Tag: Terrorism

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson noted that designating North Korea as a state sponsoring terrorism is part of what President Trump describes as a "maximum pressure" campaign and what he himself calls a "peaceful pressure" campaign. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Rex Tillerson on North Korea: ‘We still hope for diplomacy’

Sarah Bedford · November 20, 2017 8:21 pm

Trump Returns North Korea to List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

Andrew Egger · November 20, 2017 6:03 pm

The death sentence was announced by Rodong Sinmun in an editorial in North Korea's state-run newspaper. (AP)

Trump designates North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism

Gabby Morrongiello · November 20, 2017 5:14 pm

Ultimately, the U.S. ground presence in Syria forces President Bashar Assad and his allies to recognize that they cannot, by themselves, decide what happens next. By staking an American flag in the ground, the U.S. lends credibility and power to those whom Assad would otherwise turn into terrorists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Obama’s Iraq blunder nurtured ISIS; Trump’s Syria policy might prevent ISIS 2.0

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

Predicting the Failure of ISIS

Thomas Joscelyn · November 17, 2017 8:00 am

Riyadh Realpolitik

Elliott Abrams · November 17, 2017 8:00 am

A firm policy is taking shape against their belligerence in the region following the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the target of a botched assassination attempt. (Future TV via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Hezbollah’s defeat could unravel Iran’s Middle East ambitions

Washington Examiner · November 16, 2017 2:35 pm

Rabab Abdulhadi, an ethnic studies professor at San Francisco State University, is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel. (Screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

Terrorist-sympathizer speaks at George Washington University, calls Zionists ‘McCarthyites’

Jackson Richman · November 16, 2017 1:52 pm

In a new book, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown references a 2002 Pentagon report commissioned by Donald Rumsfeld, which apparently found that evidence for "the existence of WMDs [in Iraq] was weak, even negligible and in key areas nonexistent." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Beltway Confidential

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rewriting the history of the Iraq War

Tom Rogan · November 15, 2017 7:56 pm

A flower tribute is placed behind newly installed barriers on Westminster Bridge in London. A series of attacks described as terrorism killed several people and injured more than 40 others in the heart of London in March. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Beltway Confidential

Medical heroism during the Westminster terrorist attack

Tom Rogan · November 15, 2017 4:36 pm

Over the past three weeks, Yusuf Demir, an Islamic State media official, Omer Demir, an external operations coordinator, Abu Yazin, an senior leader and a weapons facilitator, and Abdellah Hajjiaou, an external operations plotter, were killed by airstrikes against ISIS. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Airstrikes kill four senior ISIS leaders

Diana Stancy Correll · November 14, 2017 10:35 pm

The Diversity Visa program, which awards green cards to 50,000 prospective immigrants each year, fell under intense scrutiny earlier this month when law enforcement officials confirmed that Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek national who is suspected of killing eight individuals during a Nov. 1 terror attack in New York City, entered the country on a permanent residence visa he won through the lottery. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

White House: US awarded diversity visas to five accused terrorists

Gabby Morrongiello · November 14, 2017 10:12 pm