King Abdullah talks Islamic State war, US not understanding ‘the rules’ as the battle headed to Libya
Speaking in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes in Amman, King Abdullah the Second Bin Al Hussein said the world needs to adopt a “global perspective” in combating Muslim terrorists in both the Middle More...
State Department, USCIRF condemn ISIL purge of Christians from Mosul, Iraq
UPDATE: Two years later and Iraqis are still reeling from the attacks by Islamic State militants. “Around half-a-million people fled when militants stormed Iraq’s second city in June 2014. Many were displaced More...
President Obama to close Guantanamo Bay to scatter or release prisoners
President Obama told reporters Tuesday that he was renewing his effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, which he promised he would close during his 2008 presidential campaign. He said that the facility More...
Bill for tighter screening of Syrian refugees blocked by Senate Democrats
U.S. Senate Democrats blocked legislation on Wednesday that would slow the entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq into the United States in a contentious vote during presidential election-year politics. The vote More...
Iraq takes back Ramadi from Islamic State, 10 leaders killed
U.S.-led forces have killed 10 Islamic State leaders in air strikes, including individuals linked to the Paris attacks, a U.S. spokesman said, dealing a major blow to the Sunni militant group after Iraqi forces More...
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Quotes
“The world is controlled by power, military might, controlled by kings, and kingdoms, the elites controlling resources and crushing the poor and powerless,” Wright said on the evening of Nov. 17 at the Vanderbilt More...
Democrats join GOP in House to pass bill to screen Syrian refugees
The House easily passed a bill Thursday that would suspend the migration program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until key national security agencies certify they don’t pose a security risk. The More...
Hours before Paris terrorist attack: President Obama on ISIS ‘we have contained them’
Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” President Barack Obama seemingly downplayed the threat of ISIS in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Good Morning More...
Behind ISIS is the Sunni initiative for a caliphate, fueled by the Saudis
Sunni Muslims execute truckers in a video – one example of the rise of violence in the Middle East against religious minorites While Ron Paul blames America coldly with a recount of historical failures of More...
New ISIS video depicts the beheading of Kurdish fighters
ISIS has published a video purporting to show the beheading of three Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq by Sunni militants who threatened to kill “dozens” more of those being held captive. The six-minute More...
UAE Leads the Near East and Western Reforms
While much of the Middle East is still behind on the times, there are some areas of it that are at least trying to make meaningful reforms. While the region is riddled with poor education, a lack of jobs, social More...
ISIS receives partnership with Boko Haram in battle for ‘caliphate’
The self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to a radio message released on Thursday. “Our caliph, God save him, More...
Islamic State training children as young as age five to be jihadist
A video released from ISIS showed the Sunni terrorist organization training children as young as 5 years old. The video shows the boys wearing fatigues and black bandanas and chant, “Allah Ahkbar,” which means More...
UAE lists CAIR, Muslim American Society as terrorist groups with ISIS, Al Qaeda
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society are each registering their outrage over reportedly being designated terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates. Michael More...
Peter Kassig, relief worker from Indiana, next to be beheaded by ISIS
ISIS militants released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning in another gruesome execution that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron condemned as “barbaric and repulsive.” Just as they’ve More...
New Islamic State, ISIS, video depicts boy threatening America, more on Khaled Sharrouf
Islamic extremists speak for themselves in new videos from VICE Media where a pre-teen boy threatens America, promises car bombings and other attacks to divide the U.S. “I swear to Allah we will divide America More...
Wikileaks: Guantanamo Bay conditions detailed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed warns of nuclear bomb
WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblower website run by Australian Julian Assange, has released yet another cache of highly secret, highly controversial documents – this time about the U.S. detention facility More...
