Clik here to view.
Norway Warns It Faces Imminent 'Concrete Threat' From People With Links To...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway's intelligence service said Thursday it has received information about an imminent "concrete threat" against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The ISIS 'Caliphate' Is Being Run Much Differently In Iraq Compared To Syria
In announcing the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the areas of Iraq and Syria it controls on June 30 and calling on Muslims everywhere to vow allegiance to its self-styled caliph, Abu Bakr...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Most Violent 48 Hours Of The Entire Syrian War Centered Around Gas Fields
Hamas and Israel are in a state of full-blown war, Russia and Ukraine are at their most dangerous point of confrontation in months, and passenger planes have been dropping out of the sky with unnerving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's How Russians See What's Happening In Ukraine And Other World Conflicts
After pro-Russian separatists shot down a passenger plane in Ukraine, the West has demanded that the Russians disown their out-of-control compatriots in Ukraine. Our narrative is that the Russians are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US Isolationism Is Feeding A Global Free-For-All
To get a better sense of the mood in the United States on how the country should behave overseas, it is worth looking at a recently-published Politico poll.The poll illustrates an intense distaste...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This May Have Been The Deadliest Week In Syria's Civil War
More than 1,700 people were killed in Syria this week, in what has been described as the bloodiest seven days since the civil war began more than three years ago.The mostly-Sunni militant group Islamic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Argument For Obama Working With Assad Against ISIS Just Got A Lot Weaker
In the three weeks since Josh Rogan of The Daily Beast reported that some in the Obama administration advocated "a de facto alliance" with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fight ISIS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's How Hamas Received Rockets And Training From Iran And Its Allies
The head of a Palestinian terrorist group told a Lebanese news outlet that Hamas has received arms and training from Syria, Iran and Hezbollah.PFLP-GC Secretary-General Ahmad Jibril spoke to Lebanon’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Young Europeans Are Becoming Jihadis
Salma Abdel was in many ways a typical teenager. She liked her French fries, spent a lot of time on her iPhone 5, and, according to her brother, made “the best pizzas.” Salma’s father refers to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ISIS Is Taking The Fight To Assad, But The Regime Is Far From Finished
The Assad regime is suffering some of its worst defeats of Syria's three-year civil war.On July 19, the regime was at the losing end of the deadliest 48-hour span of the conflict, when ISIS militants...
View ArticleClik here to view.
REVEALED: Israel Bombed A Secret Syrian Chemical Weapons Facility One Year...
@RamiAlLolah is a Middle East watcher, activist, and political analyst who has previously published insider information about Israeli strikes inside Syria. Friday marked the first anniversary of one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Almost Complete, Total Loss Of Faith In Politics' Is Driving The Rise Of...
"This idea that you can have a revolution and then overnight you get to liberal democracy is not only unrealistic, it's totally ahistorical. This is not the way political change happens. So we have to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Putin And Assad Are Using A Lot Of The Same Propaganda Methods To Conceal...
It pays to remember that Syria’s intelligence, and most of its political elite, were trained in the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia — and not just in how to torture and kill people.The IQ,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Has Been The Most Violent Week Of The Entire Syria War
When ISIS ransacked Iraqi army bases during its June blitz through the country's north and west, the radical jihadist group emerged with a number of possible next targets. With its new armor and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Is No One Seriously Acting Against The Islamic State?
The rise of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) – now grandiosely renamed simply the Islamic State and declared a "caliphate"– raises a series of the most perplexing questions to have emerged in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Islamic State's Success Should Force The US Hand In Iraq
The United States should be launching selective airstrikes on ISIS soonerrather than later, particularly where the movement attacks key dams and minority populations.The Islamic State of Iraq and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barack Obama Swept Aside The Entire Free Syrian Army In One Sentence
“When you get farmers, dentists and folks who have never fought before going up against a ruthless opposition in Assad, the notion that they were in a position to suddenly overturn not only Assad but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hillary Clinton Just Made Her First Big Break From The Obama Administration
An interview with The Atlantic published Sunday contained some of the strongest public criticism Hillary Clinton has made of President Barack Obama's foreign policy since she left her position as his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ex-Administration Official Destroys Obama's Argument For Not Helping Syrian...
For the past two years, the main criticism of the Obama administration's policy toward Syria has been that the U.S., "rather than read the signals early on and arm the Syrian opposition when it was...
View ArticleHere's A Video Of Chechen Jihadists Practicing Ambushes And Assaults
A new jihadist group known as the Jamaat Ahadun Ahad, or the Group of the One and Only, has released a video of its training camp in Syria. The group is led by a Chechen commander and includes fighters...
View Article