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Washington has announced that the U.S. will deploy dozens of troops to Syria in an effort to both assist Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.
Seventy Kurdish hostages were rescued after special U.S. forces, working with Kurdish commandos, attacked an Islamic State outpost located near the Iraqi town of Hawija. One U.S. soldier was killed in the raid.
Russia's increased military support for Bashar al-Assad, which in recent weeks has expanded to a campaign of airstrikes, has not significantly improved the dictator's strategic outlook in the Syrian civil war, the U.S. intelligence community believes.
Russian security forces said on Monday that militants trained by the ISIS terror group had planned to strike Moscow's public transport system, but police forces successfully prevented the plot.
Militants from the Islamic terror group ISIS are encroaching on Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and have already taken control of large parts of homonymous province surrounding the highly symbolic locale.
No group has publicly claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara, though Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu indicates there are "strong signs" that the attacks were carried out by a suicide bomber.
The Obama administration announced that it will no longer seek to scout and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight against the Islamic State. Instead, the Pentagon will focus its resources on equipping and enabling existing rebel groups that have already been vetted by the U.S. to defeat the terrorist group.
At least 86 people were killed and nearly two hundred others injured when a pair of powerful bombs rocked the main train station in Ankara early Saturday, marking the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent times.
Days after Russia commenced its attack on ISIS targets in Syria, a number of their cruise missiles, launched from a Russian ship, have crashed in Iran.
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, destroyed another ancient landmark in the city of Palmyra, Syria, the latest monument to fall prey to the group's destruction.
In the latest issue of the Isis online recruitment magazine Dabiq, there is an image of two men standing in yellow jumpsuits staring at camera with the message "FOR SALE" posted beneath them.
