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WHITE HOUSE: The US Is Not Giving Information To Assad
The White House categorically denied a report saying it was sharing information with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about the extremist group the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) on...
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ISIS Has Radically Changed The Balance Of Power In The Middle East
The territorial gains this summer by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in both those countries have added a new element to the new Middle East cold war that I wrote about in aBrookings Doha...
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American Killed While Fighting For ISIS Seemed Increasingly Radical On Social...
An American who grew up in Minnesota joined the Islamic militant group ISIS and was killed along with two other foreign fighters in Syria, NBC News reports, citing activists linked to the Free Syrian...
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The American Journalist Held By Terrorists In Syria For Two Years Is Back In...
American writer and journalist Peter Theo Curtis, who was held captive for nearly two years by the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria, returned to the United States Tuesday, two days after his...
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Obama Is Trying To Enlist A Bunch Of Countries To Hit ISIS Harder
The United States has called on several countries to join a widened assault on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Heleme Cooper and Mark Landler of The New York Times report.Administration officials told The...
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5 Myths About The Islamic State
As the United States widens its battle in Iraq against the Islamic State and contemplates strikes against it in Syria, the policy debate at home surrounding the intervention is heating up. Here are...
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As The US Strikes At ISIS, Here's A Look At What The Jihadists Have In Their...
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) rakes in over $1 million a day and commands"a volume of resources and territory unmatched in the history of extremist organizations," according to Janine...
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Here's The Passport Of The American Killed While Fighting With ISIS
The first reported American to die while fighting for the Islamic State, Douglas McAuthur McCain, 33, was carrying his American passport along with $800 when he went into battle in a recent clash...
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A Broken Man Living On Dreams Pulls Japan Into Syria Hostage Drama
When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had struggled with for...
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Al-Qaeda Fighters Captured A Border Post Between Syria And Israel-Occupied...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front and other Islamistfighters have taken control of a border crossing on the line dividing Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a group...
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Here's How The World's Richest Terrorist Group Makes Millions Every Day
ISIS is now the wealthiest terrorist organization on the planet, according to Foreign Policy. And the Al Qaeda offshoot has the ambition and perhaps even the organization needed to put its piles of oil...
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Here's The US Spy Plane And The Drone That Will Likely Be Used To Spy On ISIS
The United States has begun surveillance flights over Syria this week in an attempt to spy on ISIS fighters. While the U.S. Department of Defense refused to comment on what type of aircraft would be...
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Why The US Should Target Both Assad And ISIS In Syria
Last summer, as President Obama was strolling along the White House grounds with his national security advisor, Denis McDonough, contemplating airstrikes on the regime of Bashar al-Assad for its use of...
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Hundreds Of Westerners Have Joined ISIS, And Here's Where They Came From
In the aftermath of the sadistic murder of American journalist James Foley by a suspected London-born ISIS recruit, increasing attention is being paid to the radicalization of Muslims from the West who...
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Obama May Not Get The International Help He Wants To Fight ISIS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is intensifying its push to build an international campaign against Islamic State jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, including recruiting partners for...
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The Mother Of Kidnapped American Journalist Steven Sotloff Makes Emotional...
The mother of an American journalist being held by ISIS militants threatening to kill him has broken her silence with a public plea directly to the group's leader.Shirley Sotloff, the mother of...
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Everybody Hates ISIS, But Here's Why No One Can Take It Out
Let’s hope that President Obama does not bomb ISIS inside Syria—unless, maybe, the airstrikes are coordinated with some other country’s troops on the ground. That’s what happened in northern Iraq last...
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ISIS's Latest Victory In Syria Has Major Military Implications
Over the past two months, jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have waged an increasingly successful campaign against Assad regime forces in Syria's northern Raqqa...
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ISIS Reportedly Executed Dozens Of Assad Regime Soldiers Trying To Flee The...
Damascus (AFP) - Islamic State jihadists have executed "dozens" of fleeing Syrian soldiers, a monitor said Thursday, the latest in a string of brutal abuses alarming Western powers who fear a global...
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An Al Qaeda-Linked Group Kidnapped Dozens Of UN Peacekeepers In The...
For the second time in 14 months, dozens of peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) have been kidnapped in the no-man's-land separating Syria from the...
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