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Obama to outline strategy to defeat Islamic State

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will outline plans this week for an expanded U.S. campaign to defeat violent Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, a strategy that will also involve cooperation from allies in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. Obama will launch...

Islamic State launch gunboat attack on river-side town

  (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters attacked a riverside town north of Baghdad on Monday with gunboats and a car bomb, killing 17 people and wounding 54, a security source said. The source said the attack on Dhuluiya, around 70 km (45 miles) from the capital, was carried...

Syria rebels advance near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

Syrian rebels have made fresh advances near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Qunaitra province, where 26 troops and 17 rebels were killed in a battle Saturday, an activist group said. Fighting has raged in the province since August, when rebels and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra...