LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it appears that the US-South Korean coalition is moving anti-missile defense systems into strategic positions. The U.S. military has started moving parts of the controversial THAAD anti-missile defense system into a planned deployment site in South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Islamic State took credit for an attack on a Russian intelligence agency headquarters Friday, which left three dead. ISIS took credit for the attack via its Amaq new agency, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The attack targeted an FSB headquarters in Khabarovsk, a city in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed Thursday while on final approach to an aircraft carrier, which was relocating to waters off Korea. A carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson is heading north to provide “a persistent presence in the waters off the Korean peninsula,” according…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for the expulsion of all terrorist suspects from France Friday, in the wake of Thursday’s Islamic State attack. Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Front party, has been the most hawkish candidate on security issues and is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai claimed Wednesday that the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) was a tool of the U.S. Karzai, a former ally to Washington who has become increasingly critical of U.S. foreign policy, said America’s’ two-year fight against ISIS has been “weak,” reports Newsweek. Speaking to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The ISIS terrorist responsible for Thursday’s shooting in Paris, France had an extremely violent criminal history and radical past. It is difficult to tell when a radical believer will turn to violence, but in the case of Karim Cheurfi, also known as Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, violence and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell The Trump administration continues to press China to resolve the North Korea problem, according to a Friday tweet. “China is very much the economic lifeline to North Korea,” President Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning, “While nothing is easy, if they want to solve the North Korean problem, they…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell North Korea regularly threatens nuclear war against the U.S., a country perceived in Pyongyang as the greatest threat to its long-term survival. It is unlikely, however, that the North has developed the long-range missile technology required to strike the continental U.S. Still, it is working tirelessly to develop a reliable, nuclear-armed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Islamic State terrorist responsible for shooting three French police officers Thursday was previously convicted for going on a shooting rampage against police in 2001. The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency claimed Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, formerly known as Karim Cheurfi according to France’s L’Express, was responsible for…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack Thursday in Paris, which left one police officer dead and two wounded. The terrorist group took credit for the attack through the Amaq news agency, a known ISIS mouthpiece. Amaq claimed Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki, an ISIS adherent with…