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ISIS Demands Women Wear Double-Layered Veils, Allow 9-Year-Olds to Marry

Women living under control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed to The Guardian the militant group has imposed more restrictions on females since taking over new territories. The terrorist group forces people to live under strict Sharia law, which treats women like second-class citizens. Rules include double-layered veils and marrying off girls as young as 9.

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L.A. Times Defends Obama on ISIS; Polls Disagree

The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on Tuesday defending President Barack Obama’s policy of confronting ISIS (Islamic State) through “strategic patience” and rallied behind his long-held opposition to sending U.S. troops to the Middle East. However, most of America doesn’t agree.

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Peter King: AQAP and ISIS Worked Together on Paris Attacks

Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Rep Peter King (R-NY) said the Paris terror attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher supermarket were a joint operation between Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and ISIS. Notably at

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Leading Expert: Yes, ISIS Is Islamic

The Obama administration made a kind of parlor game out of refusing to connect the Islamic State with Islam. The president himself said it most directly last year when he announced in a prime time TV address, “ISIL is not ‘Islamic.’”

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Kurds Turn Away Foreign Volunteers From the ISIS Front

According to an article at the Kurdish outlet Rudaw, Peshmerga militia forces have had to turn back a high number of foreign fighters attempting to join the war on the Islamic State. Repeated attempts to discourage the foreign fighters and request arms aid instead have failed to stop the flow into Iraq.

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ISIS Threat Puts Rome on High Alert: ‘Never So Exposed’

ROME, Italy– Rome has dramatically stepped up its security in the wake of last weekend’s slaughter of Christians in Libya and the Islamic State’s overt threat to the city. Outside of Rome’s US embassy on Via Veneto, increased security has been stationed, and machine guns have appeared in the hands of guards. A special security taskforce has been convoked to plan Rome’s response to escalating ISIS threats.

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Matthews: US Being ‘Morally Humiliated’ in ISIS Fight

During his “Let Me Finish” segment on his Monday show, MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews offered some scathing criticisms of President Barack Obama’s handling of the spread of ISIS throughout the Middle East. Transcript as follows: Let me finish tonight

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The Truth About the Islamic State and End of Days Prophecy

Graeme Wood’s article, “What ISIS Really Wants,” in the March 2015 issue of The Atlantic is a fantastic summary of how the Islamic State (ISIS) interprets Islam – and, perhaps more importantly, how the rest of the Islamic world looks at ISIS. It does a great deal of damage to President Obama’s preferred narrative about how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, as well as his characterization of the terror state as “nihilistic.”

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Psaki and Harf: The Clueless, Defending the Hopeless

The State Department spokesperson has the task of defending the president’s foreign policy more often than any other government official. During President Barack Obama’s first term, that unenviable task fell to the opaque Victoria Nuland, whose redeeming feature was that there was a spine behind the smokescreen. (“F*** the E.U.,” she famously said, albeit in private, on Russia and the Ukraine.) Not so with successors Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, the clueless defending the hopeless.