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Feb 03 2022
Headline Roundup
Biden Says ISIS Leader Killed in US Raid
US Special Forces killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counterterrorism raid in Syria on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning.
A U.S. official said al-Qurayshi died by detonating a bomb that killed himself and members of his family, including women and children, as U.S. forces closed in. Locals and activists told news sources that 13 people,
Associated Press Fox News (Online News) CNN (Online News)Sep 25 2014
Opinion
OPINION: War with ISIS: What does victory look like?
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and now Syria and Iraq. The decade-plus duration of America's confrontation with al Qaedism offers lessons not only on how we battle extremist ideology but also how we should calibrate our expectations.
CNN (Online News)Dec 22 2020
News
Murders of journalists more than double worldwide
Globally, at least 30 journalists were killed in 2020; 21 of those were singled out for murder in retaliation for their work, a jump from the previous year’s 10 murders, while others were killed in combat or crossfire or on another assignment that turned dangerous. One media worker was also killed. Mexico, Afghanistan, and the Philippines had the most retaliatory killings.
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Committee to Protect JournalistsJul 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
When Democrats Pretend That Abortion Rights Are Imminent
From the CenterOne would think that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would set off a four-alarm emergency among pro-choice advocates, who would pull out all the stops to maintain national protections for abortion rights. So why are Democratic Party leaders content with ringing only two alarms and pulling out only some of the stops? Shortly after the Court acted,
Dan SchnurOct 28 2019
News
Baghdadi Operation Named After Christian Woman Who Refused to Give Up Faith Before ISIS Killed Her
JERUSALEM, Israel – The US military operation that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dedicated to Kayla Mueller, a young Christian woman who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Islamic State.
Mueller, 26, was abducted by ISIS in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria after leaving a Doctor's Without Borders hospital there. US officials said Baghdadi tortured
CBNMay 30 2013
News
Syria's president claims Russian arms are already arriving
President Bashar al-Assad said his regime has already received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets. If true prospects are dimmer for a US-Russia peace initiative.
Christian Science MonitorOct 27 2019
News
Baghdadi's death: a major blow to Islamic State
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during an overnight raid led by U.S. military forces in Syria, a further blow to a jihadist group that once held a swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Where once they confronted armies, the extremist Islamist group’s adherents have in recent years staged hit-and-run raids
ReutersMay 06 2013
News
Israel To Assad: Airstrikes Did Not Aim To Help Syrian Rebels
Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion.
HuffPost