Middle East & US relations

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• http://www.popsci.com/iranian-general-promises-robot-soldiers?dom=tw&src=SOC

  

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  Flipboard Newsdesk

  Mar 9, 2015
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  ISIS and the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon

  The Atlantic - By Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

  Why do people travel abroad to take part in somebody else’s violent conflict? In August 2014, ISIS marked Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, with a 20-minute, high-definition video offering its greetings to the Muslim world. Gauzy images of smiling worshippers embracing at a mosque cut to children …

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  Casey Parrett

  

  Outcry over Isis destruction of ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud

  The Guardian - Kareem Shaheen

  Militants’ latest assault in Iraq described as war crime by Unesco and condemned as part of systematic campaign to erase millennia of culture

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  Casey Parrett

  

  Pakistan ‘disco mullah’ faces blasphemy probe

  Al Jazeera

  Case registered against Junaid Jamshed, pop star turned preacher, over alleged insult to one of the wives of prophet. Police in Pakistan have opened a blasphemy investigation against a former pop star turned Islamic preacher after he was accused of insulting one of the wives of the Prophet …

• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/04/afghanistan-kabul-attack-us-general-extremists

  

  Casey Parrett

  

  Flipboard Newsdesk

  Dec 4, 2014
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  IS attacks government airbase in eastern Syria

  apnewsarchive.com - Ryan Lucas

  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to …