Islamic Jihad

An Islamic State-linked ambush in Niger last year pushed the U.S. operations there into the spotlight and underscored the risks for troops in Africa. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

National Security

General faces questions over Niger ambush that killed four US soldiers

Travis J. Tritten · March 3, 2018 5:01 am

The University of Connecticut is hosting Linda Sarsour, a Muslim-American activist who was a co-chair of the 2017 Women's March, for Women's Month. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Red Alert Politics

UConn to host Linda Sarsour for Women’s HerStory Month event

John Patrick · March 3, 2018 5:01 am

French far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen has been charged with "distribution of violent images" after tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Beltway Confidential

Marine Le Pen’s criminal charges prove France needs a First Amendment and it’s prosecutors need less time on their hands

Becket Adams · March 2, 2018 12:11 am

Nicholas Young, 38, purchased and sent gift card codes to ISIS members in 2016 that he thought could help them recruit new fighters. (Screenshot/Twitter)

National Security

First US police officer convicted on terror charges sentenced to 15 years in prison

Anna Giaritelli · February 23, 2018 8:03 pm

President Trump entered office with the most ostentatious promises, but, ironically, his tenure could end up remembered more like Silent Calvin Coolidge than Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Making presidents less great again

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

Not So Fast

Thomas Joscelyn · February 16, 2018 3:01 pm

Kurdish forces captured Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh last month. Their capture ends the Islamic State group of four British fighters nicknamed "the Beatles" for their accents. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump should send the ‘Beatles’ to Guantanamo

Tom Rogan · February 9, 2018 11:00 am

Soldiers with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have successfully captured two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were part of a four-man Islamic State militant group dubbed the "Beatles" for their British accents. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Final two ISIS ‘Beatles’ captured by American-backed Kurdish forces

Katie Leach · February 9, 2018 12:38 am

President Trump's speech was heavy on illegal immigration, one of his defining campaign issues, the threat of Islamic terrorism and international trade. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Media confused after Trump pushes agenda he was elected to enact

Eddie Scarry · January 31, 2018 12:38 pm

Turkey has made military moves into the predominantly Kurdish region of Syria known as Afrin not to fight terrorism — because Afrin isn't a center of terrorism — but rather as part of its obsessive and unhinged campaign against Kurds. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Beltway Confidential

In Afrin, Turkey seeks ethnic cleansing, not terror eradication

Michael Rubin · January 27, 2018 12:00 am

The Islamic State terror group has increasingly made threats against the U.S. and Europe over the past month. A propaganda ad states, "Wait for us. We meet at Christmas in New York... soon," and shows the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on fire.

ISIS spooks Washington with image of armed gunman outside the National Cathedral

Anna Giaritelli · December 15, 2017 1:53 pm

Zoobia Shahnaz of New York allegedly defrauded banks and converted the proceeds to Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, the proceeds of which were then laundered and moved to overseas funds to support the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

New York woman charged with laundering money to ISIS using Bitcoin

Diana Stancy Correll · December 15, 2017 3:34 am