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The Washington Post obituary read, "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48." "(A)ustere religious scholar"? How about terrorist?! After Twitter world went berserk, The Post obituary reappeared with a new headline: "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48." At a time when we should all share President Trump's exuberance about catching and destroying a terrorist, mass murderer and rapist -- a threat to our nation and all the civilized world -- The Washington Post accused the president of "creating a spectacle" around this great achievement. Once again we are...

Only three of 58 Army Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) would be available to respond to an enemy attack if one hypothetically happened tonight, according to the vice chief of staff of the Army. “Of the BCTs that are ready, only three could be called upon to fight tonight in the event of a crisis,” Gen. Daniel Allyn told the House Committee on Armed Services during a hearing Wednesday. A BCT usually numbers anywhere between 4,400 to 4,700 soldiers, meaning only approximately 13,500 troops would be ready to fight an enemy in the event of an emergency. To make matters worse,...

Islamic State militants attempted to overrun Ein al-Asad base on Sunday US support troops and advisers killed an unknown number of the militants The troops were supported during the battle by F18 fighter jets ISIS forced to retreat after suffering casualties during two hour firefightA number of militants have been killed in Islamic State's very first battle with U.S. ground troops after the extremists attempted to overrun an Iraqi military base. The militants attacked Ein al-Asad military base on Sunday where more than 100 U.S. military support troops are based. Despite launching the surprise attack just after midnight, ISIS's offensive...

It is being said that the Afghanistan insurgents are using weapons previously supplied to the Talaban by the United States government as well as those acquired during present battles.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan reiterated that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaeda and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Sunday that the Bush administration was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions. The Foreign Ministry dismissed as “speculative” a story in The New York Times saying President Bush's top security officials discussed a proposal Friday to deploy U.S. troops to pursue militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. “We are very clear. Nobody is going to be allowed to do anything here,” said Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, the top spokesman for Pakistan's...

U.S. forces rescued 41 Iraqi civilians Sunday from an al-Qaida hide-out northeast of Baghdad, including some who showed signs of torture and broken bones, a senior U.S. official said.

NORTH Korea today described US soldiers serving in South Korea as "infected with an abnormal sexual desire" and said sexual abuse was part of their daily routine. The ruling party's newspaper Rodong Sinmun was commenting on the alleged rape by a US soldier of a 67-year-old woman. The 23-year-old private soldier is in a South Korean prison awaiting trial. The 29,500-strong US military in South Korea has issued an apology for the incident this month. "The US forces in South Korea are infected with an abnormal sexual desire and sexual abuses are part of their daily routine," a Rodong Sinmun...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi officials said Thursday that multinational forces detained five Iranians in an overnight raid on Tehran's diplomatic mission in the northern city of Irbil.

US-led soldiers and warplanes killed 12 Taliban militants who ambushed coalition forces in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said today. Two US soldiers and an Afghan soldier were wounded in Tuesday's battle in the remote province of Nuristan which borders Pakistan, Colonel Tom Collins told a press conference in Kabul. "There was a significant coalition engagement yesterday in Nuristan, in which enemy extremists attacked our forces with rockets and rifle fire," Colonel Collins said. "Through the actions of our forces on the ground and the use of air support we killed 12 enemy extremists," Colonel Collins said. He...

THE top US commander in Iraq foresees a major reduction in US forces there by the end of 2007, with the first cuts in September, the US media has reported overnight. General George Casey, the US commander in Iraq, gave a classified briefing at the Pentagon this week to outline a plan to reduce the number of US combat brigades from 14 to five or six by December 2007, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed US officials. The first reductions would involve two combat brigades that would rotate out of Iraq in September without being replaced, the report said....

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement. In the position paper to be announced Wednesday, Democrats say they will double the number of special forces and add more spies, which they suggest will increase the chances of finding al-Qaida's elusive leader. They do not set a deadline for when all of the 132,000 American troops now in Iraq should be withdrawn. "We're uniting behind a national security agenda that is tough and smart and will provide the real...

