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ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The U.S.-led coalition launched one of the largest airstrikes yet on an Islamic State car bomb factory Thursday night, hitting a sprawling compound south of Mosul with aircraft dropping dozens of bombs. The airstrike was the culmination of months of intelligence gathering and is part of a broad effort to weaken […]
A dramatic 10-second video released this week by aid worker Kayla Mueller’s family showed the woman pleading for help shortly after Islamic State fighters kidnapped her in Syria in 2013. The brief clip served as her proof-of-life video. U.S. officials confirmed last year she was killed. The cause of her death remains murky, though ISIS claimed […]
There’s a hotel in Jordan and the room service attendant memorized my order. When I returned after a four-month break, it was still memorized. Jordan has a small town feel. It’s a small country. Jordanians refreshingly have a strong national identity.
“Jihad is not only in Islamic State, it is everywhere,” one message said.
A day after Turkish tanks crossed the border into northern Syria, most of a U.S.-backed largely Kurdish army has moved east of the Euphrates River on Thursday, according to a U.S. military spokesman. Turkey and Vice President Joe Biden had called on the Kurds to leave Arab lands in Syria and return east of the […]
Military robots are nothing new—whether in reality or pop culture nightmare scenarios. But the Bagdhad Post reports that a new bot could be the first to fire its weapon on Iraqi soil. It’s called alrobot—Arabic for “robot”—and it’s a deadly machine. According to Defense One, Alrobot is equipped with an automatic turret, a rocket launcher, four separate cameras, and a […]
Why does Turkey want Assad gone? The alternative to the Assad regime would be a new Sunni government. Syria is majority Sunni. Syria could serve as an extension of the Turkish government. The Middle East is on the verge of being born anew. Borders once observed will not be much longer. Turkey is in concert with the Gulf states in their desire to bring about regime change.
The operation was targeting both Daesh and the Kurdish YPG militia, whose gains in northern Syria have alarmed Turkey.
Children and women are appealing to use as suicide bombers because usually they can be easier to manipulate and they are able to get closer to the targets than men as they draw less suspicion.
Fazeli received food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families for four or more years before his 2013 departure when he joined fellow Daesh members in Turkey.
Lebanese military aid from the U.S. is approximately $80 million. We train, advise, and assist the Lebanese to maintain security within their country. If the conflict in Syria were to spill over it would complicate the Lebanese theatre command.
Prosecutors want a federal judge next month to impose the maximum 30-year prison sentence on a former Illinois National Guard soldier who plotted to attack a military armory in his home state, saying in a new filing that “betraying one’s country while in its service is a particularly grave crime.” Hasan Edmonds, 23, of Aurora, deserves the […]
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