Rowan Scarborough

Umm Issa Al-Amrikiah, female American ISIS recruiter, and husband killed in airstrike

An American couple who joined the Islamic State in Syria were killed in an airstrike over the weekend, depriving the terror army of one of its most conspicuous woman recruiters and propagandists.

May 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton emails ‘far more egregious’ than data breach that has Marine facing dismissal

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is not alone in being sloppy with classified information on her computer during the war on terror. The Marine Corps was too.

May 1, 2016

Charles Martland discharge reversed by Army in rape-protection case

The Army on Thursday reversed a decision to discharge a decorated Green Beret for roughing up an Afghanistan police chief accused of raping a boy.

April 28, 2016

Iran touts Israel invasion to recruit teenage boys to fight in Syria

Iran has begun to ask its teenage boys to volunteer to fight in Syria in a sign the hard-line Islamic regime's military is suffering rising casualties in the five-year war and needs a morale boost, an opposition group says.

April 28, 2016

William McRaven: Whistleblower hostility may have cost admiral promotion

The nation's former top special operations officer has taken on the leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee in defense of a fellow Navy SEAL.

April 26, 2016

Obama’s limited troop deployments to Syria pose no threat to ISIS in Raqqa

President Obama's decision to send a few hundred special operations forces into Syria is a good step, military analysts say, but the limited deployment underscores his opposition to any significant American ground forces to directly fight the Islamic State.

April 25, 2016

Obama leaving liberal blueprint on armed forces

President Obama has become one of the nation's most successful commanders in chief when it comes to at least one battlefield: the liberal agenda.

April 24, 2016

9/11 Commission: No Saudi smoking gun

The men who led the official investigation into the September 11 attacks are fighting back against charges their commission did not delve deep enough into Saudi Arabia's involvement.

April 23, 2016

Manpower-challenged U.S. Army sets new priority: ‘Mitigate climate change’

In a special message to soldiers, the Army, which faces deep cuts in the ranks of active duty soldiers, said it is focused on "the role the land plays in ensuring the Army remains ready and resilient."

April 21, 2016

Push for answers on Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Sept. 11

Saudi Arabia's grass roots of Muslim clerics, mosquegoers and wealthy oilmen funded al Qaeda's $30 million annual budget at the time a Saudi-dominated platoon of terrorists carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America.

April 20, 2016

Edward Lin, accused Navy spy, told China about U.S. reconnaissance aircraft, officials fear

A Navy officer has spent eight months in the brig as a captive of U.S. counterintelligence agents, but to hear officials tell the spy tale, they know few details about what he provided to China's communist regime or Taiwan's government.

April 17, 2016

Obama administration snubs Medal of Honor recipients, names warships after liberal politicians

As the Obama administration this week named another warship after a politician, a new report is circulating in Congress that shows that nearly 200 Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients have never been awarded such an honor, contrary to naval guidelines and tradition.

April 12, 2016

Navy SEALs’ switch to MMA training spurs fight over new commander

A battle has begun over the choice for the next leader of naval special warfare, with the debate tied to how the command trains SEALs in basic hand-to-hand combat.

April 10, 2016

ISIS unleashes suicide bombers on Iraq, but Pentagon remains upbeat

Amid upbeat Iraq reports from the Obama administration, the Islamic State has unleashed a series of deadly bombings inside government-controlled territory near Baghdad and across the war-torn country.

April 6, 2016

Ashton Carter says U.S. military too ‘top heavy,’ aims to cut ranks of generals and admirals

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday he plans to reduced the number of generals and admirals to counter a "top heavy" command structure.

April 5, 2016

ISIS Internet operation impossible to stop: U.S. commander

The nation's top military officer in charge of cyber warfare said on Tuesday that the U.S. is powerless to shut down the vast information network operated on the Internet by the Islamic State terror army.

April 5, 2016

‘CSI: Islamic State’ is latest spinoff from ISIS

The terror army has proudly announced on its social media platforms that it has opened an "Islamic State Police Forensics Department" in al Furat Province, Iraq.

April 4, 2016

Army tells officers to battle Duncan Hunter over battlefield intelligence system

An internal Army memo is calling on officers to fight legislation from a Marine veteran in Congress who wants to mandate fixes to a complex intelligence computing network panned by soldiers at war.

April 3, 2016

Putin is not pulling Russian forces out of Syria, despite his pledge: U.S. military

Russia is not pulling its military forces out of Syria as announced by President Vladimir Putin with much fanfare last month.

April 1, 2016

Pentagon taunts al-Baghdadi: Hellfire missile headed your way

The Pentagon on Friday put the Islamic State's top leader on notice that the allies are tracking him, saying it is only a matter of time before he is captured or killed by a drone-fired Hellfire missile.

April 1, 2016