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Here's What Bowe Bergdahl Was Posting To His Facebook Profile Before He Was...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In Facebook posts written before he vanished from his military base in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl spoke of his frustration with the world and his desire to change the status...
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Iraq Asked The White House For Air Support Against Militants — But They Said No
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked last month for the U.S. to consider carrying out air strikes against Iraq's growing insurgency but the White House turned him down, The New York Times...
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Iran Is Deploying Experienced Fighters To Beat Back Militants In Iraq
At least three battalions of Iranian Revolutionary Guard units are being deployed to Iraq to fight back against militants who have seized key cities and continue to threaten the Maliki government,...
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Hundreds Of Americans Are Being Evacuated From Iraq's Balad Air Base
US companies were Thursday evacuating hundreds of Americans working with the Iraqi government from a major air base, US officials said, as Islamic militants swept towards Baghdad.A US defense official...
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Violence In Iraq May Cause Oil Prices To Skyrocket
The idea of volatility is returning to global energy markets, brought on by an Islamist insurgency that is threatening the political stability of oil-rich Iraq.Oil prices jumped Thursday on news of...
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The US Never Should Have Left Iraq
The United States made a grave mistake by invading Iraq in 2003. Yet it also made a grave mistake by withdrawing its military forces in 2011.The notion that we were wrong to go in but that we were also...
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SENIOR MILITARY OFFICER: What's Happening In Iraq Is 'Exactly What We...
As radical militants continue to seize vast portions of Iraq less than three years after the last American soldiers left the country, some retired U.S. military leaders are pushing the Obama...
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At Least 25,000 Displaced East Ukrainians Take Refuge in 'Little Switzerland'
Called the “Little Switzerland” of the Donetsk region, Svyatogorsk is also known locally as a children’s resort and a place of pilgrimage.But now, with fierce fighting between pro-Russia rebels and the...
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How Iraq's Army Managed To Lose A Third Of The Country In 3 Days
The extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS, has captured a third of Iraq’s territory within a few days.Iraq’s third-biggest city, Mosul, fell within hours of being...
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EXPERT: Here's Where The ISIS Extremists Came From And What They Want In Iraq
After months of violence, unrest and a rising death toll, Iraq is now disintegrating.Within a matter of days, the Sunni militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its allies have...
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Iraq Just Blocked Twitter, Google, YouTube And Facebook To Stop The ISIS From...
Today the Republic of Iraq blocked Twitter, Google, YouTube, Facebook, in response to the hostile ISIS uprising, International Business Times reports. And down goes Google and Youtube. All main social...
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Here's What A Jihadist State Would Look Like — And It's Terrifying
As forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria sweep across Iraq, conquering cities like Mosul and Tikrit, the Obama administration is pledging greater support for the Iraqi government.Yet even if...
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Former Defense Officials Blast Obama As Having A 'Complete Lack Of Strategy'...
With radical militants seizing vast swaths of territory in Iraq less than three years after American soldiers left the country, two former senior defense officials tell Business Insider much of the...
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Google Glass Could Have A Huge Impact On Modern Warfare
Through it’s revolutionary, albeit controversial, wearable computer, Glass, Google is pioneering wearable technology.And as Google Glass searches for its place in the lives and routines of everyday...
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Iraqi Kurds Prepared For ISIS Offensive For A Year And Expanded Their...
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - Poets wrote songs about it for generations. Guerrilla fighters holed up in the mountains trained for it for decades. But in the end, when a Kurdish army finally took control of...
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More Than 50 US Attack Jets Stand Ready To Strike Iraq
The U.S. aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush and her more than 50 attack aircraft were available to conduct airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq if President Obama gives the order, Pentagon...
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This Photo Is The Clearest Sign Of An Imminent Iraqi Civil War
Things look like they are about to get much worse in Iraq.Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — now flush with looted cash and armed with American weapons and tanks — are...
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US Wasted Millions On Boats For Land-Locked Afghanistan
Eight patrol boats costing more than $3 million are gathering dust at a Naval Station in Virginia, according to the watchdogs at the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction...
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The Militant Group Overrunning Iraq Has A Consumer Protection Office
No sooner had it seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounding villages, than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began outlining how it would govern its dawla (state). On Thursday, the Sunni...
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The Crisis In Iraq Could Make US And Iran Allies
With the call to arms today by Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, the crisis in Iraq threatens to become an even broader regional sectarian conflict.But it could also bring about unusual cooperation...
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