Category: terrorism

Guard Duty After the Afghan Deluge

Commentary As the Biden administration withdraws U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, the prevailing media headline declares, with panicked certainty, that America has failed and suffered a strategic defeat. All is lost out there. Trillions of taxpayer dollars were squandered. Our killed and wounded in action suffered in vain. Etcetera. That loser narrative ignores the historical…


Obama-Biden Retreads Prepare to Kowtow to Tehran’s Brutal Hangman

Commentary Team Obama-Biden’s decision to brand its 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the so-called “Iran nuclear deal,” as comprehensive was White House disinformation of the vilest sort: a blatant lie told to deceive the American people. President Barack Obama’s JCPOA was anything but comprehensive. It had weak nuclear inspection requirements and enforcement mechanisms, which…


‘Defund the Police’ Movement Could Mean More Lone Wolf Attacks: Terrorism Experts

Lone wolf killers are likely going to strike and murder innocents more often as a result of the “defund the police” movement, says a former strategic analyst in the Canadian intelligence community. “Security systems in Canada are being torn in all directions simultaneously and they’re understaffed to do what they are being asked to do,”…


Moral Clarity Versus Moral Depravity in Israel and Gaza

Commentary Nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Prager has often observed that if the Israelis were to lay down their guns, Israel would be destroyed tomorrow, but if the Palestinians were to lay down their guns, there would be peace tomorrow. It has always been thus. The latest flare-up of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is…


36 Reasons Why Hamas Is Waging a Long-Term Jihad Against the Jewish State of Israel

Commentary The latest concentrated rocket attack on central Israel by Hamas in the functionally (and militarily) independent city state of Gaza is just the latest round in their long-term war to destroy the Jewish State of Israel. If you read the “experts,” from the left-leaning New York Times to some of even the most conservative…


Don’t Reward Iranian Violence by Ending Economic Sanctions

Commentary To quote the U.S. Navy’s official announcement, on May 6 the cruiser USS Monterey “seized an illicit shipment of weapons from a stateless dhow in international waters of the North Arabian Sea.” The list of weaponry aboard the dhow included advanced Russian-made anti-tank missiles, around 3,000 Chinese assault rifles, several hundred light machine guns,…


Maldives Police Say Blast That Hurt Former President Act of Terrorism

MALE, Maldives—Police in the Maldives said Friday an explosion that wounded former President Mohamed Nasheed and four others including a British national was an act of terrorism and they are attempting to identify four possible suspects. Australian police said they are ready to assist the investigation. Nasheed, 53, was wounded in the blast outside his…


Germany Bans Muslim Group Over Alleged Terror Donations

BERLIN—The German government on Wednesday banned a Muslim organization that it accused of supporting “terrorism globally with its donations.” Police raided buildings associated with Ansaar International in 10 German states, the German Interior Ministry said in a statement. The ministry alleged the money the organization collected ostensibly went into welfare projects as a ruse to…


Former Members of Italian Red Brigades Arrested in France

PARIS—Seven Italians convicted of left-wing domestic terrorist crimes, including several former members of the Red Brigades were arrested in France on Wednesday, the French presidency said in a statement. French police made the arrests on warrants seeking the suspects in Italy for “acts of terrorism,” the statement said. The arrested individuals had fled Italy and…


4 Held as French Investigate Suspected Islamic Terrorist Attack Killing Policewoman Inside Station

RAMBOUILLET, France—French authorities detained a fourth person Saturday as anti-terrorism investigators questioned three others after a policewoman was fatally stabbed by man shouting “Allahu akbar!” while she was on duty inside a police station outside Paris. French police killed the Tunisian suspect in the Friday slaying of an unarmed administrative employee at the entrance of her…