Britain is stripping a teen ISIS bride of her citizenship, and she could end...
Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old who fled her home in London to join ISIS, has been trying to return to Britain.But the UK says she is a national security threat. On Tuesday, it told her family that it is...
View ArticleLindsey Graham reportedly ripped into the acting defense secretary over...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly lit into acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan over plans to withdraw from Syria.Graham is one of a number of lawmakers who have criticized the plan to...
View ArticleMeghan McCain calls Tulsi Gabbard an 'Assad apologist' in heated exchange on...
Meghan McCain called Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard an "Assad apologist" during a Wednesday appearance on "The View." Gabbard has long faced criticism over her stance toward Assad. Gabbard said "there's...
View ArticleDespite trying to strip her of citizenship, the UK could be forced to take...
Shamima Begum fled the UK four years ago to join ISIS in Syria. She is now trying to return.The UK government does not want her back, and on Wednesday told her parents that it would strip her of...
View Article11 American women who left the US to become ISIS brides and fighters
Hoda Muthana, an ISIS bride who was denied a request to return to the United States, is one of hundreds of Americans who have tried to join ISIS since 2011. While the majority of the recruits are men,...
View ArticleTrump's decision not to let a US woman who joined ISIS return is the wrong...
This post was originally published at the Brookings Institution.The Trump administration has decided not to allow a woman with US passport to return from Syria, where she joined ISIS.The move sets a...
View ArticleThe American ISIS bride fighting to return to the US has an 18-month-old son...
Hoda Muthana is one of two former ISIS brides fighting to return to the US, who told their stories to The New York Times on Tuesday.On Thursday, the New Jersey-born woman's lawyer Hassan Shibly spoke...
View ArticleUS expected to leave a 'small peacekeeping group' of 200 troops in Syria...
The US will leave "a small peacekeeping group" of 200 American troops in Syria after it officially pulls out of the country, the White House said.President Donald Trump in December ordered the...
View ArticleISIS bride Shamima Begum's family is trying to force Britain to accept her as...
The UK is trying very hard to prevent Shamima Begum, the British teen who joined ISIS four years ago, from returning home.It started the process of revoking her citizenship earlier this week, but it's...
View ArticleHow John Bolton won Washington's war over Syria
The US has said it will keep a small force in Syria, rather than totally withdraw.The contingent appears to mark a victory for John Bolton, who advocated keeping US forces in the country.Their presence...
View ArticleAlabama Sen. Doug Jones says ISIS bride Hoda Muthana should be allowed back...
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones said Hoda Muthana should be allowed to return to the US from Syria and face the criminal justice system. Muthana, 24, left Alabama when she was 19 to join ISIS in Syria, and now...
View ArticleTrump declares 100% of the ISIS caliphate has been liberated, but forces on...
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the US military and its partners have liberated the last of the ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.The announcement comes a few weeks after the president...
View ArticleAfter facing death threats, ISIS bride Shamima Begum has been moved from a...
Islamic State bride Shamima Begum, 19, has moved from the al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria to a camp near the Iraqi border. Her family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said the move was for Begum's...
View ArticleBritain's RAF claims its kill count from bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq is...
Britain's Royal Air Force has killed more than 4,000 ISIS fighters in air strikes over the past 4 years, according to new data.The UK's Ministry of Defence claims that it only killed one civilian in...
View ArticleThe 400 US troops Trump plans to leave in Syria may not be able to accomplish...
President Donald Trump has moderated his plans to withdraw US forces from Syria.Now he will leave 400 troops there to advance US interests.But a force that size in a place like Syria will accomplish...
View ArticleThe newborn son of ISIS bride Shamima Begum has died in a refugee camp,...
The newborn son of British-born ISIS bride Shamima Begum died in a refugee camp on Friday, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces confirmed.Begum was 15 when she and two friends left London to...
View ArticleLindsey Graham says he'll lobby Trump to recognize occupied Golan Heights as...
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he'll lobby President Donald Trump to recognize the occupied Golan Heights as belonging to Israel.Israel effectively annexed the heights in 1981, but that move was not...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard won’t call Syria’s Assad a war criminal as she dances around...
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Monday would not say Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a "war criminal" when pressed on the issue by "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert.Gabbard, who's running for...
View ArticleTrump doesn't deserve any credit for his disruptive foreign policy
President Donald Trump has been hailed for what he touts as an unpredictable foreign policy.But his maneuvers abroad are actually just erratic and may do much more harm than good, argues Jeffrey...
View ArticleSyria's civil war is turning into 3 new civil wars
The civil war in Syria appears to be coming to a conclusion.But three conflicts have emerged in the three de facto independent regions of Syria.Open warfare is waning, but low-burning insurgencies will...
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