Estonian President: One Of Our Counterintelligence Officers Was Abducted And...
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves tweeted this morning that an Estonian counterintelligence officer was abducted at gunpoint and taken across the border into Russia. Breaking. Estonian...
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A Syrian Christian Businessman May Be Serving As The Assad Regime's Liaison...
For a long time, the conventional narrative about the rise of the Islamic State (IS) has been that the jihadist group owes its rise to financial support from Gulf donors.However, as it has been...
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Small Plane Crashes In Jamaica After NORAD Sends Military Jets To Investigate
A small aircraft crashed near Jamaica Friday afternoon, The Associated Press reported. The plane crashed just more than three hours after NORAD, the joint American and Canadian air command center, said...
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A Predator Drone Has Reportedly Been Spotted Circling Above ISIS's Capital City
The United States appears to now be flying unarmed surveillance drones over the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. The pictures thus far suggest that the drone being used is the MQ-1 Reaper.The two photos...
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IRAN OFFICIAL: Plane Full Of Americans Landed To Pay Bills And Do Paperwork
Iran ordered a commercial aircraft chartered by the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan to land in the Islamic Republic so it could pay expenses and complete paperwork, an official there said...
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Lessons For Counter-Terrorism From Football Hooligans
Even before the Islamic State released a second gruesome video showing the murder of an American journalist, apparently voiced by a British jihadist and warning that the next victim would be British,...
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The Brutality Of ISIS Has Transformed US Foreign Policy
The beheading of two journalists has transformed public debate over U.S. foreign policy.Over the past two weeks, the American foreign-policy debate has dramatically changed. The key to understanding...
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Here's How The US Could Defeat ISIS And Assad
Syria is a hard one.The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there are almost perfectly balanced by those in favor of...
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How To Talk Like A Spy
People and regions all around the world have unique phrases and slang that only they would understand, and the intelligence community of spies, analysts, and cryptography specialists is no...
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Top Russian Diplomat Urges Negotiations On Eastern Ukraine's Status Amid...
Russia said on Tuesday it hoped that talks on the status of eastern Ukraine would start shortly between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels."We are hoping that the talks will start quickly," Russian foreign...
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Obama Administration Searches For 'Clarity' While Building Anti-ISIS Coalition
The first President Bush had one, so did President Bill Clinton, and the second President Bush had two. Now, President Barack Obama wants to build a coalition of nations to join the U.S. to combat the...
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Expert: More Than 12,000 Foreign Fighters From 74 Countries Went To Syria
More than 12,000 foreigners from 74 countries have gone to fight with rebels in Syria, 60 to 70 percent from other Middle Eastern countries and about 20 to 25 percent from Western nations, a leading...
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ISIS Has Committed A Grave Strategic Error — Here’s How The US Should Exploit It
The warning is delivered with an ominous tone: “You are no longer fighting an insurgency. We are an Islamic army, and a state…”With these words, the dark-hooded messenger in the James Foley execution...
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11 Unbelievable Weapons That Only America And Its Closest Allies Have
U.S. policymakers are girding the American public for a long fight against ISIS, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying that the jihadists could take several years to defeat.ISIS has one of the most...
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Here Are The Key Factors Shaping Obama's Big Speech About ISIS
There are several critical aspects of the U.S. strategy in Iraq that the President may not be able to address in full. They will, however, be critical to what the United States can and cannot do in the...
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This Public University Has A Plan To Compete With For-Profit Colleges That...
In an effort to compete with for-profit universities to enroll veterans, the University of North Carolina (UNC) education system is partnering with a new educational startup called Ranku.The UNC system...
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Here's How Vladimir Putin Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare
At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare...
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There's No End In Sight For America's Middle East War Duties
Thirteen years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, this was supposed to be a season of relief, with Iraq managing on its own and most U.S. troops finally ending their combat duty in Afghanistan.Instead,...
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Here's What Middle East Countries Can Offer To An Anti-ISIS Coalition
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to travel to the Middle East this week, with stops in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to try to line up support for a coalition to take on the extremist Islamic State...
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ISIS Has Sealed Its Own Fate
At last the essential building blocks of a coalition against the ultra-violent criminal conspiracy that used to call itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and now calls itself simply the...
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