List of Islamic State articles
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A man carries a young girl who was injured in a reported barrel-bomb attack by government forces on June 3, 2014 in Kallaseh district in the northern city of Aleppo. Some 2,000 civilians, including more than 500 children, have been killed in regime air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo since January, many of them in barrel bomb attacks. AFP PHOTO / BARAA AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S. Is Helping Allies Hide Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria
The Pentagon is doing its partners in the anti-Islamic State campaign a favor, at the expense of its own transparency.
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iranmajd Iran Just Proved Trump Wrong
The gravest extremist threat in the Middle East isn't the nation that just voted overwhelmingly for peaceful coexistence with the international community.
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Bracelets bearing portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R), his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (L) and Hassan Nasrallah (C) the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, are displayed at a handicrafts shop in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on February 4, 2016. Syrian government troops moved closer to encircling rebels in the country's second city Aleppo, threatening a total siege after cutting their main supply line. / AFP / JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images) Are the U.S. and Iran on a Collision Course in Syria?
With Iran and its Shiite proxies determined to thwart American influence in Syria, Washington could soon find itself fighting a second front.
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GettyImages-687171994cropp The Islamic State and the End of Lone-Wolf Terrorism
From Manchester to Orlando, the followers of the Islamic State aren’t operating “alone” anymore. And there are no easy answers to defeating an online community of terrorists.
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spyer1 Syria Has Effectively Ceased to Exist
With Russians and Iranians in control in Damascus, the U.S. bolstering rebels, and no one powerful enough to press for unification, the breakup of Syria is a fait accompli.
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A picture shows a T-54 tank at a position of Syrian pro-government forces in Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed district as troops advance in the southeastern edges of the divided city on November 30, 2016. More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of terrified civilians from the besieged rebel-held east of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, as the UN Security Council was set for emergency talks on fighting in the city. Regime forces and allied fighters now fully control the city's northeast and pressed their offensive on November 30 on Aleppo's southeastern edges, advancing in the Sheikh Saeed district, according to state news agency SANA. / AFP / George OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Bombs Syrian Regime Forces For First Time
The attack marks a new chapter in the U.S.-led military effort in Syria
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greenwayphoto1 The Dangerous Lives of Undercover ISIS Informants
Meet the small group of Middle Eastern men willing to risk everything to help destroy the Islamic State.
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US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster denies the report of US President Donald Trump revealing classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office, during a statement to the press outside of the West Wing at the White House in Washington, DC, May 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) What Exactly Is the White House Denying About the ‘Trump Mishandled Classified Material’ Story?
It appears they are attempting something much bigger and more difficult: they are claiming the central allegations of the Washington Post story are false.
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A member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, monitors in the town of Tabqa, about 55 kilometres (35 miles) west of Raqa city, on April 30, 2017, as they advance in their battle for the Islamic State group's stronghold. US-backed fighters have captured 80 percent of Syria's Tabqa from the Islamic State group, a monitor said on May 1, a week after they first entered the town. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Plan to Arm Kurds Lays Bare the Strategic Vacuum in Syria
The administration’s plan to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State could further inflame tensions between Washington, Ankara, and Tehran.
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KOBANE, SYRIA - JUNE 20: (TURKEY OUT) A Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG fighters sit near a check point in the outskirts of the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, Syria. June 20, 2015. Kurdish fighters with the YPG took full control of Kobane and strategic city of Tal Abyad, dealing a major blow to the Islamic State group's ability to wage war in Syria. Mopping up operations have started to make the town safe for the return of residents from Turkey, after more than a year of Islamic State militants holding control of the town. (Photo by Ahmet Sik/Getty Images) Trump to Tell Turkey: We’re Going to Take Raqqa With the Kurds
The White House is poised to greenlight an Obama administration plan to seize the last bastion of the Islamic State in Syria.
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Afghan National Army commandos take position during an ongoing battle between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Helmand province on October 10, 2016. At least 14 people, mostly Afghan security forces were killed in southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on October 10, after the Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack involving a car bomb, to breach the city defences, Afghan officials said. / AFP / NOOR MOHAMMAD (Photo credit should read NOOR MOHAMMAD/AFP/Getty Images) The Mother of All Terrorist Groups Isn’t the Islamic State
The Trump administration is taking its eyes off the ball in Afghanistan. The real threat is still al Qaeda.
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mosulrebuild Here’s How We’re Building a Better Mosul
I know it can be hard to look past the destruction wrought by the Islamic State, but together we can build a peaceful, prosperous city.
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US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armoured vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey on April 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images) Turkey Threatens U.S. Forces in Syria, as Putin Presses for Safe Zones
American Special Forces are acting as a buffer between Turkish and Kurdish forces in Syria, as Erdogan prepares to visit Washington
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TOPSHOT - A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State (IS) group in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists, on March 1, 2017, in the village of Albu Sayf, on the southern outskirts of Mosul. Iraqi forces launched a major push on February 19 to recapture the west of Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, retaking the airport and then advancing north. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Terrorists Are Not Snowflakes
The West has started treating would-be terrorists as children in need of protection from radical ideas. That's as dangerous as it is insulting.
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mosul1 ‘The Planes Have Destroyed Us’
America says its airstrikes are helping liberate Iraqis from the Islamic State. Residents of Mosul give a very different account.
