Did Intelligence Community Underestimate ISIS Risk in Iraq?
(WASHINGTON) -- Did the White House miss the memo on ISIS, or did the intelligence community fail to assess the risk? In an interview Sunday on CBS' 60 Minutes, President Obama said Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and his team ...
Iraq Crisis - WTVM.com-Columbus, GA News Weather & Sports
On a recent evening, two of Jordan's top pro-al-Qaida ideologues held court on the rooftop of a villa decorated with strings of lights. Sporting shaggy beards and robes, the Muslim preachers whispered to each...More >>
Iraq’s Communist Party condemns ISIS
The Communist Party of Iraq has issued the following statement, dated September 2014, regarding the recent barbaric attacks launched in that country by ISIS: On the 10th of June, 2014, the terrorist organization known as ISIS, and its allies including ...
Modi warns US to avoid Iraq 'mistake' in Afghanistan
New York (AFP) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned the United States Monday not to repeat its "mistake" in Iraq by pulling out of Afghanistan too quickly. Modi, who is due to meet President Barack Obama later on Monday, said US forces had forged ...
U.S.-led forces strike Islamic State again in Syria, Iraq
The United States and Arab partners conducted eight airstrikes against militant positions across northern Syria on Sunday and Monday, destroying armed vehicles, extremist compounds and a training camp, among other targets, the Pentagon said. But no new U.S ...
Israel’s Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A nuclear-armed Iran would pose a far greater threat to the world than Islamic State militants who have seized large swaths of Syria and Iraq, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. "Make no mistake, ISIS (Islamic State) must be defeated," Netanyahu tol ...
ISIS Fighter Calls US Airstrikes Totally Ineffective
In an exclusive interview with CNN, a Syrian fighter with the group known as the Islamic State or ISIS said they were prepared for US airstrikes within Syria and the damage done against the organization was ineffective. A Syrian ISIS fighter operating under the pseudonym Abu Tahla told CNN through S ...
Jon Karl Spends 7 Minutes Grilling WH About Obama’s Nonsensical Spin On ISIS Assessments (Video)
ABC News reporter Jon Karl spent seven minutes grilling White House spokesman Josh Earnest on President Obama’s nonsensical spin on ISIS assessments before August. Karl quoted senior officials in early 2014 who warned Obama on the very real threat of the ISIS terrorists. Earnest lied again about Oba ...
A Less Generous Take on Greenwald’s Latest
Jack is very generous to Glenn Greenwald in his post earlier today, in which he notes areas where he agrees with what he terms Greenwald’s “ skeptical takedown of the factual basis for the attacks on the Khorasan Group (KG) in Syria, and the American Press’s complicity, based on anonymous USG source ...
