List of Islamic State articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Spy Chiefs Think the World Is Pretty Much Going to Hell
From the Islamic State gaining strength in Libya to Kim Jong Un shopping some of the world’s most dangerous weapons, here are the top takeaways from a grim day with the nation’s top spooks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cruz Says the U.S. ‘Carpet Bombed’ in the Gulf War. It Didn’t.
The general who ran the 1991 Gulf War air campaign says the term ‘carpet bombing’ is outdated and irrelevant to today’s conflicts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan’s Foreign Policy Is in Ruins
Just a few short years ago, Turkey was heralded as one of the region's rising powers. What happened?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘The Rise of the American Taliban’
Pakistan’s elite on the Trump phenomenon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rand Paul, Lone Among GOP Hawks, Drops Out of Presidential Race
2016 was supposed to be the year to run against intervention. Then ISIS happened.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: The Crumbling Iraqi Dam That May Flood The Country
If the Mosul Dam goes, a lake of water will submerge cities from Mosul to Baghdad and kill hundreds of thousands. This map shows the potential devastation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Big 5 and the Sad State of Foreign Policy in 2016
Rubio is a naive neocon. Everybody hates Ted. Hillary is a hawk. Bernie has bigger fish to fry. And who the hell knows how Trump would screw up the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapping the Spread of the ISIS Plague
The Islamic State keeps morphing, and the United States and its allies are struggling to keep up.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Newscast: What Looms on the 2016 Horizon
From China’s economic downturn to the lifting of sanctions on Iran, this week’s panel reviews the scariest, biggest, and most important stories in the year ahead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clinton’s Trying to Use Foreign Policy to Beat Sanders
Here's why it could backfire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With the Elephant Out of the Room, Republicans Turn to Other Targets
In the final debate before the pivotal Iowa caucus, Donald Trump’s rivals tried to make the most of his absence -- and to find ways of slowing Ted Cruz.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Davos Q&A: Cheap Oil ‘Another Straw on the Camel’s Back’ for Struggling Emerging Markets
PwC's chairman on why CEOs fear the Islamic State and how cheap oil will transform the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To Understand Why the Islamic State Just Hit Jakarta, Don’t Look to Paris — Look to Indonesia
Despite the ISIS connection, the Jakarta assault showed evidence of motivations and patterns particular to Indonesia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Failed Command
How will history remember the president's mark on America's wars?