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communique noted then how sophisticated the attack was, combining car bombs, suicide bombers and coordinated mortar fire. When ISIS swept through Mosul this month, the group freed another 2,000 to 3,000 veteran fighters from a prison outside the town. Though the U.S. official describes Baghdadi as

hided the US repeatedly for handing Iraq to Iran on "a silver platter." The brazen attempt by the Al Qaeda—affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and The Levant, ISIL, to seize control of Mosul confirms the Saudis' worst fears about lingering EFTA00665425 instability in Iraq. The Obama administration will

Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks in Hezbollah-friendly neighborhoods and in support of Sunni militants closely followed IS(IL)'s take-over of Mosul in Iraq and its move toward Baghdad. Evidencing the deteriorating security situation in Lebanon, a Saudi delegation recently met with Lebanese autho

hborhoods and an attack on Lebanese soldiers carrying out a raid in a Sunni neighborhood in Tripoli. It seems that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which recently renamed itself the Islamic State (IS), and/or its allies have turned their sights on Lebanon. This recent flurry of attacks

Iraq [Jerusalem Post] • Members of the Hashd al-Shaabi, the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq, warned US troops against "provocations" near Mosul in a video posted over the weekend. US troops on patrol in eastern Mosul were confronted by gunmen who monitored their movements and put an armored

d be immediately handed over to the judicial authorities. • "These individuals voluntarily joined a terrorist organization that is fighting in the Levant, has committed attacks in France and is continuing to pose a threat to us." • The French government wouldn't confirm how many people may be repatr

icious groups in chaotic conditions.<=span> ISIS is a threat fo= both Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but its easy conquests over the past week=97including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city—were made possible by gove=nments hobbled by years of insurgency and opposition aided by those two countries and like-m

Syria, that they do='t get a broader foothold," Mr. Obama said on Friday, using an alternative name for the group, the Islamic State=in Iraq and the Levant. "There are dangers of fierce sectarian fighting =f, for example, the terrorist organizations try to overrun sacred Shia sit=s, which could trigger

idely changing regional landscape. Ten days before the Egyptian- Saudi meeting, Iraq, the Middle East and the whole world was jolted by the fall of Mosul, the second largest Iraqi city, to the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The threat of the territorial disintegration of I

however important they are on the theoretical level, but rather the territorial integrity and sovereignty of these two pillars of stability in the Levant and the Gulf region. One of the major differences in the positions of Egypt and Saudi Arabia in this respect is how to perceive and deal with Iran

. 1 Richard Cohen Article The National Interest ISIS Challenge in Iraq: Why America Should Work with Iran 4. Payam Mohseni Article NYT Take Mosul Back 5. Roger Cohen Article The Washington Post Obama's foreign policy of retreat 6. George F. Will Article 7. Foreign Policy Why the New

ia, ISIS would not be on the rampage. A plague on both their houses! It's unseemly to fight Washington's talk-show wars over the myriad dead of the Levant. The facts are plain enough. The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 because of its weapons of mass destruction program. However Iraq did not have a