List of Islamic State articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mr. Erdogan Goes to Tehran
Turkey's president once brought his country closer to Iran. Now, despite hand-holding and smiles, he finds himself facing off against the Islamic Republic in a regional war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Is Bahrain’s Government Afraid of a Tweet?
I am on trial for saying what everyone knows: Bahraini authorities are turning a blind eye to the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Dove Can’t Win a Hawk Fight
Why Rand Paul’s sensible foreign policy stands no chance in the GOP's chest-thumping primary.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Middle East’s Franz Ferdinand Moment
Why the Islamic State's claimed attack in Yemen could spark an Arab World War.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How’s That Whole ‘Don’t Do Stupid Shit’ Thing Working Out?
Checking in with America's drone king.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Hunted
Uzbekistan’s president has jailed, tortured, and murdered his opponents at home. Now, he’s hiring hit men to track down and kill dissidents abroad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Death to the Infidel Chicken! The Islamic State Destroys U.S. Chickens Amid Food Crisis
Syrians are starving, and the Islamic State is bragging about the destruction of U.S. chickens.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. Is Providing Air Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq
Iran’s Shiite militias aren’t a whole lot better than the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Propaganda Watch: U.S. Tells Islamic State Recruits They’re Headed for a Meat Grinder
The leaflet in the style of a graphic novel tells young men joining the Islamic State that they're headed for quick deaths.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Begins Airstrikes in Support of Effort to Liberate Tikrit From Islamic State
The introduction of American air power comes as an Iranian-backed offensive to seize the city has stalled.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Yemen Was Washington’s Counterterrorism Success Story. Not Anymore.
As U.S. special operations forces pull out of an increasingly anarchic Yemen, the fight against al Qaeda just got even harder.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Has the Caliphate Come to Kabul?
Fear of the Islamic State is making for strange bedfellows in the land of warlords and the Taliban.