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19 jaw-dropping photos of some of the toughest military training regimes in...
The physical and psychological rigors of combat are intense, and militaries have the challenge preparing their soldiers for the worst of what they may face on the battlefield.The world's militaries...
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Obama: Iran must play a role in ending Syria's civil war
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran should play a role in any political solution to Syria's ongoing civil war, signaling a significant shift in US policy with respect to Syria."I think it's...
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The Iran deal helps provide a particularly 'marvelous recruiting tools' for ISIS
Iran stands to gain more than $100 billion from a comprehensive nuclear deal with world powers, a chunk of which will likely go towards continued support of embattled Syrian President Bashar...
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Russia is going to send fuel to Syria from Crimea
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to supply Syria with 200,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per year via the Crimean port of Kerch, two trading sources told Reuters.The plans are a further...
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The startlingly simple reason Obama still ignores Syria
US President Barack Obama's signature foreign-policy achievement — a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran — was finalized this week after more than a decade of coercive diplomacy and 20 months of...
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Obama’s Iran news conference was a case for American weakness
President Obama was well into his feisty and freewheeling news conference on the Iran nuclear deal when Major Garrett of CBS News got under the presidential skin."As you well know, there are four...
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ISIS is bracing itself for a huge new battlefield challenge
ISIS has ramped up its defensive measures in the border town of Jarablus amid reports Turkey was preparing a ground incursion into ISIS-controlled territory in northern Syria. Activist Shazza Khalil,...
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David Cameron says he wants Britain to do more to fight ISIS in Syria
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.Britain conducts regular...
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ISIS wants to shut down private internet access in the capital of its...
ISIS has announced it is going to shut down private internet access in Raqqa, the eastern Syrian city that functions as the extremist group's de-facto capital, the Financial Times reports.The move will...
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Britain is struggling to understand why some Muslims are flocking to ISIS
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, has set out a five-year strategy for countering extremism, stating that there’s a “need to understand why it is proving so attractive”.Putting forward four guiding...
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Turkey is stepping up security after a deadly border attack tied to ISIS
Suruc (Turkey) (AFP) - Turkey on Tuesday stepped up security on the border with Syria after a suicide bombing blamed on Islamic State extremists killed 31 people and raised fears of a spillover of the...
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ISIS is reportedly using information leaked by Edward Snowden to figure out...
Despite a concerted effort by a coalition of dozens of countries to cripple the Islamic State terror group, the militants continue to operate beneath a shroud of secrecy and maintain a hold on key...
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A Russian recruit just explained why foreign fighters value ISIS over their...
"I love my mom very much ... When I start to think about my mother, my God, it's as if my heart is breaking."These words are from the opening lines of a post shared by Russian-speaking fighters for the...
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Three freelance Spanish reporters are missing in Syria
MADRID (AP) — Three Spanish freelance journalists who traveled to Syria to report amid the country's long-running civil war have gone missing around the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a Spanish...
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A US airstrike has killed a key al Qaeda operative in Syria
A longtime al Qaeda operative and key figure in the so-called Khorasan Group, Muhsin al-Fadhli, was killed in a U.S. air strike while traveling in a vehicle in northwestern Syria two weeks ago, the...
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Al Qaeda's former top operative in Iran was just killed in a US strike
The Defense Department announced today that Muhsin al Fadhli, a longtime al Qaeda operative from Kuwait, was killed on July 8 “in a kinetic strike” while “traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria.”Al...
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Turkey is building a wall along its border to keep out ISIS militants
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is erecting a modular wall along part of its border with Syria as well as reinforcing wire fencing and digging extra ditches after a suspected Islamic State suicide bombing...
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Turkey and ISIS just engaged in a cross-border firefight
Turkish forces returned fire on Islamic State militants in Syria with tank shells on Thursday after a Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a cross-border firefight, the military...
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Turkey grants access to a strategic air base for US assets to bomb ISIS
Turkey has agreed to allow the U.S. military to launch air strikes against Islamic State militants from a U.S. air base in Incirlik, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing defense...
View ArticleThis $200 million plane is called the 'most lethal fighter aircraft in the...
The US Air Force's F-22 Raptor has been described as "the most lethal fighter aircraft in the world," but until recently it was used primarily as a bodyguard for other aircraft. The F-22 has seen...
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