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Middle East Remains On Boil, Pro-Iran Troops Bombed In Iraq: 10 Points
A military base in central Iraq, which was housing army troops and pro-Iranian paramilitaries, was hit with "bombing" overnight amid spiralling tensions between Israel and Iran, reports suggest. The US military has denied any role in the attack.
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Iran Strikes Israeli "Spy Headquarters" In Iraq As Regional Tensions Mount
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on "terrorist" targets in Syria in retaliation for twin suicide bombings in Iran this month for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, state media reported.
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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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US Hits ISIS Targets With Biggest Non-Nuclear Weapon Ever Used In Combat
U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped a 22,000-pound bomb on Islamic State forces in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon announced, using the largest non-nuclear bomb ever employed in combat.
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'Mother Of All Bombs': 10 Things To Know About GBU-43, The Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb
The United States on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb, GBU-43, targeting an ISIS complex in Afghanistan. Also known as the 'Mother Of All Bombs', the bomb was dropped in a 'tunnel complex' of the Achin district of Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan. This is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in the battlefield. T...
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'Mother Of All Bombs': US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb On ISIS Caves In Afghanistan
The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by ISIS, the military said. Also known as the "mother of all bombs," the GBU-43 is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and was first tested in March 2003, just days bef...
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Use Of 'Weaponized' Drones By ISIS Spurs Terrorism Fears
Late last month, a pair of Islamic State fighters in desert camouflage climbed to the top of a river bluff in northern Iraq to demonstrate an important new weapon: a small drone, about six feet wide with swept wings and a small bomb tucked in its fuselage.
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Blowing Up Houses, Digging Up Graves: Iraqis Purge ISIS
The mood was festive as seven men each carried a bomb into a house on the edge of a village in northern Iraq.
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ISIS Tells Supporters to Quit Messaging Apps for Fear of US Bombs
The new instructions came as the group tries to fight off a US-backed offensive on Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq, by far the biggest city it controls.
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US Approves $785 Million Bomb Sale To Ally UAE Against ISIS
The US State Department has approved the sale of $785 million in bombs to the United Arab Emirates for the US-led campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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US Jets Abandoned Syrian Rebels In The Desert. Then They Lost Battle To ISIS
American warplanes were diverted from an offensive launched against the Islamic State last week by U.S.-backed rebels in Syria in order to bomb a more enticing target in Iraq, withdrawing air support at a critical moment and contributing to the failure of the rebel operation, according to U.S. officials familiar with the incident.
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How Vulnerable Is The United States To A Brussels-Like Attack?
The apparently coordinated bombings that killed more than 30 people in Belgium are unlikely to be duplicated in the United States, which is separated by an ocean from Islamic extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq and has seen far fewer of its people traveling there, former intelligence and counterterrorism officials said.
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ISIS Extremists Will Be 'Very Seriously Dented' By End Of 2016: John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the US-led coalition bombing ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq will reach their goal of "seriously denting" the group by the end of 2016.
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Man Held On US Terror Charges Targeted Texas Malls: Report
A Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee was an ISIS sympathizer planning to set off bombs at two Houston malls, a federal investigator was quoted as telling a US court on Wednesday.
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US Aircraft Bombs ISIS Cash Pile In Iraq: US Military
A US aircraft bombed an ISIS cash distribution site in Iraq on Monday, part of efforts by the American-led coalition to disrupt the militant group's financing of its activities, the US military said.
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Middle East Remains On Boil, Pro-Iran Troops Bombed In Iraq: 10 Points
A military base in central Iraq, which was housing army troops and pro-Iranian paramilitaries, was hit with "bombing" overnight amid spiralling tensions between Israel and Iran, reports suggest. The US military has denied any role in the attack.
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Iran Strikes Israeli "Spy Headquarters" In Iraq As Regional Tensions Mount
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on "terrorist" targets in Syria in retaliation for twin suicide bombings in Iran this month for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, state media reported.
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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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US Hits ISIS Targets With Biggest Non-Nuclear Weapon Ever Used In Combat
U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped a 22,000-pound bomb on Islamic State forces in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon announced, using the largest non-nuclear bomb ever employed in combat.
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'Mother Of All Bombs': 10 Things To Know About GBU-43, The Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb
The United States on Thursday dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb, GBU-43, targeting an ISIS complex in Afghanistan. Also known as the 'Mother Of All Bombs', the bomb was dropped in a 'tunnel complex' of the Achin district of Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan. This is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in the battlefield. T...
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'Mother Of All Bombs': US Drops Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb On ISIS Caves In Afghanistan
The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used by ISIS, the military said. Also known as the "mother of all bombs," the GBU-43 is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and was first tested in March 2003, just days bef...
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Use Of 'Weaponized' Drones By ISIS Spurs Terrorism Fears
Late last month, a pair of Islamic State fighters in desert camouflage climbed to the top of a river bluff in northern Iraq to demonstrate an important new weapon: a small drone, about six feet wide with swept wings and a small bomb tucked in its fuselage.
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Blowing Up Houses, Digging Up Graves: Iraqis Purge ISIS
The mood was festive as seven men each carried a bomb into a house on the edge of a village in northern Iraq.
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ISIS Tells Supporters to Quit Messaging Apps for Fear of US Bombs
The new instructions came as the group tries to fight off a US-backed offensive on Mosul, its last major stronghold in Iraq, by far the biggest city it controls.
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US Approves $785 Million Bomb Sale To Ally UAE Against ISIS
The US State Department has approved the sale of $785 million in bombs to the United Arab Emirates for the US-led campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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US Jets Abandoned Syrian Rebels In The Desert. Then They Lost Battle To ISIS
American warplanes were diverted from an offensive launched against the Islamic State last week by U.S.-backed rebels in Syria in order to bomb a more enticing target in Iraq, withdrawing air support at a critical moment and contributing to the failure of the rebel operation, according to U.S. officials familiar with the incident.
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How Vulnerable Is The United States To A Brussels-Like Attack?
The apparently coordinated bombings that killed more than 30 people in Belgium are unlikely to be duplicated in the United States, which is separated by an ocean from Islamic extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq and has seen far fewer of its people traveling there, former intelligence and counterterrorism officials said.
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ISIS Extremists Will Be 'Very Seriously Dented' By End Of 2016: John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the US-led coalition bombing ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq will reach their goal of "seriously denting" the group by the end of 2016.
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Man Held On US Terror Charges Targeted Texas Malls: Report
A Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee was an ISIS sympathizer planning to set off bombs at two Houston malls, a federal investigator was quoted as telling a US court on Wednesday.
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US Aircraft Bombs ISIS Cash Pile In Iraq: US Military
A US aircraft bombed an ISIS cash distribution site in Iraq on Monday, part of efforts by the American-led coalition to disrupt the militant group's financing of its activities, the US military said.
