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Faith

Genocide resolution coming to a vote

(CNSNews.com) – The House of Representatives on Monday evening is expected to vote on, and pass, a bipartisan resolution declaring that atrocities carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other religious minorities amount to genocide. The scheduled vote comes just three days

ISIS

KoC: U.S. must conclude there’s genocide against Mideast Christians

(CNSNews.com) – The Knights of Columbus, along with In Defense of Christians, released a comprehensive report Thursday documenting eyewitness accounts of Christians who have been killed, kidnapped, raped, or sold into slavery at the hands of ISIS. The report was presented to the State Department Wednesday.

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Iraqi officials: US captured top ISIS chemical arms engineer

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. special forces captured the head of the Islamic State group's unit trying to develop chemical weapons in a raid last month in northern Iraq, two senior Iraqi intelligence officials told The Associated Press, the first known major success of Washington's more aggressive

Barack Obama

WH: Captured ISIS leaders being handled case by case

(CNSNews.com) – At President Obama's direction, the U.S. military is sending expeditionary teams to capture and interrogate Islamic State leaders in Iraq and Syria, but instead of sending them to Guantanamo Bay, these enemies of the United States are being handled on a case by case basis.

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ISIS briefly takes center of Libyan city, beheads 12

CAIRO (AP) — Islamic State affiliates in Libya briefly took over the security headquarters in the western city of Sabratha, killing and beheading 12 security officers before being driven out early Wednesday morning, two city security officials said. The incident highlighted the enduring presence and unpredictable striking power of the local

congress

Plutonium reactor restarted in N. Korea, U.S. spymaster says

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has expanded a uranium enrichment plant and restarted a plutonium reactor that could begin recovering material for nuclear weapons in weeks or months, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday in delivering an annual threat assessment by intelligence agencies, which lists the top dangers facing the

terrorism

Terrorist’s widow indicted in connection with rape, death of American hostage

(CNSNews.com) – An Iraqi woman in whose home Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi allegedly raped an American aid worker has been indicted in the U.S. for her role in the conspiracy that led to the death of the hostage. Nisreen Assad Ibrahim

Russia

Germany, Turkey vow renewed effort to end Aleppo seige

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — As tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing violence massed at Turkey's border, Turkish and German leaders pledged Monday to redouble diplomatic efforts to end the fighting around the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo and prevent more refugees making their way into Europe. German Chancellor Angela