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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in the year-plus fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. is putting American combat troops on the ground in a more permanent role in Iraq and Syria. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. military will deploy a
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CAMBRIDGE – Grappling with violent extremism will be a key challenge facing Americans for generations to come, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said at the Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday, hours after telling a congressional committee that more special forces were being deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State. The
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WASHINGTON – While waiting her turn to appear on a Fox News show last month, Saba Ahmed, a Pakistani-American and a Muslim, couldn't bear listening to the anti-Islam rhetoric from the guest who went on before her. So she replaced a purple hijab, or head scarf, she wore with
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Paris (CNA/EWTN News) — France's leading Muslim organization has called on Muslims to counter radical forms of Islam, especially in the wake of the Islamic State group's attacks on Paris. The French Council for the Muslim Faith encouraged education of young people to "combat the
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A subdued France paid homage Friday to those killed two weeks ago in the attacks that gripped Paris in fear and mourning, honoring each of the 130 dead by name as the president pledged to "destroy the army of fanatics" who claimed so many young lives. With each
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BOSTON – Boston-based Oxfam America, an international aid group, is urging policymakers to set aside politics and let in more of those displaced by civil war in Syria. Details of the refugee screening process – and how a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week might affect it
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BOSTON (AP) — Less than three years after bombs killed three people and wounded more than 260 others at the Boston Marathon, two movies, a play and an HBO documentary are in the works, causing decidedly mixed feelings among some of those most touched by the tragedy. News that Boston native
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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, Islamic State group militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of U.S.-made ammunition, medicines and copies of the Quran stashed on shelves. The Associated Press
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