After voting for the Iraq War, Biden tried to drastically reorganize the country along ethnic and sectarian lines and helped lay the groundwork for ISIS to thrive.
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Watfa and Jeelan are finally free of the ISIS woman who kept them captive for the past five years. But she's the only "family" they can remember and they want to go back to her.
Asim Umar, a senior al Qaeda official, has released a statement praising the Taliban's "victory" in Afghanistan over the US. He also criticizes ISIS for dividing the jihadists' ranks, praying that Allah ends the "fitnah."
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said on the senate floor Thursday, before a vote that would bar U.S. arm sales with three Arab states: "The facts are not contested. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain have allowed U.S. arms to be funneled to radical Islamist...
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It is necessary and noble to grieve innocent victims of Salafi-Jihadist terrorism with love.
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Right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial for tweeting photographs of ISIS atrocities in December 2015, weeks after IS jihadis murdered 130 people in Paris.
A judge ruled in the Western Paris suburb of Nanterre...
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The city has a rich heritage of buildings and mosques. Today, the battle scars are as prominent as ever and residents displaced by the conflict complain about the sluggish reconstruction.(Image credit: Julie McCarthy/NPR)
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Robin Wright on American returnees from the Islamic State, including Samantha Elhassani, Mohimanul Alam Bhuiya, and Warren Christopher Clark, and on the stances of President Donald Trump and the Justice Department regarding U.S. members of ISIS.
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Two notorious Islamic State militants imprisoned in Syria have admitted to roles in ransom negotiations for Western hostages but denied torturing or killing anyone.
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While the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has lost control of its statelet in Iraq and Syria, the war against the remnants of the organization is not over, despite President Trump's claim to the contrary.[1] Anti-Assad rebels still control various...
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Archaeological sites capture public attention for mostly positive reasons. However, the 2015 destruction of Palmyra by the Islamic State (ISIS) and its barbaric murder of Khaled al-Asaad, chief archaeologist at the site, saw attention refocused on...
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On Wednesday the alternative media outlet Southfront published an articletitled “New Video Throws Light On Jaysh Al-Izza High-Tolerance To Al-Qaeda Ideology” about newly discovered footage showing...
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One MSNBC host took his foot off the gas when a conservative commentator peddled a right-wing conspiracy theory Sunday. MSNBC host Kendis Gibson is normally quick to fact-check inaccurate statements, but in the final moments of his Sunday show,...
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After months of talking to an undercover officer, a man was arrested for allegedly plotting to attack Times Square. He's accused of praising ISIS and al-Qaida. Vladimir Duthiers reports.
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Even after the defeat of its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State still wreaks havoc.
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The Syrian Kurds recently sent 8 “Americans” including women and children who were captured with ISIS back to the US.
Abdulkarim Omar, a senior official in the Kurdish self-rule administration in northern Syria, made the announcement on...
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When Westerners arrived in the caliphate, they would burn their passports, ceremonially rejecting their national identity, and brag of the act on Twitter. Now that the Islamic State, or ISIS, has lost its last stretches of land in Iraq and Syria,...
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A new report substantiates warnings that the weak enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border could make Americans vulnerable to groups like ISIS plotting terror attacks.
The study from the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism...
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A muslim woman has been sentenced to 42 years in an Australian prison for attempted murder in the name of islam. Known as the “Tiny Terrorist,” Momena Shoma, a migrant from Bangladesh on a student visa, had stabbed...
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Because their fathers were ISIS fighters, the Yazidi community rejects the children and forces their mothers to give them up. Some willingly do so, but others are desperate for news of their children.(Image credit: Jane Arraf/NPR)
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