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'strategically confused': 18 years after 9/11, concern the us still

'Daesh [ISIS] doesn't need territory to remain a global and regional threat as it attempts to resurge,' Maj. ... Christopher Ghika, deputy commander for Operation Inherent Resolve, the mission to defeat ISIS, warned in June. . ..

war party hates putin – loves al-qaeda

They range from the egregious – alleged photos of “civilian casualties” that turn out to be fake – to the more subtle: a supposed Free Syrian Army commander is reported killed by a Russian air strike, and yet it appears that very same commander was kidnapped by ISIS last..

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is this the beginning of the end of the islamic state?

Last month, two top ISIS leaders were killed in Syria by U.S. air raids -- Abu Ala al-Afri, the ISIS second in command, and the Georgian-born Abu Omar al-Shishani, ISIS’s top military commander. ... Even ISIS’s massive propaganda operation has been weakened. Twitter..

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the merger of isis and al-qaeda could cripple the civilized world

By the commander of the region the largest refinery in, For example, the decision to advance to Tikrit June was taken Iraq... ... In its response to the killing of al-Beilawi, its Iraqi military commander and the second man in command after Baghdadi, ISIS used its standard..

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