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President Obama wants the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) defeated by the end of his term, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says. "That´s what he said he wants. That´s what he told me and [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford]. He said, ´Get this done as soon as possible. I´d like to not leave this to my successor,´ " Carter said Friday an event hosted by Politico. He added that Obama called for the process to be accelerated last fall — about a year after the U.S. first began its counter-ISIS campaign. The administration now has...

(CNSNews.com) – Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Brussels was not about religion but a “depraved ideology,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “This isn’t about a religion,” he said. “This is about a warped and brutal, depraved ideology that continues to be attractive to a small number of people in the Muslim faith – radicals and extremists.” “And we don’t believe that it is indicative in any way of the Muslim faith or the people who practice Islam as a religion,” Kirby continued. “But it is a group that remains deadly, remains lethal. And we are going to remain focused...

One of the Brussels bombers was arrested in Turkey and deported back to Belgium in June with a warning that he was a militant, it has sensationally been revealed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ibrahim El Bakraoui, who yesterday blew himself up at Brussels Airport, was arrested in Gaziantep in southern Turkey close to the Syrian border last summer. Officials said he was deported to Holland before being passed back over to Belgium. The president said Belgian authorities had failed to confirm the suspect's links to terrorism 'despite our warnings that he was a foreign fighter'. The revelation came...

They were so proud last Friday when police managed to apprehend Salah Abdeslam. Finally, Europe's most-wanted terrorist was locked away. The Belgian government was so relieved that they immediately released a photo to the world showing Prime Minister Charles Michel, with French President François Hollande seated next to him, speaking on the phone with US President Barack Obama. Both congratulated the Belgian leader on the investigation's success. And now this. Not four days later, all that remains of that feeling of triumph is a bitter aftertaste. At least 31 people were killed and 230 injured in attacks on the airport...

Muslim ghettos in Paris and Brussels are incubators of Islamic extremism where police fear to tread, crime and unemployment are rampant and radical imams aggressively recruit young men to wage jihad against the West, experts said Tuesday. The identities of the terrorists who attacked an airport and subway station in Belgium remained unclear. But the perpetrators of last November’s bloody attack on Paris and other terror strikes in Belgium and France hailed from Molenbeek, a Brussels slum that has long been a hotbed for radical Islam, drugs and lawlessness.

Family, friends and a network of petty criminals, rather than Islamic State (Isis), hid Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Belgian capital Brussels over the course of a four-month international manhunt, French and Belgian officials have said. Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris, where 130 were killed in the November 2015 attacks, has said she believed the community of Molenbeek had "undoubtedly protected" Abdeslam. Speaking on French radio, Hidalgo said the investigation into how Abdeslam had evaded police capture, despite an intensive international manhunt, would show "family support networks" and petty criminals had hidden the Belgian national...

President Barack Obama is pledging that the United States will go after the Islamic State group aggressively and he says the world must be united against terrorism. Obama says the U.S. will also providing any assistance it can to investigate the bombing attacks in Brussels. …

Ibrahim El Bakraoui and younger brother Khalid were no strangers to police prior to Tuesday's suicide bombings in Brussels. Both had criminal records long before becoming involved in a terror cell that unleashed carnage in Paris and Brussels. The siblings were identified Wednesday by prosecutors in Belgium who said Ibrahim, 30, detonated a bomb at Brussels Airport while Khalid, 27, blew himself up in the city's subway system. Ibrahim appeared in the center of an airport surveillance image in which the terror suspects are seen pushing carts carrying massive bombs — disguised as suitcases — through the crowded check-in hall....

FULL TITLE: Brussels bombers DID plan to attack nuclear power station as police uncover 12 hours of footage jihadists filmed outside a plant director's home Investigators found 12 hours of footage filmed by the jihadi cell in Brussels It included film of the Belgian nuclear power chief's home in Flanders The ISIS terrorists are believed to have wanted to kidnap him to gain entry It has now emerged the creators of the footage were the Bakraoui brothers The footage was seized following the Paris terror attacks in November The Brussels terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant...

