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ISIS Has Seized Iraq's Largest Dam, And What Happens Next Is Critical
ISIS militants captured Iraq's largest dam on Thursday, wresting it away from the Kurdish Peshmerga's control and fueling fears as to what the capture of one of the country's key piece of...
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Hamas Vows To Keep Fighting In Gaza Unless Demands Are Met
CAIRO (Reuters) - The armed wing of Hamas called on Palestinian negotiators in Cairo not to extend a 72-hour truce unless their demands, in particular for the opening of Gaza's port, were met and...
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Overcoming The Pentagon's Culture Is The Biggest Challenge For Elon Musk's...
While SpaceX continues to fight a legal battle to gain access to the military rocket launch market, it remains in doubt whether the company’s commercial business model can coexist with the Pentagon’s...
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'Demoralized' NSA Is Trying To Recruit Silicon Valley Talent
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency is turning to Silicon Valley for topflight talent, but first it has to rebuild trust.Anne Neuberger, special assistant to NSA Director...
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Thanks To ISIS, Two Major Airlines Are Canceling Flights Into Iraqi Kurdistan
Etihad Airways is suspending all flights, effective immediately, to the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, the Abu Dhabi-based airline said Thursday.Etihad made the decision due to the “deteriorating...
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The First Human Being To Go To Space Twice Did It In NASA's Astonishing...
The X-15 was a rocket-powered, missile-shaped manned aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force and NASA as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.Brought to the launch altitude of 45,000...
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The Russian Army's Reliance On Conscripts Gives Putin A Narrow Window For...
My recent post analyzing what might happen if Putin invades eastern Ukraine has generated much discussion and some excellent comments. I’m posting a recent one by Jim A. (who, full disclosure, I know...
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Visit The Holy City Of The Iraqi Religious Minority That ISIS Is Threatening...
The Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS, currently has the Yazidi people at their mercy. As many as 40,000 people, most of which are from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority, are trapped atop Mount...
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Obama's Foreign Policy Justifications Are Coming Apart At The Seams
Tens of thousands of members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority are now stranded on a mountain top, where, up until hours before I filed this column, they appeared to have two choices: They could have returned...
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Azerbaijan's Army Says It Is 'Ready To Fulfill Even The Order Of Destroying'...
A second war is looming on the European periphery as long-running tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have escalated sharply over the past week, with Azerbaijan's military even warning that it...
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China's Far West Is A Chechnya In The Making
The Uighurs have never been particularly comfortable in China. Xinjiang, the region where these Turkic Muslims once formed the vast majority, came unwillingly into the Chinese empire.Rebels in parts of...
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The Gaza War Shows How Traditional American Allies In The Middle East Are...
In his speech last Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a point to highlight “the unique link which has been forged with the states of the region” and Israel out of the latest...
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The Obama Administration Has A Murky Rationale For Air Strikes In Iraq
Watch this euphemism, as it just became the most important in the Obama administration’s vocabulary now that the US has resumed air strikes in Iraq: force protection.The F/A-18 strikes that the US...
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The Iraqi Government Just Provided Ammo To Kurds Who Are Trying To Break Away
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iraqi government provided a planeload of ammunition to Peshmerga fighters from Iraq's semi autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, a U.S. official said, in an unprecedented act...
View ArticleIntense Navy Video Gives A Bird's-Eye-View Of Bombs Hitting ISIS Targets In Iraq
On Friday, the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL), a jihadist group making swift gains in Syria and Iraq. The video below, released by...
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This Video Shows The Terrifying Way The Islamic State Indoctrinates Children
Fighters of the Islamic State control vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and are well-known for their extreme brutality, but a new Vice News documentary sheds light on the terrifying influence they have on...
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US Military Conducts Four More Airstrikes In Iraq
The U.S. military used a mix of jet fighters and unmanned drones to conduct four more airstrikes in defense of Iraqi civilians being threatened by Sunni militants, U.S. Central Command said in a...
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These Amazing Colorized Photographs Bring World War I To Life
In honor of World War I's centennial this year, The Open University has "colorized" a sample of select photos from the conflict with the help of a photograph restoration expert. The photos, which were...
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Huge Terrorism Financing Case Finally Goes To Trial Monday
A long-awaited trial starts Monday, in which U.S. victims of Hamas and their families are suing a massive Middle Eastern bank for allegedly funneling money to family members of terrorist suicide...
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Here's How Navy F-4 Phantoms Intercepted Soviet Bombers Near US Aircraft...
U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom jets were frequently launched by American flattops to intercept and shadow USSR strategic bombers that skirted aircraft carriers at low level to probe their reaction times.The...
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