After a week of hard fighting last month, Iraqi government forces drove ISIS from the town of Bartella, liberating a stronghold of Iraqis who belong to the Assyrian Orthodox Church. In their euphoria, Christian militia, who call themselves the Nineveh…
President Obama and Hillary Clinton are wrong when they say ISIS is not Islamic. Let me be perfectly clear. The majority of Muslims are not terrorists, but al-Qaeda and ISIS are part of an Islamic fundamentalist tradition. The idea of…
Donald Trump is due to deliver a speech in Youngstown, Ohio later this afternoon detailing his counterterrorism strategy & his immigration proposals. Based on the details of the speech which have been released by the Trump campaign, I have two…
Donald Trump is due to deliver a speech in Youngstown, Ohio later this afternoon detailing his counterterrorism strategy & his immigration proposals. Based on the details of the speech which have been released by the Trump campaign, I have two…
The August 10 report of a joint task force of the House Armed Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence shows that a serious corruption of intelligence by U.S. Central Command (“CENTCOM”) senior officers has been used to feed…
I don’t know whether Donald Trump started claiming that President Obama founded ISIS so people would stop talking about the Second Amendment flap. Whatever his reasons, Obama didn’t establish ISIS. If he had, it wouldn’t be called ISIS or ISIL…
The New York Times waited two days. On the morning of July 26, 84-year-old Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered while celebrating Mass when armed Islamists attacked his Catholic parish in Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France. Two days later, the New…
At this hour, German authorities are engaged in a manhunt for a gunman who went on a shooting rampage at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum (OEZ) shopping mall in Munich. As of this writing, the number of fatalities are unknown. The OEZ is…
At this hour, it appears that the military coup in Turkey has failed with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan back on Turkish soil. If Erdogan is restored to power then Turkish secularism is truly dead and so is the military that…
Astonishing. Truly astonishing. The #NeverTrumpers who style themselves “Delegates Unbound” have used a snippet of President Reagan on the use of military force, with Reagan saying this: “Use of force is always and only a last resort.” The clip then…
