LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke President Donald Trump entered office promising to avoid costly nation-building efforts overseas, but his administration appears willing to deploy significant military resources to “stabilization” in Iraq after the Islamic State is driven from the country. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday U.S. forces will remain in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti U.S. Navy SEALs knew al-Qaida terrorists were alerted to their impending raid deep inside Yemen Saturday, but continued the operation anyway. U.S. officials say they are unsure how the terrorist group figured out the upcoming raid. Local tribal elders speculated that the group was suspicious because U.S….
By Blake Neff A branch of the terrorist organization al-Qaida is advising prospective terrorists to target white people for their attacks, in order to prevent politicians and law enforcement from dismissing their acts of terrorism as run-of-the-mill hate crimes. The advice, which was published by al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and first noted Friday…
By Jonah Bennett The Obama administration is pushing for the United Nations to end a 2011 embargo on arms shipments to Libya in order to save the current regime from falling to the Islamic State, but some experts caution a U.S. arms shipment may end up in the hands of terror groups. In an effort to…
Jonah Bennett U.S. intelligence declassified more than a 100 documents Tuesday related to Osama bin Laden, but photos of the al-Qaida leader’s body remain conspicuously classified. The real reason is possibly because troops reportedly shredded his corpse with about a hundred bullets. We immediately saw images Delta’s capture of Saddam Hussein, why not bin Laden? A…
Casey Harper Four Ohio men have been charged with conspiring to travel to Yemen to give thousands of dollars to Anwar Al-Awlaki and his anti-U.S. terrorist efforts. Al-Awlaki is a top al-Qaida leader in the Arabian Peninsula who has since been killed by a U.S. drone strike. The charged: Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, who had attended Ohio State…