ISIS: Conflicts in Syria
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From the Center
Will Islamic State's Rise Turn U.S. Public Opinion?Here in the nation's capital, the question of the moment is whether the rise of the Islamic State extremist group has changed President Barack Obama's reluctance to re-engage in Iraq militarily, or to really intervene for the first time in Syria—and that certainly is an important question.
But equally important and far less discussed is this: Has the specter of a new, different and frightening kind of Islamic extremism changed the American public's deep reluctance to engage anew in the Middle East?
Privately, some administration offi
From the Right
Confirmed: Another Military Base in Syria Falls to ISISThe Tabqa airforce base, which was previously the Assad regime’s lone garrison in the northern region of Syria, has fallen to ISIS rebels, according to the Associated Press:
Islamic State fighters captured a major military air base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the jihadi group, activists and state media said.
From the Left
Syria warns against US strikes on Islamic State on its soilSyria warned the Obama Administration on Monday not to exteNd ITS AIR war Against the Islamic State group into Syria, as the militants Celebrated Another key Victory over Government FORCES in the North of the Country.
The Warning Came a day after the group overran a major AIR Base in Northeastern Syria, Putting the Islamic State in full Control of Raqqah province, where Am
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