Tag: ISIS

Iraqi fighters have cleared the majority of Ramadi, but have yet to get to an area to the east of the city center where the Euphrates River bends in a "shark fin" shape. (AP Photo)

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‘Too soon to tell’ when Ramadi will be completely clear

Jacqueline Klimas · December 29, 2015 4:53 pm

Although Belgium, and its capital, Brussels, became the center for the investigation into the Islamic State's Nov. 13 rampage on Paris and subsequent manhunt for some of the surviving assailants, Belgian counterterrorism authorities said the two plots were not linked. (AP file photo)

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Belgium arrests two suspected of NYC terror plot

Nicole Duran · December 29, 2015 4:41 pm

Obama deserves blame for Trump’s rise

Washington Examiner · December 29, 2015 5:01 am

Critic says the administration must not entertain the idea of working with Assad. (AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Presidential Press Service, Pool)

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Syrian Americans to Obama: Don’t engage Assad

Nicole Duran · December 28, 2015 10:11 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., commended Iraqi forces for making progress in securing Ramadi, but noted that local forces still face major battles that will likely be more difficult than the ongoing fight to retake Ramadi from the Islamic State. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

McCain calls for more U.S. involvement as Iraqis retake Ramadi

Jacqueline Klimas · December 28, 2015 9:55 pm

The U.S. has been conducting regular airstrikes against oil refineries and transport trucks for the past several months as part of Tidal Wave II, named after a previous Tidal Wave operation that tried to take out the Nazi's access to oil. (AP file photo)

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Report: Price of gas quadruples for Islamic State after airstrikes

Jacqueline Klimas · December 28, 2015 8:19 pm

The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday accused the Obama administration of fighting the Islamic State "in word only." (AP Photo/Osama Sami)

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Russia: U.S. not taking ‘real action’ against Islamic State

Rudy Takala · December 28, 2015 4:25 pm

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Iraqi forces retake Ramadi from Islamic State

Kelly Cohen · December 28, 2015 4:05 pm

"In this month we are working in silence. We have already foiled 1 attack #ISIS against #Italy, we hope to block others," one of the group's Twitter accounts claimed. (Daniel Dal Zennaro/ANSA via AP file)

Anonymous says it stopped terror plot in Italy

Rudy Takala · December 28, 2015 3:40 pm

Anonymous attacks Turkish banks over Christmas

Rudy Takala · December 28, 2015 2:25 pm

Even President Obama can't possibly believe that the Islamic State fighters would end their jihad if only the U.S. would change course and begin "living up to its professed ideals." (AP Photo)

Democrats don’t know the Islamic State

A.J. Caschetta · December 28, 2015 5:02 am

Wendy Sherman left the State Department in October, joining Harvard University's Institute of Politics as a fellow. (AP file photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Former State official tells GOP to man up on terror

Dan Friedman · December 27, 2015 6:55 pm