The Terrorist Diaspora: After the Fall of the Caliphate
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Caliphate
The Final Obama Scandal
Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes. Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...
Op-eds
Will Trump Stay or Go in Iraq?
Though the battle for Mosul has slowed to a crawl, the collapse of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate — at least in its Iraqi incarnation — remai...
Op-eds
Jihadists Under Investigation
The system was blinking red for months prior to the June 12 terrorist attack in Orlando. Since early 2015, the FBI has repeatedly warned the American public that the threat of violent attacks is...
Op-eds
ISIS Targets Egypt
Earlier this month, the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a massive media campaign in support of the insurgency in Sinai. Officials from 14 of its so-called provinces in Iraq, Libya, and Syria ...
Op-eds
How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds Into Its Global Expansion Efforts
Co-written by Bridget Moreng and Nathaniel Barr Even before the dramatic blitzkrieg...
Op-eds
Neither Remaining Nor Expanding: The Islamic State’s Global Expansion Struggles
Co-written with Nathaniel Barr Judging from the Islamic State’s propaganda, it would appear the group is rapidly overtaking the Muslim world. The Islamic State has declare...
Op-eds
Treasury sanctions Islamic State oil and religious officials, facilitator in Gaza
The US Treasury Department announced today that three Islamic State officials have been sanctioned f...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
The Impact of ISIS on the Homeland and Refugee Resettlement
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Legislative Testimonies
Mullah Omar’s Death Is A Big Blow To Al Qaeda—And A Win For ISIS
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has confirmed on his official Twitter account that Mullah Omar...
Op-eds
The Islamic State’s Varying Fortunes in North Africa
The jihadist group that calls itself the Islamic State has increasingly set its sights on expanding into North Africa. The eighth issue of the group’s English-language magazineDabiq...
Op-eds
Who is IS?
Who are they anyway? IS, the Islamic State, that is. There are two big components: religious fanatics and totalitarian leaders. The secret of IS’ success lies in combin...
Op-eds
“Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States”
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Legislative Testimonies
A Deliberately Grotesque Execution
The Islamic State, a self-proclaimed “caliphate” that rules over large portions of Iraq and Syria, has released a video showing a Jordanian pilot, Mu’adh al Kasasibah, being bur...
Op-eds
Video Shows Terrorist Responsible for Paris Market Attack Pledging Allegiance to Islamic State
A new video has been posted online showing Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a French policewoman and attacked a kosher market in Paris last week, pledging allegiance to the...
Op-eds
No Fun in the Caliphate. Just the End of the World
It’s a tyrannical theocracy, crucifixions and decapitations are routine, women are shrouded and intimidated, the grim religious police are all over the place. It’s your Islamic...
Op-eds
Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State
An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....
Op-eds
The Islamic State’s Vulnerability
As the U.S. military joins with its allies and temporarily-aligned enemies to fulfill President Obama’s promise to “...
Op-eds
Who Are These ISIS Guys and Why is Obama Willing to Bomb Them?
It may well be that ISIS is one of at least two too-clever-by-half operations masterminded by our enemies. At the beginning, ISIS spun off from Al Qaeda because, we were told, Zawahari was...