Rowan Scarborough

Obama changes objective in war on ISIS from ‘destroy’ to ‘defeat’

The White House released its new national security strategy that says, “We have undertaken a comprehensive effort to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.”

February 6, 2015

Obama denied request from Jordan for Predator drones in Islamic State fight

The Obama administration this year turned down a request from Jordan for Predator spy drones that would help it locate targets in the war against the Islamic State.

February 5, 2015

ISIS vows Jordanian pilot won’t be last hostage burned alive

The Islamic State is signaling that its execution by fire of a captured Jordanian pilot will not be its last immolation.

February 5, 2015

Gen. Vincent Stewart, DIA chief, calls Taliban ‘terrorists’ despite others’ reluctance

The U.S. military's top intelligence officer on Tuesday, unlike the White House, had no trouble designating the Taliban as "terrorists."

February 3, 2015

‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle essential in 2004 Fallujah liberation

The importance of military sharpshooters such as "American Sniper" Chris Kyle was never better demonstrated than during the 10-month struggle to take Fallujah in 2004.

February 1, 2015

Obama lacks strategy to stop Islamic State expansion

As the U.S. fights the Islamic State to a stalemate in Iraq, the terrorist army also is looking elsewhere, gaining ground in Syria and attracting more followers across the Middle East, analysts and officials say.

February 1, 2015

France’s ethnic apartheid: ‘Separate Islamic societies’ breed discontent, radicalism

In 2011, as the Charlie Hebdo killers were learning their jihadi trade, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told his country that it had suffered a major societal defeat. Multiculturalism, Europe's grand experiment in expanded immigration, had failed in France -- or, as Mr. Sarkozy put it, "It's a defeat."

January 25, 2015

Dianne Feinstein’s CIA hacking narrative countered by board review

The Evan Bayh report's bottom line: The unnamed CIA officers acted reasonably when trying to confirm their suspicions that the Feinstein cadre took documents that the CIA had designated as privileged, a designation the White House counsel backed up.

January 21, 2015

Army battlefield intelligence network for Afghanistan War met only ‘minimum capabilities’

The Army's much-criticized battlefield intelligence network met only "minimum capabilities" when it was sent to the Afghanistan War, an audit says.

January 18, 2015

Islamic State launches social media campaign to capitalize on Paris attacks

The Islamic State terror group has launched a big social media campaign to try to capitalize on the Paris massacre.

January 13, 2015

Islamic ideology driving terrorists to kill, Egypt’s president tells Muslim clerics

The ruler of Egypt is alone among major world leaders in his willingness to go before an audience of senior Muslim clerics and tell them that parts of Islamic ideology are indeed driving terrorists to kill worldwide.

January 11, 2015

French Islamist mini-states grow into problem out of government control

A backdrop to the massacre in Paris on Wednesday by self-professed al Qaeda terrorists is that city officials have increasingly ceded control of heavily Muslim neighborhoods to Islamists, block by block.

January 7, 2015

Air Force clears crew in ‘friendly fire’ deaths

The Air Force said Tuesday that mistakes by its B1-B air crew when they targeted American soldiers did not directly cause the Afghanistan war's worst case of "friendly fire" fatalities.

January 6, 2015

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula adapts to avoid Predator drones

The most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate to the U.S. homeland is teaching fighters how to avoid detection by the Predator drone, the terrorist group's feared assassin flying over Yemen.

January 4, 2015

Army chaplain rebuked for citing Christian faith in suicide prevention effort

Traditional values groups are rallying around an Army chaplain who was rebuked by his commander for distributing information on Christianity during mandatory suicide prevention training.

January 1, 2015

Green Berets cleared in Afghanistan friendly fire deaths

The Army's top special operations officer has cleared two Green Berets of wrongdoing in the worst case of "friendly fire" fatalities in the long Afghanistan war.

December 28, 2014

Osama bin Laden capture: CIA harsh interrogations crucial, Republicans say

Senate Democrats' argument that harsh CIA interrogations played no role in finding Osama bin Laden revolves in crucial ways around the life of Hassan Ghul, who turned out to be the most informative biographer of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, who eventually led the CIA to bin Laden's home address in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

December 25, 2014

Bowe Bergdahl: Four-star general Mark Milley handed soldier’s court martial case

The Army announced Monday that it is referring the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to a four-star general who will decide whether to charge him criminally for leaving his base in 2009 in Afghanistan.

December 22, 2014

Bowe Bergdahl court-martial would require an honorable discharge

The Army would have to give Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl an honorable discharge because he is past his active duty commitment, unless it proceeded with a court martial, a legal expert says.

December 21, 2014

Special operations forces tactics compromised by Hollywood, media reports

Special operations forces' three most recent attempts to rescue American hostages failed. Some believe Islamic extremists have gone to school on U.S. tactics — and the classroom is the American media.

December 17, 2014