FORT MEADE, Md., Oct. 17, 2014 – The strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is working, but degrading and destroying the terror group will require “strategic patience,” Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III said today. Austin, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters at the Pentagon that Iraq remains the […]
Even with 14 airstrikes carried out by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia on the town of Kobani in Syria in support of the Kurdish fighters on the ground on Wednesday and Thursday, the Pentagon says that Kobani may still fall to the Islamic State. More and more Islamic State fighters continue to pour into the […]
BOGOTA, Colombia — An international undercover law enforcement operation culminated Saturday with the arrests of 12 individuals involved in sex trafficking and the rescue of 55 sex trafficking victims, all minors. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Attaché Office in Colombia and the Colombian Attorney General’s Technical Investigative Corps Transnational Criminal […]
Iran is heading into a new round of nuclear negotiations with the United States and Europe on Tuesday with new-found confidence from President Hassan Rouhani that a settlement “can be achieved” by next month. Rouhani said in a televised address late Monday that “the world is tired” and wants a resolution to the diplomatic stand-off […]