By Russ Read U.S. forces have borrowed a strategy from Israel known as the “knock on the roof” in an apparent effort to minimize civilian casualties in the fight against Islamic State. As ISIS continues to suffer losses in Syria and Iraq, its forces have retreated to population centers in order to blend into the civilian population…
Steve Birr A woman is in police custody after she allegedly tailgated a car and rammed it several times while shouting about ISIS, accusing the driver of being a terrorist. Police arrested Julie Coryell, 46, at her home Woodbridge for the March 25 incident and charged her Tuesday with two counts of reckless driving, attempted…
By Jonah Bennett GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he’d consider using a nuclear weapon against the Islamic State if the terror group launches an assault against the U.S. In a town hall put on by MSNBC, host Chris Matthews asked Trump to give an answer on the use of nuclear weapons, and Trump, in…
Jonah Bennett Former top defense official Jed Babbin mocked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Fox Business Wednesday, saying Zuckerberg’s weak approach to fighting the Islamic State is popular “among 12-year-old girls.” Zuckerberg addressed the recent spate of terror attacks in a Facebook post Sunday, where he called for a “world where understanding and empathy can spread faster than hate,…
Rachel Stoltzfoos Digital ads for presidential candidates are showing up next to Islamic State propaganda on YouTube, as well as videos pushing illicit activities, such as financial fraud and hacking techniques. While running an Islamic State propaganda YouTube video, researchers investigating these instances encountered a pop-up ad run by Google featuring a picture of Democratic…
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” By Casey Bennett [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]t was the year 1776 when American colonists declared independence from Britain and set the stage for war with one…
Jonah Bennet U.S. Central Command analysts have complained in a separate set of allegations to top intelligence official that their superiors manipulated reports to make the Obama administration’s campaign against Islamic State seem more successful than it really is. This complaint to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is distinct from previous reports of over…
Russ Read In a stroke of irony, a sniper from the elite British Special Air Service (S.A.S.) took the head off an Islamic State leader who was teaching recruits how to behead prisoners. The terrorist was probably not expecting to become his students’ example, but the sniper armed with a large-caliber rifle made him one…
Russ Read Saudi Arabia took its first step in preparing an invasion of Syria by moving ground forces and fighter aircraft to Turkey’s Incirlik base. Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the move on Saturday, just two days after Saudi Arabia said the decision to send its forces into Syria was “final” and irreversible….
By Russ Read Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gave a grim warning that failure to resolve the conflict in Syria could result in a “new world war.” “The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war?” Lavrov said to German newspaper Handelsblatt Thursday, “all sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating…