Syrian Intelligence Agency Says it Thwarted a Planned Islamic State Attack on a Shiite Shrine State news agency SANA reported, citing an unnamed official in the General Intelligence Service, that members of the IS cell...
US Military Campaign Against Islamic State Ramps Up The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past...
New Orleans Attacker Served in Army for More than a Decade, Deployed to Afghanistan The man who federal officials say was responsible for a ramming attack that killed multiple people in the early hours of New...
What Is the Islamic State Group and What Attacks Has It Inspired? The FBI says it recovered the black banner of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed...
US Military Conducts More Airstrikes to Prevent Islamic State from Making Gains Amid Syria Turmoil While the campaign to quell the Islamic State has been ongoing for years, the military says the recent strikes have been...
'We Saw the Opportunity': Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Were Possible After Assad and Russia Left Pentagon officials say that the massive strikes against more than 75 Islamic State terrorist group targets in Syria over the...
Pentagon Says 2 US Troops Injured in Joint Mission that Killed ISIS Commander in Iraq The news of the joint mission comes just weeks after the U.S. announced that it had reached a new agreement with the Iraqi...
US Military Presence in Syria Carries Substantial Risks, But So Does Complete Withdrawal Recent reports suggest that amid the growing tension in the region, additional resources and soldiers have made their way to...
ISIS Fighters Surrender in Syria, Others Killed in Afghanistan Many civilians have been fleeing Raqqa, ahead of an anticipated final push by U.S.-backed fighters seeking to retake the city...
Moscow Terror Attack Showed Growing Reach of ISIS-K – Could the US Be Next? Considering ISIS-K’s track record and clear aspirations, it would be naïve to dismiss the possibility of an attack on...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
