As ISIS continues to incrementally behead American and British hostages on YouTube, it has released 49 Turkish hostages just two days after both houses of the U.S. Congress voted to arm Syria’s rebels. This could be significant because Turkey has formally expressed reticence to join the U.S. in fighting ISIS in Iraq out of concern […]
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James Foley Is Not The Only American Who Was Captured By The Jihadists In Syria
By Theodore Shoebat James Foley was not the only American to be captured by jihadists. James Foley went missing in 2012 when he was in Syria to cover the revolution. Before his execution, the GlobalPost (the outlet that he was writing for), asserted that Foley was captured, not by the jihadist rebels, but by the […]
Barbaric Boko Haram warns against using force to rescue Hostages
This post is an update to this story. As Nigeria’s Boko Haram indiscriminately slaughters innocent people and destroys Christian churches, it warns authorities not to attempt to rescue the family of seven French hostages (four children) that the group kidnapped in nearby Cameroon last month. Boko Haram’s reason for kidnapping an innocent family? Well, the […]