Three years and millions of dollars later, counter terrorism efforts in the Philippines have not made a “substantial difference,” a Defense Department Inspector General report released this week found.
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Relations between Washington and its former partners in counter-ISIS operations in Syria are deeply strained. The president’s budget request for 2021 may add to the pressure.
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The nation’s top security officials told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that ISIS is still a threat despite Trump’s statements that ISIS is “defeated 100%.”
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Two war monitoring groups question the accuracy of civilian death reports from the U.S.-led coalition operating in Iraq and Syria.
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The Syrian city of Raqqa, the former self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State caliphate, is still too dangerous for civilians days after its liberation, the Special Operations commander for the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday.
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Experts appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposed the idea of U.S. partnering with Russia to fight ISIS in Syria.
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Indonesia’s first defense against terrorism? Strong social institutions. And experts say these non-governmental organizations might be blazing a path that the United States needs to follow.
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England, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, United States: this is a list of Western countries attacked by terrorists in the last 16 years. Yet, Italy is not included among them. An article to explain why Italy was not attacked yet.
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The YPJ (pronounced Yuh Pah Juh) is an all-women militia group created in 2012 to resist against the “traditional conservative patriarchy” breeding in Syria over the last five years of the Baath regime.
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