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The CIA Thinks ISIS Could Have Nearly 32,000 Fighters
Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the Central Intelligence Agency said Thursday, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000."CIA...
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Hundreds Of People From Kazakhstan Are Now Fighting With Jihadist Groups In...
"They have good living conditions and money to buy food and clothes. They drive brand-new Toyotas … And they only think about war."That's how Mukhambetkali Danikhanov describes the life of Kazakhs...
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An Obama Official Made A Disturbing Geography Error The Same Day They...
On the same day President Obama told the nation that America is going back to war in Iraq, a senior administration official confused the geography of the region while giving background information on a...
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The US Threatened To Prosecute Families Of The 2 Murdered Americans If They...
The families of murdered American journalists Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff are speaking out against the US government for making their efforts to free their loved ones a "helpless" endeavor.The parents...
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RETIRED GENERAL: The President's ISIS Strategy Is Like 'Casual Sex'
Retired US Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden compared President Obama's plan to begin bombing ISIS militants in Syria to "casual sex" in an interview with U.S. News & World Report on Thursday."The...
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ISIS Kills British Aid Worker David Haines [Report]
ISIS claimed Saturday it had killed British aid worker David Haines, in similar fashion as two American journalists, in a new video message aimed directly at the government of the United Kingdom.Noted...
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Obama: Assad Shooting At American Planes Would Lead To His Overthrow
President Barack Obama would seek to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad if American planes were attacked upon entering Syrian air space, Peter Baker of The New York Times reports.If Assad's troops...
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'WE HAVE TO VOTE' -- Dem Congressman Worried Obama Will 'Violate The...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York) issued a statement on Friday expressing his fear President Barack Obama will "violate the Constitution" by expanding military operations against the jihadist group...
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Syria's 'Moderate' Rebels: We Can't Defeat Anyone Without Better Weapons
JEDDAH Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama knits together an international coalition to take its campaign against Islamic State from Iraq into Syria, fighters like Ammar al-Wawi could...
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Here's How To Untangle The Euphemisms Today's Middle East Experts Use
Long before the latest convulsions in the Middle East, but certainly encouraged by them, that unendangered species of think tank fellow or academic known simply as the "Middle East Expert" perfected a...
View ArticleThe UN Is Pulling Most Of Its Peacekeepers Out Of Syria As Situation...
The UN is quietly pulling back from the parts of the peacekeeper-administered military disengagement zone separating the Israeli and Syrian-controlled sections of the Golan Heights.Reuters quotes an...
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Iran And Russia Are Exploiting A Glaring Hole In The US-Led Strategy Against...
Over the weekend, Paris hosted an international conference to discuss military measures against ISIS militants who are now embedded from Aleppo to Baghdad.The talks were attended by European and Arab...
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Al Qaeda's International Affiliates Are Urging Jihadist Unity Against The US...
Powerful Al-Qaeda branches in Yemen and North Africa called Tuesday for jihadists in Iraq and Syria to unite against the common threat from a US-led coalition.An unprecedented joint statement from...
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US Journalist Steven Sotloff’s Fixer Says ISIS Kidnapped Them 20 Minutes...
The fixer hired by the slain American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff to guide him in Syria went public Tuesday with how they were kidnapped by the Islamic State group in August 2013, one year before...
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Dozens Of Children Feared Dead After Being Injected With Tainted Measles...
As many as 36 children were reported to have died excruciating deaths last night after receiving tainted measles vaccines under a UN-sponsored programme in the rebel-held north of Syria.The programme...
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Obama Is Taking Personal Control Over The War Against ISIS In Syria
US President Barack Obama will personally sign off on any airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in Syria, Julian Barnes and Carol Lee of The Wall Street Journal report.With the high level of...
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ISIS Seizes 16 Kurdish Villages In Syria Near The Turkish Border As US Drones...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters captured villages and besieged a Kurdish city in northern Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday in a major assault that prompted a commander to appeal...
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Legendary Marine General James Mattis: To Fight ISIS, 'Boots On The Ground'...
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis will describe the threat posed by militants of the Islamic State as "a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids"in a hearing for the House Intelligence...
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Here's Why The US Should Train Syrian Rebels To Fight Both ISIS And Assad
The Obama administration's decision in June to ask Congress for $500 million to train and equip vetted elements of the Syrian armed opposition signals a potential turning point in U.S. policy in the...
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Here's How ISIS Uses Oil To Fuel Its Advances
In an oil field in northeastern Syria, trucks line up daily to load crude sold cheaply by Islamic State militants who have hijacked parts of the country's energy industry in their bid to build a...
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