ISDEI Instituto de Seguridad, Defensa y Estudios Internacionales

Donald J. Trump was the first presidential candidate in a generation from either party to campaign on a promise to fully enforce all immigration laws and to dramatically improve border security for all Americans. As a candidate, Trump also touted one of his most popular border security measures: A border wall that extends the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, virtually uninterrupted (and for good measure the candidate said  Mexico  would pay for it). Both pledges resonated with voters in a majority of states who were sick and tired of Obama’s and Democrats’ open-border policies that allowed anyone who could walk, run, or be dragged across the border stay in the United States. The wall was especially popular — which is why Left-wing unlimited immigration groups went to court to stop the president from making good on his pledge. Now, however, a federal court has cleared the way for  the border wall to proceed  after ruling the administration has the autho...

Click to see the full-size image On February 27, Egyptian Army spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai announced in an official statement that warplanes of the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) had destroyed 20 positions and 2 vehicles belonging to ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula. 185 ISIS positions were destroyed by the Egyptian Army’s artillery. Army troops discovered and destroyed 375 ISIS hideouts in Sinai according to Col. Rifai. Moreover, the army has arrested 641 suspects, killed 11 ISIS fighters and destroyed 89 ISIS vehicles and motorcycles during its military operations in the Sinai Peninsula. From its side, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq reported that ISIS had ambushed an army unit in the Sheikh Zuweid area in the eastern part of Sinai on February 27. ISIS fighters destroyed a M60 battle tank and an engineering vehicle with IEDs and killed several soldiers, according to the source. Amaq also claimed that ISIS fighters had been able to destroy 2 M60 tanks, 4 bulldozers and 7 armored v...

Salih Muslim during an interview on the Egyptian Extra News TV, right after his release. On February 27, a Czech court released of Salih Muslim, a former leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), according to Reuters. The Czech Authorities  arrested Muslim on February 25 upon an official request from Turkey , which had accused him of “disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the Turkish state”. Reuters reported that Salih Muslim had rejected all the Turkish accusations and had promised the Czech court that he will remain in the European Union (EU) territory, likely in EU member, Finland. “Nobody was taking it (charges by Turkey) seriously, I didn’t know they would take it seriously here… First of all, I am a citizen of Syria, I am not a citizen of Turkey, second thing, I am a politician,” Muslim said, according to Reuters. The Turkish Foreign Ministry released an official statement, in which it slammed the Czech authorities for releasing Salih...