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Syria Border Town, Kobani, Falling to ISIS, Turkey’s Leader Says
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said Tuesday that the Syrian border town of Kobani, under siege from Islamic State fighters, was about to fall to the militants despite United States-led airstrikes on the group.
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U.S. jet fighters carry out second round of airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq
Two U.S. F/A-18 jet fighters bombed artillery batteries of Sunni Islamic extremists in Iraq on Friday, Pentagon spokesman says.
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'No' from one Iraq villager triggered ISIS mass killings
When Islamic State militants stormed into a northern Iraqi village and ordered everyone to convert to Islam or die only one person refused. But that did not satisfy the Sunni insurgents
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ISIS Teaches Children How to Behead in Training Camps
Boys say their instructors show them how to decapitate blond, blue-eyed dolls with kitchen knives.
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The Lebanese ice bucket challenge has morphed into burning Islamic State flags
Last weekend, several Lebanese activists started a trend which has since gained prominence under the hashtag #BurnISISFlagChallenge or #BurnISIS. The protesters burned an Islamic State flag in retaliation to the presumed beheading of a Lebanese officer, an idea which quickly motivated others to post similar pictures or videos.
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ISIS and War Propaganda: The Mainstream Media is Selling Fear to Control the Public
The media is selling fear of beheadings to the public. Syria is destroyed and so is Iraq, principally at the hands of the U.S. military machine and western partners. Oil pipelines and weapons deals are the reasons for this monstrosity that knows no end in its brutal occupation.
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ISIS Tweets Call for Assassination of Twitter Employees
Extremists linked to ISIS tell "lone wolves" to target employees of the social network
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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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Steven Sotloff Was Reportedly Sold to ISIS by Syrian Rebels
Speaking with Anderson Cooper on Monday, the spokesman for Steven Sotloff's family said that the journalist, who was beheaded by Islamic State fighters last week, was believed to have been sold to the group by Syrian rebels for as much as $50,000.
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Contractors Ready to Cash In On ISIS War
Obama pledged that the war against ISIS won’t be fought with U.S. ground troops. He didn’t say anything about contractors, who see this as “the next big meal ticket.”
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The Women Fighters Taking on ISIS
As the Islamic State fighters tore through northern Iraq in a murderous rampage, the women were called to come down from the mountains. One woman known as Ozlem, a longtime fighter with a Kurdish guerrilla group, was sent to defend Makhmour, a town where some 12,000 Kurds had taken refugee. Ozlem, whose nom de guerre means “to be missed,” eagerly left to confront the enemy - the radical Islamic group also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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British hostage David Haines beheaded by Islamic State terrorists
Prime Minister David Cameron describes murder of British aid worker David Haines by Isil as 'an act of pure evil', as Foreign Office works urgently to verify video released by extremists
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Five jihadi Brits held by ISIS and matched to punishment centre
A group of disillusioned British jihadists who wanted to return home after fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have been taken prisoner by their militant commanders. The men were stripped of their weapons and marched to a punishment centre in the militant-held city of Raqqa in Syria, according to reports.
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ISIS war chest grows by an estimated $3M every day
Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts.
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ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools
The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been "permanently annulled." The Islamic State group has declared patriotic songs blasphemous and ordered that certain pictures be torn out of textbooks.
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Petrodollar Panic: EU Officials Admit Buying Oil From ISIS
We recently explained how ISIS remains so well funded but what was unclear was who exactly what purchasing their 'recently-provisioned' oil reserves? The assumption being some desperate third-world nation or some scheming offshore hedge-fund arbitrageur; however, as Sott.net reports, a senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIL Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group.
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U.S. General to Seek Combat Troops if Airstrikes Can’t Stop ISIS
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress on Tuesday that he would recommend deploying United States combat forces against Islamic extremists in specific operations if the current strategy of airstrikes was not successful, offering a more expansive view of the American role in the ground war than that of President Obama.
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ISIS makes drinking to forget harder as booze prices skyrocket in Baghdad
Baghdad’s beer-drinkers have it tough. Already shot at and persecuted, they have found prices soaring since Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham militants seized large swaths of northern Iraq in June and barred alcohol.
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ISIS VIDEO - Flames of War Trailer
Flames of War Trailer In one of the Islamic State’s first responses to President Obama’s declaration that he would “degrade and ultimately destroy” it, the group released a short video late Tuesday in which it appeared to say that its militants would kill American ground forces should President Obama deploy them.
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