Tag: Terrorism

The Pentagon would not confirm U.S. State Department allegations that Syrian President Bashar Assad is directly aiding the Islamic State through targeted airstrikes by his government forces. (AP Photo)

National Security

State: Syria’s Assad directly supporting ISIS

Tara Copp · June 2, 2015 7:44 pm

A U.S. Army veteran will tell a House subcommittee Monday that the Department of Veterans Affairs allowed a student with "Islamic views" and "no qualifications or educational background" to perform a complicated surgery on his jaw that left him with permanent pain and nerve damage. (iStock)

Army vet: VA let student with ‘Islamic views’ perform botched surgery

Pete Kasperowicz · June 1, 2015 5:46 pm

Women and children rescued by Nigeria soldiers from Islamist extremists arrive at a camp for the displaced people in Yola, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

UN: Abortions not encouraged for Boko Haram victims

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 1, 2015 5:22 pm

According to a recently released Homeland Security Inspector General report, Red Team members were able to get through security checkpoints with potential weapons in 67 out of 70 tests. (AP Photo)Â

TSA missed 95 percent of weapons, explosives in security tests

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 4:27 pm

Quinnipiac University's new poll finds support for gay marriage and concern about the U.S. fight with ISIS.

Americans, 3-1, say Obama is losing fight against ISIS

Paul Bedard · June 1, 2015 2:11 pm

Palmyra is one of a handful of places on the planet whose presence can't easily be conveyed through a camera lens. (AP Chart)

Islamic State is destroying the common patrimony of the human race

Dan Hannan · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. A one-year travel ban is expiring for five senior Taliban leaders held in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay until they were released last year in exchange for Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for nearly five years after he walked away from his Army post in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

National Security

Qatar extends travel ban for ‘Taliban 5’

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 12:27 am

CIA Director John Brennan applauds at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the formation for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, at its headquarters on April 24, 2015 in McClean, Va. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

CIA director: Terrorists watching Patriot Act debate closely

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 6:54 pm

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson greets people during a campaign stop at the Mount Pleasant Farmers Market on May 26, 2015 in Mt Pleasant, S.C. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Ben Carson: ‘I believe that’ it’s ‘a possibility’ I can be president

Kelly Cohen · May 31, 2015 6:11 pm

In this undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl poses in front of an American flag. U.S. officials say Bergdahl, the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan, was exchanged for five Taliban commanders being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to published reports. Bergdahl is in stable condition at a Berlin hospital, according to the reports. (Photo by U.S. Army via Getty Images)

National Security

5 senior Taliban leaders to be freed on Monday

Charles Hoskinson · May 31, 2015 4:01 am

Obama's "disengagement" from the tumultuous Middle East, symbolized by his withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, has created a "vacuum" that's "been filled by bad actors, including terrorist extremists," Rubio wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday night. (Getty Image)

Marco Rubio: Obama has made Middle East ‘more dangerous and unstable’

Kelly Cohen · May 30, 2015 3:52 pm

CNN, Muhammad, and the ‘n-word’

Becket Adams · May 28, 2015 5:25 pm