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Pro-Kurdish party in Turkey: Kobani 'massacre' shows how Turkey supports ISIS
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish party described an Islamic State attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani as a massacre and blamed it on Turkish state support for the militants, comments that...
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The Assad regime still exists because Iran is shipping 60,000 barrels of oil...
The US Department of State confirmed last year that Iran sending oil directly to Syria after the country's production was bullwhacked by the civil war.And now, we've got some numbers."New Bloomberg...
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Here's what upcoming ISIS military operations will probably look like
This report is authored by Jessica Lewis McFate, Kimberly Kagan, Jennifer Cafarella, Christopher Kozak, Theodore Bell, and Harleen Gambhir.The purpose of this intelligence forecast is to outline ISW’s...
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Putin called Obama
Putin called Obama on Thursday, according to Russian news site TASS.This was the first time the two leaders spoke in four months.Putin reportedly brought up the spread of the Islamic State's influence...
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French academic: Here's how you get from the Deep State to the Islamic State
“If you think you understand Lebanon, you haven’t been properly briefed”. Thus went the advice dispensed by the spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in the wild south of the country in the...
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The Assad regime is trying to use an embattled minority group to put pressure...
The agitation in the Druze community in Israel over the situation of their coreligionists in Syria turned bloody on Monday.A Druze mob near Majdal Shams attacked a military ambulance carrying wounded...
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Obama is denying the undeniable
The slaughter in Syria and the awful human rights violations in Iran cannot be denied by the Obama administration, but they sure can be downplayed and ignored.On the Iran point, consider the release...
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Battlefield setbacks aren't stopping ISIS from killing on a massive scale
On June 26, jihadists carried out terror attacks on three continents.In Tunisia, gunmen killed 39 people at a beach resort in Sousse, a coastal city south of Tunis. In Kuwait, a suicide bombing at a...
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Former senior administration official: Obama needs a strategy 'that doesn’t...
The Obama administration has been reluctant to intervene too much in Syria, a policy that is ultimately helping the Islamic State strengthen its hold on parts of the country, according to a former...
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Turkish prime minister: We will 'never allow' the formation of a Kurdish...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is prepared for any security threats along its borders, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying late on Sunday, highlighting Ankara's growing anxiety about...
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Report: Syrian vice president was severely beaten on Assad's orders
BEIRUT – A pro-opposition media outlet has reported that Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa was “severely beaten” in a regime bid to kill him.A well-informed source told Elaph Journal that Sharaa...
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Turkey has been preparing for a large-scale military intervention in northern...
Turkey has been preparing for a large-scale military intervention in northern Syria against ISIS, according to a number of reports in the Turkish media.Although officials have not made any concrete...
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Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in...
Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new...
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Assad is 'getting desperate,' and the US thinks he could use chemical weapons...
Despite assurances that the regime of Syria's Bashar Assad had given up the country's stockpile of chemical weapons, US intelligence suspects that the regime could use large-scale attacks with chemical...
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Jordan is mulling a significant military intervention in southern Syria
The civil war in Syria has reached such a tipping point for one of the most stable and US-friendly regimes in the Middle East.The Jordanian military is actively implementing plans to create a...
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Syria is breaking up into fiefdoms
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Four years into a war that has killed more than 220,000 people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can no longer defend the whole country or hope to regain lost territory and his...
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ISIS has reportedly beheaded women civilians for the first time
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday.The...
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Israeli defense official: 'Syria is gone'
A senior Israeli defense official said President Bashar Assad controlled just a fifth of Syria and may end up in charge of a rump state dominated by his minority Alawite sect.Israel and its neighbor...
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This detailed Syria map shows what territory ISIS is truly fighting for
The official propaganda of the Islamic State terror group declares that it wants to establish a "caliphate" that unites the world's Mulsims behind its strict interpretation of Sharia law, partly so...
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Al Qaeda needs a new 'general manager'
The death of al-Qaeda’s general manager, Nasir al-Wahayshi, will likely disrupt al-Qaeda’s global operations until he is replaced. It is likely that al-Qaeda leader Aymen al-Zawahiri will nominate his...
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