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Islamic State

TOPSHOT - France's goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (L) smiles and holds the trophy next to France's coach Didier Deschamps as they arrive for a reception at the Elysee Presidential Palace on July 16, 2018 in Paris after French players won the Russia 2018 World Cup final football match. - France celebrated their second World Cup win 20 years after their maiden triumph on July 15, 2018, overcoming a passionate Croatia side 4-2 in one of the most gripping finals in recent history.

ISIS Spent Months Pushing Jihadist World Cup Attacks. Here’s Why They Failed.

Russia is one of ISIS’ top recruiting wells and has sent as many as 7,000 jihadists to the Islamic State, so it’s not as if they’d be hard-pressed to find home-turf World Cup attackers.
By Bridget Johnson

How Boys Who Just Want to Be Bros Become Homegrown Terrorists

Terrorism today is reeling in recruits much like your average American street gang.
By Bridget Johnson
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during CPAC of February 22, 2018.

Mike Pence Takes Shots at NFL and Planned Parenthood at CPAC

Vice President Mike Pence promised to continue 'dismantling the liberal legacy of the past administration.'
By Davis Richardson
President Obama speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore on February 3, 2016.

‘No Doubt’ President Obama Is a Muslim, Donald Trump’s New York Campaign Chair Says

By Will Bredderman
A man carries a French baguette as police officers stand guard the Saint-Etienne church on July 27, 2016 in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, 125 kilometres (77 miles) north of Paris, where a priest was killed the day before in the latest of a string of attacks against Western targets claimed by or blamed on the Islamic State jihadist group. Father Jacques Hamel, a semi-retired assistant parish priest, had his throat slit in a church in northern France on July 26, 2016, after two men stormed the building and took hostages. As the two attackers made to leave the church they were confronted by a French police unit specialising in hostage situations, the BRI, and were shot dead.

Why ISIS Sees an Elderly Priest as a Threat to the Caliphate

By Bridget Johnson
NICE, FRANCE - JULY 15: A man reacts as people visit the scene and lay tributes to the victims of a terror attack on the Promenade des Anglais on July 15, 2016 in Nice, France. A French-Tunisian attacker killed 84 people as he drove a lorry through crowds, gathered to watch a firework display during Bastille Day Celebrations. The attacker then opened fire on people in the crowd before being shot dead by police.

Lesson From Nice: To Fight ISIS, Focus on Motive Over Means

By Bridget Johnson
French President Francois Hollande leaves the Elysee Palace following a meeting with security officials on July 15, 2016 in Paris, a day after a gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revellers celebrating Bastille Day in the city of Nice. An attack in Nice where a man rammed a truck into a crowd of people left 84 dead and another 18 in a "critical condition", interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said on July 15. An unidentified gunman barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd that had been enjoying a fireworks display for France's national day before being shot dead by police. / AFP / Thomas SAMSON

Hollande Warns What Obama Won’t: Islamic Terrorism Is Real

By John R. Schindler
The Internet has been ablaze with Donald Trump conspiracy theories since he announced his candidacy.

Trump Looks to Salvage Flailing Campaign With Polished Populist Assault on Clinton

By Will Bredderman
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 1, 2015. AFP PHOTO / POOL / YURI KOCHETKOV

False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand

By John R. Schindler
Flowers and an American flag are seen on the ground near the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.

The Road to Orlando

By John R. Schindler
Iraqi government and counter-terrorism forces arrest men suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group on March 10, 2016 following an operation to retake the town of Zankura, northwest of Ramadi, in Anbar province, from IS. Iraqi forces retook a town from the Islamic State jihadist group in Anbar province Thursday and evacuated 10,000 civilians as they advanced up the Euphrates valley, a security spokesman said. The sprawling province of Anbar -- which borders Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- was at the heart of the "caliphate" that IS proclaimed in 2014. The jihadist group still holds most of the province but the noose is tightening around some of its key bastions. / AFP / MOADH AL-DULAIMI

How to Defeat the Islamic State

By John R. Schindler
People gather near a makeshift memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris on November 23, 2015 in tribute to the victims of the November 13 terror attacks. A coordinated wave of attacks on Parisian nightspots claimed by Islamic State group (IS) jihadists killed 130 people. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP / ERIC FEFERBERG

The World Needs to Know What Really Happened Last November

By John R. Schindler
A man holds a sign as people take part in a rally on March 22 in Turin, Italy, in memory of the victims of Brussels attacks.

Does Israeli Retaliation Against Hamas Make Sense Now, Europe?

By Jonathan Russo
Russian police officers patrol on Manezhnaya Square outside the Kremlin in Moscow on November 9, 2010.

How the Kremlin Manipulates Europe’s Refugee Crisis

By John R. Schindler
Mayor Bill de Blasio at One Police Plaza today.

De Blasio: Trump and Cruz Are Working From an ISIS Script

By Jillian Jorgensen
The Great Colonnade in Palmyra, Syria.

Islamic State Driven Out From Ancient City of Palmyra

By Ryan Steadman
Assyrian Christians (background), who fled advancing Islamic State group jihadists in the Syrian province of Hasakeh, wait in line to receive humanitarian aid supplies outside the Assyrian diocese of Sid al-Boushriyeh, on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on March 17, 2015. IS jihadists have seized at least 11 of the 33 Assyrian villages in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakeh, and kidnapped more than 200 members of the ancient Christian sect, which numbered around 30,000 in Syria before the war.

This Easter, Stop the Crucifixion of Assyrian Christians

By Bradley Martin
Toby Juan Lopez

The Feds Release Freelance ISIS Negotiator

By Allan Ripp
BUTNER, NC - NOVEMBER 20: The federal prison in Butner, North Carolina where Convicted Israel spy Jonathan Pollard was released from is seen on November 20, 2015 in Butner, North Carolina. Pollard, 61, spent 30 years in prison after being caught selling American intelligence secrets to Israel. The prison camp houses three levels of security on the multi-building Federal Correctional Institute campus.

How This Freelance Hostage Negotiator Talked to ISIS Leaders and Enraged the FBI

By Allan Ripp
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Mounting Evidence Putin Will Ignite WWIII

By John R. Schindler
An Egyptian army helicopter flies over the crash site of an A321 Russian airliner in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015. International investigators began probing why the Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on board, as rescue workers widened their search for missing victims. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Who Really Murdered 224 Innocent People on Flight 9268?

By John R. Schindler
Barneys flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue. (Getty)

Afternoon Bulletin: City Settles Lawsuit Over Racial Profiling

By Parker Richards
Republican presidential candidate during the CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Ethan Miller for Getty Images)

Four For Fighting! Undercard Candidates Tackle Terrorism and Trump

By Will Bredderman
Sen. Charles Schumer with Sen. Cory Booker. (Photo: Ross Barkan for Observer)

Dem Senators Want Global ‘Boots on the Ground’ and Drone Strikes to Stop ISIS

By Ross Barkan
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