempting to purchase nuclear material through two “blacklisted” companies in direct violation of international sanctions, according to a Reuters report.

Hamas, the radical Islamist entity which rules the Gaza Strip, carried out mass beatings and arrests to shut down a protest on Wednesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who is the chief representative of the Ayatollah’s interests abroad, has seemingly backed down from an offer made by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) to sit down and debate “Iran’s record of tyranny, treachery, and terror.”

Former U.S. Democratic President Jimmy Carter will travel to the Gaza Strip on Thursday and meet with officials from Hamas, the Jihadist terror organization that rules the Palestinian territory.

In the most recent example of a new global trend where Muslim radicals drive their vehicles into unsuspecting civilians, seeking to murder innocents with their automobiles (a practice that has been coined “vehicular jihad”), a Palestinian man who drove his car into civilians waiting at a Jerusalem bus top told police that he was “seeking out Jews to murder.”

The Pentagon has stated that a U.S. aircraft carrier is “repositioning” for a security operation, contrary to prior reports that the warship was tasked with intercepting an Iranian fleet in off the coast of Yemen.