ANKARA Turkish president says Turkey deported suspected attacker involved in Tuesday's Brussels bombings back in June 2015 and warned Belgium he is foreign militant Turkey deported one of the attackers involved in Tuesday’s Brussels explosions back in June 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Addressing a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Turkish capital Ankara Wednesday, Erdogan said Belgium was warned that the attacker captured in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province in 2015 was a foreign militant. "However, despite our warnings that this person is a foreign terrorist fighter, Belgium failed to detect the terrorist...

slamic jihad struck Brussels Tuesday morning—first at Brussels Airport and then at a metro station 400 meters from EU headquarters—leaving at least 34 people dead and 230 injured. It was an apocalyptic scene according to survivors, “with blood and dismembered bodies everywhere,” even “thrown in to the air.” One man recalled the “horror. I saw at least seven people dead. There was blood. People had lost legs. You could see their bodies but no legs.”

KILLER KIN Brussels Terrorist Brothers: Why Does Jihad Run In The Family? MIA BLOOM03.24.161:00 AM ET Brussels attack brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui join a long line of terrorist siblings, and they won’t be the last.

BELGIAN prosecutors have said the carnage at Brussels airport could have left hundreds more dead after revealing a third far more powerful bomb failed to detonate. Suspected chief bomb maker Najim Laachraoui, whose DNA was also found on several explosives used in the Paris attacks, was carrying the "most powerful" bomb in a large bag, Belgian prosecutors have confirmed. But the lethal explosive failed to detonate after two explosions ripped through Zaventem airport which killed 14 people and left 96 injured. The bomb was safely deactivated by experts. Authorities discovered the third bomb after a taxi driver who drove the...

The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers? The Bakraouis join a list of brothers involved in nearly every major terror attack on Western soil since three sets of Saudi siblings were among the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. For terror groups, brothers can be ideal recruits. They radicalize each other while reinforcing a sense of purpose and ideological calling. They keep watch...

When authorities identified two of the Brussels bombers as Brahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, it underscored what’s become a strangely familiar pattern – brothers working together in the name of terrorism. The Belgian-born men – both believed to have died in Tuesday’s deadly bombings – are the fourth set of brothers who allegedly worked together in some of the most recent and chilling attacks. Less than a week ago, the most wanted suspect in November’s Paris attacks was arrested in a shootout with police in the Belgian capital. Salah Abdeslam was considered a suspect after his older brother, Brahim, blew...

Obama dances while Brussels burns: President and Michelle take to the floor to TANGO during glitzy state dinner in Buenos Aires as he ignores calls to come home in wake of terror attacks Obama traveled to Buenos Aires to meet new Argentine leader Mauricio Macri following his visit to Havana, Cuba President was pictured Wednesday night at a state dinner with wife Michelle and Argentine first lady Juliana Awada There he danced the tango and sipped champagne, ignoring calls to return home after the Brussels terror attack Nine Americans were among hundreds wounded during a triple suicide bombing in the...

On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced the tango at a state dinner in Argentina. By the next morning, a bipartisan chorus of disapproval of the optics was bursting out on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Obama should not have canceled his trip to Argentina after the attacks in Brussels, said Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, but his recent photo op at a baseball game in Cuba and his tango left much to be desired. “Argentina is actually one of the very rare good news stories in the world,” Haass said, referring...

In Brussels police are still desperately hunting a dangerous terrorist after he fled a triple-suicide bombing in the city that left 34 dead, as officials search for news on U.S. citizens who went missing during the attack and medics tend to nine more Americans lying wounded in hospital. Meanwhile in Buenos Aires President Barack Obama was dancing the night away with wife Michelle at a glitzy state dinner alongside Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his first lady Juliana Awada as part of a two-day state visit. Despite increasing calls from the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for the...

Poland's government says it is not prepared to accept any refugees following the deadly attacks in Brussels. The ruling party, Law and Justice, is staunchly anti-migrant, but had previously indicated it would respect a commitment by the previous government to resettle around 7,000 refugees. But government spokesman Rafal Bochenek indicated Wednesday that Prime Minister Beata Szydlo's government is reversing that position. He said that "at the moment Poland is not able to accept immigrants." He said the government fears that Europe is not able to eliminate security risks connected to the mass influx of migrants, adding: "for us the most...

Belgian officials have captured one of the key members of the Islamist terrorist cell responsible for the attacks in Brussels yesterday — and more. Initial reports identify the suspect as the ISIS cell’s master bombmaker Najim Laachraoui, and the two dead suicide bombers as brothers Khalid and Ibrahim el Bakraoui. CBS News issued this special report that identified Laachraoui as the man captured, not just for the Brussels attack but also for his role in the Paris attacks as well: The Washington Post casts some initial doubt on that identification: Authorities captured a suspect linked to the Brussels bloodshed...