US Actions in Iraq Fueled Rise of a Rebel

The whole point of the threat of ISIS now is that they will be able to establish their own separate state within which they can continue to metastasize as a terrorist threat to Western Europe and the United States. It's not enough to say the Iraqi

On its official YouTube channel, the U.S. Navy has put out two videos showing those airstrikes President Obama announced this week to be carried out against ISIS targets in Iraq.

For the last three days, the U.S. has been bombing ISIS positions that threaten the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil in northeastern Iraq while also conducting airdrops of food and water to ethnic Yazidi people in northwestern Iraq 

“He was a street thug when we picked him up in 2004,” said a Pentagon official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. “It's hard to imagine we could have had a crystal ball then that would tell us he'd become head of

“He was a street thug when we picked him up in 2004,” said a Pentagon official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. “It's hard to imagine we could have had a crystal ball then that would tell us he'd become head of