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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
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Friday it was moving to increase the number of American forces in Iraq and announced that U.S. forces have killed the Islamic State's finance minister. "We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, using an
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium's prime minister refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers Thursday despite increasing evidence of intelligence and law enforcement failures to prevent this week's attacks by Islamic militants. "We don't have to be proud about what happened,
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BOSTON – Seth Moulton, the first-term congressman from the North Shore, dropped a bombshell Wednesday, comparing Donald Trump's rise to Adolf Hitler's early days as a politician during the Weimar Republic era in Germany. "When you're in politics, one of those sort-of like cardinal
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PARIS (AP) — The Islamic State terrorist group has trained at least 400 operatives to target Europe in deadly attacks, deploying interlocking cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time, place and method for maximum carnage, the Associated Press has learned. The network of
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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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MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its forces from Syria, timing his move to coincide with the launch of Syria peace talks Monday — an end game that allows the Russian leader to cash in on his gains and reduce his risks in the
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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Palestinian-American member of the Islamic State group gave himself up to Iraqi Kurdish forces in the country's north on Monday, an Iraqi Kurdish general said, a rare instance of a voluntary surrender of a militant fighting with the extremist group in Iraq. The man
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