ISIS expanding, growing in Syria - Daily Kos
The U.S. now thinks it has a new set of tools to scare the unicorns out of hiding, and to tell the nasty terrorists from the good terrorists: psychological evaluations, biometric checks and stress tests... Again, based upon what has been done so far, including, pushing back ISIS in Iraq and coalition forces gaining ground against ISIS in Kobani, you simply cannot say the US effort is failing against ISIS. What is also... Will FOX start airing rape footage next? In 1972��.
Al Qaeda affiliate threatens to kill US hostage in new video
Al-Ansi criticizes U.S.-led airstrikes against the Islamic State group and President Obama for his latest foolish action, referring to the failed operation in Hadramawt. He says an elite group of mujahedeen, or holy warriors, were killed in the U.
North Korea blasts US over CIA report on torture in letter to UN
North Korea is demanding that the U.N. Security Council conduct a thorough probe into the CIA torture crimes, according to a letter obtained by Fox News. In the letter, addressed to the president of the Security Council on Monday, Ja Song-nam, .
Government delays plans to send soldiers to fight Islamic State
Cameron: Well join airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq (Sept. 14). A force protection deployment of combat-ready soldiers was also expected to be sent to defend the military training teams, who would be based at four US bases inside Iraq, Mr Fallon.
ISIS shoots 30 in mass killing near Baghdad, official says
Iraq is in its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops as Sunni militant groups led by the Al Qaeda breakaway Islamic State group have seized a third of the country. In one lightning offensive over the summer, Iraqs U.S.-trained army and.
Failed ISIS raid tests US forces in Iraq
A small band of ISIS fighters mounted a bold, dawn attack Friday on an air base in Iraq where U.S. forces are training troops, in what experts believe may have been a probe that could foreshadow a coming clash involving Americans. All eight Islamic.
Obama: US breaks ISIS siege on Yazidis | Fox 59
While humanitarian airdrops and U.S. airstrikes saved those stranded from starving and provided safe passage off of the mountain, the refugees arrived by the thousands at camps in and outside Iraq. With the news that the��.
US launches 23 air strikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist collective also confirmed the air raids. In Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force said 11 strikes targeted Isis units, buildings, vehicles, equipment, a.
Obama to reveal Isis strategy ��� but pledges no Iraq war.
Barack Obama will announce a new US game plan for an offensive against Islamic State (Isis) this week, the US president said on Sunday as efforts to build an international coalition against the extremists made progress. The US. Iraq has welcomed greater US military involvement, but the Obama administration has been keen to emphasise that its offensive against Isis does not amount to tacit support for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Rather, the US sees��.
Shiia Army Retakes Tikrit, Kills 300 Sunni ISIS Raiders.
Islamic State of Syria and al-Sham controls northwest Iraq while a regular army organized by Major General Qassim Suleimani focuses on actions at Samarra and Tikrit. A fresh. Tikrit is a test point for ISIS military conquest.. ISIS is triumphant. They are sticking with it. McClatchy went so far as to report the feints up Route 1 as a major defeat for the Shiia army. BAS News has a story that the Al Sahra air base (U.S. designation, COB Speicher) has been taken by ISIS.
Jordanian Pilot Dies Horrific Death At The Hands Of ISIS
If the idiot hadnt pulled all US forces out of Iraq as reality demanded, but pandering to his leftist base wouldnt permit, we wouldnt have ever gotten this far. We keep.. http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/04/jordans-king-may-participate-personally-in-isis-raids/. And with an army of more than 100,000 well-trained soldiers, tens of thousands more in reserves and a capable air force, Abdullahs kingdom is more than up to the task, Middle East experts told FoxNews.com.
US Military Stockpiling Massive Amounts Of Gear Near Iraq
As US News reports, Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across. (Take note that the Israel air raids aided the rebels/ISIS) Putin fears if Syria does shoot one of these down It will prevent him from negotiating terms for the Russian elite should the likely collapse of Russia occur in just a few years.
How will US respond to the hacking attack on Sony Pictures?
CATHERINE HERRIDGE, FOX NEWS CHIEF INTELLIGENCE CORRESPONDENT: Chris, the Sony attack is believed to be the first time destructive malware has targeted a firm inside the United States. And its now part. A petition by actor George Clooney to support.
Obama DEFENDS Islam in statement about ISIS video burning
Everyone knows that the Islamic State (ISIS) is Islamic, but our president still refuses to acknowledge it. More than that though, he wants to make sure everyone knows that the ideology of ISIS isnt Islamic, that its something��.
U.S. airstrikes begin on ISIS militants in Iraq | fox8.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) ��� [Breaking news update 8:58 a.m.]. U.S. military aircraft have conducted a strike on ISIS artillery that had been used near Irbil, Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said Friday on Twitter.
Days after election, Obama sends another 1500 troops to Iraq -- but insists.
President Barack Obama told Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Friday that the Pentagon can send as many as 1,500 additional ground troops to Iraq as part of the U.S. mission to fight ISIS. That deployment would approximately double the American .
