U.S. President Barack Obama's comments to Congress the other day were very informative about his desire to be authorized in advance to instantly strike the Islamic State and its affiliates wherever...
After 400-days in jail in Egypt the Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Bahar Mohamed were released on bail. They still await a retrial regarding the charges leveled against them that they...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has earnestly promoted himself as a useful ally in the fight against the Islamic State group in his country. Could he really be an imperfect, yet useful, ad-hoc ally...
The notorious Islamic State group has apparently beheaded yet another journalist. The Japanese journalist Kenji Goto whom the group had taken hostage, and demanded $200 million from the Japanese...
Egypt's President Sisi is an autocrat who appears to perceive himself as a forward-thinking revolutionary leader of the Egyptian nation. In light of the Islamist attacks in Paris earlier this month...
What makes a sniper American exactly? Being on the right side of a fight? Stencilling “The Punisher” logo on your equipment like a real life Frank Castle? Wearing a baseball cap backwards whilst...
Northeast of Syria's largest city Aleppo sits the small town of Dabiq. Before the war which continues to ravage Syria began in 2011 its population was below 4,000. It is noteworthy for the simple...
Martin Chulov of The Guardian newspaper got quite the scoop the other day. He got to interview a top-ranking member of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Ahmed. Ahmed...
Over the weekend, Israel has allegedly carried out air strikes on targets in Syria. This isn't the first time that Israel has been suspected of carrying out strikes against Syria. As with past...
Given the Islamist terrorist threat Egypt faces in the form of the Ansar al-Maqdis group operating in that country's Sinai Peninsula, along with that groups pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State...
