Trump official pins DC National Guard attack on Biden's open border crisis



The Trump administration’s National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent exposed a terrifying reality about the fallout from former President Joe Biden’s open border crisis.

'That number, alarmingly, remains unknown at this time.'

During a Thursday Committee on Homeland Security hearing, Kent testified that, under the Biden administration, thousands of foreign nationals with known or suspected terrorist ties were allowed into the country.

“Despite the progress that we’ve made so far in the Trump administration, the threat posed by terrorists of all brands remains very high right now,” Kent said in his opening statement before lawmakers.

He explained that the country is facing “a persistent threat from the individuals that were allowed into this country by the previous administration.”

Kent noted that the most significant threat “is the fact that we don’t know who came into our country in the last four years of Biden’s open borders.”

“What we have identified is alarming,” he stated, adding that the federal government recently issued a warning about the heightened risk of terrorist attacks, particularly posed by ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

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“So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country,” Kent revealed.

He accused the prior administration of having “facilitated” the entry of individuals with ties to jihadi groups, including the Afghan suspected of attacking National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., on November 26. The attack resulted in the death of 20-year-old National Guard member Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, while Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe was wounded.

“That Afghan was brought into the country as a group of over 100,000 Afghans who were brought here during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. These individuals, despite what has been reported, were not vetted properly to come into the United States,” Kent said.

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He stated that the NCTC is working with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to track down individuals with ties to terrorist organizations. However, he noted that the 18,000 figure does not include foreign nationals who came into the U.S. illegally through the open border.

“That number, alarmingly, remains unknown at this time,” Kent remarked. “We’re trying to figure out who those individuals are as well.”

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Obama CIA chief gives murderous Islamic terrorist a PR makeover — in New York City



Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Islamic radical who was previously designated a terrorist by the State Department and who founded the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and now serves as Syria's president, received a warm welcome on Monday in New York City, just five miles away from where his comrades killed 2,753 people on 9/11.

While al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani or Muhammad al-Jawlani, was in town for the United Nations General Assembly, he also took part in a "fireside discussion" with ex-CIA Director David Petraeus on the sidelines of the general assembly at the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit.

'Sometimes in a person's journey, there are some mistakes.'

Ahead of the discussion, Baihas Baghdadi of Baghdadi Capital provided the terrorist with a glowing introduction, painting him not only as a liberator — a characterization that some Syrian Christians and other religious minorities might find questionable — but as "the hero, the man that brought freedom back to Syria."

Before it was taken down, the State Department's Rewards for Justice $10 million bounty page for al-Sharaa stated:

Under al-Jawlani’s leadership, ANF has carried out multiple terrorist attacks throughout Syria, often targeting civilians. In April 2015, ANF reportedly kidnapped, and later released, approximately 300 Kurdish civilians from a checkpoint in Syria. In June 2015, ANF claimed responsibility for the massacre of 20 residents in the Druze village of Qalb Lawzeh in Idlib province, Syria.

Al-Sharaa's terrorist group claimed responsibility for multitudes of other terror attacks throughout Syria, including 600 attacks in its first year of operation, and worked in concert with ISIS.

In 2017, al-Sharaa merged al-Nusra with other Islamic extremist groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group that was linked in its formative years to the late leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and was recognized by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization until July.

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After HTS-led forces overthrew the Assad regime, al-Sharaa took power in Damascus.

"Together, we acknowledge all the sacrifices you have made to return Syria to all Syrians," Baghdadi said on Monday of the murderous terrorist. "It is our time to ask ourselves what we can do for Syria now that you, Mr. President, brought back Syria to all of us."

Although Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan whose extramarital affair blew up his CIA directorship, admitted at the outset of the discussion that he and the terrorist were on different sides during the American surge in Iraq, the retired general similarly characterized al-Sharaa as a liberator.

Al-Sharaa told Petraeus, "We cannot judge the past based on the rules of today, and we cannot judge today based on the rules of the past."

