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Here's the complicated reason the US shouldn't use ground troops against ISIS
On Sunday night, four days after a shooting in San Bernardino, California, left 14 dead and 21 injured, President Barack Obama used a major Oval Office speech to talk about threats facing the US.One of...
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Rebel groups supported by the US or its allies are turning their guns on each...
Groups that have received support from the United States or its allies have turned their guns on each other in a northern corner of Syria, highlighting the difficulties of mobilizing forces on the...
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Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is still the enemy
With the growth of the Islamic State have come voices for the United States and Western countries to engage with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The fact is, however, that a strategy for defeating...
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Iran just issued its own ‘red line’ in Syria
A top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader on Sunday said the future of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad could only be determined by the Syrian people and this was a "red line" for Tehran.Assad's fate is...
View ArticleFrench President Hollande visited the enormous aircraft carrier that's...
French President Francois Hollande flew to the Mediterranean Friday to visit the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.The aircraft carrier, which is the largest in the European Union, was dispatched to...
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ISIS simply builds new roads around lost territory in Sinjar
Kurdish forces backed by U.S. air strikes declared a major victory last month over Islamic State after cutting access to a key supply route in northern Iraq. Yet days later the militants were back in...
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Russia appears to have 'gone ballistic' in Syria — and it may be helping ISIS
Russia is showing no signs that it intends to forgive and forget Turkey's decision to down a Russian warplane two weeks ago.Moscow has chosen to retaliate for the incident asymmetrically, hitting...
View ArticleThe refugee who sold pens to feed his daughter now owns 4 businesses
Abdul Halim al-Attar runs a restaurant, two bakeries, and a kebab shop in Beirut, Lebanon.But the Syrian refugee wasn't as fortunate earlier this year.He was photographed a couple months ago trying to...
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Leaked documents show how ISIS is building its state
A leaked internal Islamic State manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for...
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Experts: Trump's Muslim entry ban is 'ridiculous,' 'impossible,' and...
Donald Trump's proposal to bar all Muslims from entering the United States violates U.S. and international law and would never be allowed by the courts, legal scholars said late Monday."Oh, for the...
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Beating ISIS will require winning on the cyber battlefield as much as on the...
Driving the Islamic State –ISIS – out of Syria and Iraq isn’t necessarily going to defeat the terrorist organization unless its influence in cyberspace is substantially reduced as well.What the U.S....
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A 'Saudi-Turkish wish-list’: Syrian opposition talks in Saudi Arabia fall...
Syria's divided rebel and opposition groups are trying to forge a common stance to oust President Bashar al-Assad but the absence of prominent activists and a main Kurdish force from their talks in...
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These maps show how ethnic cleansing has become a weapon in Syria's civil war
Between refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), more than half of the Syrian population has left their homes since the war began in 2011. To understand why this has happened and what can be...
View ArticleEveryone is slamming Donald Trump's plan to stop Muslims from entering the US
Donald Trump is catching fire on all sides of the political spectrum after calling on for a "complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."Some have called the comments incredibly...
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At least 26 civilians have been killed in a suspected US-led airstrike in Syria
At least 26 Syrian civilians have been killed in an airstrike suspected to have been launched by the US-led coalition against the so-called Islamic State, piling pressure on the alliance after...
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Trump: I would 'knock out' ISIS' capital 'big and strong'
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made the rounds on the morning shows on Tuesday, facing backlash over his proposal to bar Muslim immigrants and tourists from the US for the time...
View ArticleHow ISIS makes over $1 billion a year
ISIS is not only one of the most threatening terrorist organizations in the world -- but also one of the richest, raising hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A recent report from the UK Treasury...
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ISIS is successfully recruiting foreigners into Syria and Iraq
The international effort to stem the flow of would-be extremists to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS appears to be a bust.According to a new private intelligence report, the number of foreign fighters in...
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The 3rd Paris suicide bomber has been identified as a 23-year-old from France...
PARIS (Reuters) - A third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13 has been identified as a 23-year-old from Strasbourg who went to Syria with a group of other young people at the...
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Turkey is 'setting up cards' for a dangerous new game with Russia — and the...
Turkey's decision to deploy a limited number of troops to a military base near the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, last weekend was quickly condemned by leading Iraqi officials who called the incursion...
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