List of Islamic State articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Carter: There Aren’t Enough Good Iraqi Recruits to Train to Fight the Islamic State
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter admitted U.S. efforts to train Iraqi troops are falling far too short.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Prelude to a Quagmire
The addition of 450 new U.S. military trainers to Iraq is the next step down a slippery slope.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s time for an American course correction in Iraq, and here’s how to do it
The Pentagon is outlining plans to send 400 to 1,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq to train new Iraqi Army recruits and Sunni tribal fighters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Kurdish Forces Seize Key Border Town From the Islamic State
As Arabs flee northern Syria, claiming ethnic cleansing by Kurds, reports from the Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa say the caliphate is bracing for a siege.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Jeb Bush and His Family’s Foreign Policy Officially Enter the 2016 Presidential Race
Jeb Bush insists he's his own man. But as he enters the 2016 presidential race, his family's shadows loom large.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Putin to Central Asia: Let Daddy Save You From the Islamic State
Russia is exploiting fears of the Islamic State to grow its military influence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Islamic State Marks One-Year Anniversary of Mosul’s Fall With Grisly, Bureaucratic Video
The video is the latest attempt by the group to legitimize itself as a state.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 American Teenage Terrorist-Wannabe Pleads Guilty to Aiding the Islamic State
An American teenager has been charged with aiding the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Worst of All Horrors
Psychologists in Iraq, a country long afflicted by violence, say they’ve never seen more terrible trauma than that caused by the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Should We Do if the Islamic State Wins?
Live with it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Human Tinderbox in the Middle East
A growing roster of global crises is putting strains on the ability of humanitarian organizations to provide aid. And the United States needs to step up and lead.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Airstrikes Killing Thousands of Islamic State Fighters, but It Just Recruits More
Foreign fighters are flocking to Iraq and Syria, as the militant group also recruits from areas under its control.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tough Talk on Islamic State, but Cold Shoulder for Iraq?
Iraq's highest-elected Sunni official wants the United States to provide weapons directly to Sunni tribesmen fighting the Islamic State.