The terrorist suggested further that his intent has long been to protect and defend people and human rights and to combat "injustice."

"Perhaps there was some mistakes," the terrorist said. "Sometimes in a person's journey, there are some mistakes, but what's important is to focus on defending people from the threats that they face."

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In addition to reportedly committing scores of massacres since taking power, the supposed humanitarian's regime has supported some of those Sunni radicals who have in recent months engaged in massacres, bombings, rapes, and kidnappings, including those who executed an American citizen, Hosam Saraya, in July.

Petraeus — who, while CIA director, proposed a covert program of arming radicals like al-Sharaa in Syria in a regime-change operation that became known as Timber Sycamore — said that he felt validated by the terrorist's rise to power and claimed both that al-Sharaa's "vision is powerful and clear" and that his success "is our success."

Al-Sharaa appeared interested in more than just a PR makeover. He impressed upon Petraeus and the audience his desire to see the Trump administration lift America's remaining sanctions on Syria, namely those under the 2019 Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act.

"Just lift the sanctions, and you will see the results," al-Sharaa said.

President Donald Trump signed the Caesar Act into law on Dec. 20, 2019. The act imposes sanctions on those who provide various goods or services to Syria, such as aircraft for its military, items on the U.S. Munitions List, and items Trump believed were being used to commit human rights abuses against the Syrian people.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted after meeting with al-Sharaa on Monday that they "discussed implementing President Trump's historic announcement on sanctions relief and the importance of Israel-Syria relations."

When pressed for comment about the sanction talks with Syria, a State Department spokesperson told Blaze News that as a general matter, they do not comment on private diplomatic discussions.

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Media tries to protect Antifa with tired al-Qaeda talking points



President Donald Trump signaled a desire on Monday to have his administration designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. The liberal media appears keen to use a misleading narrative to shield anarcho-communist militants from a possible crackdown.

Various outlets and publications have suggested that Antifa cannot be designated as a single terrorist group because "Antifa" is supposedly a catch-all term for a motley patchwork of radical leftist groups that just happen to dress the same, use the same slogans, target the same kinds of people, engage in the same kinds of violence, share the same base ideology, and share the same origin.

CNN, for instance, rushed this week to assert, "It wasn't clear who or what exactly Trump would designate; Antifa is a loosely organized movement without a distinct leader, membership lists, or structure."

Asad Hashim, a D.C.-based Agence France-Presse news editor, noted in a Monday piece that has been circulated by various liberal papers, "Antifa — short for 'anti-fascist' — is an umbrella term for diffuse far-left groups, and is often mentioned in right-wing talking points around violence at protests."

The liberal media and their friends in the field adopted this same framing when Trump labeled Antifa a terrorist organization in 2020, only to find himself undermined by then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who told Congress that "it's not a group or an organization. It's a movement or an ideology."

Politico, for instance, suggested in June 2020:

Antifa doesn’t appear to have any organizing structure and is connected only by an amorphous political ideology. There’s not much more than anecdotal evidence and blurry Twitter assertions that organized antifa groups showed up at the recent protests, executing any sort of “well-trained” tactics.

The current framing of Antifa is also reminiscent of the descriptions used by so-called experts and media types in reference to another outfit easily recognizable to most Americans as a terrorist organization: al-Qaeda.

The Justice Department's abstract for terrorism expert Yonah Alexander's book "Usama bin Laden's al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network," — published just months ahead of the September 11, 2001, attacks — describes al-Qaeda as a "loosely knit network" "comprised of various terrorist organizations, such as the Egyptian al-Jihad and dozens of others" that was heavily funded by Osama bin Laden and served "as an informal organizational structure for extremist Arab-Afghans, along with thousands of new recruits and supporters in some 55 countries."

'It is polymorphous, deliberately shifting its shape and style to suit changing circumstances, including the addition of new, semi-autonomous affiliates to the broader network.'

