The Senate is on track to repeal the authorizations for the use of military force against Iraq. The bipartisan measure led by Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., will undo AUMFs approved in 1991 and 2002 for the Gulf War and invasion of Iraq.  The sponsors said repealing the AUMFs will not impact…

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing examining the Biden administration’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The witnesses painted a dreadful picture of the operation and its aftermath. “This whole thing has been a gutting experience. I never imagined I would witness the kind of gross abandonment, followed by career-preserving silence of senior…

Last month U.S. special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader, Bilal al-Sudani, in a remote area of northern Somalia. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said al-Sudani “was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group’s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan.” Areas of Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Africa’s…

The Supreme Court will hear two cases this week that have major implications for the future of the internet. Google and Twitter are both facing lawsuits by families of victims killed in separate ISIS attacks, challenging the tech companies’ legal immunity for what users post on platforms granted through Section 230. Section 230 has been…

Four U.S. service members have been wounded and a senior ISIS leader has been killed during a helicopter raid in Syria. The senior ISIS leader, Hamza al-Homsi, was the target of the raid in northeast Syria and was successfully killed in the operation, according to the U.S. military. An explosion during the raid injured four…

The earthquake in Turkey and Syria has been detrimental to an already unstable infrastructure in the region. One critical building damaged during the commotion was a military police prison in Syria. Inside the prison were 2,000 inmates, most of them with ties to ISIS. When the earthquakes struck, the building walls and doors began to…

The U.S. military took down a major ISIS leader, police footage of an arrest in Memphis that led to a man’s death will be released to the public Friday, the Republican national committee is taking up an important leadership vote, and gas prices have taken an unusual turn for this time of year. These stories…

Google told the Supreme Court that if it guts Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, it would upend the internet, encourage suppression of legitimate speech and proliferate offensive speech. The tech giant is being sued by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in 2015 during an Islamic State group (ISIS) terrorist attack…

Alexanda Kotey, an Islamic State group terrorist known as “Jihadi George,” is not in the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. He’s supposed to be an inmate in Pennsylvania. Now, family of his victims want answers. 39-year-old Kotey grew up in Shepherd’s Bush, West London. His father was Ghanaian and his mother Greek Cypriot. It…

A second batch of classified documents belonging to President Joe Biden has been discovered; the FAA is answering for a system outage that affected more than 10,000 flights; and a nurses strike in New York has come to an end. These stories and more highlight your morning rundown for Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.  Nurses strike…