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November 29, 2019

Johnny Jones: Why the number of US troops in Afghanistan doesn't matter

The number of U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan doesn't matter as much as how they are employed to keep the peace, retired U.S. Marine Bomb Technician and Fox News contributor Johnny Jones said Friday.

November 26, 2019

Florida man accused of trying to recruit ISIS to bomb deans from Miami-area colleges

A Florida man faces federal charges after allegedly trying to contact the Islamic State to recruit someone to carry out a terrorist attack on the deans of two Miami-area colleges after he was expelled by one and suspended by another, officials said in a press release Monday.

November 25, 2019

New York governor blasted for overreaction to Times Square bomb threat

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparked unnecessary fears on Sunday when he denounced a hoax bomb threat against Times Square, according to sources.

October 31, 2019

Thiessen: We wouldn't have needed a Baghdadi mission if Obama and Biden hadn't withdrawn troops in 2011

Former Vice President Joe Biden's criticisms of President Trump's military raid which killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are "wrong," Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen said Thursday.

October 31, 2019

Parents of ISIS victims hail death of Baghdadi, call on Trump for more help

The parents of victims of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are calling on President Trump to work with them on trying to bring more U.S. hostages and detainees home around the world.

October 30, 2019

Top Arizona Dem blasted for claiming Trump 'aligned himself with ISIS'

Talk about awkward timing-- hours before President Trump announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the chairwoman of the Arizona Democratic Party said publicly that Trump had aligned himself with the terrorist organization. 

October 29, 2019

Menendez: Not quite 'mission accomplished' yet for WH after ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's death

Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cautioned the Trump administration that "it's not time to put a 'Mission Accomplished' banner over the White House," just days after the covert U.S. military operation in Syria that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

October 28, 2019

Al-Baghdadi informant was inside compound at time of raid, Kurdish general tells Fox News

The U.S. raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was months in the making and involved significant intelligence from Kurdish allies in Syria – including a rare informant at the heart of ISIS who was inside the compound at the time of the raid, Fox News has learned.

October 28, 2019

Biden won't give Trump any credit for al-Baghdadi raid

A day after President Trump revealed that a daring U.S. military raid resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a point of not giving the commander-in-chief any credit for the success. 

October 28, 2019

ISIS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, potential al-Baghdadi successor, also killed in Syria, official says

Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, considered a potential successor to terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also was killed in Syria, a senior State Department official confirmed to Fox News on Monday.