US-led coalition pledges 1500 more troops to ISIS fight, report says
The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in Iraq pledges to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq, a top U.S. commander told BBC Monday. This new. The Combined Joint Task Force announced that coalition forces carried out 15 airstrikes in Syria and 31 in Iraq.
Will we be conned into war again? - Daily Kos
Except for a surprising blip on Fox News where Megyn Kelly seemed to challenge neocons John Bolton and Andrew C McCarthy, the traditional media, true to form, is touting the military industrial complexs narrative.. many times now, and we progressives are supposed to be so smart but we keep cheer leading for failed military solutions and policy idiocies that produce only more blowback, like setting the stage for ISIS by trashing Iraq after arming and training the��.
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer wont seek re-election in 2016
Dianne Feinstein have held a lock on the states U.S. Senate seats.. A staunch supporter of abortion rights, gun control and environmental protections, Boxer has said she is most proud of the vote that she cast against the war in Iraq... However.
Iraq crisis: Isis gains strength near Baghdad as Kurdish.
Half a million people are believed to be fleeing to the far north of Iraq as insurgent forces take Tikrit, a day after 35000 Iraq soldiers reportedly fled an Isis force of 800 in Mosul.. south into Iraq. A recent but undated family handoout of news photographer Kamran Najm Ibrahim.. Churkin said the root causes lie in the failure to rebuild Iraq and its armed forces before US troops departed: As far as we are concerned we believe that the mission was not accomplished..
Obamas secret raid in Syria to free American hostages failed
U.S. special forces attempted an unsuccessful rescue operation in Syria earlier this summer to free American journalist James Foley and other hostages being held by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), administration officials said Wednesday.
Attempted Hostage Rescue Failed, So Obama Doesnt Care.
Still left unanswered is whether the administration consulted with Fox News to determine if the hostages were good enough Americans to be worth rescuing. Considering that several of them were reporters for the lamestream��.
Obama: Iraq needs US, international help as ISIS. - Fox 59
As to what Washington may do to combat the Islamists, U.S. officials discussed bolstering ongoing efforts to send arms, equipment and intelligence information to help Iraq and its military.. After days of news about its sometimes sudden, surprising defeats, Iraqs government claimed a key victory on Thursday.. Iraqs parliament failed to hold an emergency session Thursday to vote on declaring a state of emergency, as al-Maliki had requested, Iraqiya TV reported.
American hostage murdered during failed rescue attempt in Yemen
Luke Somers was still alive, but badly injured when the team reached him, a Yemeni national security official told Fox News. The official said. Hagel said in the statement that the rescue bid was conducted in partnership with the Yemens government.
ISIL and the McGovern test - Daily Kos
The South Dakota Democrat said military intervention should be considered only in the most extreme of circumstances and added, This is the most extreme Ive ever heard of.. Failure to declare that the acts of genocide occurring in Rwanda were programmatic genocide, and to intervene... [179] ISIS has been able to strengthen its military capability by capturing large quantities and varieties of weaponry during the Syrian Civil War and Post-US Iraq insurgency.
Iraq open to U.S. airstrikes against radical militants | Q13.
(CNN) ��� Iraqs government Wednesday indicated a willingness for the United States military to conduct airstrikes against radical Islamist militants who have taken over one large city and are threatening to fully control another, a U.S. official. Suspected ISIS militants raided the Turkish Consulate in Mosul on Wednesday, capturing 48 people, including diplomats, and they also seized parts of Baiji, the site of Iraqs largest oil refinery, police officials in Tikrit told CNN.
Charlie Hebdo suspects dead after standoff
Kouachi told the court that he was motivated by U.S. troops abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But he said he was relieved when he was arrested. ���The closer the departure got, the more I wanted to turn back,��� he told the judge, according.
Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack
(CNN)- A pair of dramatic raids Friday in France led to the killing of three terrorists ��� one suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman, the other two in the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine ��� and to the freeing of at least.
Bloody Rivals: Paris attack helps Al Qaeda gain edge on ISIS
Al Qaedas prominence among terrorist groups, undisputed in the years following 9/11, had been largely eclipsed as the newer group, also known as ISIS, seized territory in Iraq and Syria and carried out a series of high-profile beheadings that elevated.
Official: Attempt to rescue US journalist in Syria this. - Fox 59
A video released by ISIS on Tuesday showed Foley being beheaded and warned that a second American would be killed if the United States did not end its military operations in Iraq. ���The message was vitriolic and filled with��.
TSA head: Threat from terrorism worse now but US better able to combat it
From Pistoles unique position at the TSA and FBI, he watched Al Qaedas strategy evolve from the 9/11 attacks that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, to the failed underwear bomb plot to bring down a jet on Christmas Day 2009 and the non-metallic.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Makes a Fool out of Herself Once Again
One of the biggest issues regarding what to do about Iraq is that the only real solution is the one that the vast majority of Americans vehemently oppose ��� and thats sending our military back into Iraq to fight ISIS forces directly. Because while these. And lets be honest, no matter what President Obama does, Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media are going to criticize it. All while ignoring... A white guy with the same numbers would be equally a failure. Cat L.