Rowan Scarborough

Islamic State terror army takes joy in torturing homosexuals

Islamic State terrorists have taken particular joy in killing gays since the group's post-2011 rise to power in the Middle East and Africa.

June 14, 2016

Orlando massacre follows playbook of Islamic State attacks

The massacre in Orlando, Florida, follows a major propaganda push by the Islamic State terrorist army to persuade its followers in the United States to kill civilians in honor of Ramadan.

June 12, 2016

Ray Mabus, Navy secretary, celebrates gay pride, hits ‘bigots’ who backed ban

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday that activists who opposed lifting the ban on gays are just like the bigots who fought against racial desegregation.

June 8, 2016

Pentagon brags of killing terrorists even as transferred Gitmo detainees return to battlefield

The Pentagon is boasting of the al Qaeda operatives it has killed to make America safer, yet the same type of terrorists have been transferred out of the Guantanamo prison to countries with a poor history of security, and some have ended up back on the battlefield.

June 5, 2016

Congress seeks to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan military alliance amid China aggression

The United States is required by law to go to war to defend Taiwan if communist China invades — an alliance that conjures up visions of a close working relationship between the democratic nation and the Pentagon.

May 30, 2016

Bowe Bergdahl’s defense says Donald Trump traitor charge taints the case

The Army on Tuesday provided a behind the scenes look at the prosecution of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, releasing pages of internal court communications that show the defense believes it is hamstrung in responding to Donald Trump's charge that their client is a traitor.

May 24, 2016

ISIS seeks to destroy Israel, ‘liberate’ Jerusalem with Sinai Peninsula terrorist force

With a media blitz, the Islamic State has set its sights on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as the next shot at expanding its empire and establishing a base from which to attack neighboring Israel.

May 22, 2016

Ray Mabus, Navy secretary: No politics in warship-naming

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says in a letter that he has the power to name warships as he chooses, in response to a former Marine and congressman who charges he has politicized the process.

May 18, 2016

Army goes all-in on Bowe Bergdahl’s defense, assigns four military lawyers

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has no less than four military defense lawyers, plus his civilian lawyer, to try to beat the Army charge of desertion on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

May 17, 2016

Brian Losey gets Ryan Zinke’s help with Navy whistleblower retaliation protection

Congress' lone former Navy SEAL is mounting a counteroffensive for his former battle mate and current top SEAL who the congressman says is a victim of vengeful whistleblowers.

May 15, 2016

Al Qaeda’s online magazine tells terrorists to target U.S. business leaders in their homes

Al Qaeda's Inspire online magazine is calling on jihadists to damage the American economy by killing business leaders and entrepreneurs in their homes.

May 15, 2016

Trump adviser defends Wayne Simmons against fabrication charge

One of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers has taken up the cause of Wayne Simmons, the former TV military analyst who stood accused of fabricating a career in the CIA as a paramilitary officer.

May 13, 2016

Congress moves to increase Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman’s war powers, term length

Congress is moving to increase the war powers and longevity of the nation's top military officer, while removing any whiff of politics by delinking Senate confirmation from presidential election years.

May 12, 2016

Green Beret blasts Afghanistan command over ‘moral cowardice,’ ‘profound lack of strategy’

A combat-hardened Green Beret has unleashed a barrage of indictments against the command in Afghanistan and policymakers in Washington, saying the 14-year-old war effort suffers from a "profound lack of strategy" and that special operations overseers show "moral cowardice."

May 10, 2016

U.S. airstrike on Afghan hospital the culmination of a tragedy of errors

Several times in the hours leading up to the disastrous U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, American military operators came tantalizingly close to making the right decision that could have averted the deaths of 42 patients and staff.

May 8, 2016

Iran’s Basij militia infiltrates society as Obama outreach fails to reform Islamist rule

Iran plans to spread its notorious Basij militia into nearly every aspect of life, from villages to schools to sports clubs to factories, in a sign that the Washington-Tehran nuclear deal has not led to reforms in the 36-year-old Islamic revolution.

May 5, 2016

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