Casey Harper A Kansas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb a military base. John T. Booker Jr., 21, planned to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley military base in Manhattan, Kan., in April of 2015 in the name of ISIS. Agents arrested him following a months-long investigation. “If this…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com By Russ Read Islamic State released a new video Sunday that ostensibly features the last will and testaments of the terrorists who perpetrated last November’s Paris attack. The video was produced by Al-Hayat Media, an ISIS propaganda wing, and is called “Kill Them Wherever You Find Them.” It features nine…
Russ Read The leader of the semi-autonomous state of Kurdistan in the northern region of Iraq believes the old borders are irrelevant and should be redrawn. President Massoud Barzani has been the leader of Kurdistan for just over 10 years, and through that time he has witnessed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the rise of Islamic State,…
Jonah Bennett The Islamic State has a card up its sleeve in the event that the group is backed into a corner: the ability to unleash a flood of Biblical proportions that would kill tens of thousands in Iraq. Since 2013, ISIS has maintained control of the Tabqa dam, which was created with support…
A woman wandered into an Italian fire department to request they free her from a chastity belt which she had lost the key to. The woman was reportedly wearing the device because she was afraid of sexual assault after the flood of news reports from around Europe documenting a rash of such incidents at the…
Nearly 20,000 civilians were killed and 3.2 million displaced in Iraq in just under two years, a count the United Nations calls “staggering.” Their new report, released today, details the absolutely horrific toll which the battle with ISIS is taking on Iraq’s population– prompting some to call the crimes “genocide.” The numbers are grim: 18,802…
Jonah Bennett President Barack Obama said Congress must vote to officially authorize war against the Islamic State in his State of the Union address Tuesday. “If this Congress is serious about winning this war, and wants to send a message to our troops and the world, you should finally authorize the use of military force…
Jonah Bennett A U.S. airstrike obliterated an Islamic State bank in Mosul, Iraq, destroying millions of dollars of much-needed cash. The airstrike consisted of two 2,000-pound bombs and was somewhat unusual because of the facility’s proximity to civilian areas. Mosul is full of normal residents. The U.S has exhibited extreme reticence when it comes to…
Casey Harper Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump released his first TV ad Monday, and the 30-second commercial touts two issues the candidate has taken the most heat for: a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants and Mexico pay for a border wall. “The politicians can pretend it’s something else, but Donald Trump calls it ‘radical Islamic terrorism,’”…
Russ Read Major world events have made headlines throughout 2015, but not all of them were expected. ISIS, unsurprisingly, continued to wreak havoc in the Middle East. China continued to assert dominance in the South China Sea, literally creating islands where once there was nothing but water. Vladimir Putin continued to run roughshod over Ukraine,…