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Updated September 16, 2014 - 11:15 PM EDT
Gen. Dempsey: US Troops 'May Join Iraqi Attacks'
 
  US Begins New Phase of War With Strikes Near Baghdad
  Iraqi FM: Military Op to Retake Mosul 'Shouldn't Take Too Long'
  In Coalition-Building, US Excludes Some to Court Others
  Shi'ite Cleric Sadr Warns US Soldiers Could Be Targeted if They Return
Free Syrian Army Won't Join US Anti-ISIS Coalition
 
  Report: US Provides ISIS Intelligence to Syria
  ISIS Shoots Down Syrian War Plane: Monitor Group
  Israel's Golan Reality: Al-Qaeda Is Right on the Border
  House GOP Bill Would Let Obama Arm Syria Rebels, With Limits
  White House Has No Int'l Legal Justification for Hitting ISIS in Syria
Turkey Is a Steady Source of ISIS Recruits
Ukraine Grants 'Special Status' for East to End War
3,000 US Troops Going to West Africa to Combat Ebola
US Arms Makers See Rising Demand for Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Viewpoints
Obama's Hazy Plan To Fight ISIS Is Unlikely To Succeed  by Ivan Eland
Those Who've Seen Bloodshed Warn of Endless, Brutal War in Iraq  by Ryan Devereaux
Ghosts of Imperialist Wars Past: China's Tourist Hot Spots Today  by Doug Bandow
The 28 Pages: Congress in a State of Willful Ignorance  by Brian McGlinchey
The Pleasant Fiction of 'No Boots on the Ground'  by William Rivers Pitt
Obama's Long War in the Middle East  by William Greider

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Frontline
Holder Says Private Suit Risks State Secrets
Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches
No Court Martial for Nurse Who Refused to Forced-Feed at Gitmo
New Zealand Denies It Was Planning Mass Domestic Spying
FBI Announces Biometric ID System Fullly Operational
 
Ukraine/Russia
US and NATO Troops Begin Ukraine Military Exercise
Luhansk Celebrates End of Weeks of Shelling
Fresh Shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk Puts Ceasefire Under More Strain
6 Killed, 14 Wounded in East Ukraine City
Berlin Doesn't Know of Arms Deliveries to Ukraine: Merkel Aide
European Commission Says Gas Flows From Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Stable
Former Russian Paratroopers Say Lead Combat in Rebel-Held East Ukraine
Business Leaders Propose Ukraine Steer Course Between West, Moscow
Traders in Shelled Donetsk Market Left to 'Eat Ash'
Pro-Russian Rebels Release Captive Ukrainian Troops
Western Sanctions Are Testing Russia's Strength: Medvedev
Russia to Honor All Agreements With EU, Ukraine on Trade
Russian Government to Back Defense Companies' Contracts
Europe
European Court to Investigate Laws Allowing GCHQ to Snoop on Journalists
German Government Says Bavaria Following Scots' Example 'Absurd'
As Many as 700 Migrants Feared Drowned in Mediterranean
Afghanistan
Afghan Election Commission Completes Audit That Determines President
Democracy? No, Afghans Say, After Vote Count Ends
Afghan Rape Death Sentences Upheld
Pakistan
Court Orders Pakistan Police to Book PM Over 8/31 Crackdown
Polio Team Attacked in Pakistan
China and Her Neighbors
India Tightens Vietnam Defense, Oil Ties Ahead of China Xi's Visit
China Says 'Rescues' More Children From Xinjiang Religious Schools
Thousands of Activists Stage 'Black Cloth' March in Hong Kong
Koreas
South Korea Finds Wreckage in Sea of Suspected North Korean Drone
Japanese Women Who Have Escaped From North Korea Find Little Sympathy at Home
Indonesia
Indonesia Identifies 4 Suspected Militants as Chinese Uighurs
Central African Republic
UN Takes Charge of Central African Republic Peacekeeping Force
US Reopens Embassy in Central African Republic
Somalia/Uganda
Somalia's Al Shabaab Says Uganda Did Not Prevent Attack by the Group
Uganda Arrests 19 Tied to Suspected Terror Attack Plot
Africa
Former Libyan General Claims New Air Strike in Western Libya
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohamed Badie Jailed for Life in Egypt
12 Nigerian Troops Sentenced to Death for Mutiny
 
