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Turkey Is Now The Latest Country To Deal With Serious Violent Spillover From...
The Syrian civil war has become a Pandora's box in the Middle East. The conflict ripped the country apart before leading to spillover violence in Iraq, Lebanon, and the UN-patrolled border region with...
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No One Believes John Kerry's Comments About Consensus With Turkey
The US and Turkey, the Middle East's only NATO member state, are at a frustrating point in their relationship.The Syrian city of Kobane, which is on the Turkish border, is in danger of falling to ISIS....
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ISIS Is Moving Russia And The US Closer Together
Russia's pro-Kremlin media is making much of the announcement by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington and Moscow are set to increase their intelligence-sharing about the Islamic State (IS)...
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The Official Name For The War On ISIS Was Rejected 2 Weeks Ago
After two months of airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the US-led coalition has a name: "Inherent Resolve."Interestingly, the name had previously been rejected for a multitude of...
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Russia And Syria Now Oppose Turkey's Idea Of A Buffer Zone Around Kobane
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has expressed its opposition to the creation of a buffer zone along its northern border with Turkey.Turkey has proposed the idea of a buffer zone — which would almost...
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Why It Doesn't Really Matter That So Many Iranian Leaders Have Been Educated...
Yesterday, Reza Aslan, a creative writing professor at the University of California at Riverside and widely respected public commentator on religious affairs, tweeted that "Iran currently has the...
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The US Has Officially Given Up On The Free Syrian Army
A key American official has confirmed that the US is ditching the nationalist rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and building a new ground force to focus on fighting the...
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Why The US Needs To Focus On Assad As Much As ISIS
American officials are in high dudgeon about Turkey’s inaction to prevent the imminent fall of Kobani, a Kurdish-populated town in northern Syria, to the black-clad fanatics of ISIS. Given that Kobani...
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The UN Just Dealt Turkey A Hugely Embarrassing Blow
It's not exactly a golden age for Turkish foreign policy. ISIS is on Turkey's southern border. Ankara's having trouble handling its always fractious relationship with the Kurds. President Reccip Tayyip...
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US-Led Airstrikes Help Kurds Push Back ISIS In Syrian City Of Kobani
US-led warplanes pummelled jihadists attacking the Syrian town of Kobani on Friday as the Pentagon said there was no imminent threat to Baghdad despite a wave of deadly bombings.Six strikes hit Islamic...
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Former Iraqi Pilots Are Now Training ISIS Fighters To Fly Fighter Jets
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war in Syria said on Friday,...
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The US Just Resupplied Kurdish Forces Fighting ISIS In Kobani
In a move with potentially significant diplomatic and military implications, the US military airdropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish forces fighting the extremist group ISIS in...
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The US Is Taking Full Advantage Of ISIS Fighters Gathering Around Kobani
Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to switch his position on the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, declaring it "irresponsible" to not help the Kurds there fighting the Islamic State group (also...
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The Case For Arming 'The Rebels' In Civil Wars
It was reported that a CIA commission found that arming rebels in civil wars is ineffective. That might not be a shocker to many who remember the 1980s. But does this finding stand up empirically?After...
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Iran's Military Mastermind Says Both ISIS And The US Are 'Doomed To Failure'...
The commander of Iran's powerful Qods Force, Qassem Suleimani, has said that both the Islamic State (IS) group and the United States are "doomed to failure" in Iraq and Syria.The Qods Force is the...
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Here Are All The Countries Battling ISIS
The State Department lists 60 allies who've joined the US-led coalition combating the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL). Each nation has a different role: some are assisting by sending...
View ArticleAn American Man Has Joined The Ground War Against ISIS In Syria
Dressed in matching combat fatigues with days' worth of beard, the man known as Sipan barely stands out from the crowd of Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters. But unlike his fellow fighters, Sipan is an...
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Here Is What The Turkish Border Looks Like While ISIS Besieges Syrian Border...
Digital Globe, a high-resolution satellite imagery company, released the following image of the Turkish border where refugees are fleeing the bloodshed in Kobani, a Syrian border town currently under...
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ISIS Signals The Rise Of The Middle East's Oil-Fueled 'Petro-Militias'
When news surfaced that the Islamic State group (ISIS) was pumping petroleum from the oil fields it had seized, commentators and analysts mocked whether Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — ISIS’s self-proclaimed...
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This Is The ISIS Mastermind Responsible For The Group's Advance Through...
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University.He recently published an article entitled “The...
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