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, PBS' "Frontline" amplified the suggestion by Saudi dissident Saad Al-Fagih that contrary to the description given by American law enforcement of a well-organized cell organization, al-Qaeda was less an organization and more a "phenomena" [sic].

When reporting on the manufacture and use of the deadly substance ricin in 2004, NBC News noted that following America's invasion of Afghanistan, "al Qaeda has become more diffuse, transforming itself into a loose-knit collection of underground cells."

While some in the media appear to have used such descriptions to question action or continued action against the terrorist group, others proved willing to admit that these characteristics were strategic on the part of the terrorists.

A 2005 article published in the First Monday journal noted that "according to the latest thinking, Al Qaeda is now more important as an ideology than an organization, a network than a hierarchy, and a movement than a group. It is increasingly amorphous, though initially it seemed tightly formed."

The author, researcher David Ronfeldt, noted further that "while Al Qaeda may look amorphous (i.e., shapeless), the deeper reality may be that it is polymorphous, deliberately shifting its shape and style to suit changing circumstances, including the addition of new, semi-autonomous affiliates to the broader network."

'Some Antifa leaders have been active for more than 40 years and may hold high-ranking positions in unions or nonprofits.'

"Today, now that Al Qaeda has more affiliates, the network and franchise concepts remain in play, but the emphasis is on Al Qaeda’s evolution into a decentralized, amorphous ideological movement for global jihad," added Ronfeldt.

Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told Blaze News, "The categorization you see in much of the mainstream media is deliberately misleading. It is true that Antifa is organized along decentralized, non-hierarchical lines, in keeping with their ideology as anarchists and autonomous Marxists. But it is also true that they think and write extensively, almost obsessively, about that organization and structure."

Years ago, "a 'Forming an Antifa Group' manual was published which described specific steps to create your own Antifa group and then how it is networked into larger groups. So in this sense it [is] absolutely false to say they don’t have structure," continued Shideler. "They have precisely the structure they want, which is designed to make them challenging for law enforcement to confront, and which is based on over 100 years of anarchist and Marxist organizing theory."

It's also not true to say that Antifa is devoid of leaders.

Shideler noted that in the leftist group, "leaders are determined not by titles but by force of personality, capability, training, or experience. Some Antifa leaders have been active for more than 40 years and may hold high-ranking positions in unions or nonprofits."

Shideler indicated that when briefing law enforcement officials, he often likens Antifa to an outlaw motorcycle club or to street gangs.

"Gangs are made up of smaller clubs or cliques which are networked together by a shared brand, imagery, or iconography," he said. "As the Antifa manual says, adopting the name Antifa comes with 'certain obligations.'"

'The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities.'

Contrary to the suggestion by some liberal media personalities, Antifa's characteristics, real or imagined, don't preclude officials from applying the terrorist label.

Shideler noted that the actual statute that controls the definition of terrorist and terrorist activity for the purposes of foreign terror designation — under the Immigration and Naturalization Act — "is fairly loose."

A group "of two or more people ... can be designated if it, or any subgroup connected to it, engages in terrorist activities. Those connections do not have to be financial, although they are often the easiest to prove," said Shideler.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to Blaze News, "Left-wing organizations have fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more."

"The Trump administration will get to the bottom of this vast network inciting violence in American communities," continued Jackson. "This effort will target those committing criminal acts and hold them accountable."

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How did a terrorist in a tailored suit get Trump’s stamp of approval?



While the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage has dominated headlines, another danger has quietly re-emerged — one far more dangerous to American lives than a frozen conflict in Eastern Europe. Donald Trump has legitimized a man who once led an al-Qaeda/ISIS faction, lifting U.S. terrorist designations and sanctions to recognize him as Syria’s leader.

For millions of Trump voters, ending America’s involvement in endless wars and repudiating the neocons who started them was a central promise. Trump’s campaign video “Preventing World War III” called out warmongers and globalist elites like no other candidate before him. He vowed to replace them with patriots and pursue an expressly America First foreign policy.

