by Tanya Somanader | Feb 19, 2015 | Monitor
"I witnessed horrible crimes committed by ISIS. It's not a revolution or jihad … it's slaughter … I was shocked by what I did. This isn't what we came for, to kill other Muslims. I'm 28 — is this the only future...
by Lindsay Holst | Feb 18, 2015 | Monitor
Ed. Note: The following op-ed by President Obama appeared in the Los Angeles Times this morning. The United States has made significant gains against terrorism. We've decimated the core al Qaeda leadership, strengthened homeland security and worked to prevent...
by zen | Dec 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] A Facebook friend with an astute comment pointed me toward this Wall Street Journal article by Joe Rago on the mission of General John Allen, USMC as “Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter...
by David Hudson | Oct 14, 2014 | Monitor
President Barack Obama participates in a meeting hosted by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with more than 20 foreign chiefs of defense to discuss the coalition efforts in the ongoing campaign against ISIL. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III,...
by Tanya Somanader | Sep 24, 2014 | Monitor
Today, President Obama led the United Nations Security Council in unanimously passing a binding resolution to stem the flow of foreign terrorist fighters into — and out of — Iraq and Syria. In its nearly 70-year history, the United Nations Security Council...