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The Islamic State released a video that appears to show a masked man beheading two American journalists. FBI Director James Comey would not name the suspect.
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The facilities, captured by Islamic State militants earlier this year, are said to produce $2 million worth of refined oil each day to help fund the extremist organization.
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The new attacks on the self-declared Islamic State insurgency come as President Obama is set to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York about the threat from extremists.
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Peshmerga forces say they are still engaged in fierce battles with Islamic State militants. The fighting has triggered a mass exodus of Kurdish refugees into Turkey.
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The Islamist rebels also known as ISIS or ISIL reportedly captured 16 Kurdish villages in northern Syria in a major push for territory. The move has prompted fears of a massacre of civilians.
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At MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, President Obama was briefed on the situation in Syria and Iraq by Central Command.
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The disparities in naming are partly because of translation difficulties, and partly a sign of a propaganda war. The group calls itself the Islamic State; the Obama administration goes with ISIL.
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Experts say it's not so much the American people that the president has to convince, but the Middle East leaders he's counting on for help.
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The U.N. official in charge of coordinating the removal of Syria's chemical stockpile said they found discrepancies in the country's accounting of its arsenal.
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In the wake of second execution of a journalist by Islamic extremists, Senator Bill Nelson plans to introduce legislation to authorize airstrikes in Syria.