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The vast majority of files found by US officers on laptops taken from Islamic State contain pornography, says Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s spying arm. Flynn was repeatedly assigned to senior intelligence posts in Afghanistan and Iraq […]

The U.S. State Department sent nearly $350,000 to an advocacy group that worked to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Senate report released Tuesday. OneVoice Movement, a group that supported peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian factions, received grants from the State […]

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) disseminated a new hit list of American targets earlier this month, including churchgoers and Jewish worshippers, forcing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to brief religious leaders. The list, discovered by jihadi monitoring service SITE Intelligence, was published on […]

The Lebanese Ambassador to Russian Federation, Chawki Bou Nasser told Sputnik News on Tuesday that Beirut requested a large number of Kornet ATGMs (anti-tank guided missiles), T-72 Tanks, and advanced cannons from Moscow. “Lebanon needs weapons to fight these people [terrorists], and especially the Russian […]

Technical hitches limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia but the apparent coordination of the blasts suggests the extremists have the tools to sustain their bombing campaign. A young Saudi suicide bomber at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina killed four policemen […]

As ISIL loses territory in Iraq and Syria, the nature of the threat in Southeast Asia is set to change. Until recently much of the violence caused by extremists in Southeast Asia has been as much about local conditions as Islamist ideology. The return of […]

The State Department “dissent channel” memo on the United States’ policy in Syria, leaked last month, is just the latest expression of a widespread belief in and out of government that American intervention in Syria is necessary and would be successful. After five years of […]

In what appears to be a major reversal, the Turkish government has issued a call for improved relations between Iraq and the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Throughout the Syrian conflict, Ankara has been one of the most vocal detractors of the legitimately-elected Syrian government, […]

France will send more military advisors to Iraq and its aircraft carrier will return to the Middle East later this year in the fight against Daesh, President François Hollande said Wednesday. “We will intensify the army’s efforts to support the Iraqis as they try to […]