Trump’s instincts on war and peace can be right — if he listens to MAGA voices.

But instead of draining the neocon swamp, Trump has given it fresh water. His recognition of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — the protégé of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — has kept us on the endless war track.

This isn’t what MAGA voted for.

How we got here

In December, Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria collapsed after 14 years of civil war. Into the vacuum stepped al-Jolani and his terrorist army, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham — the latest iteration of al-Qaeda and ISIS. This is the same Islamist movement that murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11, beheaded Americans, and committed atrocities across the globe.

Yet the United States — first under Joe Biden and now Trump — recognized HTS as a legitimate government. Trump went farther, praising al-Jolani as “a young, attractive guy” with “a strong past” and removing HTS from the U.S. government’s list of designated terrorist groups.

The ISIS record

Trump still celebrates the 2019 mission that killed ISIS founder al-Baghdadi. But Baghdadi's deputy, al-Jolani, was an equally ruthless figure — a homicidal psychopath once targeted by the State Department with a $10 million bounty and a spot on its most-wanted list.

ISIS, originally known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, became notorious for public beheadings, bombings, rape, sexual slavery, torture, and genocide — including the murder of Americans.

In 2011, al-Baghdadi sent al-Jolani to Syria to establish an ISIS foothold. Al-Jolani formed the Al-Nusra Front, Syria’s largest jihadist militia, which later evolved into HTS.

Interventionist fingerprints

ISIS didn’t appear from nowhere. U.S. foreign policy paved the way, under the influence of neoconservatives who believe that the purpose of American military might is to bend the world to their political will, regardless of who is in the White House. They’ve engineered endless wars in service of the military-industrial-congressional complex and globalist elites.

Just a month after 9/11, General Wesley Clark learned of a neocon plan within the Pentagon to topple seven Middle Eastern governments in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.

Six are down. Only Iran remains.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was predicated on nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction.” The result? 4,492 dead Americans, at least 655,000 dead Iraqis, trillions of tax dollars squandered, the ascent of ISIS, and a far more dangerous Iran.

Barack Obama’s decision in 2011 to oust Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was another interventionist catastrophe. Spearheaded by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Democrat by party, neoconservative interventionist by worldview), Libya was left a barbaric, failed state.

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After Gaddafi was sodomized to death by a mob of savages, Clinton perversely gloated: “We came, we saw — he died.” Now Libya is a human trafficking hub with open-air slave markets.

Then came Syria. Obama secretly authorized the CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore to arm “moderate” rebels. Billions’ worth of weapons ended up on the black market or with al-Qaeda affiliates, including al-Jolani’s forces.

Syria has been shattered — 530,000 dead, 13 million displaced, with 6 million fleeing abroad.

Immigration jihad

Since 2001, U.S.-led wars have displaced 38 million people, destabilizing Europe and swelling its Muslim population to 44 million. Many have no interest in assimilating. Globalist elites and EU leaders have encouraged this migration to weaken national sovereignty and culture.

Clothes make the man?

When Assad fell, al-Jolani rebranded. Out went the mujahedeen garb; in came tailored European suits. Trump praised him and lifted sanctions, granting his regime international legitimacy.

Predictably, HTS continues slaughtering Christians, Druze, Alawites, and other Shia Muslims.

The choice ahead

When it comes to foreign affairs, Trump’s presidency is faltering. Badly. Caving to neocon interventionists has escalated war and betrayed his base. Embracing an al-Qaeda/ISIS warlord desecrates the memory of every victim of jihadist terror.

I still believe Trump’s instincts on war and peace can be right — if he listens to MAGA voices. Patriots inside and outside his administration must push him to break with the neocons, reject al-Jolani, and put America First again.

Mahmood Mamdani, Credited With Shaping Son Zohran's Thinking, Wrote of 'Moral Equivalence' Between 9/11 and US War on Terror

New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s father wrote shortly after 9/11 that there was a "moral equivalence" between the al Qaeda attack and retaliatory U.S. bombing of Afghanistan.

