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A Navy sailor maintaining a fighter jet on the deck of the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower last month. Joint Stars and other surveillance planes “paint a picture” of the Islamic State on the ground for United States fighters and bombers to attack. Credit Petr David Josek/Associated Press

Aboard a U.S. Eye in the Sky, Staring Down ISIS

by Eric Schmitt | Dec 28, 2016 | Features

ABOARD A JOINT STARS SURVEILLANCE PLANE, Over Northern Iraq — Flying at 30,000 feet, the powerful radar aboard this Air Force jet peered deep into Syrian territory, hunting for targets on the ground to strike in the looming offensive to seize Raqqa, ISIS’s capital. It...

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A cemetery on the outskirts of Gaziantep, Turkey. Grave No. 38487 holds the body of a 4-year-old girl who died of wounds she received when a shell containing sulfur mustard agent hit her home in Marea, Syria. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

ISIS Used Chemical Arms at Least 52 Times in Syria and Iraq, Report Says

by Eric Schmitt | Nov 23, 2016 | Middle East

WASHINGTON — The ISIS has used chemical weapons, including chlorine and sulfur mustard agents, at least 52 times on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq since it swept to power in 2014, according to a new independent analysis. More than one-third of those chemical...