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Focus: Islamic State - July 22, 2016

By bartolo - Posted on 21 July 2016

War on ISIL: US and allies plan to corner jihadist group in Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq - btimes.co.uk

Joint statement by foreign and defense ministers of the expanded small group of the global coalition to counter ISIL / Daesh - foreignaffairs.co.nz

Carter: Defense ministers agree on next steps in counter-ISIL fight - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

VIDEO: Carter addresses counter-ISIL meeting in Maryland - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

VIDEO: Carter briefs reporters on counter-ISIL efforts - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Kerry: Islamic State will remain dangerous after Mosul, Raqqa fall - Stripes

VIDEO: Secretary Kerry opens ministerial meeting of global coalition to counter ISIL - YouTube

While Carter portrays the terror group as on the run, GOP committee paints it as deadlier and more destructive than ever and determined to strike within U.S. borders - McClatchy DC

There have now been over 100 ISIS-linked terror plots against the West since 2014 - House Committee on Homeland Security

REPORT: Terror Gone Viral - House Committee on Homeland Security

Islamic State braces for imminent Iraqi siege to retake Mosul - usatoday.com

Pentagon investigating claims of civilian deaths in Syria strike - UPI.com

Syrian opposition calls for suspension of U.S.-led air strikes - Reuters

Kurds to Syrian opposition: halting coalition airstrikes will only help ISIS - ARA News

U.S.-backed Syrian force gives Islamic State 48 hours to leave Manbij - Reuters

Obama administration has begun to see al-Nusra as a global threat echoing a Russian argument that it has long resisted - The Washington Post

Russia-US-UN talks on Syria to be held in Geneva on July 26: source - TASS

Friends and foes of détente with Russia, Events from Turkey, Washington, Moscow, and Syria to Cleveland affect the Obama-Putin attempted rapprochement - The Nation

Carter: U.S.-Russian airstrikes in Syria 'not in the cards' - Washington Examiner

U.S.-backed ‘moderate’ rebels behead a child near Aleppo - The Daily Beast

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Brazilian police arrest 10 suspected of planning terrorist acts during Olympics - CNN.com

Brazilian terror group pledges allegiance to ISIS before Olympics - New York Post

Olympics: U.S. warned of jihad in Latin America before Brazilian Islamic State pledge - breitbart.com

Islamic State threatens to intensify attacks against France - Telegraph

Attacker in Nice plotted for months and had accomplices, French prosecutor says - The New York Times

Teenager who terrorized German train appears in Islamic State video - The Long War Journal

`Lone wolf` attacks rising, hard to track, warns Europol - Zee News

Report: More Than 100 Chinese Muslims Have Joined the Islamic State - Foreign Policy

Libyan forces reportedly laying siege to Islamic State in Sirte - Washington Post

UN: Islamic State fighters in Libya facing the "distinct possibility" of defeat, likely to scatter elsewhere in the North African region - Military.com

Cutting the Islamic State's money supply - The National Interest Blog

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