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Iraq's justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect
As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country's prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than ...
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
Iraq: Isis publicly execute 13 teenagers for ... set up roadblocks in their territories to ensure women dress up in Islamic way.
U.S. Aid Cutbacks Hurt Efforts to Repatriate Former Islamic State Residents
Cuts to American aid have compromised efforts to repatriate people at desert camps in Syria and Iraq for former Islamic State ...
Alleged ISIS member accused by Iraqi officials of playing a role in inciting New Orleans terror attack
U.S. officials say they have not established a direct link between the suspect in Iraq and the man who carried out the New ...
Suspected ISIS member arrested in connection with New Orleans attack, Iraq says
The unidentified suspect is believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State militant group, according to Iraq's Supreme ...
Iraq detains Islamic State suspect accused of helping to incite New Orleans truck-ramming attack
An official with the Islamic State group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup ...
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Islamic State claims pope’s burial is ‘marketing tool in theological war’ as it gains renewed strength
The Islamic State has declared Pope Francis burial a marketing tool in a theological war, asserting that tributes paid to the ...
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A Commander’s Case for Women, Peace, and Security
Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Second, I commanded one of the key initiatives that informed the WPS strategy and ...
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Afghan national pleads guilty over Islamic State-inspired terror plot in US
Abdullah Haji Zada, an 18-year-old legal permanent resident living in Oklahoma, pled guilty to conspiring to receive firearms ...
Iran executes a man convicted of spying for Israel, but activists say his confession was forced
Iran's state media say Mohsen Langarneshin was one of Israel's "top spies," but a rights group says he was forced to confess, ...
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
Boris Johnson, John Prescott and Sir Christopher Meyer have condemned Tony Blair's Iraq crisis claims. Iraq Crisis: Spain Arrests Eight Suspected Isis Recruiters Spain arrests eight suspected Isis ...