Tag: Terrorism

Speaker Boehner has offered tentative GOP support for the administration's goals regarding Syria. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

House Republicans drafting resolution to authorize training of Syrian rebels

Charles Hoskinson · September 15, 2014 9:08 pm

Pushing partisan differences aside, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has applauded the chamber's controlling Republicans for an early draft of legislation that would approve President Obama's request to support Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Pelosi gives GOP leaders kudos for ISIS bill

Sean Lengell · September 15, 2014 7:58 pm

National Security

Holder announces program to counter homegrown ISIS threat

Susan Crabtree · September 15, 2014 3:49 pm

Closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay is back on track. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Closing Guantanamo Bay on track for first time

Paul Bedard · September 15, 2014 2:41 pm

ISIS: Self-Funding Terrorism

Geoffrey Norman · September 15, 2014 1:31 pm

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo)

National Security

Snowden’s leaks hurt efforts to fight Islamic State

Charles Hoskinson · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

They Have a Strategy

Thomas Joscelyn · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

‘The Blood-Dimmed Tide’

William Kristol · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

Armed al Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu, Somalia, prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops in December 2008. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

National Security

Al-Shabab terrorist cell discovered in Uganda

Luke Rosiak · September 13, 2014 11:43 pm

It is now President Obama's stated intention to pursue the Islamic State's forces wherever they are, rather than his previous policy of using moderate force only in Iraq and only to protect American facilities and personnel.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Support Obama’s new Islamic State plan

Lawrence Kudlow · September 13, 2014 7:09 pm

National Security

US gov’t warns citizens of terror plot in Uganda

Tom Odula · September 13, 2014 4:57 pm

President Obama, plagued by his worst approval ratings yet, is now losing support from his liberal base as the country appears to have given up on his administration and Washington, according new polling data. (AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

Poll: Blacks, Democrats abandoning Obama, ‘angst and malaise’ take over

Paul Bedard · September 13, 2014 3:13 pm