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Melania and Ivanka Trump, Following Tradition Of Western Visitors, Forgo Headscarves In Saudi Arabia
The last time a U.S. first lady visited this Middle Eastern kingdom, she was criticized for appearing in public without a headscarf. Michelle Obama was blasted on Saudi social media - as well as by a prominent American tweeter named Donald Trump - for not covering her head during her 2015 visit, as women are expected to do in this conservative Isla...
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In Name At Least, ISIL Is Defeated
At least, that's the case in the hallways of the Pentagon, where military officials have done an about-face and started calling the Islamic State group ISIS, not ISIL.
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Obama's White House Worked For Months On A Plan To Seize Raqqa. Trump's Team Deemed It Hopelessly Inadequate.
Planning for the final assault on Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State's caliphate, had been grinding on for more than seven months. There had been dozens of meetings of President Barack Obama's top national security team, scores of draft battle plans and hundreds of hours of anguished, late-night debates.
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In First, US Gives Anti-ISIS Syria Force Armoured Vehicles
The United States has provided Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State group with armoured vehicles for the first time, a US official and a spokesman for the anti-jihadist force said Tuesday.
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U.S. Stealth Bombers Strike Islamic State Fighters In Libya
Two Air Force B-2 stealth bombers struck Islamic State camps southwest of the Libyan city of Sirte on Wednesday night, less than a month after the Pentagon declared an end to an extended air campaign there.
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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For The First Time Since 2013, ISIS Has No Border With NATO
Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on Sunday pushed the Islamic State out of the remaining stretch of territory the group had controlled along the Turkish-Syrian border, severing the militants' last access to the outside world.
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Trump Proposes Ideological Test For Muslim Immigrants And Visitors To The U.S.
Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against "radical Islamic terror," repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls - including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrants - and blaming the current level of worldwide terrorist attacks on President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump Calls Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton 'Co-Founders' Of ISIS
Republican Donald Trump called US President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the "co-founders" of Islamic State, ratcheting up his assertion that they are responsible for the rise of the militant group and sparking renewed criticism of his leadership ability.
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Barack Obama Prepares To Boost US Military's Cyber Role: Sources
The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon's Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter attacks, punish intruders into U.S. networks and tackle adversaries such as Islamic State, current and former officials told Reuters.
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Barack Obama Calls On European Leaders To Stand Firm
President Barack Obama on Friday called European leaders to firm against Russia, Islamic State terrorism and other challenges facing NATO - even as a Britain is poised to retrench from Europe.
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Trump Says His Insinuation About Obama And Terror Was Right
Just two days after Donald Trump implied that President Barack Obama sympathized with terrorists, provoking a backlash that included members of his own party, the presumed Republican presidential nominee declared himself "right," based on a published report claiming administration "support" for the Islamic State.
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US President Barack Obama Meets National Security Team On ISIS
President Barack Obama met Tuesday with his National Security Council to get an update on the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group.
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Dubai Lawyer Offers Job To Barack Obama To Understand Islam Better
An Emirati lawyer has offered Barack Obama a job in his Dubai firm to better acquaint the outgoing US president with Islam amid constant profiling by Western media of Muslims and their religion as related to terror, a media report said today.
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Opinion: London's Obama Moment: A Muslim Mayor
After an ill-tempered campaign, with allegations of Islamic extremism flung around like political confetti, Londoners have elected Sadiq Khan, a 45-year-old lawyer, as their new Mayor. He was the Labour party's candidate in a city which tends to lean to the left. And he won comfortably.
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Melania and Ivanka Trump, Following Tradition Of Western Visitors, Forgo Headscarves In Saudi Arabia
The last time a U.S. first lady visited this Middle Eastern kingdom, she was criticized for appearing in public without a headscarf. Michelle Obama was blasted on Saudi social media - as well as by a prominent American tweeter named Donald Trump - for not covering her head during her 2015 visit, as women are expected to do in this conservative Isla...
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In Name At Least, ISIL Is Defeated
At least, that's the case in the hallways of the Pentagon, where military officials have done an about-face and started calling the Islamic State group ISIS, not ISIL.
-
Obama's White House Worked For Months On A Plan To Seize Raqqa. Trump's Team Deemed It Hopelessly Inadequate.
Planning for the final assault on Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State's caliphate, had been grinding on for more than seven months. There had been dozens of meetings of President Barack Obama's top national security team, scores of draft battle plans and hundreds of hours of anguished, late-night debates.
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In First, US Gives Anti-ISIS Syria Force Armoured Vehicles
The United States has provided Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State group with armoured vehicles for the first time, a US official and a spokesman for the anti-jihadist force said Tuesday.
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U.S. Stealth Bombers Strike Islamic State Fighters In Libya
Two Air Force B-2 stealth bombers struck Islamic State camps southwest of the Libyan city of Sirte on Wednesday night, less than a month after the Pentagon declared an end to an extended air campaign there.
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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For The First Time Since 2013, ISIS Has No Border With NATO
Turkish troops and Syrian rebels on Sunday pushed the Islamic State out of the remaining stretch of territory the group had controlled along the Turkish-Syrian border, severing the militants' last access to the outside world.
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Trump Proposes Ideological Test For Muslim Immigrants And Visitors To The U.S.
Donald Trump called Monday for a Cold War-style mobilization against "radical Islamic terror," repeating and repackaging calls for strict immigration controls - including a new ideological litmus test for Muslim visitors and migrants - and blaming the current level of worldwide terrorist attacks on President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump Calls Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton 'Co-Founders' Of ISIS
Republican Donald Trump called US President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the "co-founders" of Islamic State, ratcheting up his assertion that they are responsible for the rise of the militant group and sparking renewed criticism of his leadership ability.
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Barack Obama Prepares To Boost US Military's Cyber Role: Sources
The Obama administration is preparing to elevate the stature of the Pentagon's Cyber Command, signaling more emphasis on developing cyber weapons to deter attacks, punish intruders into U.S. networks and tackle adversaries such as Islamic State, current and former officials told Reuters.
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Barack Obama Calls On European Leaders To Stand Firm
President Barack Obama on Friday called European leaders to firm against Russia, Islamic State terrorism and other challenges facing NATO - even as a Britain is poised to retrench from Europe.
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Trump Says His Insinuation About Obama And Terror Was Right
Just two days after Donald Trump implied that President Barack Obama sympathized with terrorists, provoking a backlash that included members of his own party, the presumed Republican presidential nominee declared himself "right," based on a published report claiming administration "support" for the Islamic State.
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US President Barack Obama Meets National Security Team On ISIS
President Barack Obama met Tuesday with his National Security Council to get an update on the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group.
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Dubai Lawyer Offers Job To Barack Obama To Understand Islam Better
An Emirati lawyer has offered Barack Obama a job in his Dubai firm to better acquaint the outgoing US president with Islam amid constant profiling by Western media of Muslims and their religion as related to terror, a media report said today.
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Opinion: London's Obama Moment: A Muslim Mayor
After an ill-tempered campaign, with allegations of Islamic extremism flung around like political confetti, Londoners have elected Sadiq Khan, a 45-year-old lawyer, as their new Mayor. He was the Labour party's candidate in a city which tends to lean to the left. And he won comfortably.
