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Syria

Despite US-led campaign, ISIS rakes in oil earnings

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State rakes in up to $50 million a month from selling crude from oilfields under its control in Iraq and Syria, part of a well-run industry that U.S. diplomacy and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down, according to Iraqi intelligence and U.S.

Iraq

First U.S. combat death occurs in Iraq war against Islamic State

WASHINGTON — The first American killed in combat in Iraq since the war against Islamic State began there in 2014 died during a rescue operation to free captives who faced "imminent mass execution," Pentagon officials said. U.S. and Iraqi special operations forces raided the compound in northern Iraq

Russia

Russians support airstrikes in Syria, despite Afghan legacy

KUBINKA, Russia (AP) — A vast workshop that upgrades warplanes of the kind Russia is using in Syria is this town's lifeblood, and support for the Syria campaign is strong. "We've extended a helping hand and that's how it should be," said 70-year-old

islam

Kidnapped Syrian priest escapes from Islamic State

HOMS, SYRIA (CNA/EWTN News) – A Syrian priest who was captured by Islamic State militants in May thought he would die for his faith. Now, he credits the Virgin Mary and the help of a Muslim friend for his escape. "This is the miracle the Good Lord gave me:

terrorism

Beware of change – it’s not always for the better

Disgusting is an insufficient word to describe the cruel tyranny that exists in the swathes of Iraq and Syria controlled by the Islamic State. A report by a Syrian human rights group released Oct. 7 catalogues more than 10,000 executions by ISIS in those two countries over the past

Syria

US airdrops small arms ammunition to Syrian Arab groups

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. cargo planes dropped small arms ammunition to Arab groups fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria, a U.S. military spokesman said Monday. Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman in Baghdad for the U.S. military command in charge of the anti-IS campaign in Syria and

terrorism

Religious leaders, scholars ask Obama to declare ISIS violence a genocide

Washington D.C. — More than 100 religious leaders, scholars, and human rights advocates signed a letter Monday asking President Obama to formally declare the killing and displacement of Middle Eastern religious minorities a "genocide." "We humbly request that your office publicly acknowledge and denounce the Islamic State&

Russia

Nuclear smugglers sought ISIS, other extremist buyers

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate several city blocks. It was earlier this year, and the two men were plotting their deal at an unlikely spot: