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Western-born jihadists rally to ISIS's fight in Iraq and Syria
The extremist Sunni militants sweeping across Iraq may have a singular goal, but there's a broad coalition of recruits from outside of the Middle East willing to help them achieve it.
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Obama Says Iraqi Dam Has Been Retaken From Militants
President Obama said Monday that Iraqi special forces and Kurdish fighters, backed by American war planes, had retaken a strategically critical dam near Mosul, the latest in what he described as a string of positive steps in halting the march of Islamic extremists across the country.
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Islamic State message to America: 'we will drown all of you in blood'
The Islamic State militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the first American air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has warned the United States it will attack Americans "in any place" if the raids hit its militants.
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Net closes on 'Jihadi John' as London pair probed
NHS doctor from East London may hold the key to identifying the jihadi who beheaded James Foley
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UN to intervene in Amirli, Northern Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq: Jihadist militants of the self proclaimed Islamic State were ousted from Iraq’s largest dam in Mosul last week with U.S aid. But disquietude persists in Iraq, as Jihadists have occupied various other territories and is still bestrewing the regions of Northern Iraq to maraud. One...
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Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country
A speech by an ex-MI6 boss hints at a plan going back over a decade. In some areas, being Shia is akin to being a Jew in Nazi Germany
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Iran Says It Is Arming Kurdistan To Help Fight Islamic State
Iran has supplied Kurdistan’s security forces, called the Peshmerga, with weapons to aid in their fight against Islamic State militants, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said Tuesday, according to Reuters. Iran’s direct military support for Kurdistan exemplifies the increasingly complicated political situation in Iraq, where the U.S. and Iran each has lent a hand in fighting the militant group formerly known as ISIS in northern Iraq.
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A town north of Baghdad is surrounded by ISIS, but the residents decided to fight them off instead of flee
As Islamic militants rampaged across northern Iraq in June, seizing vast swaths of territory and driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, the Shiite Turkmens living in the hardscrabble town of Amirli decided to stay and fight.
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Iraq crimes 'on unimaginable scale'
The UN says it has received reports from Iraq that "reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale". Deputy Human Rights Commissioner Flavia Pansieri said Islamic State (IS) was believed to have committed systematic and intentional attacks on civilians.
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Escaping Death in Northern Iraq
Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other soldiers by Sunni militants in June and taken to the grounds of a palace complex in Tikrit where Saddam Hussein once lived.
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Israel Provides Intelligence on Islamic State: Western Diplomat
Israel has provided satellite imagery and other intelligence in support of the U.S.-led aerial campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, a Western diplomat said on Monday. Once "scrubbed" of evidence of its Israeli origin, the information has often been shared by Washington with Arab and Turkish allies, the diplomat said. Israel's Defense Ministry neither confirmed nor denied involvement in any international efforts against the militant group.
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U.K. to supply arms to Kurds to fight Islamic State
Britain said on Tuesday that it would arm the Kurds with heavy machine guns and ammunition to fight Islamic State, the group attempting to form a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The weaponry, valued at about $2.6 million, marks the first time the U.K. has directly supplied arms to the Kurds in the conflict, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Waste, fraud and abuse commonplace in Iraq reconstruction effort
After U.S. and allied warplanes destroyed a key bridge carrying 15 oil and gas pipelines in northern Iraq during the 2003 conflict there, officials in Washington and Baghdad made its postwar reconstruction a top priority. But instead of spending two months to rebuild the span over the Tigris River at an estimated cost of $5 million, they decided for security reasons to bury the pipelines beneath it, at an estimated cost more than five times greater.
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U.S. urges China to help with Islamic State in Iraq
President Obama’s national security adviser urged China to help respond to the growing threat of the radical Islamic State while meeting this week with top Chinese officials. Susan E. Rice, here for three days to lay the groundwork for a November visit by Obama, received no commitment that Beijing would join the fight in Iraq. But a senior U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said, “The Chinese expressed interest.”
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France Ready to Participate in Iraq Airstrikes
France offered Wednesday to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq if needed, but insisted on a more careful tack for Syria. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called for international mobilization against militants from the Islamic State group, which he called "this transnational danger that could reach all the way to our soil."
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I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander. Here’s how I escaped.
They killed my brother and tried to make me a concubine. I found a meat cleaver and broke out.
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CIA triples its estimate of the number of Islamic State fighters
ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the Central Intelligence Agency has said — much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000.
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Propaganda Watch: Fearmongering the Threat Posed by the Islamic State
How much of a threat does the Islamic State militant group pose? That's a question that depends very much on whom you ask.
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Islamic State has offered to trade hostages for imprisoned 'superstar'
For months, Islamic State militants have engaged in a high-stakes game of deadly extortion, threatening to behead American captives they are holding in the Middle East unless their demands are met, including an end to US airstrikes targeting their strongholds in Iraq.
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Turkey secures release of 49 hostages seized in northern Iraq
Turkish intelligence agents brought 49 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation
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