Warnings that ISIS terrorists could strike outside Iraq and Syria and hit Europe or the US now have evidence behind them, and the US military is trying to protect its own. Following the killing of two Canadian soldiers in Canada…
Tag: Iraq
Turkey Sees ISIS Threat Close Up
The Kobani region in the Turkish-Syrian border has been a combat zone between Kurdish rebels and the terror group ISIS for a while, but the ISIS threat has now managed to cross the border into Turkey. The Telegraph reported that…
Israeli Group Says ISIS May Have Chemical Weapons
The ISIS terrorist group, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State (IS), may have acquired some of the world’s deadliest weapons and may have already used them. The Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal reported that Kurdish…
Obama Plans to “Degrade and Ultimately Destroy” ISIS
The US fight with the ISIS terrorist group could include expanding US assistance to moderate rebels in Syria, and US President Barack Obama threatened to strike militarily at ISIS in Syria if it threatens the US in a speech Wednesday…
Al-Qaeda-Inspired ISIL Kidnaps Turkish Officials in Iraq
What began as one of the many factions fighting in Syria has rapidly turned into one of the greatest threats to the Middle East since Al-Qaeda. Looks like Al-Qaeda is the inspiration for the Islamic State in Iraq and the…
Is the Latest Violence the Third Iraq War?
Iraq is accusing a group of foreign nations of launching a de-facto war on their country, and it doesn’t include the United States or the UK. Try Saudi Arabia and Qatar. In a sign of growing tensions between an Iranian-led…