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ISLAMIC STATE

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2016
This is the world that the invasion of Iraq left behind
The Chilcot report detailing British culpability in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq reminds us that we're still dealing with the terrible consequences of that reckless decision.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 6, 2016
Kerry presses on with Russian cooperation talks on Syria despite Aleppo setbacks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is still pursuing an agreement with Russia on military cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria despite major setbacks and skepticism from other administration officials and U.S. allies, U.S. officials with knowledge of the talks said on Friday....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 6, 2016
Singapore calls for vigilance after alleged rocket attack plot foiled
Singapore called for heightened vigilance Saturday, a day after Indonesian police arrested a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based Islamic State militant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2016
The radical post-modernism of Islamic State
Islamic State's strategy to destabilize liberal societies is working.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 2, 2016
Cabby starts life term at mental hospital over attempted beheading in London subway
An Islamic State-inspired taxi driver who tried to behead a London Underground passenger has been sent to a high-security mental hospital to begin a life sentence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 2, 2016
Ohio man pleads guilty to plotting jihad bomb, gun attack on U.S. Capitol
An Ohio man on Monday pleaded guilty to plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs and faces up to 30 years in prison.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
As its territory shrinks, Islamic State group increasingly looking to global attacks
The Islamic State group, losing territory and on the retreat in Iraq and Syria, has claimed credit for a surge in global attacks this summer, most of them in France and Germany.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2016
Islamic State calls on its members to carry out jihad in Russia
In a nine-minute video posted on YouTube on Sunday, the Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia.
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
U.S. admits its airstrikes killed 14 civilians in Iraq, Syria between last July, April
Six U.S. airstrikes against al-Qaida and Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria killed 14 civilians and injured another between July 28 last year and April 29 this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
Islamic State video of church attacker Paris was tipped off to urges all Muslims to destroy France
Islamic State's affiliated news agency Amaq on Thursday released a video purportedly showing one of the two men who attacked a church in northern France this week urging all Muslims to destroy the country.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2016
The jihadi-inspired wave of 'lone wolf' attacks
A veteran al-Qaida leader is a major inspiration of the 'leaderless jihad' strategy that is now wreaking havoc and spreading fear in the West and in the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 26, 2016
Trump says he would consider alliance with Russia to 'knock the hell out of' Islamic State
Republican nominee Donald Trump said Monday that if elected U.S. president he will weigh an alliance with Russia against Islamic State militants but rejected any suggestion Russian President Vladimir Putin might be trying to help him win.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jul 24, 2016
Kerry's Syria plan with Russia faces deep skepticism in U.S., abroad
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's latest proposal for closer U.S.-Russian cooperation against extremist groups in Syria is drawing questions over Russia's intentions from skeptics in the U.S. government, European nations in the coalition against the Islamic State and the main Syrian opposition groups....
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 23, 2016
Plot against Rio Olympics raises fears of lone wolf terrorist attacks
Brazil held 10 presumed Islamist militants in isolation cells at a maximum security jail on Friday as police combed their computers and mobile phones for information about possible threats to next month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 23, 2016
Amid craze, Syrian children hold Pokemon pictures, pray 'world will find them'
While "Pokemon Go" is proving to be a monster hit in Japan and also around the globe, an opposition group in Syria is hoping to harness the mobile phone game's power to remind the world of that country's 5-year-old civil war — and of the children caught in the middle of the bloody conflict.

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