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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration may broaden social media reviews for visa applicants to close security gaps in the screening system, the White House said Monday. Reviews of procedures used by the Homeland Security and State departments have been ordered and recommendations requested for changes in the process for screening people
Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday said the U.S.-led coalition is making progress against Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria, as he delivered an update on the campaign aimed at reassuring Americans worried about the spread of extremism-fuel terrorism. "We are hitting ISIL harder
new hampshire
WEARE, N.H. – For Chris Christie, Nov. 13 marked a turning point – one that was reinforced Dec. 2 – to focus his presidential campaign on terrorism and fighting the Islamic State. "Three week ago, everything changed," said the New Jersey governor and contender for the Republican presidential nomination, speaking
Faith
ROME (RNS) — A Syrian priest held hostage for months by the ISIS terrorist group is certain his life was saved due to his interfaith work, despite being threatened with beheading by jihadists if he did not renounce Christianity. The Rev. Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Catholic priest, was taken hostage in
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CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard University poll shows that most American millennials believe the U.S. should intensify the fight against Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East with more ground troops – but few said they would willingly join the service to help. While 60 percent of those surveyed said they would
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GENEVA (AP) — Working on a tip from the CIA, Geneva police were hunting for at least four suspects allegedly linked to the radical Islamic State group and believed to be plotting a "specific" attack in the city, Swiss officials said Thursday. As city police raised their security alert
Immigration
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man charged with conspiring to help the Islamic State group was ordered held Thursday pending a detention hearing next week. Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan, made his initial appearance in federal court on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist
Faith
While Christians in Iraq and Syria face the threat of extinction at the hands of the Islamic State terror group, the U.S. State Department remains silent on the prospect of publicly designating the atrocities against Christians and other Mideast religious minorities as "genocide." According to a recent
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