We have an Inkling.... ...that all this Cartoon brouhaha, Iran's bravado on their nuclear capabalities and the governments' indecisions to handle once and for all the problem of Islamic terrorism for what it is, is nothing other than the same old wish that many have in creating a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT under the United Nations and force the US and Britain to "submit themselves to the same regime of supervision and inspection as everyone else." A penman at The Guardian writes" So whatever we do about Iran, what we need is a new international system for the supervision and inspection...

..that all this Cartoon brouhaha, Iran's bravado on their nuclear capabalities and the governments' indecisions to handle once and for all the problem of Islamic terrorism for what it is, is nothing other than the same old wish that many have in creating a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT under the United Nations and force the US and Britain to "submit themselves to the same regime of supervision and inspection as everyone else." A penman at The Guardian writes" So whatever we do about Iran, what we need is a new international system for the supervision and inspection of nuclear capacities in...

Appearing on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, former presidential candidate and Vietnam anti-war activist John Kerry accused our soldiers of "terrorizing" Iraqi women and children. In making such an absurd allegation, he did an injustice to our service members, just as his distorted congressional testimony did over 30 years ago. It would be enlightening to see how al-Qaeda-in-Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reacted to Kerry's comments. [ . . . ] Kerry shows tremendous ignorance in the use of tactics and common sense in warfare. He seems to think that rooting terrorists from Iraqi cities should be done as...

A TOP US general said there was no reason to believe that al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a recent raid on the Iraqi city of Mosul. Lieutenant General John Vines said, however, that US and Iraqi forces were "relentlessly" pursuing every lead indicating the presence of the Jordanian militant who is blamed for many bloody attacks in Iraq. Media reports have said Zarqawi might have been among a group of insurgents killed in a battle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday. Lt-Gen Vines told a US Defence Department press briefing from Baghdad...

TOKYO — Basing a U.S. nuclear-powered warship in Japanese waters for the first time will boost stability in East Asia, Japan's government said Friday, hailing an agreement even as it drew protests from the community that will host the aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy on Thursday announced the deal, under which Japan — which the United States attacked with two nuclear bombs in World War II — dropped its longtime opposition to hosting a nuclear-powered warship in its territory. "Japan believes that the continued presence of the U.S. Navy will contribute to safety and stability in Japan, the Far East...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2005 – Iraqi and coalition soldiers conducted targeted searches for terrorist operatives in Fallujah, Iraq, July 30, military officials reported. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, and soldiers with the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, searched more than 445 homes during the operation. A cache of bomb-making materials was found, including an artillery fuse, 20 blasting caps and five triggering devices. Officials noted that all of the items were found hidden in an air conditioning duct staged on a pile of trash. An Iraqi explosive ordnance disposal team removed the...

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2005 – Iraqi and U.S. forces established a joint/combined operations center to develop intelligence and track operations during a series of missions July 15, military officials in Baghdad, Iraq, said. This was the first time Iraqi and U.S. forces established such an operations center, Task Force Baghdad officials said. The staffs of each unit worked side by side in the JOC, resulting in the capture of 39 suspected terrorists in several operations. "Coordination between our respective units has never been better," said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. John Basilica Jr., commander of the 256th Brigade Combat Team. "The...

According to Ephraim Halevy, former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East lasting decades. “The U.S. campaign in Iraq was perceived [in the Middle East and Washington] as a signal of long-term American commitment to do whatever is required and to ‘stay in the neighborhood’ for as long as needed,” commented Halevy in a lengthy op-ed column carried by the April 24 issue of Ha’aretz. High-ranking U.S. policymakers have “raised the idea of establishing an American...

The U.S. military in Iraq has wrapped up a major offensive in a remote northern desert region near the Syrian border, killing at least 125 insurgents and injuring hundreds more. US Black Hawk helicopters fly over black smoke billowing from the site of explosion in Baghdad, May 14th, 2005. Iraqi insurgents pressed their campaign to undermine the new government, killing at least nine people in bombings, as fierce fighting between US troops and rebels near the Syrian border. It was one of the largest American campaigns since militants were driven from Fallujah six months ago. In a statement issued Saturday,...