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Donald Trump

Trump vows to put ‘America first’ in foreign policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security "above all else" if elected president, warning allies they would be left to defend themselves if they don't "pay their fair share." He also called for

Syria

Islamic State oil revenue cut in half, U.S. says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Air strikes, a drop in the price of oil, and counter-smuggling efforts by neighboring countries have combined to cut Islamic State's oil revenues in half to about $250 million per year, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday. A U.S.-led coalition has

Syria

Islamic State fight ‘far from over,’ Carter says

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — The combat death of an American Navy SEAL in Iraq shows that despite recent gains against the Islamic State in Iraq, "this fight is far from over," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday. Carter spoke at the outset of a closed-door meeting in

Barack Obama

Do our leaders have the political will to fight ISIS?

President Obama is signaling his plans for an extensive effort aimed at getting Merrick Garland confirmed to the Supreme Court. A front-page New York Times article lays out what it describes as "a deliberate White House strategy," consisting of three phases, including "speeches, interviews and other public

ISIS

After Brussels, leaders tackling threat of nuclear terrorism

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city. Preventing terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials is the central focus as President Barack

Syria

Syrian forces recapture ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday, scoring an important victory over Islamic State fighters who waged a 10-month reign of terror there and dealing the group its first major defeat since an international agreement to battle terrorism in the fractured nation took

terrorism

Obama labels climate change a ‘major’ problem, but ISIS ‘not an existential threat’

(CNSNews.com) – "Groups like ISIL can't destroy us, they can't defeat us," President Obama told reporters in Argentina on Wednesday. "They're not an existential threat to us," he said. A few sentences later, he described climate change as a "

Syria

French woman escapes ISIS to tell about its horrors

PARIS, FRANCE – Sophie Kasiki, one of the few Western women to have seen the Islamic State group's harsh "caliphate" in Syria and escaped, recounts her life in the jihadists' stronghold Raqqa with detached calm and inner rage. Born to a Catholic family in Cameroon and