List of Islamic State articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More American Commandos Push Into Syria Before the Battle for Raqqa
About 500 U.S. forces will operate close to the front lines, as ISIS fights to retain control of the last major city under its influence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Trump Stay or Go in Iraq?
Though the battle for Mosul has slowed to a crawl, the collapse of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate — at least in its Iraqi incarnation — remains only a matter of time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Knock Offshore Balancing Until You’ve Tried It
Whatever you want to call the Obama foreign policy, it has not been a calculated attempt to contain the rise of hegemonic threats.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New MI6 Chief: Terrorism Threat to U.K. ‘Unprecedented’
Why the threat from abroad leaves the new MI6 head shaken and stirred.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Someone Is Smuggling Desperate Civilians Out of Mosul. It Might Be ISIS.
The latest Islamic State moneymaking operation appears to be the trafficking of people from the besieged city to safety.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Latest Wikileaks Dump Sheds New Light on Erdogan’s Power In Turkey
From indirect involvement with ISIS’s oil trade to free press crackdowns, the latest Wikileaks dump isn’t very flattering to Erdogan or his family.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clawing Into Mosul, Block by Block
With the Islamic State dug in on the western bank of the Tigris, the Iraqi Army braces for the bloodiest phase of the fight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: In Final Weeks, Obama Expands Global Terrorism Fight; Iran Looking for Overseas Bases
New Army Chief in Pakistan; Syrian Forces Push in Aleppo; And Lots More
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Raqqa Will Put Trump’s Deal-Making to the Test
The president-elect has promised to use brute force against ISIS. But liberating its capital will involve some very delicate diplomacy.
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fishman_cover The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State
Almost 10 years ago, an al Qaeda emissary was sent to tell Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to tone down his terrorism. The journey, and its failure, gave birth to ISIS.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump’s Team Could Bring 9/11 Mindset Back to the White House
From restoring torture to expanding surveillance, the president-elect’s picks for national security advisor, CIA director, and attorney general favor a no-holds-barred approach to Islamist extremists at home and abroad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shiite Militias Are Crashing the Mosul Offensive
Pro-Iran militias are looking to settle an old grudge in one of the Islamic State's strongholds in northern Iraq.
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trumplister Trump’s Syria Strategy Would Be a Disaster
The president-elect wants to ally with Assad and Russia to fight the Islamic State – but he’s going to end up empowering extremists and causing chaos across the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Coming Humanitarian Crisis in Mosul, by the Numbers
Iraqi forces are on the cusp of liberating Mosul from the Islamic State. And the international community is bracing for impact.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Happens in Turkey Doesn’t Stay in Turkey
Ankara’s growing authoritarianism is not just an internal problem. It’s time for the U.S. to wise up.
