List of Islamic State articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ramadi 2015 vs. Burma 1942: Spin vs. grit
Top Administration officials’ reaction to the fall of the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi last weekend recalls another defeat of a U.S. ‘trained, advised and equipped’ force, the Chinese Nationalist Army sent into Burma in a vain attempt to stem the Japanese advance after Pearl Harbor and the fall of Singapore in early 1942.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The High Cost of Defeating the Islamic State
U.N.: A military defeat of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could scatter extremists around the globe.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 For Generals Fighting the Islamic State, a Sense of Déjà Vu
The military is still facing the same problems in Iraq it has paid billions of dollars to fix over the past decade.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Battle of Jihadi Groups, Pakistani Taliban Prefers al Qaeda Over ISIS
The Pakistani Taliban has published an essay criticizing the Islamic State's aggressive tactics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pitfalls of a Whack-a-Mole Strategy Against ISIS
Why deploying an American-led global army against the Islamic State would be a really bad idea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iraq: No way out
A friend who is a retired Army officer makes this point: “We (the U.S.) have maneuvered ourselves into a position where tactical/operational victory in Iraq (neutralize ISIS) translates into strategic defeat — Iraq firmly under the influence of the Iranians.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State Brings the War to Saudi Arabia
With the deadly suicide bombing of a Saudi mosque, the Islamic State may be debuting a new strategy: lone-wolf attacks inside the kingdom.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive: American Hostage Passed on Chance to Escape
Kayla Mueller chose to stay behind because she didn't want to abandon a fellow foreign aid worker, a decision that may have cost her life.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Islamic State Wants to Use America’s Love of Junk Food Against It
A member of a pro-Islamic State forum has chipped in a rather out-of-the-box idea for jihad: turn Americans consumers off of salty snacks by associating them with beheadings -- a scheme he says will destroy the American economy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who’s Part of the Islamic State? Depends Whom You Ask.
A U.S.-led coalition is grappling over how to fight the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed allies in Libya and beyond without taking its eyes off Iraq and Syria.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to Be an Islamic State Suicide Bomber? Get in Line.
Even in the self-declared caliphate, it’s hard to shake the yoke of nepotism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top U.S. General: Many Iraqis Believe Washington Aiding Islamic State
The general in charge of U.S. special operations forces in Iraq for the past six months says Washington's information campaign in the Middle East is so inadequate that many Iraqi troops believe American forces are secretly supplying the Islamic State — potentially leaving U.S. forces vulnerable to reprisal attacks from their nominal allies in the fight against the militants.
