Sam Taylor is a Media Analyst at the Washington Free Beacon. Before joining the staff at the Free Beacon, he worked at a media monitoring organization in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. State Department in Saudi Arabia. Sam speaks Arabic and specializes in the Middle Eastern media landscape. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2012 and from the University of Chicago in 2014. He hails from Houston, Texas, and can be found on Twitter @Tex_Taylor.
In a statement released by the U.S. Department of State Wednesday, the Director of National Intelligence detailed the heroic actions of a “Cuban individual” who aided the Defense Intelligence Agency in disrupting a number of Cuban intelligence operatives in the United States.
A new report released by Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center shows that the majority of the Islamic State’s military activities in Syria have focused on non-governmental opposition groups, while only a small percentage have targeted the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
On Tuesday, following the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation techniques, supporters of the Islamic State and other terror groups took to Twitter to decry the United States with the hashtag #Torture_Report, posting excerpts of stories in order to encourage violence against the U.S. and Western nations.
The White House officially rejected a ‘We the People’ petition calling for the U.S. Government to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization after more than a year and 200,000 signatures.
Islamic State militants released a new propaganda video Sunday in which the terrorist group claimed to have raided and established control over the Mursitpinar border crossing between Turkey and Syria near the town of Kobani.
Former Virginia Tech professor Steven Salaita received a standing ovation from Middle East scholars and academics from around the world on Saturday afternoon.
In response to the gruesome axe murder of four worshippers, including three Americans, at a Jerusalem synagogue today, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank erupted in spontaneous celebrations.
