Al-Qaeda

Blood-curdling proposals for the persecution of Muslims played a central role in Trump’s election campaign. At one moment, he promised to stop all Muslims from entering the US, though this was later changed to “extreme vetting”. The use of torture by water-boarding was approved and applauded, and Hillary Clinton was pilloried for not speaking of “radical Islamic terrorism”.

Speaking before a United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry demagogically blamed Russia and the government of President Bashar al-Assad for the escalating violence that has left a ceasefire reached earlier this month in tatters.

Ahrar Al-Sham, the Saudi-backed militant organization announced that it will reject the ceasefire which is to enter into force on Monday, September 12. The militant...

Since Turkey launched its invasion of Syria on August 24, mobilizing Syrian Sunni militia funded, armed and trained by the CIA, it has increasingly directed its firepower not against ISIS, but rather against the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Pentagon-backed formation dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

By Scott Stewart May 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden....

Putin: Friend or Foe in Syria? by Patrick J. Buchanan What Vladimir Putin is up to in Syria makes far more sense than what Barack Obama...

by Jason Ditz A new report from British think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is warning that Russia’s involvement in the Syrian civil...