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Tillerson Calls for Saudi-Led Group to Ease Qatar Blockade

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on a Saudi Arabia-led coalition to ease its blockade of Qatar, saying that the cutoff is hindering the fight against Islamic State and provoking food shortages.
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Publish Date:10/June/2017 | 05:50

U.S.-Backed Push on Islamic State's Raqqa Stronghold Begins

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed forces in Syria have begun the long-anticipated push to remove Islamic State from its self-declared capital of Raqqa, a city the jihadist group has brutalized since 2013, and used as a base to plot terrorist attacks in Europe.
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Publish Date:06/June/2017 | 13:37

Turkey Says U.S.-Backed Assault to Retake Raqqa Begins

EghtesadOnline: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the U.S.-backed operation to drive Islamic State from its Raqqa stronghold in Syria has begun, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
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Publish Date:06/June/2017 | 08:43

Russia Vows to Block Islamic State's Escape From Syrian Lair

EghtesadOnline: Russia vowed to prevent the escape of Islamic State fighters from their self-declared capital in Raqqa, under siege by U.S.-backed forces, after thwarting two attempts by the jihadists to break through toward Syrian government-controlled territory.
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Publish Date:01/June/2017 | 10:14

Senator McCain says Putin bigger threat than ISIS

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Senator John McCain said Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to global security than ISIS , and warned that the Senate would push for sanctions against Moscow for its alleged interference in the U.S. election.
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Publish Date:30/May/2017 | 05:30

Mattis Says U.S. Plans to ‘Take Apart’ Islamic State Caliphate

EghtesadOnline: The fight against Islamic State has shifted to “annihilation tactics” to stop potential terrorists who’ve flocked to places such as Iraq and Syria from returning to their home countries to wreak havoc, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Sunday.
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Publish Date:29/May/2017 | 04:56

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Egypt Attack

EghtesadOnline: The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the attack on a bus carrying Christians on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, which killed 29.
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Publish Date:28/May/2017 | 04:24

U.K.'s May Urges G-7 to Help Iraq Prosecute Foreign Jihadists

EghtesadOnline: The Group of Seven nations must help Iraq and its neighbors catch and prosecute foreign nationals who travel to fight for Islamic State, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said as she called for global action in the wake of the Manchester bombing.
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Publish Date:27/May/2017 | 03:57

Children Among 22 Dead in Bomb Attack Claimed by Islamic State

EghtesadOnline: Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to combat the “ideology” behind Britain’s worst terrorist attack in 12 years after a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 22 people at a pop concert.
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Publish Date:23/May/2017 | 24:20

Trump Ordered Changes to 'Annihilate' Islamic State, Mattis Says

EghtesadOnline; President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. to ramp up its campaign against Islamic State with an “annihilation” campaign to surround and kill terrorists rather than chasing them out of territory in Iraq and Syria, his defense chief said.
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Publish Date:20/May/2017 | 05:07

Trump revealed intelligence secrets to Russians in Oval Office: officials

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation, two U.S. officials said on Monday, plunging the White House into another controversy just months into Trump's short tenure in office.
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Publish Date:16/May/2017 | 05:53

Syrian army sends reinforcements toward border with Iraq: rebels

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army aided by Iranian-backed militias was moving troops to a desert region near its border with Iraq and Jordan just as U.S. backed rebels are consolidating control in an area from which Islamic State militants had recently pulled out, rebel sources and commanders said on Monday.
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Publish Date:15/May/2017 | 04:42

U.S. to arm Syrian Kurds fighting Islamic State, despite Turkey's ire

EghtesadOnline: Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally Turkey, U.S. President Donald Trump has approved supplying arms to Kurdish YPG fighters to support an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:10/May/2017 | 05:24

Islamic State Dealt 'Significant' Blow After Afghanistan Raids

EghtesadOnline: An Afghan air strike that destroyed an Islamic State radio station and killed at least 34 militants added to the terrorist group’s setbacks after news that their leader in the country was killed two weeks ago.
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Publish Date:09/May/2017 | 04:19

Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan confirmed killed

EghtesadOnline: The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and U.S. Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:08/May/2017 | 05:02