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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 16: Gen. Lloyd Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, prepares to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the ongoing U.S. military operations to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. Austin said that slow progress was still being made against ISIL but there have been setbacks, including the ambush of U.S.-trained fighters in Syria and the buildup of Russian forces in the country. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
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Opinion: The Will to Fight ISIS

by Ali Ibrahim | Sep 22, 2015 | Opinion

News about 75 US-trained rebels entering Syria from Turkey has attracted special attention because it marks a new development on the military arena there despite the fact that the number is not enough to shift the balance on the ground in Syria. The military map in...

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A handout picture released by Iraqi Prime Minister’s office on August 27, 2015 shows Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi (C) and Defense Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi (C-R) attending the funeral in Baghdad of the deputy head of the Anbar Operations Command, Staff Major General Abdulrahman Abu Raghif, and 10th Division commander Staff Brigadier General Safin Abdulmajid, after they were both killed in a suicide attack in the Anbar province. (AFP PHOTO / HO / IRAQI PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE)

US embassy in Baghdad foiled two assassination attempts on PM Abadi, says Iraqi official

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 22, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The United States embassy in Baghdad has recently foiled two assassination attempts on Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, a senior government official has said, hinting that they may have been prompted by what he described as the...

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Defectors call ISIS brutal, corrupt: study

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 22, 2015 | Middle East

Brussels, AP—A survey of defectors from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has found many quit the organization because they felt it was too brutal or corrupt, or because it made war too frequently against other Sunni Muslims. The survey, issued Monday by a...