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Iran is giving Syria more credit to keep Assad's war machine running
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's official news agency says Iran is extending a credit line to make up for market needs and reports that the two countries have signed several agreements in the fields of...
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Obama says the US isn't losing in Iraq — but ISIS isn't either
President Barack Obama sat down for an interview with The Atlantic this week and said that, despite a major recent loss in Iraq, the US is not losing the fight against the Islamic State terror...
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We're getting to know just how different ISIS is from al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden's personal letters and day-to-day correspondences —found by US special forces during a 2011 raid on his compound in Abbottabad — reveal a very different approach to waging jihad than...
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ISIS victories this week reveal an ominous truth
Almost a year after Islamic State's shock capture of Mosul, Iraq's second city, the black flags of the jihadis have been raised over Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province to the west of Baghdad, seat...
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ISIS is about to make A LOT of money off 'the archaeological equivalent of a...
The Islamic State terror group continued its rampage across areas of the Middle East this week, seizing the ancient town of Palmyra in Syria.Palmyra is strategically located — as The Wall Street...
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The ISIS - al Qaeda rivalry is playing out violently in Yemen
CAIRO (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a Shi'ite Houthi mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, wounding 13 people, a security source said, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the...
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These maps show what ISIS has achieved in the last year
This week's advances by the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) in Iraq and Syria are some of the most successful campaigns for the extremist group since it rampaged into Iraq last summer.A year...
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This border post shows how Turkey's ISIS problem keeps getting worse
Pipes, ammonium nitrate, and other bomb-making materials are being transported across Turkey's border into Syria by agents of ISIS while Turkish border guards look the other way, Jamie Dettmer of The...
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What everyone is missing about ISIS' big week
ISIS has made alarming gains in Iraq and Syria over the past week.On May 17, ISIS fighters took Ramadi, a city just 70 west of Baghdad, after a battle in which the jihadist group advanced into the city...
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Why Assad keeps dropping gas bombs on Syrian civilians
With only a cloth mask for protection, Firas Kayali rushed to try to rescue the residents of a house in a village in rebel-held northern Syria after a barrel bomb, suspected to be filled with chlorine...
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One of Assad's major front lines in Syria is collapsing
BEIRUT – The Army of Conquest rebel coalition in northwest Syria has continued to advance against regime troops desperately defending a collapsing salient of territory in the Idlib province. Following...
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Saudi-led warplanes launched a fresh wave of air strikes across Yemen
Sanaa (AFP) - Saudi-led warplanes launched a fresh wave of air strikes across Yemen targeting Iran-backed rebels as fighting raged on the ground in the south of the country, witnesses said.The air...
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Syrians are trying to build a case against Assad over chlorine attacks
BEIRUT (AP) — With only a cloth mask for protection, Firas Kayali rushed to try to rescue the residents of a house in a village in rebel-held northern Syria after a barrel bomb, suspected to be filled...
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Hezbollah says it will 'be everywhere in Syria'
Hezbollah is fighting across all of Syria alongside the army of President Bashar Assad and is willing to increase its presence there when needed, the leader of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement said on...
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A wedding in Raqqa, Syria, shows how ISIS is trying to run a state
The honeymoon was a brief moment for love, away from the front lines of Syria's war. In the capital of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate," Syrian fighter Abu Bilal al-Homsi was...
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Hezbollah is threatening opponents in Lebanon more than ever
Two pro-Hezbollah newspapers in Lebanon—Assafir and Al-Akhbar—reported this weekend that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said during a closed meeting that the battle against the takfiris is an...
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Iran's Supreme Leader is trying to inflame public opinion — not prepare his...
Since May 16, Iran's Ayatollah Ali has spoken publicly on three occasions, covering topics including the Yemen crisis and the nuclear negotiations.The third of these speeches, on May 20 at the...
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What Obama gets wrong about ISIS' strategy
The Islamic State terrorist group is still charging across Iraq and Syria, and President Barack Obama's arguments that the militants don't have much of a long-term strategy is not aging well.J.M....
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The fight in Iraq's largest province is now nakedly sectarian
How badly is the civil war in Iraq spiraling out of control? Here's a clue: Baghdad's battle to retake Anbar Province is called "Labaik Ya Hussein."What does that mean? That the fight in Anbar is now...
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It looks like the Syrian military could withdraw from another front
Reports have emerged that the Syrian regime has been preparing a military evacuation from Deir Ezzor after ISIS’ victory in Palmyra cut ground routes to the besieged city.“The Syrian regime is...
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