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ISIS Used A Miniature Surveillance Drone In Its Biggest Syria Victory Yet
Recently, video emerged that showed Islamic militants in Syria had acquired a surveillance drone. It marked the first time such technology has been used by the burgeoning terrorist organization, a RAND...
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UN: We're Ignoring The Biggest Humanitarian Crisis Of Our Era
GENEVA (Reuters) - Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighboring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nations said.The...
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People Like This French ISIS Fighter Are Why Britain Raised Its Terror Threat
#453162456 / gettyimages.comThe case of Mehdi Nemmouche haunts U.S. intelligence officials. Nemmouche is a Frenchman who authorities say spent 11 months fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria...
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The First American Suicide Bomber In Syria Described How He Got To The...
On May 25, 22-year-old Moner Abu-Salha blewhimself up in northern Syria, becoming the first American suicide bomber of Syria's 3-year civil war.Now, a group called Bilad al-Sham Media has released a...
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White House Denies Report Obama 'Hesitated' On James Foley Rescue Mission
The White House is pushing back on a report in the Sunday Times earlier this week that said Obama "took too long" to authorize the mission to rescue James Foley and other American hostages held by ISIS...
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MITT ROMNEY: Obama's 'Mistakes' Led To The Rise Of ISIS
Mitt Romney suggested he would have been able to prevent the rise of the jihadist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) if he were elected rather than President Barack Obama in 2012 during a...
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Al-Qaeda In Syria Has Issued Demands For 45 Kidnapped UN Troops
BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels holding 45 Fijian peacekeepers hostage have issued a set of demands for their release, including the extremist group's removal from a U.N. terrorist list and...
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Here's How Heroic Irish Troops Rescued UN Peacekeepers Hunted By Syrian Rebels
Over the weekend, Irish peacekeepers operating in the Golan Heights rescued Filipino troops who were being held captive by the al Qaeda linked group Jabhat Al-Nusra, Garreth MacNamee of the Irish...
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Here's How The US Could Defeat ISIS And Assad
Syria is a hard one.The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there are almost perfectly balanced by those in favor of...
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Assad Is Dropping These Improvised Chemical Bombs On Syrian Cities
Last week, the OHCHR’s independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic published their latest report on the conflict in Syria, with one section detailing the use of chlorine...
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Steven Sotloff Remembered For His Empathy, Guts, And 'Spiky Sense Of Humor'
Schlumpy, baby-faced, and given to wearing tie-dyed shirts that weren’t always laundered or properly sized, Steven Joel Sotloff, 31, hardly fit the classic profile of the dashing war correspondent. He...
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Path To Jihad: From Upscale Cairo To Islamic State Beheadings
After leaving his upscale Cairo neighborhood to fight with the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq, Younes says he learned how to work as a sniper, fire heavy weaponry and behead prisoners...
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Congress Is Frustrated With Obama, And They're Beating The Drums For A War...
Congress wants President Barack Obama to go to war with ISIS. And they want a say.After the brutal execution of American journalist Steven Sotloff added to the tally of American hostages killed by the...
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Obama Is Having Trouble Building An International Coalition Against ISIS
Barack Obama has called for a "broad-based international coalition" to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State (ISIS) after the beheading of the American journalist Steven Sotloff.But it is not clear which...
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10 Things You Need To Know About ISIS
A research guide compiled from the experts at The Washington Institute For Near East Policy: Michael Knights, Aaron Y. Zelin, Matthew Levitt, Jeffrey White, James F. Jeffrey, Dennis Ross, and Michael...
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The US Government Produced A Really Grisly Video About ISIS
The U.S. State Department's arm of Strategic Counterterrorism Communications released a grisly video last week depicting the violent, barbaric nature of the extremist group calling itself the Islamic...
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The Long Fight Against Al Shabaab Provides A Sobering Reminder About ISIS
Some of the most significant news in international terrorism this week happened far away from Iraq and Syria. On September 2nd, a U.S. airstrike targeted Ahmed Abdi Godane, the head of Al Shabaab, the...
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Here's What A Traffic Ticket Looks Like From The 'Islamic State'
Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) have taken over vast swaths of land in Iraq and Syria, brutally murdered soldiers and journalists, and issued waves of propaganda to...
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Why So Many Jihadists Come From Belgium
More than a thousand fighters from Western countries have joined the conflict in Iraq and Syria, with the most per-capita coming from Belgium, according to an analysis by Business Insider.Between 250...
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A Syrian Christian Businessman May Be Serving As The Assad Regime's Liaison...
For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the Islamic State (IS) has been that the jihadist group owes its rise to financial support from Gulf donors.However, as it has been...
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