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President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, on Septrmber 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Opinion: Did US intelligence truly underestimate ISIS?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Oct 1, 2014 | Opinion

While US President Barack Obama has said his country’s intelligence services underestimated the strength of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Saudi Interior Minister Prince Muhammad Bin Naif said: “We know that ISIS was not randomly formed but rather...

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Democratic Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, speaks to the media after a Senate Intelligence Meeting where members voted to support the declassification of key findings of a 6,300-page report detailing the CIA’s controversial interrogation program, in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC, USA, 03 April 2014. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

US Senate panel votes to declassify report on CIA interrogations

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 4, 2014 | World

Washington, DC, Reuters—The US Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who chairs the...