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Barack Obama

Obama says military hitting Islamic State harder than ever

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

Cambridge

Millennials ambivalent on fighting Islamic State, Harvard poll shows

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

Immigration

Syrian refugees land in Canada by the planeload

TORONTO (AP) — The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward with his pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February. The welcome given to the military flight carrying

Immigration

US reviewing fiancé visa program after shootings

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tashfeen Malik, the wife accused in the California shootings, was one of just 519 Pakistanis allowed into the country last year specifically to marry a U.S. citizen. Malik's path to the United States immediately highlighted the U.S. government's immigration vetting practices after

Barack Obama

Obama: US will defeat terror threat’s new phase

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama vowed Sunday night the U.S. will overcome a new phase of the terror threat that seeks to "poison the minds" of people here and around the world, as he sought to reassure Americans shaken by recent

Barack Obama

To defeat terrorism, develop American energy

President Obama has been mocked, and appropriately so, for his ludicrous comment that the climate change summit in Paris will be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists. No. This summit is a powerful rebuke to common sense.

terrorism

US sending new special ops force to Iraq to fight ISIS

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

Israel

Palestinian Authority limits Christmas celebrations in West Bank

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — The Palestinian Authority has asked municipalities to tone down their public Christmas celebrations this year amid escalating violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Hana Amireh, who heads a government committee on churches in the West Bank, confirmed the Palestinian Authority is requesting "a certain decrease"