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Syria's terrorist regime just killed an American citizen — more Christians, Druze are next



Those who warned that the takeover of Damascus by Turkish-backed Islamic terrorists might bode poorly for Christians and other minorities in Syria have unfortunately been vindicated by the massacres, bombings, rapes, and kidnappings executed by Sunni radicals in recent days and months.

According to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as of Sunday, over 1,200 people had been killed in the brutal clashes that broke out on July 13 between Sunni Muslim Bedouin clans, which were aided at times by government forces, and Druze-linked militias in Syria's southern Druze-majority Suwayda province.

Among those slain in cold blood was Hosam Saraya, an American citizen and Oklahoman who Sens. Markwayne Mullin (R) and James Lankford (R) confirmed was executed alongside several members of his Druze family in Syria. An American relative of the deceased told CNN that Saraya had traveled to Syria to tend to his sick father.

Footage reportedly taken on July 17 shows a group of what appear to be government troops marching eight unarmed men — one of whom was later identified as Saraya by an American relative — to a roundabout, where they lined them up and gunned them down. While slaughtering the captives, the militants shouted, "Allahu Akbar."

One of the female survivors of the massacre said in a message to Saraya's American relative, "Pray for us, they kidnapped the boys, they shot the house, they stole stuff."

An individual claiming to be a relative of Saraya alleged on X that government security forces were responsible for the American citizen's execution and stressed that "what's happening is ethnic cleansing — the systematic killing of minorities, with no real intention for dialogue or protection."

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Although Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's forces were supposedly sent to restore order, Reuters indicated they effectively teamed up with the Sunni clans and attacked the Druze community.

It was certainly not the first time that al-Sharaa's men butchered Druze.

The State Department's Rewards for Justice program previously acknowledged that the al-Nusrah Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, carried out multiple terrorist attacks throughout Syria under the leadership of al-Sharaa — also known as Muhammad al-Jawlani.

"In April 2015, ANF reportedly kidnapped, and later released, approximately 300 Kurdish civilians from a checkpoint in Syria," reads the bounty page for the Islamic terrorist. "In June 2015, ANF claimed responsibility for the massacre of 20 residents in the Druze village of Qalb Lawzeh in Idlib province, Syria."

The ANF merged with other radical groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the terrorist organization that seized the Syrian capital of Damascus in December under al-Sharaa's leadership and toppled the Assad government — a regime change that the Obama CIA and the Pentagon helped with along the way.

In hopes of "fulfilling President Trump's vision of a stable, unified, and peaceful Syria," the U.S. revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation of al-Nusrah Front and HTS on July 8.

'These are historic, longtime rivalries between different groups in the southwest of Syria.'

When pressed for comment about Saraya's slaying, a State Department spokesperson told Blaze News the department was "looking into accounts of the death of an individual reported to have been a U.S. citizen in Syria" and that the "U.S. Department of State has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens."

The department later confirmed that an American had indeed been killed in Syria.

The spokesperson refrained from commenting on whether government forces were involved in the slayings, whether the Trump administration was presently considering reapplying sanctions on Syria, and whether it may have been premature to drop the terrorism designation for al-Sharaa and his allies.

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The situation was complicated further last week by the entry of another warring party.

Apparently without telegraphing its intentions to the U.S. — which has committed to supporting Damascus and a stable Syria — Israel executed a series of strikes last week against Syrian government troops and armor headed to Suwayda.

Axios reported that a day after after U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack asked his Israel counterparts to stand down on July 15, Israel bombed Syria's military headquarters in Damascus, just near the presidential palace.

Following the Israeli strikes — the stated purpose of which was to protect the Druze — and amid continued fighting in Suwayda, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in the Oval Office on July 16 that "these are historic, longtime rivalries between different groups in the southwest of Syria — Bedouins, the Druze community — and it led to an unfortunate situation and a misunderstanding, it looks like, between the Israeli side and the Syrian side."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt indicated that President Donald Trump "was caught off guard by [Israel's] bombing in Syria and also the bombing of the Catholic church in Gaza."

