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ISIS Claims To Have Captured US Airdrop Weapons
A video released by the Islamic State on Tuesday allegedly shows a stray weapons bundle from the United States that missed its target in Kurdish-controlled areas near Kobani, Syria and instead fell...
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Assad Is Exploiting Obama's Syria Strategy
Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the U.S.-led coalition's war against the Islamic State group to pursue a withering air and ground campaign against more mainstream rebels elsewhere...
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REPORT: ISIS Is Using Chemical Weapons At Kobane
Unconfirmed reports are circulating on social media Islamic State militants carried out a chemical attack in battling Kurdish forces in Kobane.Several journalists reporting from the ground Tuesday...
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Here's Why So Many Of Tunisia's Youth Are Drawn To ISIS
Tunisia is the Arab Spring's success story, the one country that's turned into a stable democracy after replacing its leader in a wave of popular protests. But it's also the world's single biggest...
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5 Reasons Turkey Is Dragging Its Feet In The Fight Against ISIS
Is Turkey still a Western ally? Some observers of the dramatic battle just over its border with Syria, in the town of Kobani, have begun to wonder.Ankara has steadfastly resisted pressure from...
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These Are The Four Most Likely Outcomes To The War In Syria
Likely end-game scenarios for Syria's three-year-long civil war are coming into view, even if the actual end of the conflict appears as hopelessly far-off as ever.There are four likely scenarios in...
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ISIS Is Alarmingly Effective At Recruiting American Teens
Three Denver schoolgirls skipped class Friday to fly to Turkey to join ISIS.A 19-year-old American nurse aid planned to travel to the Turkish border to marry an ISIS member she met on the Internet.A...
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Assad May Soon Start Starving Syria's Largest City To Win The War
The Syrian Civil War rages on while the United States and its allies focus on stopping the spread of the Islamic State group. President Bashar Assad is capitalizing on the diversion by trying to...
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Canada's Prime Minister Says Shooting Rampage Was Terrorism
Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targeted for reprisals for joining the US-led air campaign against an...
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Senior US Officials Describe The 'Big Disconnect' In Obama's ISIS Strategy
Senior US officials have provided new details of President Barack Obama's plan to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State in Syria, along with ideas as to why the strategy is fundamentally...
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Turkish Shopkeeper: 'I'd Rather Have ISIS On The Border Than The Free Syrian...
Residents of a Turkish border town, an hour's drive from where Islamic State is battling for control of Kobani, appreciate the quiet they say the Sunni militants brought when they swiftly seized...
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The Fight Against ISIS Will Not Succeed Without Help From These Tribes
To defeat ISIS in Iraq, the support of the Sunni tribes is essential. The Sunni tribes felt disenfranchised and, therefore, over the last several years they have protested and struggled against...
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US Action In Kobani Shows That Obama Can Make A Difference — When He Wants To
Within the space of a week, Kobane, the Syrian-Kurdish city on the lip of the Turkey that has been besieged for weeks by the Islamic State, has gone from being “not strategically vital” to...
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It Is Incredibly Easy For Teens With Passports To Run Away To Syria
The teenage sisters told their father they were staying home sick from their suburban Denver school. Instead, they took $2,000 and their passports and headed off for Syria with a 16-year-old friend....
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US Military Responds To New Allegations Of Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes In...
Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 553 people since their launch a month ago, the vast majority of them jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday. However, a military...
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The US Strategy Against ISIS May Be Imploding
It is too early to say that the US strategy against the Islamic State is imploding, but it is scarcely too soon to question whether this is possible.In fact, it is far from clear that the original US...
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Obama Is Trying To Impose A Radical New Order On The US's Middle Eastern Allies
The Center for New American Security, a Washington think tank close to the Obama administration, has produced a strategy for the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). While the paper, authored by Marc...
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This Is How Kobane Looks Like After 3 Months Of Fighting Against ISIS
Kobane has made international headlines in recent weeks as it became a test of the US-led airstrikes as means of defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).Ahmed Abdul Qader, the media...
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ISIS Plants Flag On Kobane Hill, Coalition Airstrike Wipes It Out
This is a striking video showing what happened to a hill near Kobane, where ISIS had just planted a flag. ISIS fighters were unaware that the position was going to be literally buried by bombs dropped...
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An Anti-ISIS Activist In Raqqa Says The Capital Of The 'Caliphate' Is Now A...
"In Raqqa, everyone is afraid of the air strikes. Raqqa is like a ghost town," says Abo Ward Al-Raqqawi, an activist living in the Syrian city controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS) group.Raqqawi (a...
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