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US government adds Gaza-based jihadist ‘umbrella’ group to terrorist designation lists
The US government today added the Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) to the foreign terrorist organization list and labeled the group a specially designated global terrorist entity.
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Iraq
Islamic State recruits at record pace in Syria: monitor
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Islamic State
Morocco ramps up counter-terror fight
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US airpower supports Peshmerga, Iraqi forces to retake Mosul Dam
President Obama expanded the US military mission in Iraq to include protecting “critical infrastructure” and supporting Iraqi Army and Peshmerga offensive military operations in northern Iraq.
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Iraq
Exclusive: Kurdish fighters protect Yazidis fleeing IS terror campaign
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US adds Islamic State, Al Nusrah Front leaders to list of global terrorists
Abu Muhammed al Adnani is the Islamic State’s controversial spokesman. Said Arif is a seasoned jihadist who has traveled to several battlefields and is now with the Al Nusrah Front in Syria.
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France
UK prime minister: Our generational struggle against a poisonous ideology
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Al Qaeda
Did Ankara miss its chance to head off the Islamic State?
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Iraq
Officials: US airstrikes pound ISIS near Iraqi dam
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Iraq
Plight of Iraqi Minorities Worsens With Forced Conversions and Killings
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US airstrikes at Mosul Dam likely offensive in nature
Islamic State fighters at the Mosul Dam are neither directly threatening US personnel in Irbil, nor are they impeding the humanitarian mission on Mount Sinjar.
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Australia
Living in Australia, longing for jihad
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Iraq
Britain to Keep Up Iraq Surveillance Flights
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Iraq
Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS
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Iraq
Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists
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Iraq
ISIS leader flees to Syria fearing US airstrikes: Kurdish official
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Christians
‘Barbaric’ sexual violence perpetrated by Islamic State militants in Iraq – UN
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Al Nusrah Front
UN Approves Measure to Combat al Qaeda Fighters
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Iraq
Iraq crisis: Philip Hammond says UK would consider arming Kurds
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Iraq
British ‘jihadist’ describes his plan to go to Iraq or Syria to fight
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Islamic State
Islamic State takes Akhtarin
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Iraq
Did the Pentagon misjudge the danger on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar?
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Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Lebanon – Three hotspots could erupt into violence
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Iraqi military claims to retake control of 4 cities north of Baghdad
Dhuluiyah, Ishaqi, Mutassim, and Balad weren’t considered to be controlled by the Islamic State before the military claimed to have liberated the cities.
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Iraq
Maliki finally steps aside as Iraq Sunni leader sees US help
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Iraq
Despite US Claims, Yazidis Say Crisis Is Not Over
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Islamic State
Syrian army takes town near Damascus in blow to rebels
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Al Qaeda
Obama administration shows little urgency for stemming Islamic State violence
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The Muslim Scholars Committee and the Lebanese tinderbox
A group of Lebanese clerics with links to Islamist groups mediated a ceasefire between the Lebanese military and fighters from the Islamic Front and the Al Nusrah Front in Arsal, which let as many as 2,000 Islamist fighters escape with over captive 35 Lebanese security forces.
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Iraq
After US troops’ assessment mission, rescue on Sinjar ‘far less likely’
