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Neighbors Say The American Who Became A Suicide Bomber In Syria Was A 'Normal...
SEBASTIAN Fla. (Reuters) - The man believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria was born in Florida and loved to play basketball. He was an average student who grew up in a well-kept...
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One Of Syria's Most Violent Jihadist Groups Has An English Language...
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, a former al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Iraq and Syria, praised French, German, and Libyan suicide bombers in the latest release of its English-language...
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4 Graphics That Show America's Shifting View On Modern Warfare
In 2009, the U.S. Army published a new field manual to educate soldiers and commanders on the military's latest big shift in thinking. By that year, the "surge," an attempt to salvage the U.S.'s...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Offshoot Captures American Humvees And Transfers Them To Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a radical offshoot of al Qaeda, has taken control of Iraq's second largest city. Iraqi police and security forces reportedly fled Mosul prior to the attack,...
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The Recent History That Explains Iraq's Descent Into Chaos
Iraq's massive prison break made big headlines, but Baghdad has worse problems than 500 escaped jihadis.Namely, looming civil war.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki — a partisan Shi'ite — tried to blame...
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ISIS Now Controls A Shocking Percentage Of Iraq And Syria
This map from the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War is an up-to-date depiction of the operational area of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a jihadist group so intractable...
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One 'Undeniable' Statistic From Late 2013 Showed How Jihadists Were About To...
Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) started its resurgence as the Americans drew down forces in Iraq in 2011.If fact, since the moment Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took over control of his country, in 2012, he...
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The Wars In Iraq And Syria Have Merged Into A Single Conflict
It no longer makes sense to think of the civil conflicts in Iraq and Syria as separate events: They are now a single war, both in their operational details and in the broader forces driving both...
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Iraq Asked The White House For Air Support Against Militants — But They Said No
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked last month for the U.S. to consider carrying out air strikes against Iraq's growing insurgency but the White House turned him down, The New York Times...
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The Unsettling Truth About Iraq That Obama Doesn't Want To Hear
The government in Baghdad has lost control of Iraq.Extremists from the al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS have blurred the border to Syria, captured Iraq's second largest city, and advanced toward the capital....
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The US Never Should Have Left Iraq
The United States made a grave mistake by invading Iraq in 2003. Yet it also made a grave mistake by withdrawing its military forces in 2011.The notion that we were wrong to go in but that we were also...
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The Islamic State Of Iraq And Greater Syria: Two Arab Countries Fall Apart
An extreme Islamist group that seeks to create a caliphate and spread jihad across the world has made dramatic advances on both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi border.Whoever chose the Twitter handle "Jihadi...
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TONY BLAIR: Iraq May Be Falling Apart, But It's Not Because Of The 2003 Invasion
Tony Blair hit out on Sunday at critics who linked the 2003 invasion of Iraq with the current violence in the country, blaming instead the West's failure to act in Syria.The former prime minister, who...
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Here's The Blueprint For The Islamic State Being Established In Iraq And Syria
No sooner had it seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounding villages, than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began outlining how it would govern its dawla (state).On Thursday, the Sunni...
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One Glaring Problem With Any US Cooperation With Iran
Iran and the United States are reportedly discussing possible security cooperation in Iraq, where an extremist group has seized large portions of the country's north. Some members of Congress,...
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Here's How They're Watching The World Cup In War-Torn Syria
Young Syrian opposition activists living with the constant dangers of more than three years at war are braving bombardment by government forces and jihadists' threats to watch their favourite World Cup...
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A UN Fact-Finding Team Says Chlorine Gas Was Probably Used In Syria's Conflict
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Chemical weapons inspectors who came under attack while investigating claims of chlorine gas attacks in Syria last month found information suggesting that similar chemicals had...
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HILLARY CLINTON: We Should Have Armed The Syrian Rebels
Potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pointed out her differences with President Barack Obama on Tuesday over his decision not to arm moderate Syrian rebels, as neighboring Iraq...
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How ISIS Split From Al Qaeda And Became Even More Dangerous
Sometimes, even terrorist organizations need a divorce. On Feb. 3, 2014, al Qaeda formally severed its relationship with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a fellow terrorist organization....
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Here's The New Kurdish Country That Could Emerge Out Of The Iraq Crisis
Chaos is spreading in Iraq as the militant jihadi group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and its affiliated members launch operations throughout the country, and Syria's civil is still...
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