Threat Information Office Headlines 9-28-15 Taliban seizes Kunduz, Islamic State Launches attacks The Taliban carried out one of the most serious security breaches in the 14 years of war yesterday, seizing the city of Kunduz, in Northern Afghanistan. Taliban forces reportedly freed hundreds of prisoners from a local jail, and forced Afghan forces to abandon …
All forms of transportation banned in Nigeria to prevent Boko Haram attack As of Wednesday evening, all transportation, including cars but also livestock including horses, donkeys, and camels, have been banned from entering Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in Nigeria. This ban has been enforced with the intention of preventing a possible Boko Haram …
TIO Headlines: September 23, 2015 Turkish army launches airstrikes on Kurds in Iraq Turkish jets targeted a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant camp in northern Iraq, destroying munitions depots and caves, according to Turkish security forces. The Turkish army also claims to have targeted a facility being used for “education and logistics”. Following the collapse …
Migrant crisis undermines Long Time EU Border Agreement Germany’s decision to reimpose border controls, has created a domino effect with other E.U countries doing the same as the crisis worsens. The 1995 Schengen agreement had guaranteed passport and visa-free travel as well as no border checks within the EU, but with hundreds of thousands of …
President Obama’s main arguments in defense of the controversial nuclear agreement with Iran have been that the only alternative to the agreement is war and that the idea of a better deal is a fantasy. We believe both of these arguments are false. First, we dismiss the president’s stark dichotomy of this deal versus war …
With Adm. James “Ace” Lyons, Col. John Warden III, Russ Read, Amb. Henry Cooper, Diana West
The U.S. military recently concluded its annual two-week exercise known as Black Dart. Conducted every year since 2002, but only open to select media for the past two years, Black Dart brings together government, academic institutions and private companies to test out their latest technologies designed for a single objective: confronting and neutralizing an enemy …
The Obama administration has embarked upon a path to reward decades of bad behavior by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the futile hope that Iran will become benevolent and cease its warlike actions and intentions toward the West in general and the U.S. and Israel in particular. As futile as the idea of negotiating a …
In February of this year the Mayor of France Anne Hidalgo announced that the “City of Lights” would sue the right-leaning cable news channel Fox News for its depiction of so-called “No-Go Zones” in the French capital. That move came after a firestorm of controversy broke out over Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal invoking the term …
George Jahn, a respected reporter who covers the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna for The Associated Press, published an important story yesterday on details of a secret side agreement to the Iran nuclear deal in which Iran will collect samples of possible nuclear-weapons-related activity for the IAEA. He wrote his story after an …