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Many Of The Military's Top Leaders Can’t Stand The Retired General Leading...
One would think a man with four stars on his collar leading U.S. forces in Afghanistan just one year ago would have no problem working with military leadership in the fight against militants of the...
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Why Kobane Is A Crucial Front In The Fight Against ISIS
"We will resist to our last drop of blood together... if necessary we will repeat the Stalingrad resistance in Kobane." The words of Polat Can, a Syrian Kurdish commander, to describe the fight against...
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These 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...
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Al Qaeda In Syria Are Threatening A Crucial Turkey Border Crossing After...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists say al-Qaida fighters are amassing in a Syrian border town in what appears to be an attempt to seize a nearby Turkish border crossing from Syrian rebels.Assad Kanjo said...
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Jihadist Militants Have Captured US Anti-Tank Missiles In Syria
Weaponry supplied by the US to moderate Syrian rebels was feared to have fallen into the hands of jihadist militants affiliated to al-Qaida after clashes between rival groups.Islamist fighters with...
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Syrian Jihadists Are Making Alarming Gains On The Country's Western-Backed...
Al Qaeda militants massed on Monday near a Syrian border town, edging closer to a vital crossing under control of Western-backed rebels, activists said, underscoring the weakness of the fighters who...
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This Map Shows Which Groups Control Syria's Border Crossings
As much as the Syrian conflict is a battle for territory within the country, it is also a battle for the borders, access to which can offer invaluable military, strategic, and financial advantages.The...
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The Rise And Fall Of The 'Sons Of Iraq'
Abu Abed was the head of the Sons of Iraq (SOI)/Sahwa in Baghdad’s Amiriya late last decade. He cut a deal with the American forces to create security units in his district, and was known as a fierce...
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This Chilling Video Shows ISIS Training Syrian Children To Kill
More evidence that children are being indoctrinated and trained to become jihadists in territories controlled by the Islamic State (Isis) group has emerged in the form of a videoshowing a little boy...
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It's Been 25 Years Since One Of The Middle East's Most Consequential Peace...
It is safe to assume that the Lebanese are sentimentally attached to anniversaries, memorials and commemorations. In a pluralistic society with an assortment of religious and national occasions, the...
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The US Can't Possibly Defeat ISIS If It Sticks To Its Current Strategy
It is becoming clear that the American-led international coalition and its airstrikes in Iraq and Syria alone are not going to defeat ISIS.The US government, its Western allies, and its Middle East...
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Whatever Happened To The Mysterious Terrorist Group That Obama Bombed In Syria?
In September the U.S. dropped cruise missiles on a cell of al Qaeda militants in Syria known as the Khorasan group. Senior officials said the strikes on a facility near Aleppo were justified because...
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Why One Iraqi Tribe Is Facing Mass Executions At The Hands Of ISIS
Starting in October 2014 Iraq's Albu Nimr tribe has faced one setback after another with the situation now verging on tragedy.Based out of central Anbar province in western Iraq, the tribe had been...
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'Chickens---gate' Is All About Obama Trying To Silence Israel
In remarks to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg last week, anonymous senior Obama administration officials called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “chickens---.” These officials also gloated that...
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ISIS Is Buying Children To Turn Them Into Soldiers
It’s mid-May in Syria, and a 13-year-old boy has gone missing from his home in Raqqa. Disappearances aren’t rare in Syria’s civil war, but this boy is not an average Syrian: He lives in the de facto...
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US Drone Kills Veteran French Jihadist Fighting With Al Qaeda In Syria
A 24-year-old Frenchman who joined Al Qaeda forces in Syria has reportedly been killed by a US drone strike, according to the French news magazine L'Express.US officials confirmed the news Thursday...
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Jihadis Are Now Booking Tickets On Cruise Ships To Get To Syria
Top Interpol officials tell The Associated Press that would-be jihadi fighters are booking tickets on cruise ships to join extremists in battle zones in Syria and Iraq, hoping to bypass efforts to...
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ISIS Forums Have Gone Dark After Rumors Of Leader's Death
As speculation rises that the United States and its allies killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), in airstrikes over the weekend, supporters of the jihadist group are...
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UN: 13.6 Million People Have Been Displaced By The Wars In Iraq And Syria
About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency...
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Iran Helped Crush Syria's Revolution — And It's Repeating Its Strategy In Iraq
When protests started in Syria in 2011, Iran came to the aid of Bashar al-Assad’s government.It didn’t trust the armed forces so it helped create paramilitary groups to break up the protests and then...
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