MIKE DEUTSCH – “We will strike America at its heart.” – ISIS militant Al-Ajkrar Al-Iraqi.[1] Less than two years after declaring a caliphate in June 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) members and supports have carried out more than seventy terrorist attacks in twenty countries outside of Iraq and Syria, killing at least […]
BY JULIANNA FAYNLEYB – On November 13, 2015, eight terrorists associated with ISIS launched a series of attacks in Paris, France, killing over 120 and injuring another 352. Armed with assault rifles and suicide vests, the terrorists systematically attacked six locations within the city, including the Stade de France where French President Hollande was attending […]
BY TREVOR GILLUM – When asked directly whom the Russian air strikes inside Syria were targeting, Russian foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov responded tersely, “If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?”[1] Under the pretext […]
BY JUSTIN HUNTER – On October 30, 2014, protestors in the small West African nation of Burkina Faso stormed and torched the parliament building.[1] The capital city of Ouagadougou had faced unrest in the past days because President Blaise Compaore’s attempt to extend his 27 years of rule through the legislature.[2] During the protests, the president […]
