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WEST POINT – Last fall, 16 West Point cadets — none of them Muslim — signed up for an elective on counterterrorism and created a Facebook page to appeal to young Muslims thinking about joining the so-called Islamic State. The cadets aimed to persuade those tempted by the terrorist cause to see "
Syria
(CNSNews.com) – Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is reportedly coercing undocumented Afghans living in Iran to fight in support of Syria's Assad regime, using a combination of financial incentives and coercive tactics including threat of deportation or imprisonment. Tehran, whose IRGC forces and Lebanese Hezbollah
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GENEVA (AP) — A triple bombing claimed by the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 45 people near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday, overshadowing an already shaky start to what are meant to be indirect Syria peace talks. Syria's state news agency SANA said that the
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GENEVA (AP) — The main Syrian opposition delegation arrived in Switzerland Saturday night, however it remained unclear whether the delegation would actually participate in U.N.-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending Syria's civil war. The indirect peace talks began here Friday with a meeting between the United Nations
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GENEVA (AP) — Peace talks aimed at ending Syria's five-year civil war got off to a shaky and chaotic start Friday, with the main opposition group at first boycotting the session, then later agreeing to meet with U.N. officials — while still insisting it would not negotiate. That small
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(CNSNews.com) – There was little new or unexpected on foreign policy in Thursday night's Trump-less GOP presidential debate, but the two candidates who vied for the most talk time, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both argued strongly for the need to rebuild a shrinking U.S. military
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BOSTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton urged attendees ahead of a panel discussion on refugee resettlement in New England to resist "denying the American dream" to those living in peril abroad, but a former State Department foreign service officer reminded listeners that the asylum vetting process isn&
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BOSTON – Long-time refugee and immigration advocate Seth Moulton, the sixth district Democratic congressman from Salem, will open a discussion on the topic Thursday with a panel of experts dealing with the region's response to Mideast refugee crisis. A Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq, Moulton has
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