Israeli officials are leaving no options off the table as they consider the possibility of hitting Iran with a preemptive strike while Jerusalem stares down threats in every direction. Following a Sunday meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief security officials from the defense ministry, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Mossad and...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was surprised by news of a deal struck between prosecutors and the mastermind and two others who planned the Sept. 11 attacks. “This is not something that the secretary was consulted on,” Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters during a Monday briefing. “We were not aware that the prosecution or...
Many have questioned the lessons learned from the 20-year war in Afghanistan following the chaotic withdrawal and subsequent Taliban takeover, but one major accomplishment from the U.S.’s time fighting the Taliban has emerged – the use of Artificial Intelligence to track terrorist attacks. In 2019, U.S. and coalition forces began drawing down their troop presence...
White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby on Sunday dodged answering questions regarding the abrupt plea deal reversal provided to a trio of 9/11 terrorists last week. “Is the president willing to let these terrorists escape the harshest penalty in the system of justice and let that be part of his legacy?” Fox...
Turkey sparked outrage on Friday after its President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered a day of mourning for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and flags around the globe were apparently lowered to half-mast – including in Israel. The Israeli foreign minister summoned the deputy Turkish ambassadorfor a “severe reprimand” after the Turkish embassy in...
Families who lost loved ones during the terrorist attacks on 9/11 are speaking out after a plea deal was reached for the masterminds behind the attacks. Joe Connor, whose cousin, Steve Schlag, was killed on 9/11 and whose father, Frank, was killed in the 1975 FALN terrorist attack on the Fraunces Tavern in New York...
The threat of a regional war in the Middle East is troubling world leaders as Islamic extremist groups climb back to the top of international headlines, this time with the backing of state-sponsored terrorism. The Houthi terrorist group has been a long-standing nuisance in the Red Sea due to its near-decade-long attacks on military and...
The Defense Department stunningly backtracked Friday on a plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, who await trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The deal that stirred national outrage and took the death penalty off of the table has been revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd...
Reuters appeared to quietly change a headline that described Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “moderate” after he was assassinated in an airstrike early Wednesday. Haniyeh, a founder of the terror group Hamas, was killed while visiting Tehran, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced Wednesday. Israel was immediately blamed for the assassination after pledging to kill Hamas...
In a painful perversion of justice, the U.S. agreed to a plea deal with terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his two accomplices that spares them the death penalty for the murders of nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. The long-suffering family members of the victims expected and deserved justice, but many will be...
