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A new report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that 170 ISIS fighters have been killed in the last 48 hours in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh Province, in a flurry of airstrikes by the US-led coalition. Hasakeh is mostly under the control of the Kurdish YPG, and ISIS has been keen to advance there […]
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Key House Dem: Obama’s ISIS Plan Raises ‘Alarm Bells’
May 20th, 2015 
David Schulberg Over the weekend, Iraq lost a city of half a million people to ISIS. The city was the capital of Iraq’s largest province, and Iraq’s military abandoned a large amount of armored vehicles to the ISIS forces. So it might come as a little bit of a surprise that the White House today, when pressed […]
Obama Scales Back Military Equipment Sharing for Cops
May 19th, 2015 Awake Goy The programs have garnered attention as public concern has grown about the blurred lines between policing and military operations, especially as relations between law enforcement officers and the communities—particularly minority communities—have soured, and images of police confronting protesters in heavy military gear have spread via the news media. President Obama will announce today that […]
