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Iraq: graveyard of the believers
What is it about Iraq? This poor benighted country has suffered from the consequences of tribalism, imperialism, factionalism, despotism, to say nothing of religious rivalries that still prevent the...
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One of the main US-backed Syrian rebel groups just admitted defeat
BEIRUT (Reuters) - One of the main western-backed rebel groups announced on Sunday that it had dissolved itself and joined a larger Islamist alliance, weeks into a battle which saw it lose ground and...
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Scientists implicate climate change as potential cause of the Syrian civil war
There's been growing chatter over the years suggesting that global climate change can spark wars, particularly in developing countries where drought conditions could lead to conflict over water rights....
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TAKFIRINOMICS: How ISIS funds its caliphate
In this excerpt from "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror," co-authors Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan explain how ISIS funds its nascent caliphate.ISIS has married its authoritarian governance with a...
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US commander: The coalition has killed 8,500 ISIS fighters
US Central Command's Gen. Lloyd Austin told Congress Tuesday that more than 8,500 ISIS fighters had been killed in the U.S. campaign in Iraq and Syria.As a result of US and coalition airstrikes, and...
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Syrian rebels detonated a massive tunnel bomb under a regime intelligence...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, bombing it and then launching a ground assault, sources on both sides and a...
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The US strategy in Syria is failing
The Hazzm movement was once central to a covert CIA operation to arm Syrian rebels, but the group's collapse last week underlines the failure of efforts to unify Arab and Western support for mainstream...
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The next battle in the Israel-Hezbollah war is unfolding in southern Syria
While strikes against ISIS are capturing the headlines, the United States and its international partners risk overlooking the potential strategic significance of developments in Syria's south.In early...
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Here's how ceasefires can actually make wars even worse
What’s the difference between a “freeze” and a “ceasefire”?Some might say it’s just semantics, but UN negotiators in Syria are hoping to create space in parts of Aleppo to, in effect, “freeze” the...
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Iran is exporting its Islamic Revolution into Syria, Iraq and Yemen just as...
At a rally last month on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani gloated: “We are witnessing the export of...
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ISIS is trying to lure recruits from the West with promises of love and jobs
Beirut (AFP) - It has become known for horrific images of beheadings and torture, but the Islamic State group is trying to lure foreign recruits to its "caliphate" with promises of adventure, homes,...
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REVEALED: The oil middleman between the Syrian regime and ISIS
A Syrian businessman described as the "middleman" for oil deals between ISIS and Bashar al-Assad's regime will be targeted for European Union sanctions on Saturday.The listing of George Haswani, the...
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Assad's Devilishly Simple Plan To Bring The West To His Side Against ISIS
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decided to go easy on ISIS so that the extremist group would kill off secular rebels of the the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), Maria Abi-Habib of...
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More details about the Syrian Christian businessman serving as Assad's...
This article was originally published on September 5, 2014. We are re-publishing in light of new EU sanctions on Assad's ISIS liaison.For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the...
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Cracks in ISIS are becoming more clear
The biggest challenge to one of the world's most dangerous terrorist groups may now come from within. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which controls a chunk of Iraq and Syria the size of...
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ISIS defector describes how 'Jihadi John' ran executions
A defector from the Islamic State terror group talked to Sky News about how militants prepared captives for executions and how the militant known as "Jihadi John" gave orders."Turkish man say, 'Put...
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Inside the secret cave hideouts used by Syrian rebels and families
Syria's civil war has been raging for four years, and there are no concrete signs it will end anytime soon.Over 200,000 people have been killed and more than 11 million more have been displaced. The...
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A reporter pretended to be a jihadi bride to expose how ISIS lures women
A woman who writes for a news magazine in Paris went undercover as a young Muslim convert to infiltrate the Islamic State's online network of jihadists looking for brides."Anna Erelle" (not her real...
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Assad still isn't letting go of his tight grip on power
Beirut (AFP) - Despite Western and Arab hopes he would be consigned to the dustbin of history, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad enters his fifth year of war with an increasingly tight hold on...
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This acid attack victim is one of Syria's lucky ones
For life in a war zone, it appeared to be an unremarkable day. Andi (not her real name) was walking to work at a clothing company in her home town in the north of Syria. But her heart quickened when...
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