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A Predator Drone Has Reportedly Been Spotted Circling Above ISIS's Capital City
The United States appears to now be flying unarmed surveillance drones over the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The pictures thus far suggest that the drone being used is the MQ-1 Reaper.The two photos...
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Ted Cruz Wants To Strip ISIS Recruits Of US Citizenship
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said Friday that Americans who join, support or fight with Islamic State should lose their U.S. citizenship, and said he would introduce legislation to bar...
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Lexington: Playing poker with the world
He calls himself a "pretty good" poker player. Barack Obama's poker-buddies, including Illinois politicians who played with him weekly when he was a state senator, tend to agree.Quizzed by...
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Beaten On Most Fronts, Syria's Secular Revolutionaries Are Running Out Of Hope
ALEPPO, Syria — “The experience has failed in Syria’s north [Idlib and Aleppo governorates]. The eastern regions are controlled by ISIS. The south is the only thing left,” says a Syrian revolution...
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Expert: More Than 12,000 Foreign Fighters From 74 Countries Went To Syria
More than 12,000 foreigners from 74 countries have gone to fight with rebels in Syria, 60 to 70 percent from other Middle Eastern countries and about 20 to 25 percent from Western nations, a leading...
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Rebels Used A Perfectly-Timed Anti-Tank Missile To Destroy This Syrian...
The following video shows a Syrian Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopter being destroyed by a Kornet ATGM reportedly fired by Sham Legion’ brigade militants at an airbase near Idlib.From a spot located just outside...
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The Syrian Civil War Is On The Verge Of Getting Even Worse
Syria's secular and moderate rebels could be on the brink of their biggest defeat yet. According to a report published by the International Crisis Group on September 8, the regime of Syrian president...
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Obama's Big ISIS Speech Will Mark A Radical Shift In Policy
On Wednesday night, Barack Obama will describe his general strategy for “degrading and ultimately destroying" ISIS, a criminal army that has built a proto-state across parts of Iraq and Syria.Obama is...
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BREMMER: The Real Challenge With ISIS Is Replacing Their Rule
Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer thinks President Barack Obama has a smart ISIS strategy, but he's not confident about the prospect of replacing the ISIS proto-state with functional state...
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ISIS Doesn't Have Much Of An Ability To Strike The Continental US — At Least...
Tonight, President Barack Obama will lay out a strategy for countering the rise of ISIS in a prime-time address from the White House. The administration is treating the Al Qaeda splinter group as a...
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Obama May Authorize Air Strikes Against ISIS In Syria [Report]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who will set out a broad long-term strategy to defeat the Islamic State in a speech to Americans on Wednesday evening, is prepared to authorize air...
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Saudi Arabia Will Host Training Camps For Syrian Rebels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has agreed to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of President Barack Obama's broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants who have taken over...
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Obama Now Owns A War He Helped Create
On Wednesday night, President Barack Obama outlined an expanded strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the extremist army calling itself the Islamic State (also know as ISIS or ISIL).The...
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Here's Which Countries Are Helping Syria's Refugee Crisis — And Which Ones...
As the civil war engulfing Syria and its region moves toward its fifth year of vicious conflict, the United Nations is struggling to support more than 9 million displaced people, a third of whom have...
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Yazidi Girl Tells Of Horrific Ordeal As An ISIS Sex Slave
A young woman from the Yazidi religious minority captured by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has described the horror of being kept as a sex slave by the extremist group.The 17 year-old...
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Here's A How–To Guide To Defeating ISIS
Last night President Barack Obama addressed the nation, explaining his plan to degrade and defeat the Islamic State.I liked much of what I heard, with the “better late than never” caveat, but I long...
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The Assad Regime Saw A Clear Opening In Obama's ISIS Speech
During a nationally televised address on Sept. 10, president Barack Obama laid out his strategy for confronting ISIS. He made it clear that his efforts against the group wouldn't be limited to Iraq,...
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Here's What Top Brookings Experts Thought Of Obama's Speech
Wednesday night, President Obama gave a speech outlining his plan to combat the growing force of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and ISIL). Brookings scholars had an email conversation sharing...
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Jim Foley's Mother Slams US Government: Trying To Get My Son Freed Was 'An...
The mother of murdered American journalist James Foley offers harsh criticism of the U.S. government's efforts to secure his release from ISIS militants in a new interview with CNN's Anderson...
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Boehner Slams Obama's Plan To Combat ISIS: 'An F-16 Is Not A Strategy'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday many Republican lawmakers doubt that President Barack Obama's plan to destroy the Islamic State militant group...
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