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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 "

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Brussels terror attacks: A continent-wide crisis that threatens core European ideals

The attacks of March 22 in Brussels were shocking, but not surprising. They reinforced what many have known for years: Belgium has a serious problem with terrorism.

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Clinton says she, not Trump, can stop ISIS

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is doing what Republican rivals now say they took far too long to do: Taking Donald Trump seriously. In interviews and foreign policy addresses this week, the Democratic front-runner has worked to undercut Trump's credentials in the wake of deadly bombings in Brussels.

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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

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Fear of bloody attacks becomes part of life in Europe

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels. In just over a year three European capitals have been ravaged by bombs and gunfire. After each attack life slowly returns to normal. But it's a new normal for Europe, where terror alerts are always on high and where people in cities so

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House terrorism chair: Strategy against ISIS a complete failure

(CNSNews.com) – In the wake of Tuesday's deadly terrorist attack in Brussels, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade called the Obama administration's strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) "a complete failure." "Days after Belgian

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Kerry determines ISIS committing genocide in Iraq, Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. officials, as he acted to meet a congressional deadline. But Kerry's finding, set to be announced Thursday, will

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Kerry still waffling on ISIS genocide as deadline passes

(CNSNews.com) – The administration "certainly respect[s]" deadlines laid down by Congress in legislation, but Secretary of State John Kerry needs more time to make a determination on whether atrocities by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other religious minorities amount to