Barrack, meanwhile, announced on Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and al-Sharaa agreed to an American-backed ceasefire.

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"We call upon Druze, Bedouins, and Sunnis to put down their weapons and together with other minorities build a new and united Syrian identity in peace and prosperity with its neighbors," Barrack said.

When the Syrian government attempted to implement the ceasefire over the weekend, fighting reportedly escalated.

'Khaled Mazhar, the pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Suwayda city, was killed along with his wife, his children, and other relatives.'

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights indicated that "violations include the arrival of reinforcement from military forces affiliated with the Damascus government to the north-western outskirts of Al-Suwaidaa province and along Damascus-Suwaidaa highway."

Dr. Joel Veldkamp, director for public advocacy at Christian Solidarity International, told Blaze News that while the fighting has been momentarily paused in Suwayda, "the conditions for mass killings are all present," adding that "hundreds of thousands of Druzes and Alawites (and Sunni Muslim Bedouins) have been driven from their homes in the last few months and are living in precarity, a known risk factor for genocide."

"The Syrian government is determined to take control of Suwayda governorate by force and seems, at best, unable to do that without sending in jihadist shock troops who will kill people on the basis of their religion," Veldkamp continued. "If talks break down between the government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast, we could see a replay of last week's violence in the northeast Syria as well."

Veldkamp noted that "what we might call slow-motion ethnic/religious cleansing is under way" elsewhere in the country.

"In Homs, Hama, and on the Syrian coast, Alawites and Druzes are abducted on a weekly or even daily basis, and many are looking for a way to flee the country," Veldkamp said. "Many Alawites, before and after the March massacres, have been expelled from their villages by government forces, and their lands have been distributed to Sunni Muslims."

Veldkamp confirmed that Christians in Suwayda were also impacted by the government forces' latest attacks.

"Khaled Mazhar, the pastor of the Good Shepherd Evangelical Church in Suwayda city, was killed along with his wife, his children, and other relatives — 12 people in all," Veldkamp said. "The Greek Orthodox Church put out a statement saying that their church members, like everyone in the province, were suffering from the cutoff of medicine, water, electricity, and food to the province during last week’s attack. Mar Mikhael Church in the village of Al-Soura Al-Kabira was set on fire."

Aid to the Church in Need International reported that 38 homes belonging to Christian families were also torched in Al-Soura. Some of those made homeless by the apparent attacks have taken refuge in the hall of a different church, where they are sitting ducks.

'Al-Sharaa has concentrated power in his own hands, and his forces have now carried out repeated massacres of religious minorities.'

This latest bout of violence comes just weeks after a jihadist opened fire on Syrian Christians gathered for Mass inside the Greek Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elias in Damascus, then detonated an explosive vest, killing at least 25 Christians and wounding 63 others. A government-linked group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Months earlier, the terrorist regime in Damascus dispatched tens of thousands of security forces and auxiliary fighters to the western coastal region largely populated by Alawites, adherents of an offshoot of Shia Islam, and Christians, where they killed hundreds of perceived Assad loyalists.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, security forces also killed at least 973 civilians in 39 massacres and undertook "executions based on regional and sectarian affiliation." Women and children were reportedly among the butchered civilians.

The regime denied that it was directly responsible for the massacres on the west coast, but Christian Solidarity indicated that Damascus had called for volunteers to mobilize while Sunni mosques across the country called for a jihad in the coastal region.

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US President Donald Trump meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) along with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (R) on May 14, 2025. Photo by Bandar Al-Jaloud/Saudi Royal Court/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Veldkamp suggeted that it was premature to drop the terrorism designation for al-Sharaa and his allies, noting that "the terrorism designation was well-earned and was an important piece of leverage that the U.S. could have, and should have, used to demand protection for religious minorities in Syria and an inclusive government."

