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Bunk beds in dormitories for Islamic State fighters at a training center in the Zuhoor neighborhood of Mosul. (Loveday Morris/The Washington Post)

Found at an ISIS Training Camp: Bunk Beds, Weapons Manuals, Steroids

by Loveday Morris | Dec 5, 2016 | World

MOSUL, Iraq — The bunk beds that fill the rooms sleep more than 80 ISIS recruits. On the walls, posters detail the components of Russian Kalashnikovs and American assault rifles. One sign reminds the trainees that victory comes from long fights and pain — rewards come...

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Employees of the state-owned English-language Russia Today (RT) television network wait for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

In Today’s World, the Truth is Losing

by David Ignatius | Dec 4, 2016 | Opinion

Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?” The very idea that the truth won’t be triumphant would,...

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Afghan forces at the site of an explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif in early November. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. CreditAnil Usyan/Reuters

Afghan Security Crisis Sets Stage for Terrorists’ Resurgence

by Mujib Mashal, Eric Schmitt | Dec 4, 2016 | World

Kabul- Afghanistan’s security crisis is fueling new opportunities for Al Qaeda, ISIS and other extremist groups, Afghan and American officials say, voicing concerns that the original American mission in the country — removing its use as a terrorist haven — is at risk....

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A Syrian man carries a child as displaced people cross the
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Turkey. PHOTO: CNS/Laszlo Balogh, Reuters

Demographic Aspect in ISIS’ Expansion, Recession

by Nazeer Rida and Abdul Sattar Hatita | Dec 4, 2016 | Features

Beirut, Benghazi – The regression of ISIS’s control in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has led to the return of many people who left their homes. ISIS’s expansion over many regions in those three countries pushed the displacement of thousands of their residents and...

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Civilians return to their village after it was liberated from ISIS militants, south of Mosul in Qayyara, Iraq, October 22, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

Mosul Civilians Fear Cold, Hunger of Winter Siege

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 3, 2016 | Middle East

With No food or fuel reaching distressed Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for more than a million people still in areas of the city still held by terror group ISIS, residents said on Saturday. A trader in Mosul,...