France has mobilized 115,000 security personnel and has conducted 128 additional raids on suspected militants, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, France and Russia staged airstrikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday, as France formally requested European Union assistance, invoking for the first time the EU’s mutual assistance clause of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, […]

As the world continues to reel from the Paris attacks, the Islamic State announced it would attack Washington, D.C., and other countries, Reuters reports. Even so, President Obama still plans on accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees, according to The Washington Times. AP: Iraq Warned of Attacks Before Paris Assault Bloomberg: Paris Attacks Reveal Belgium as the Heart of European Terror Yahoo: Clinton […]

Despite claims to the contrary, Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said on Friday that they did not yet know the outcome of an American airstrike on Thursday to kill the notorius ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi, The New York Times reports. Reuters: Suicide Bomb in Baghdad Kills at Least 18: […]

Kurdish troops aided by Yazidi fighters and U.S. air support captured a strategic highway from the Islamic State as they continue toward reclaiming the town of Sinjar, reports The New York Times. Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants to designate ISIS’s attacks on the Iraqi Yazidis as “genocide,” according to Yahoo. Newsmax: McClatchy-Marist Poll: Sanders Would Beat Trump and Bush by […]

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz gave the most impressive debate performance at Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, reports Politico. Meanwhile, it was Donald Trump who received nearly a quarter of the Twitter debate traffic, according to The Hill. Reuters: U.S. Campuses Hold Race Protests After Missouri Resignations AP: Russia Calls for a New Syrian Constitution In 18 […]