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British And Australian Militants In Iraq Urge Muslims To Join Jihad In The...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the war in Syria in a new video released by the Islamic State in Iraq and the...
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Here's Who Is In Control Of Iraq's Major Cities And Towns
As an al-Qaida offshoot makes advances in Iraq and government forces push back against the militants to reassert control over cities, the flurry of fighting in the country has made it difficult for the...
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The 5 Worst Countries For Human Trafficking
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department downgraded Thailand, Malaysia and Venezuela on Friday to its list of the world's worst centers of human trafficking, opening up the countries to...
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Syria May Attack If The UN Continues To Deliver Aid Without Asking For...
Syria's government warned the U.N. Security Council that delivering humanitarian aid across its borders into rebel-held areas without its consent would amount to an attack, suggesting it would have the...
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Parasite Found At Ancient Middle Eastern Burial Site Still Infects Humans Today
Some of the earliest evidence of a human parasite infection has been unearthed in an ancient burial site in Syria.The egg of a parasite that still infects people today was found in the burial plot of a...
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Israel Strikes Syria After Missile Attack Kills Teenage Boy
Israel launched air strikes on nine targets inside Syria early Monday morning local time in response to a shelling attack on a civilian vehicle that left a 14-year-old Israeli boy dead Sunday.A...
View ArticleWatch A Syrian MiG Catch Fire In Midair [VIDEO]
Filmed in Daraa, in southwestern Syria, the following video appears to show a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-21 Fishbed leaking fuel before fire develops.It’s not clear whether the aircraft was leaking...
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Destroying Iran's Networks Is The Key To Ending ISIS
Rand Paul is on the anti-war warpath. "What would airstrikes accomplish?" the Kentucky Senator asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, even as he refused to rule them out in the American response to the...
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Syrian Forces Just Bombed ISIS Targets Inside Iraq
In a sign of the expanding international crisis sparked by ISIS's rapid advances, Syrian warplanes have bombed some of the jihadist group's bases in Iraq, Ali A. Nabhan and Matt Bradley of The Wall...
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This Map Shows How Connected The Wars In Syria And Iraq Have Become
The wars in Iraq and Syria have effectively merged into one sprawling conflict, especially in light of the massive blitz across northern and central Iraq by militant group ISIS and its affiliates. The...
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Barack Obama Swept Aside The Entire Free Syrian Army In One Sentence
“When you get farmers, dentists and folks who have never fought before going up against a ruthless opposition in Assad, the notion that they were in a position to suddenly overturn not only Assad but...
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There Is One Man Most Responsible For The Rise Of ISIS Extremists
In the week since Al-Qaeda spinoff the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) brought Iraq back into international headlines by seizing around a third of the country in a matter of hours, there has...
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An Al Qaeda Leader In Syria Has Sworn Allegiance To ISIS
An Egyptian commander of an Al Nusrah Front faction in the border town of Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir al Zour province has recently sworn allegiance to the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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Obama Wants To Escalate US Involvement In The Syrian Crisis
The Obama administration on Thursday requested $500 million from Congress to train and equip rebels of the moderate opposition seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.If approved, it would...
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ISIS Is Likely Receiving Funding From People Living In Countries Allied With...
The Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant is mostly funded through criminal activity, such as the theft of a potential $425 million from a central bank in Mosul. But the group is also receiving private...
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The Sectarian Genie Is Out Of The Bottle From Syria to Iraq
BEIRUT (Reuters) - As jihadists storm through the Sunni heartlands of Iraq towards Baghdad, where a Shi’ite government they regard as heretic clings on, they have lifted the veil on deep sectarianism...
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Assad Is the Big Winner Of The Iraq Crisis
The rise of jihadists in Iraq has set the West on edge, but Damascus sees it is an opportunity to legitimize its battle against rebels and promote it as a war on "terror".President Bashar al-Assad's...
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Here's What We Know About The 'Caliph' Of The New 'Islamic State'
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy jihadist fighting in Iraq and Syria, and newly declared leader of a "caliphate" encompassing all Muslims, is increasingly seen as more powerful than Al-Qaeda's...
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Obama Warns Hundreds Of Europeans Who Fought In Syria Can Enter US Without Visas
US President Barack Obama warned that "battle-hardened" Europeans who embrace jihad in Syria and Iraq threaten the United States because their passports mean they can enter the country without a...
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The U.S. Is Basically Already Partnering With Iran In Iraq And Syria
The unfolding situation in Iraq has reportedly reignited the debate inside the Obama administration about its Syria policy. “Syria and Iraq are largely a single problem,” a senior defense official told...
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