Why Islam Is an Exception (The National Interest)
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A review of Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism.
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Awaiting the Verdict: The Genocide of Christians (The National Interest)
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Does murder and terror by ISIS constitute 'genocide'?
Read MoreThis Weapon Can Hit Baghdad From 200 Miles Away (The National Interest)
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The Mosul Dam is the country’s largest such structure, and sits near ISIS's biggest city in Iraq.
Read MoreExplained In Two Minutes: The Insane Rise Of ISIS (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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A short video co-produced with colleague Erica Wenig.
Read MoreISIS Meets Its Most Formidable Foe: Microscopic Parasites (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Islamic State militants in Raqqa, the group’s operations center in Syria, are succumbing to the flesh-eating parasitic disease leishmaniasis.
Read MoreEgypt And US Christians Declare ISIS Victims ‘Martyrs’ (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Just days after 21 Christians’ beheading in Libya swept through headlines, Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church announced on Saturday that they would join its official calendar of saints.
Read MoreWho Were ISIS’ Egyptian Christian Victims? (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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A video emerged Sunday in which ISIS-affiliated extremists beheaded 21 Egyptian Christian hostages, raising worldwide shock and outrage.
Read More$1.3 Billion Later, Government Can’t Tell If It’s Beating ISIS At Propaganda (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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The committee overseeing the federal government’s “Twitter war” against terrorist propaganda admitted on Thursday that despite nearly $1.3 billion dollars in annual programming, it cannot measure the success of those efforts.
Read MoreISIS Is Hiring (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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The Islamic State terror group put out a call for employment applications this week, as it continues to consolidate its power in Syria and Iraq.
Read MoreIraq’s Prime Minister Exposes Vast Corruption (Daily Caller News Foundation)
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Is Iraq moving beyond corruption?
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi dismissed 24 top Interior Ministry officials on Monday, following a revelation Sunday that the country’s army had been paying salaries to 50,000 non-existent “ghost soldiers.”
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