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Video Appears To Show Beheading Of Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto

7:10pm January 31, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The SITE Intelligence group has acquired footage that appears to show the execution of the Japanese journalist a week after another Japanese hostage was killed by the so-called Islamic State.

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Islamic State Blames Coalition Airstrikes For Losing Kobani

6:59pm January 31, 2015

by Scott Neuman

For the first time, the extremist group acknowledges its defeat earlier this week in the heavily contested Syrian border town.

Hundreds Of U.S. Military Trainers Headed For Iraq

7:34pm January 26, 2015

by Tom Bowman

They are expected to head to Iraq in the coming weeks to build up an Iraqi Army that has all but fallen apart. The additional American soldiers and Marines will work out of an ever-expanding number of training sites around the country. U.S. officials expect ground operations sometime in the spring to take back territory seized by the so-called Islamic State.

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Father Najeeb Michaeel shows off one of the many Christian manuscripts he saved from Iraq's Christian libraries.

Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble To Preserve Iraq's Christian History

2:40pm January 25, 2015

by Alice Fordham

Fleeing ISIS, an order of Dominican monks had to leave much behind. But when Father Najeeb Michaeel helped the Christian community escape, he took one thing with him: a collection of manuscripts.

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ISIS Demands $200 Million Ransom For Japanese Hostages

8:00pm January 21, 2015

by Peter Kenyon

The Japanese government is facing a ransom demand of $200 million for the lives of two Japanese men held by the self-described Islamic State. The demand was made in a video posted online, in which a hooded fighter gave Japan 72 hours to come up with the money.

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A mentally disabled Yazidi man is carried to a bus that will bring him to the Kurdish city of Dohuk, after being released by Islamic militants, in Alton Kupri, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday.

ISIS Frees 200 Elderly Yazidis; Reportedly 'Too Expensive To Feed'

9:07am January 18, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The mostly infirm refugees from the religious minority were released by the self-declared Islamic State. Speculation is that they had become a burden to the militants.

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Is U.S. Gaining Or Losing Ground Against ISIS?

6:33pm January 15, 2015

Is the U.S. gaining or losing ground in its bombing campaign against ISIS? Audie Cornish puts the question to Jennifer Cafarella, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of War.

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France 'At War With Jihadism And Radical Islamism,' Prime Minister Says

8:02pm January 13, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

But Manuel Valls said the country wasn't at war with ordinary Muslims or their religion. His remarks came ahead of a 488-to-1 vote to reauthorize French airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq.

Donating A Single Rollerblade Is Not Going To Help Disaster Victims

7:09am January 13, 2015

by Kathryn G. Kempton

Yet that's what someone gave after the Haitian earthquake. A staffer at one nonprofit offers a plan to discourage unuseful donations from individuals and corporations and get what's really needed.

Young members of the Baghdad Rowing Club practice on the river Tigris, close to the University of Mustansiriyah in the Iraqi capital

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Life Flows Back Into The Waters Of Baghdad's Tigris

1:15am January 08, 2015

by Alice Fordham

Some of the loveliest cities hug great rivers: Cairo on the Nile, Paris on the Seine. Baghdad's lifeblood is the Tigris. After years of war, commuter boats and even a rowing club ply its waters again.

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