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ISIS just seized one of the Syrian regimes last big sources of income
ISIS is touting its newfound control of giant phosphate mines in Syria.The Khnaifess mines, which sit along the main highway between Damascus and Palymra, the ancient city overrun by ISIS last week,...
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ISIS implies that it hasn't destroyed the ancient ruins in a Syrian town it...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State posted photographs online which it said were taken in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and appeared to show its ancient ruins unharmed since the hardline group seized...
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Ex-administration official explains where Obama went wrong in Syria
As the Islamic State terror group continues to make territorial gains across Iraq and Syria, experts have blasted President Barack Obama's strategy for beating the militants.Critics have called out...
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European women who join ISIS almost never leave
PARIS (AP) — When three British schoolgirls trundled across the Syrian border; when a pregnant 14-year-old ran away from her Alpine home for the second time; when a sheltered girl from the south of...
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ISIS is luring normal Western women with troubling simplicity
The notion that young women are traveling to Syria solely to become "jihadi brides" is simplistic and hinders efforts to prevent other girls from being radicalized, new research suggests.Young women...
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'The blind judge of the Islamic State' just gave a speech 80 miles from Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Islamic State figure known as "the blind judge" has made an appearance in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, asserting the militant group's dominion over it as security forces and...
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Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against ISIS militants
BEIRUT (AP) — In contrast to the Iraqi army's failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against the Islamic State group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country's...
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Al Qaeda's strategy in Syria is working
Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the head of Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, granted an exclusive interview to Al Jazeera Arabic this week, sitting in an ornate chair with his back to the camera and a hood...
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The anti-ISIS fight has an intelligence problem
The unexpected fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State this month is the latest sign of a basic intelligence problem: The United States doesn't know enough about its jihadist adversaries to combat them...
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Jihadists are routing the Syrian government in a key province
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern Syria near the Turkish...
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The US is embracing a dark reality in Iraq
The US is out of good options for fighting Islamic State extremists.The Iraqi army, which the US has tried to build up into a viable fighting force, fled when faced with dozens of car bombs in the...
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CIA chief: We won't be able to destroy ISIS on the battlefield
Senior administration officials have now issued two warnings over the past week that the war against ISIS is going badly and that President Obama’s initial vow to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the...
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The ISIS radio station targeting European recruits sounds like NPR
PARIS (AP) — After a selection of tunes, the presenter with an American accent offers "a glimpse at our main headlines." IS militants have just seized three Iraqi cities. A bomb blows up a factory,...
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The ISIS economy just got a huge boost
The US is trying to choke off the Islamic State's revenue streams in Iraq and Syria. But the biggest slice of the ISIS budget may come from taxing the "Caliphate's" captive population, a source of...
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ISIS destroyed one of Syria's darkest secrets
BEIRUT (AP) — For decades, the mere mention of Tadmur Prison was enough to send chills down a Syrian's spine.The notorious facility in the desert of central Syria was where thousands of dissidents were...
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Iran's Rouhani vows to back Syria 'until the end of the road'
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will back Syria's President Bashar al-Assad until the end, Iranian news agencies quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying, signaling undimmed support for Tehran's Arab ally...
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US accuses Syria of helping ISIS advance on Aleppo
The United States has accused the Syrian military of carrying out air strikes to help Islamic State fighters advance around the northern city of Aleppo, messages posted on the U.S. Embassy Syria...
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Iran's military mastermind promises a 'surprise' in Syria
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani has vowed that upcoming developments in Syria will soon “surprise” the world, Al-Quds al-Arabi reported.“The world will be surprised by...
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ISIS could win if these 4 things happen
Let’s think the unthinkable: Could the Islamic State win?I say “unthinkable” because, discouraged as everyone has become, most commentary stops short of imagining what an Islamic State victory in the...
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Russia may be hedging its bets with Assad
JERUSALEM—A dramatic Russian pullback from support of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria was reported Sunday by a prominent Arabic-language newspaper that said that some 100 senior Russian diplomatic...
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