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U.S. ready to strike ISIS in Syria, military officials say
The U.S. military has everything it needs to strike ISIS inside Syria and is awaiting President Barack Obama's authorization to do so, U.S. military officials tell CNN.
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Suspect in 1998 bombings pleads to lesser charges
The father of the ISIS militant suspected of being 'Jihadi John' today wept as he admitted plotting with Osama bin Laden to blow up U.S. embassies. Adel Abdul Bary, 54, pleaded guilty to charges of making a threat to use an explosive device and conspiracy to murder Americans at Manhattan federal court. His charges were in relation to the 1998 plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa, which left 224 people dead, including 12 Americans.
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Canadian government begins invalidating passports of citizens who have left to join extremist groups
The government has begun invalidating the passports of Canadians who have left to join extremist groups in Syria and Iraq, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander revealed in an interview on Friday.
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ISIS audio urges attacks on 'unbelievers' in Canada
In an audio recording distributed widely on social media Sunday, Islamic extremist group ISIS urged attacks on civilians in member countries of the U.S.-led coalition opposed to their violent spread through areas of Syria and Iraq.
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Free Henning, wife pleads with ISIS
The wife of the British taxi driver being held hostage by the ISIS has issued a plea for his release. Alan Henning from Eccles in Salford was seized while on an aid mission to Syria last December while driving an ambulance.
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Islamic State to John Kerry: You’re an ‘old uncircumcised geezer’
Islamic State terrorists have released a new video calling on lone wolf attacks in the United States — and taking potshots at America’s leaders, characterizing President Obama as the “mule of the Jews” and labeling Secretary of State John Kerry as out-of-touch and ineffective.
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US begins air strikes on Islamic State targets
The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. The Pentagon said warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles were used in the attacks, which targeted several areas including IS stronghold Raqqa. Syria's foreign ministry said its UN envoy was informed about the strikes against IS, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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Putin Considers Throwing Russia Into ISIS Fight: Report
The next weapon in the fight against Islamic extremists in the Middle East might be Vladimir Putin. The Russian president discussed with his Security Council on Monday potentially contributing to fighting ISIS, according to Russian news agencies. The council "exchanged opinions on possible forms of cooperation with other partners on a plan to counter Islamic State in the framework of international law," Interfax quoted a Kremlin spokesman as saying.
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Video appears to show beheading of Frenchman kidnapped in Algeria
A Frenchman who was kidnapped over the weekend in Algeria appears to have been beheaded in a video that was posted online Wednesday.
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First U.S. Stealth Jet Attack on Syria Cost More Than Indian Mission to Mars
F-22 Raptor stealth fighters were needed in case the Syrians used their sophisticated air defenses. But Raptors don't come cheap.
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Syrian Woman's Hidden Camera Reveals Life Under ISIS in Raqqa
A mother, with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, walks her child to a playground. A man driving a car orders a woman to cover her face: "God loves women who are covered." A woman in an Internet cafe, in flawless French, tells her mother that she won't be coming home: "I did not take the risk by coming here to go back to France."
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ISIS plot uncovered to attack U.S., Paris subways, Iraq PM Haider al-Abadi says
Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captive Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants told his intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris. A senior Obama administration official said no one in the U.S. government is aware of such a plot, adding that the claim was never brought up in meetings with Iraqi officials this week in New York. U.S. President Barack Obama met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi Wednesday.
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US may have identified masked man in beheading videos
The FBI director says the U.S. believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker.
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ISIS kills Iraqi woman activist in Mosul
Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-styled Islamic court ruled that she had abandoned Islam, the U.N. mission in Iraq said Thursday.
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Wary of air strikes, Islamic State insurgents change tactics
Islamic State militants are changing tactics in the face of U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq, ditching conspicuous convoys in favor of motorcycles and planting their black flags on civilian homes, tribal sources and eyewitnesses say. They reported fewer militant checkpoints to weed out "apostates" and less cell phone use since the air strikes intensified and more U.S. allies pledged to join the campaign that began in August, saying the militants had also split up to limit casualties.
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Growing number of Turks moving to 'family-friendly' Islamic State
Asiya Ummi Abdullah, a 24-year-old Muslim convert, admitted taking her infant son to live among Islamic State terrorists in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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Britain, Belgium and Denmark to join U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq
The British Parliament voted Friday to join U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq against the extremist group Islamic State. The motion approved by a vote of 524 to 43 does not allow Britain’s air force to also conduct operations in neighboring Syria, where the militants have seized large swaths of territory.
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The 'Club Med for terrorists'
A large number of extremists linked to Qatar are devoted to raising money for jihadists. How long can the Gulf state go on playing both sides?
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How Islamic State Wages War
The fighters of Islamic State rode in on four tanks and 10 cars, each mounted with a heavy machine gun. They opened fire as they stormed down the road to Tall Ghazal, about eight miles south of the Turkish border. Outgunned by the jihadist onslaught—as they had been since it began on Sept. 19—the Kurdish defenders fell back, took cover behind outlying buildings, and waited for an opportunity to counterattack.
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ISIS fighter says U.S. airstrikes aren't effective
The United States may be touting its strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, but one of the terror group's fighters says the hits are trivial at best. In an exclusive interview with CNN, a Syrian ISIS fighter using the pseudonym Abu Talha said the militant group has been preparing for such attacks.
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