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Lebanese Army On The Offensive Against ISIS Honors Spanish Terror Victims

Lebanese troops on the offensive against ISIS, or the Islamic State, along the Syrian-Lebanese border raised the Spanish flag over reconquered territory to honor the victims of the Barcelona truck attack last week. Lebanese troops are pushing against Islamic State forces that had spilled into Lebanon, using the country as a base for operations inside […]

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Anonymous Denies Taking Down White Supremacist Site Daily Stormer

The Daily Stormer‘s front page has rebranded. From being “America’s #1 Most-Trusted Republican News Source,” as of today it’s suddenly “The World’s Most Genocidal Republican Website.” Named after the Nazi Der Stürmer, a Third Reich tabloid published by the Nazi regime until the end of World War II, the Daily Stormer recently ran a story […]

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Tax Lawyers Believe Trump May Have Committed Tax Fraud In A Gift To His Son

Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive places to buy a condo in the United States. As such, in a report by the Washington Post, tax lawyers David Herzig and Bridget Crawford are wondering how Eric Trump managed to get two at half price. In April of 2016, two one-bedroom condominiums at 100 Central […]

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American Muslims Are More Tolerant Of Same-Sex Marriage Than Evangelicals

Gay marriage’s public support has come a long way since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, the law which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. Now, just two years after the Supreme Court overturned DOMA and legalized marriage equality nationwide, American Muslims are significantly more supportive of same-sex marriage than evangelical […]

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Trump’s Special Investigator Robert Mueller Did Not Give The Russians Illegal Uranium

On July 29, WikiLeaks tweeted a bombshell: Special investigator Robert Mueller had, in 2006, given Russian intelligence 10 grams of uranium. The tweet’s replies were chuffed full of demands for a special investigation of the investigator. Special Prosecutor Robert Muelller flew to Moscow and gave the FSB 10 grams of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in […]

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Trump Concerned The FBI Might Finally Look At His Tax Returns

President Trump’s tax returns spurred Rachel Maddow to a countdown to nothing. They’ve spurred memes online and angry retorts from the president, and despite many promises from Trump to release them after an audit was complete, the public, so far, still doesn’t really know what’s in them. All that may be about to change, as […]

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London Mayor To Trump: Don’t Bother Visiting

Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor, has made no secret of his opposition to President Trump visiting the United Kingdom, but he went further in an interview with CNN. “State visits are different from a normal visit and at a time when the President of the USA has policies that many in our country disagree […]

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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad Retakes ISIS Oil Fields As The Caliphate Collapses

At its 2014 height, the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, or ISIS, earned $3-4 million a day from its captured territories, primarily from oil and criminal extortion, according to the RAND Corporation. Now, having lost its biggest source of extortion in Mosul, ISIS is all the more reliant on what remains of its Syrian […]

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In Putin’s Russia, Hunting For Stalin’s Mass Graves Might Have Gotten A Man Arrested

Josef Stalin may have killed anywhere from 20-40 million people, but looking for their graves is ever more dangerous in Putin’s Russia. Yuri Dmitriev would know. He’s on trial for crimes he claims are made up by the Kremlin as punishment for daring to go looking. Dmitriev is a 61-year-old historian with the group Memorial, […]

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Syrian And Russian Forces Strike Rebel Bedouin As U.S.-Russian Ceasefire Wobbles

Only a day after a U.S-Russian ceasefire brought some calm to Syria’s southwest, Syrian, Russian, and Iranian forces have launched an offensive against mostly Bedouin tribes outside of the ceasefire zone near Iraq, according to Reuters. The assault occurred along a stretch of desert that is largely inhabited by nomads, and which slipped from Bashar […]

7y ago

Russia And America Agree To Ceasefire In Syria In A Critical Test For Trump

If there is any metric by which to judge the president’s Russia policy, it is Syria. The proxy war between Russian allies and American ones has heated up enough to spike searches for “World War III” in Google. When Washington and Moscow rattle sabers in Syria, the world pays attention. Now the United States and […]

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Under Siege By Saudi Arabia, Yemen Is Suffering A 19th-Century Plague

Cholera brings to mind 19th-century tenements, sewer-ridden cobblestone streets, and soot-strewn cities without modern healthcare. In the 21st century, it’s largely confined to countries without modern sewage systems. But in Yemen, it’s because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is halting aid shipments that could stop it. Nearly 276,000 people have cholera in Yemen, according to […]

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Ivanka And Jared Spark Trump Supporter Outrage By Appearing At The Same Party As George Soros

It would be hard to find a more reviled character in the cast of the GOP’s villains than George Soros, the billionaire investor whose name is often associated with Democratic super PACs and overseas democracy movements. That did not, apparently, stop Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter from enjoying a party with him, according to Politico, […]

7y ago

Steven Bannon’s Reported Tax Increase Proposal Could Make College Free

White House advisor and former Breitbart founder Steven Bannon is reportedly whispering heresies in Donald Trump’s ear. First reported by Axios, Bannon has told colleagues he wants the top tax bracket to “have a 4 in front of it.” That would be an uptick from its current 39.6 percent and goes against the grain of […]

7y ago

U.S. General Says Troops In Syria “Just Getting Started,” And They Will Be Around “For A While”

U.S. General Stephen Townsend told CBS News that the United States is in Syria “for a while” and is looking to fight another counter-insurgency war in Syria to destroy ISIS, or the Islamic State, after the fall of the group’s capital city, Raqqa. Townsend is the senior U.S. commander leading Operation Inherent Resolve, the military […]

7y ago

‘The New York Times’ Listed Every Lie Of President Trump And Really Agitated Twitter

The venerable New York Times took it upon itself to list what its editorial board saw as every Trump lie since taking office. Predictably, that got Twitter going. Conservatives lashed into the “fake news” of the Times, while liberals cheered and hoped to make the post go viral. The Times took quotes from President Trump […]

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These Inspiring Photos Show Syrians Breaking Their Fast Amidst The Ruins Of War

Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam, is coming to a close. It’s meant to represent a period of self-reflection and betterment, an internal struggle to become a better Muslim in the eyes of God. But for many, there are very real outside struggles as well, especially in the murderous Syrian civil war, where up to […]

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Americans Down Syrian Air Force Jet As American And Russian Allies Reportedly Battle It Out On The Ground

The Syrian Civil War just got a little hotter Sunday as an American Navy jet shot down one of the few remaining Syrian Air Force fighters left in the sky, according to a statement from the Pentagon. The shootdown came after just two weeks after American forces hit Iranian-backed militia moving on American troops inside […]

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Now Even Iran Is Bombing ISIS

It isn’t easy being a Sunni supremacist, least of all ISIS. Having been bombed by Turkey, Iraq, Russia, the Assadist remnant in Syria, and the United States, now the so-called Islamic State can add Iran to the list of air forces strafing the caliphate’s shrinking forces. But this strike is different from previous anti-ISIS sorties, […]

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Anti-ISIS Coalition Braces For Aftermath In Final “Brutal” Push In The Battle For Mosul

The crucial battle of Mosul has ground on for eight grueling months, uniting disparate factions in a desperate bid to undo the Islamic State’s 2014 blitz. Now, the battle is coming to its final phase and that unity is under threat. American Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend recently said the battle was the toughest urban fight […]

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