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Australia to Revoke Citizenship of Australian-Born Jihadis

  AP– Australia plans to strip citizenship from Australian-born children of immigrants who become Islamic State fighters in its crackdown on homegrown jihadis, a minister said on Thursday. The government wants to change the Citizenship Act to make fighting for

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Iran Wants 24 Days Notice Prior to Nuke Inspections

As part of a final nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, Germany, France, Russia, China), Tehran has demanded at least twenty-four days notice before inspectors are allowed to review their nuclear enrichment sites, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has reportedly disclosed.

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Megyn Kelly Challenges Trump on His Pam Geller ‘Draw Muhammad’ Comments

On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly challenged potential Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on his remarks on Twitter critical of “Draw Mohammad” event organizer Pamela Geller. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/595406508378173440 According to Trump, Geller was a

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Iran’s Foreign Minister: The Trouble with Obama’s Nuke Deal Is ‘Basically Everything’

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gave a genial interview to Der Spiegel this week, with the German magazine describing him as “relaxed and cheerful” throughout. In his relaxed and cheerful way, Zarif continued Iran’s practice of making the Obama administration look foolish, rewriting the so-called “nuclear deal” on the fly and scoffing at the administration’s talking points.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Ensnared by Islamist Ideology, Driven to Murder

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for the murders he committed when he and his brother blew up the 2013 Boston Marathon. Judging by the case that the government presented against Tsarnaev and its visible effect on the jury, his odds of escaping the needle seemed early on to be less than even. But did the attorneys defending Tsarnaev make a major mistake that cost him his life by failing to tell the jury the entire story of how he decided to do what he did?

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Kurds Advance Against ISIS In Northeastern Syria

REUTERS– Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes are pressing an attack on ISIS in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadi group this week, a Kurdish official and an activist group said Wednesday. The official said Kurdish YPG fighters

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Evil Is the Islamic State’s Business, and Business Is Good

The New York Times offers a dismaying look at the Islamic State’s financial situation by Sarah Almukhtar: She looks at data from the RAND Corporation and judges that the modern-day Mordor “has revenue and assets that are more than enough to cover its current expenses despite expectations that airstrikes and falling oil prices would hurt the group’s finances.”

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Report: Afghanistan’s Taliban Sends Delegation To Iran

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban has arrived in Iran to discuss the situation of Afghan migrants and issues in the Islamic world, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday. The report said the delegation arrived in