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Unified Somalia: Cornerstone of Horn of Africa Stability and American Interests January 03, 2025

Throughout history, great nations have often been called upon to make difficult decisions that influence the fate of entire regions. Today, the United States faces such a moment in its policy towards Somalia. In an era of shifting alliances and heigh...

Somalia

foreign policy

Somalialand

The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks January 03, 2025

The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his truck, according to the FBI. Police shot 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar dead at the s...

Isis

ISIS-K Threat Grows as It Targets Disaffected Muslims October 22, 2024

The Afghanistan-based terrorist group has revamped its online recruiting tactics, experts say, as it seeks to carry out attacks against the U.S. and other Western countries....

Isis

U.S. Should Hold Canada Accountable for Its Border Security Failings October 14, 2024

Canada felt serious pain when the U.S. closed its borders after 9/11. The Jean Chrétien government of the day reacted with a singular priority: keep Canada’s border with the U.S. open because Canada’s prosperity depends on it. That primarily meant as...

canada

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United States

Politics

Police Prevent Tel Aviv Terror Attack, Arrest of 5 ISIS-Linked Suspects October 10, 2024

ISIS Is Back, Says UK Spy Chief October 08, 2024

Rare public appearance from MI5 boss Ken McCallum also includes stark warnings about Russia, Iran — and funding pressures on the intelligence service itself. ...

Isis

ISIS Is Alive and Well, and Targeting Our Largest Festivities August 14, 2024

Any doubt that ISIS remains a pervasive threat to the West should be dispelled by last week’s cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria. ...

Isis

Lessons From the Taylor Swift Terror Plot August 10, 2024

It looks like the people of Vienna have been spared a devastating terror attack. ...

Taylor Swift

Isis

Kenya and the African Continent Need Greater U.S. Attention August 08, 2024

Africa has never truly been a strategic geopolitical focus for the United States. Despite the continent’s population of 1.4 billion people, which is predicted to double by 2050, and having some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the U.S. ...

Taylor Swift Terror Plot & ISIS's Worrying Trend August 08, 2024

The details emerging of the alleged terror plot aimed at Taylor Swift’s three Vienna concerts are scant, but already adhere to a chilling pattern familiar to European counterterrorism officials....

Taylor Swift

India and Pakistan Brace for Rising ISIS Threat August 07, 2024

ISIS-K Goes Global August 01, 2024

Over the past few weeks, French authorities have uncovered several terrorist plots targeting the 2024 Olympic Games, which began last week in Paris....

Isis

CENTCOM: ISIS Is Reconstituting in Syria and Iraq July 18, 2024

In an unusual public statement late on July 16, United States Armed Forces’ Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that after six months of 2024, “ISIS is on pace to more than double” the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq it claimed in 2023. ...

Isis

DHS: ISIS-Affiliated Group Brought Over 400 Into U.S. June 26, 2024

Over 150 have been arrested, but the whereabouts of over 50 remain unknown, officials said. ICE is looking to arrest them on immigration charges when they are found....

Isis

FBI Arrests 8 Suspected ISIS Members Who Entered U.S. Illegally June 12, 2024

Americas

U.S. Embassy in Beirut Attacked by Suspected ISIS Terrorist June 06, 2024

ISIS-K Is Ramping up Its Terror May 15, 2024

If I were to describe a president who, acting on a long held belief but purportedly responding to the American public’s war-weariness, orders the withdrawal of all American troops and leaving no residual force in a country besieged by diminished but ...

Isis

Man With Alleged Ties to ISIS Lived in U.S. for Two Years May 07, 2024

Americas

Why ISIS Attacked Russia and Why Russia Blames Ukraine March 26, 2024

The terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in a Moscow suburb was no bolt from the blue. The Kremlin dismissed U.S. intelligence warnings of an imminent attack by “extremists,” possibly to shift the blame to a convenient scapegoat whe...

Isis

We Are Still Haunted by ISIS March 26, 2024

The atrocity in Moscow is an all too brutal reminder of the Islamist savagery in our midst....

Isis

Rising ISIS-K Threat Across Eurasia May Be Taliban’s Gain March 26, 2024

ISIS-K's ability to strike across Eurasia could push the international community to cooperate more with its chief rival, the Afghan Taliban. ...

Isis

Why ISIS-K Has Russia in Its Sights March 25, 2024

Russia

Lethal Reach of ISIS March 25, 2024