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ISIS Is Having A Rough Day
The Kurdish forces defending the border town of Kobane in Syria put the finishing touches on one of the Islamic State's biggest defeats this week.According to Reuters, the Islamic State has withdrawn...
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A Senior British Politician Thinks That ISIS Is Reliant On WhatsApp And Snapchat
A senior British politician has made the extraordinary claim that Islamic State makes frequent use of Snapchat and Whatsapp, Guido Fawkes reports— and is even suggesting that the encrypted messaging...
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Why Russia Will Be The Big Winner In The Next Round Of Syria Peace Talks
After two rounds of peace talks in Geneva failed to resolve the Syrian crisis, Moscow proposed in December 2014 its own peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition. Earlier this month,...
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2 Israeli Soldiers Killed In Hezbollah Retaliation Attack
The threat of a full-blown conflict between Israel and Hezbollah increased on Wednesday after the Lebanese militant group fired a missile at an Israeli army vehicle along the frontier that killed two...
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A YouTube Video Shows A Hezbollah Brigades Convoy Transporting American Tanks
A video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a large Hezbollah Brigades convoy transporting weapons, troops, and armored vehicles to the front to fight the Islamic State.Several American-made military...
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Legendary Marine General James Mattis Ripped Into Obama's Foreign Policy...
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis had less than rosy words for the state of US foreign policy Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing."[We need to] come out from our reactive crouch and...
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Expert: The US Strategy In Syria Is A Complete Mess
Washington's nascent policy of "uncoordinated deconfliction" with Bashar al-Assad's regime in the fight against the "Islamic State"/ISIS may not be a formal alliance, but it does have the potential to...
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ISIS is acknowledging defeat in the Syrian town of Kobani
Members of the Islamic State group have acknowledged for the first time that they were defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani.In a video released by the pro-IS Aamaq News Agency late Friday, two...
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Assad's government still kills way more civilians than ISIS
In the six months since the Islamic State group declared a caliphate across Iraq and Syria, it has become an international enemy and prompted the first U.S. intervention in the conflict since the...
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Iran's push into Syria means another war between Hezbollah and Israel is all...
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah finally delivered his long-postponed speech on Friday, after his group claimed responsibility for the attack against an Israeli patrol in the Shebaa area two days...
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Here's how hackers faked out Syrian rebels by pretending to be hot girls on...
As the Syrian Civil War prepares to enter its fourth year, an unusual new battlefield has opened up: catfishing on Skype.A report by US security company FireEye reveals that hackers affiliated with the...
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The Saudis floated the idea of higher oil prices to get Russia to stop...
It looks as if Saudi Arabia might be using oil policy to pressure Russia into backing away from its support for the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad. The New York Times reports (emphasis ours): Saudi...
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Here's how ISIS abuses humanitarian aid
ISIS's state-building mission is one of the primary points of departure from its jihadist predecessors.There are no shortage of Islamist militant groups that have held on to land and reconstituted...
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High-ranking US intelligence official: Al Qaeda will make gains in Syria and...
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lieutenant General Vincent R. Stewart, warned during congressional testimony yesterday that the "security challenges" the US faces are "more...
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Former CIA official paints a bleak picture of the war against ISIS
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell gave a bleak assessment during an interview on "CBS This Morning" on the number of troops necessary to fully uproot ISIS from its bases of operations in Iraq...
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ISIS is becoming increasingly brutal as it suffers more battlefield defeats
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The killing of hostage Maaz al-Kassasbeh by the Islamic State was different from others that came before it, but the motivation was the same.A video released on Tuesday appears to...
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Here's how ISIS became the richest terrorist group in history
ISIS is officially the richest terrorist group in existence.Through its illicit oil sales — worth between $1 million and $2 million a day — as well as kidnapping and extortion networks, robbery, front...
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Assad is duping the West into thinking he's part of the solution against ISIS
You knew it was coming the moment a Jordanian pilot was burned alive by the Islamic State (ISIS). Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called on Amman to work with Syria in fighting “against terrorism...
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Jordan has released video of its airstrikes against ISIS
Jordan's Armed Forces have uploaded a video to YouTube showcasing the country's retaliatory airstrikes against ISIS. The strikes follow ISIS's release of a video showing the militants burning captured...
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The most important thing in the Middle East that no one is talking about
Two of the most important actors in the Syria conflict are the al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS, Sunni extremists groups that have attracted thousands of foreign recruits based on violently...
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