Rowan Scarborough

Obama enumerates what he will not do in anti-terror fight

President Obama's year-old military strategy to defeat the Islamic State is noteworthy for what he will not do, as well as the steps he has taken for a projected drawn-out war lasting years.

November 16, 2015

Attack on U.S. just a matter of time, security experts say

It is only a matter of time before a Paris-style coordinated terror attack comes to the streets of America, experts say, citing the fact the Islamic State is far more gruesomely efficient than even al Qaeda and is attracting hundreds of committed U.S. followers.

November 14, 2015

Kurds seize Sinjar, city in northern Iraq, from Islamic State’s clutches

The Kurdish government in Iraq declared Friday morning that its peshmerga fighters, backed by intense U.S. airstrikes, had liberated the city of Sinjar, a place of horrifying atrocities carried out by the Islamic State.

November 12, 2015

Moderate Democrats pleading with Obama for decisive plan to beat Islamic State

Moderate Democrats are breaking with their party's left and with President Obama on the Iraq-Syria war strategy, basically pleading with the commander in chief to come up with a more decisive plan for defeating the Islamic State's terrorist army.

November 11, 2015

Pentagon ‘gay’ rape debacle: Report alleging male-on-male sexual trauma retracted

The American Psychological Association has taken the extraordinary step of retracting an in-house journal article that asserted the rate of rape and other sexual trauma among military men was as much as 15 times higher than the Pentagon's own survey.

November 9, 2015

Doctors Without Borders refuses Pentagon money to rebuild hospital damaged in airstrike

Doctors Without Borders is saying no thanks to a Pentagon offer to pay for rebuilding its trauma center destroyed by a U.S. AC-130 gunship on Oct. 3, killing 30 patients and staff.

November 8, 2015

Aaron Allmon case makes Minot Air Force Base ground zero in military’s new gender wars

He is an award-winning combat photographer who stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and for that prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years.

November 5, 2015

‘Gay’ rape in military underreported by Pentagon

Far more military men are being raped by other men than is reported by the Pentagon because of the stigma attached to such sexual assaults, says a new study published by the American Psychological Association.

November 3, 2015

Green Beret war hero cleared of wrongdoing in whistleblower case

A Green Beret war hero, whom the Army had banished from his Pentagon office for whistleblowing to Congress about what he considered a failed hostage rescue policy, has been cleared of wrongdoing.

November 1, 2015

Army misfires on pistol upgrade effort, confuses gun makers with complex requirements

The Army is botching the procurement of what should be one of the simplest weapons to buy: the pistol.

October 28, 2015

Obama’s team preps for more U.S. boots on the ground in fight against Islamic State

President Obama's war cabinet signaled Tuesday that the U.S. military is preparing for deeper troop commitments in the one-year offensive against the Islamic State, with ratcheted-up airstrikes on the terrorist group's moneymaking enterprises and with more American boots on the ground.

October 27, 2015

Obama’s competence as commander in chief challenged in Senate hearing

Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain on Tuesday directly questioned President Obama's competence as the nation's commander in chief.

October 27, 2015

Russian airstrikes in Syria target Assad foes, not Islamic State

The vast majority of Russian airstrikes in Syria are hitting rebels opposed to the Bashar Assad regime -- not Islamic State terrorists -- and, like the Syrian president's forces, often make no effort to avoid hitting civilians, a study says.

October 25, 2015

Syrian forces unleash ‘suicide’ drones on rebels

In a war first, Syrian allies Russia and Iran have begun unleashing "suicide" drones that land and explode, presenting another challenge to rebels trying to oust the regime of president Bashar Assad.

October 22, 2015

Charles Martland, Green Beret discharged for confronting child rapist, gaining support

A Green Beret who is being discharged for roughing up an accused Afghan child rapist is gaining support nationwide from pro-military groups as his appeal nears the finish line.

October 21, 2015

Wayne Simmons, accused fraudster, says he has proof of CIA work

A conservative cable news pundit, whom federal prosecutors accused last week of fabricating a life story of being a former deep-cover CIA officer, now sits in jail, unable to publicly address the felony charges against him.

October 18, 2015

Islamic State, al Qaeda are big fans of Edward Snowden’s tweets

Among the keen followers of Edward Snowden's new Twitter persona are terrorists associated with Al Qaeda's branch in Syria and the Islamic State terror army.

October 16, 2015

Obama ignores generals on troop levels for unprecedented 6th time in Afghanistan, Iraq

In the end, President Obama was forced to listen to his generals -- not his political instincts -- on Afghanistan troop levels, and he decided to split the difference.

October 15, 2015

Iraq uses intelligence center operated by Russia, Iran, Syria; White House alarmed

Iraq has begun bombing Islamic State fighters with the help of a new intelligence center operated by Russia, Iran and Syria, a cooperation that is raising concerns in Washington about the threat to U.S. interests in the region.

October 13, 2015

Steven Warren: Islamic State ‘degraded’ by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes

The U.S.-led coalition has killed 70 leaders of the Islamic State terror army, creating "paranoia" among fighters who are "afraid to move around the battlefield" in Syria-Iraq, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

October 13, 2015