Articles filed under Terrorism
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Pentagon: Iraq operations cost at $560 millionAug 29, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - U.S. military operations in Iraq, including airstrikes and surveillance flights, have cost about $560 million since mid-June, the Pentagon said Friday. Rear...
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Stopping ISIS will mean widening military commitmentAug 22, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - The United States has avoided military involvement in Syria's three-year-civil war thus far. Faced with an Islamist extremist group making gains across the ...
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Women stoned to death in Syria after adultery chargesAug 09, 2014 1:01 am - BEIRUT - A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad he...
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Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture troopsAug 02, 2014 1:01 am - BEIRUT - Rebels fighting in Syria's civil war crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town Saturday, killing and capturing security force members in the most serious in...
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Forensic experts gather material to ID victimsJul 19, 2014 1:01 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material including DNA samples that will help positively identify the re...
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Yemen troops foil attack on hospital, 6 killedJun 28, 2014 1:01 am - SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni troops foiled a militant attack on a military-affiliated hospital Saturday in the country's south, setting off clashes that killed four militants a...
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Syrian rebels buckling in face of jihadisJun 27, 2014 1:01 am - BEIRUT - The Syrian rebels that the U.S. now wants to support are in poor shape, on the retreat from the radical al-Qaida breakaway group that has swept over large parts...
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Back to Iraq: Obama sending military advisersJun 19, 2014 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — Inching back into a fight he tried to leave behind, President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was dispatching 300 U.S. military advisers to Iraq to help...
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Ships move into Gulf as U.S. lays out goals for IraqJun 14, 2014 1:00 am - WASHINGTON— A U.S. aircraft carrier was ordered to move into the Persian Gulf on Saturday as the United State laid out specific ways for Iraq to show it is forging the n...
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Islamic gunmen push into Iraq's Sunni heartlandJun 12, 2014 1:01 am - BAGHDAD - Al-Qaida-inspired militants pushed deeper into Iraq's Sunni heartland Wednesday, swiftly conquering Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit as soldiers and securit...