(USA Today) – Algerian soldiers killed the leader of an Islamic State splinter group blamed for the beheading of a French hiker, Algeria’s Ministry of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is authorizing the U.S. military to deploy up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq as part of the mission...
DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is using U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Syria as a reason to extend olive branches...
(The Washington Post) – In a remarkable new video released by the Islamic State militants, British hostage John Cantlie gives a tour of the Syrian...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist During the past six years, some Republicans and conservatives have described President Obama and his administration as totally incompetent. I have...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent NEW YORK (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes in Syria has...
Tony Capaccio, BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK WASHINGTON (Businessweek.com)—Reaction was swift after a top Pentagon official’s testimony to Congress yesterday that he would support sending U.S. advisers to...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Underscoring the multiple challenges facing his administration, President Barack Obama is consulting with military officials about the...
by Askia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ‘Ironically, Mr. Obama’s most outspoken critics—Republican Senators John McCain (Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.)—were...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Obama says he is going to take ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) out. I wonder how many...
ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — By expanding his military campaign against the Islamic State group, President Barack Obama hopes to reverse the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was struck by how quickly various pundits jumped upon President Obama’s comment regarding ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq...
(CBC.ca) – By vowing to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State militants, U.S. President Barack Obama has laid out a goal that will certainly face a series of...
(The Washington Post) – Douglas McAuthur McCain, tattooed and thin, never stayed in one place long. Born on Jan. 29, 1981, in Illinois, he would...
Darlene Superville, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The “vacation” is over and it’s back to the White House for President Barack Obama. Obama, who returned...
(CBS News) – As an Iraqi helicopter landed on a barren mountaintop to deliver food and water, stranded members of the religious minority group Yazidis struggled...
Liz Sly, THE WASHINGTON POST FISHKHABOUR, Iraq (The Washington Post) — Burned by the sun, blistered with thirst and weak from exhaustion, thousands of Yazidis on...
(Politico) – Here we go again. Whenever there’s a crisis anywhere in the world, you can count on America’s pundit class to demand action—usually of the...
