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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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Bashar al-Assad Will Be Judged As A War Criminal, Says France
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday that "a day will come when international justice will give its verdict on Bashar al-Assad who is massacring his people."
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After Syria Chemical Massacre, US Warns Of 'Own Action' If UN Fails
The United States warned Wednesday that it could take unilateral action if the United Nations failed to respond to a suspected chemical attack in Syria that has left scores dead, including children.
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Pope Francis 'Horrified' By Syria Chemical Weapons Attack
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was horrified by the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, calling it an 'unacceptable massacre' of innocent civilians.
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Vladimir Putin Announces Syria Truce Deal, Peace Talks
Russia President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a nationwide ceasefire deal to come into effect across Syria from midnight and that the warring parties had agreed to sit down for peace talks.
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John Kerry Accuses Bashar al-Assad Government Of 'Massacre' In Aleppo
US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo, where thousands on Thursday were evacuated under a ceasefire deal from the last rebel enclave in a city besieged by fighting for years.
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ISIS's Ambitions, Allure Grow As Territory Shrinks
Massacres attributed to the Islamic State have struck on four continents this year, reflecting how the appeal of the group's ideology is growing even as the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has receded, according to experts.
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Islamic State's Ambitions, Allure Grow As Territory Shrinks
Massacres attributed to the Islamic State have struck on four continents this year, reflecting how the appeal of the group's ideology is growing even as the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has receded, according to experts.
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Suicide Attack Kills 3 At Christian Massacre Memorial In Syria
Three people were killed in northeast Syria today when a suicide bomber attacked an event commemorating the massacre of Christians more than a century ago, state media and a security source said.
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Barack Obama Tells Fearful America ISIS Will Be Defeated
US President Barack Obama vowed Sunday that America would destroy the ISIS and hunt down its followers at home or abroad, in a rare address from the Oval Office to a jittery nation.
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Angela Merkel Warns of Risks of 'Safe Zone' in Northern Syria
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned today that creating a "safe zone" for refugees in northern Syria could put them at risk of being massacred, starkly distancing her country from a Turkish proposal.
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At Least 145 Civilians Killed in Syria's Kobane Islamic State
Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres carried out by the hardline group in Syria.
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Most Seaside Massacre Victims in Tunisia Were British Tourists
Thousands of scared foreign holidaymakers were being flown from Tunisia today after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort.
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Islamic State Jihadists Seize Key Iraqi City, Kill Dozens in Syria
Islamic State extremists made key gains Friday, seizing a government compound in the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi hours after allegedly massacring dozens of civilians as they closed in on Syria's ancient metropolis of Palmyra.
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ISIS Head Killed By US Nicknamed 'Professor', Was "Brutal Policymaker"
The head of Islamic State group, whom the US declared dead in a special-forces raid Thursday, was nicknamed the "Destroyer" and presided over massacres of Yazidis before assuming the leadership.
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ISIS Stole US-Supplied Rockets Weeks After Arrival In Mideast: Report
The Islamic State may stand alone in its brutality in Iraq and Syria, where it orchestrated civilian massacres and suicide bombings and salted people's homes with thousands of improvised explosives. But a new report, three years in the making, describes the group as shrewd manufacturing and logistical planners who moved weapons, munitions and bombm...
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Bashar al-Assad Will Be Judged As A War Criminal, Says France
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Thursday that "a day will come when international justice will give its verdict on Bashar al-Assad who is massacring his people."
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After Syria Chemical Massacre, US Warns Of 'Own Action' If UN Fails
The United States warned Wednesday that it could take unilateral action if the United Nations failed to respond to a suspected chemical attack in Syria that has left scores dead, including children.
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Pope Francis 'Horrified' By Syria Chemical Weapons Attack
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was horrified by the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, calling it an 'unacceptable massacre' of innocent civilians.
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Vladimir Putin Announces Syria Truce Deal, Peace Talks
Russia President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a nationwide ceasefire deal to come into effect across Syria from midnight and that the warring parties had agreed to sit down for peace talks.
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John Kerry Accuses Bashar al-Assad Government Of 'Massacre' In Aleppo
US Secretary of State John Kerry accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo, where thousands on Thursday were evacuated under a ceasefire deal from the last rebel enclave in a city besieged by fighting for years.
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ISIS's Ambitions, Allure Grow As Territory Shrinks
Massacres attributed to the Islamic State have struck on four continents this year, reflecting how the appeal of the group's ideology is growing even as the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has receded, according to experts.
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Islamic State's Ambitions, Allure Grow As Territory Shrinks
Massacres attributed to the Islamic State have struck on four continents this year, reflecting how the appeal of the group's ideology is growing even as the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has receded, according to experts.
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Suicide Attack Kills 3 At Christian Massacre Memorial In Syria
Three people were killed in northeast Syria today when a suicide bomber attacked an event commemorating the massacre of Christians more than a century ago, state media and a security source said.
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Barack Obama Tells Fearful America ISIS Will Be Defeated
US President Barack Obama vowed Sunday that America would destroy the ISIS and hunt down its followers at home or abroad, in a rare address from the Oval Office to a jittery nation.
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Angela Merkel Warns of Risks of 'Safe Zone' in Northern Syria
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned today that creating a "safe zone" for refugees in northern Syria could put them at risk of being massacred, starkly distancing her country from a Turkish proposal.
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At Least 145 Civilians Killed in Syria's Kobane Islamic State
Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres carried out by the hardline group in Syria.
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Most Seaside Massacre Victims in Tunisia Were British Tourists
Thousands of scared foreign holidaymakers were being flown from Tunisia today after an Islamist gunman killed 38 people, most of them British tourists, at a beach resort.
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Islamic State Jihadists Seize Key Iraqi City, Kill Dozens in Syria
Islamic State extremists made key gains Friday, seizing a government compound in the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi hours after allegedly massacring dozens of civilians as they closed in on Syria's ancient metropolis of Palmyra.