"Instead, al-Sharaa has concentrated power in his own hands, and his forces have now carried out repeated massacres of religious minorities," Veldkamp added.

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Former CIA analyst who foresaw Boulder attack reveals next phase of Islamist plot



Back in January this year, former CIA intelligence analyst and targeter Sarah Adams joined Liz Wheeler on “The Liz Wheeler Show” and warned that we would see Islamist terror attacks across the United States in the coming days.

Last weekend, when Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national who was in the U.S. illegally, allegedly attacked a peaceful Jewish group in Boulder, Colorado, using Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower, Adams was proven right.

On the latest episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Adams joined Liz again to share what she believes is coming next.

“What we saw in Boulder is kind of this radicalization around the pro-Hamas propaganda, and that's concerning in its own way,” says Adams.

However, as she warned back in January, these lone-wolf attacks are designed to seem like isolated events, but in reality, they are part of a bigger Al-Qaeda strategy to distract both the public and law enforcement from a much larger and more sinister plot.

“We call it kind of like law enforcement cannon fodder. It's to get law enforcement to go down rabbit holes and waste their time on low-hanging fruit so they don't get, like, the big 9/11-style attack coming,” she says.

Liz then brings up how “these terror groups in the Middle East are changing their strategy from trying to radicalize people who are “already in the United States” to “actually sending individuals to training camps in the Middle East and then infiltrating them into the United States.”

Adams says that’s correct: “There has been a standardized training structure for these external operatives.” Soliman, she says, was clearly "lacking some of the key training” that is typical in “Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists,” which leads her to believe that he was not formally trained in the Middle East but rather just “inspired by the events around Israel.”

Liz asks Adams about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent announcement that the National Counterterrorism Center identified 600 people with ties to Islamist terrorist groups. “Where are these people? Do we have any idea?”

“Those 600 it sounds like came in through an ISIS pipeline,” but that’s “only one pipeline,” meaning 600 is a very low estimate, says Adams. “According to ISIS, they have 2,500 terrorists in the United States on an illegal status ... meaning they have over 3,000 in the United States.”

“Joe Kent when he testified said there's another 1,400 on top of that 600 they have identified who are Afghan with links to terrorism,” she adds.

“What are they waiting for? ... Are they planning on committing another 9/11-style attack?” asks Liz, pointing out that border czar Tom Homan, when asked about the potential of another 9/11, responded with a harrowing, “It’s coming.”

Adams confirms Homan’s warning. “The IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] plot against Donald Trump,” specifically “his assassination,” is “a piece of the plot.” A second piece is “an assault mostly on Washington, D.C.” and an “assault on the aviation industry.”

“They’re going to drop airliners with suicide vests,” she warns. “They've even moved the suicide vests over the U.S. border already.” Even more disturbing is the fact that “there's been no increase in airport security because TSA's intel division has decided the vests aren't real.”

Further, the trained operatives who have been sent here, Adams says, are “well-trained,” “patient” people, “who can operate in the West, who speak fluent English, who can live in our communities just fine and not raise alarm.”

“This is terrifying,” says Liz.

To hear more of Adam’s intel, watch the episode above.

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President Trump Will Not Tolerate Middle Eastern Religious Wars In America

This isn’t some form of geopolitical 'resistance,' this is Intifada and Jihad on the streets of America, and President Trump has been as clear as he can be on that fact.

Owner of Trump’s Qatari Air Force One Linked to Bob Menendez Corruption Scandal

The owner of the Qatari plane that may soon serve as President Donald Trump’s Air Force One, Qatari royal and former prime minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani (HBJ), is linked to the bribery case involving former senator Bob Menendez.

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Tucker Carlson Show Reveals: Iran Harbored Osama bin Laden After 9/11

Al Qaeda boss and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden spent months living and receiving treatment in Iran, according to a bombshell interview on the Tucker Carlson Show this week.

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