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How serious is the ISIL threat in Libya? - 1 views

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    The recent US air strike on a building in the western Libyan city of Sabrata, which killed more than 40 suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, highlights the growing expansion and danger of the group in Libya. Both ISIL and Gaddafi loyalists share the belief that the new political leaders in Libya are "agents of the West" brought to power by NATO. Sirte has become the first stronghold that ISIL totally controls outside of Iraq and Syria, and it is reportedly home to the group's strongest presence within Libya. For the Western powers to combat this, means many military airstrikes as well as working with Libyan forces to provide intelligence of the whereabouts of the ISIL powers
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The Guardian view on Libya: yet another messy frontier in the war on Isis | Editorial - 0 views

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    Five years after the start of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is fast becoming the new frontier of the western war against Islamic State. The US and its allies have grown increasingly worried about the expansion of Isis in Libya, where the insurgency has an estimated force of 6,500 fighters. With this threat in place America is set to have a new bombing campaign in Libya in order to cease the threat of the Islamic state in Libya.
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Syria: Assad casts doubt on ceasefire prospects - CNN.com - 2 views

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    President Assad believes that there is no cease fire in sight for the civil war raging in Syria.He told a group in Damascus on Monday that "no one" was capable of bringing about the necessary circumstances for a planned truce to take effect later this week. But in his comments on the proposal, Assad seemed skeptical about whether a halt in the conflict was possible.
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What ISIS Really Wants - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. With this new threat in the middle east there must be something or someone to combat it.
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ISIS is broke, and only accepting payments in US dollars | New York Post - 1 views

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    Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person. After America blew up Isis's money hideout, they have hit a skid with the money not coming in and the war still raging on.
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Israel's Arab Alliance: A Counter to ISIS and Iran? - 3 views

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    With the Middle East ablaze, new opportunities have emerged for regional cooperation. In fact, partnerships have formed in the most unlikely of places, as Israel and some of its Arab neighbors have joined together to combat regional enemies, such as ISIS and Iran.
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ISIS Says It's Behind Car Bombing in Damascus - 2 views

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    A car bomb tore up a vegetable market and a police officers' club in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Tuesday, according to a witness and to regional news reports, striking an area that had been quiet for about two years under a local agreement between the Syrian government and insurgents. Isis has gone on to claim that they were behind the bombins that took place
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Syrian army gains in north and south; two rebel-held towns agree to cease-fire - 0 views

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    As the Syrian army pushes toward the Turkish border in the north, the government is also achieving major gains in strategic southern Syria near the Jordanian frontier. Aided by Russian airstrikes. Syrian officials have vowed to close off the Turkish and Jordanian borders, long crucial conduits
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The Battle between ISIS and Syria's Rebel Militias | Clarion Project - 1 views

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    A major confrontation has broken out between the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Syria's other rebel militias. It is being led by two newly organized coalitions, called Jaysh al Mujahidiin and the Front of Syrian Revolutionaries.These groups look to put a hault to the vastly growing terrorist group that has spread heavily into these countries.
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Al Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Declares War on ISIS 'Caliph' Al-Baghdadi - 0 views

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    In a recent audio message put out by Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri, he blasts the Isis Islamic group, saying that they have no control over all muslims. Also Al-Zawahiri goes on to say that Al Qaeda is in all out war with the new terrorist group that has no customs or beliefs other than death of others who oppose them.
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U.S. Broadens Fight Against ISIS With Attacks in Afghanistan - 0 views

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    The United States has carried out at least a dozen operations - including commando raids and airstrikes - in the past three weeks against militants in Afghanistan aligned with the Islamic State, expanding the Obama administration's military campaign against the terrorist group beyond Iraq and Syria.
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ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group - 0 views

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    The United States has long been fighting the terrorist group known as Al Qaeda, which has given them the blue print on how to deal with terrorism abroad. Isis is not a terrorist organization which is why the United States along with other countries is having a very hard time dealing with the group of people who terrorize the middle east.
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Oman economy - 0 views

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    Oman is a stable country with a fluid economy. What makes this country prosperous with everything going on around them?
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Isis fortifies Raqqa as it braces for an international assault - 0 views

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    The Isis militant group is reportedly fortifying its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa ahead of an expected backlash from the international community in the wake of the Paris attacks. France has redoubled its air strikes on Raqqa following the atrocity in the French capital and, with Britain preparing to set out a "comprehensive plan" to combat Isis this week, efforts to strike the group at its heart are growing.
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Jasmine Revolution | Tunisian history | Britannica.com - 0 views

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    Jasmine Revolution, popular uprising in Tunisia that protested against corruption, poverty, and political repression and forced Pres. Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to step down in January 2011. The success of the uprising, which came to be known in the media as the "Jasmine Revolution," inspired a wave of similar protests throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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Libya's struggle in the Middle East - 0 views

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    With Libya considered a failed democratic state, what is next for the Isis occupied country?
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