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Mar 01 2015
News
Can Coalition Become Strong Enough to Stop Sadistic Islamic State Terrorists?
The burning alive of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State terrorists appears to have served as a wake-up call for countries around the world to strengthen the 60-nation coalition formed to stop the sadistic Middle Eastern outlaws who now control one-third of Iraq and Syria.
The gruesome, videotaped immolation of the Muslim pilot shows the Islamic State terrorists are stepping up their
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Feb 18 2015
News
Why Congress Doesn't Really Worry About What Most Americans Think
With each week, we have come to expect another jarring outrage from the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, the new breed of terrorists that is redefining terror.
News of the group's murder of nearly two dozen Egyptian Christians captured in Libya has topped even the horrors of the previous weeks, when the world watched a Jordanian fighter pilot burned alive in a
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Apr 30 2014
News
GOP: 'Smoking Gun' Benghazi Email Proves White House 'Cover-Up'
Republicans charged Tuesday that an email in which a White House official advises former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to link the 2012 Benghazi attack to an anti-Muslim video confirms the linkage was fabricated to help President Barack Obama's re-election. "This email is a smoking gun," Sen. Lindsey Graham told Newsmax. "It shows political operatives in the White House working Newsmax (News)![](https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/bias-right.png)
May 26 2021
Analysis
In defense of the two-state solution
Some are declaring the two-state paradigm for Israel and Palestine totally doomed. But it’s not — and it’s still worth fighting for.
Last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that claimed nearly 250 lives. But the underlying status quo makes another round of fighting all but inevitable, and a fundamental solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems further
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Jan 28 2024
Headline Roundup
Saudi Arabia Opens First Liquor Store Since Banning Alcohol in 1952
Last week, Saudi Arabia opened its first liquor store in Riyadh, primarily targeted at non-Muslim diplomats.
The Details: The move comes as an effort to curb alcohol smuggling and its resulting black market. The store is located in Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter, and will only sell to non-Muslims over 21, which will be approved by the Saudi Foreign Ministry through an app called Diplo.
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Dec 26 2015
News
The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking
After five Republican debates, most Americans know about Donald Trump’s provocative beliefs, like his desires to end birthright citizenship, stop Muslim immigration and kill families of suspected terrorists. Much less attention has been paid to Carly Fiorina’s conclusion that the minimum wage is unconstitutional, Mike Huckabee’s pledge to defy Supreme Court rulings he deems incompatible with
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Aug 30 2014
Opinion
To Defeat Terror, We Need the World’s Help
IN a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States. What’s needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda is a global coalition using political, humanitarian, economic, law enforcement and intelligence tools to support military force.
In addition to its
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Aug 26 2014
News
ISIS reportedly demands $6.6M for release of 26-year-old American woman
Islamic State militants are reportedly demanding $6.6 million and the release of a U.S. prisoner before they will free a third American hostage held by the group, an unidentified aid worker.
A source confirmed to Fox News that the aid worker is a 26-year-old woman from the West Coast. They did not provide further details, but ABC News reported that the woman, whose relatives have
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Dec 06 2015
News
A Potential Act Of Terrorism Tests A President — And Americans' Nerves
Inevitably, as news breaks of yet another international or domestic event — an explosion in Texas, a train derailment outside Philadelphia, a Molotov cocktail thrown into a nightclub in Egypt, a shooting in Colorado or California — there's one question never far from Americans' lips: "Is it terrorism?"
Even many who don't want to generalize wonder, "What do we know about the shooter —
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Apr 02 2015
News
Shabab Attack on a Kenya University Kills at Least 70, Officials Say
Gunmen attacked a university campus in northeastern Kenya early Thursday, clashing with guards, forcing their way into dormitories, taking hostages and singling out non-Muslims, the police said.
At least 70 people were killed in the attack and 79 more were injured, the Kenya National Disaster Operation Center said in a Twitter message.
Kenyan security forces surrounded the campus
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