Terrorism and War

Members of the terror group ISIS reportedly executed 11 Christian hostages in the African nation of Nigeria on Christmas Day.

For a decade and a half, the U.S. Army waged war on fierce Muslims in a remote land. Sound familiar?

This is how Iran's leaders see the situation: "We are not sending these groups and militias cash and guns so that they can strike ceasefire deals. As long as we're supplying them with money and weapons, they must do anything we want." That is why it is safe to assume that even if the Egyptians manage to secure any kind...

The founder of domestic terrorist organization Antifa has admitted that George Soros helped turn them into terrorists "more dangerous than ISIS." Shayne Hunter, the founder of Antifa Australia, says he quit the radical far-left group after 4 years after he realised that "Soros was using us to start a civil war in every country in the world".

Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are hardly just a nuisance that might splinter NATO. They can fragment European as well as American objectives for world peace. Turkey, as it has been in earlier years, is an existential danger to Europe, to Mideast and global peace. It has cleverly and deceptively shifted the balance of power in the Mideast. More...

Mikael Harpon had converted to Islam about a dozen years before the attack. But it was only during the previous four years he showed signs of radicalization. These signs included "approval of certain exactions committed in the name of this religion," changing his attire to Islamic clothing and refusing to shake hands anymore with women." But it was...

President Trumps tweet picturing and praising the "wonderful dog (name not declassified) that did such a GREAT JOB in capturing and killing the Leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi!" was a brilliant bit of psychological warfare, in addition to good domestic politics, tugging at the hearts of Americans who love their canine friends.

Always look for the country behind the curtain. Fighting Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaeda or ISIS as if they were an isolated phenomenon is as pointless as insisting that every single Islamic terrorist is really a lone wolf. It ignores reality. Islamic terrorist groups can't be defeated without dealing with the states that sponsor them.

Trump said of al-Baghdadi that the United States had "brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice." Al-Baghdadi, according to Trump, fled his pursuers and finally blew himself up in a jihad suicide bombing. Said Trump: "He was a sick and depraved man, and now he's gone. He died like a dog, he died like a coward." He died...