Syria
US to Assad: Beware of Interfering With US Air Power in Syria
Syria's 'Moderate' Rebels Say They Need Weapons, Not Training
Syrian Kurdish Fighters Unlikely to Get Western Support
Kurdish Militias Capture 14 Villages From ISIS in Northern Syria
Syrian Army Destroys ISIS-Controlled Bridge
Hostage Rescue Options Limited: UK
Al-Qaeda Appealed to ISIS to Release British Aid Worker Following Kidnap
How Many More Western Captives Is ISIS Holding?
Iraq
As Diplomats Discuss Iraq, 86 Are Killed Across Country
ISIS Talks: Iraq 'Regrets' Iran Absence
Secretary: Air Force Will Lead US War on ISIS
Mideast Complexities Confound US Coalition Effort
Focus on ISIS Has Left Baghdad Residents Vulnerable to Crime
US and ISIS
Iran Supreme Leader Spurns US Overture to Fight Islamic State
For Family of James Foley, US Policy Offered No Hope
Rand Paul: Obama's Request to Arm Rebels in ISIS Fight 'A Mistake'
No War, at Least on Paper: ISIS Mission Joins List of Undeclared US Wars
Global ISIS Reaction
Lebanon MP Urges Restoration of Conscription for ISIS Fight
Saudi Court Jails 13 Islamists for Fighting Abroad
German Man, 20, Goes on Trial for ISIS Membership
Australia Probes 'Threats' Against Hospitals Days After Stepping Up Terror Alert
Most Australian Muslims Oppose Military Involvement in Iraq, Muslim Community Leader Says

Austria to Ban Islamic State Symbols in Crackdown on Militants
Israel/Palestine
Netanyahu, Danon Hold Rival Likud Events
Gaza: Life Amid the Rubble
Israeli, Uzbek Held Over Ammo Found in Toys at Airport
Netanyahu Moves to Freeze Lapid's Flagship Legislation
Israeli Diplomats Nix Drone Sale to Ukraine: Report
Middle East
Yemen Army, Tribes Clash With Shiite Rebels
Turkey Open to Bids for Refuge by Muslim Brotherhood Exiles
27 Christians in Saudi Arabia Arrested for Using House as a Church
Three Schools in Turkey Open Kurdish Education for First Time, Despite Opposition
Honduras
8 Killed in Drug Dispute in Northern Honduras
The War at Home
TSA Demands to Search Man Who's Already Flown
Urban Outfitters Apologizes for Its Blood-Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
 
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Columnists

Justin Raimondo
9/15/2014
A Note to My Readers

Ivan Eland
9/16/2014
Obama's Hazy Plan To Fight ISIS Is Unlikely To Succeed

Lucy Steigerwald
9/13/2014
Never Learn Anything From 9/11

Nebojsa Malic
9/06/2014
Of Motes and Beams

Ran HaCohen
8/02/2014
Yet Another War of Deceit

David R. Henderson
4/28/2014
An Economist’s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy
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Ehsan Ahrari
Uri Avnery
Matthew Barganier
Alan Bock
Patrick J. Buchanan
Juan Cole
Jonathan Cook
Tom Engelhardt
Joshua Frank
Aaron Glantz
Leon Hadar
Jorge Hirsch
Scott Horton
Jeff Huber
Dahr Jamail
Kathy Kelly
William S. Lind
Jim Lobe
Sascha Matuszak
Ray McGovern
Thomas Gale Moore
Brendan O'Neill
Rep. Ron Paul
Murray Polner
Gareth Porter
Gordon Prather
Charley Reese
Paul Craig Roberts
Mark Rothschild
Michael Scheuer
Norman Solomon
Paul Sperry
Joseph Stromberg
Jon Basil Utley
Jude Wanniski
Teresa Whitehurst
Andy Worthington
 
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