Militant Islamist fighters in military vehicles parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. (Reuters)
Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic: ISIS and the ‘Loser Effect’
Could the Islamic State's recent failures signal its demise?
In 2014, ISIS racked up a series of stunning successes as it pushed through Iraq and Syria, gaining momentum and new recruits with each victory. But in recent weeks, Syrian government forces liberated the city of Palmyra from ISIS, signifying a broader retreat for the extremist group over the past year. Can ISIS survive the label of loser?
Who could have foreseen that within a decade, between 2004 and 2014, the terrorist group al-Qaeda in Iraq would transform into ISIS, outline an apocalyptic vision of the End Times, reintroduce slavery, embrace war without limits, take on the world’s greatest powers, and conquer a mini-empire spanning swaths of Syria and Iraq—with spin-off affiliates infiltrating Libya, Nigeria, and elsewhere?
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Momentum builds for Pakistan to act against corruption -- Tom Hussain, Al Jazeera
China's Long March Into Central Asia -- Stratfor
Al-Qaeda: 5 years after the death of Osama bin Laden -- Huffington Post
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Putin's Space Debacle Blasts Off -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
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Why Facebook Is Killing It—Even When Nobody Else Is -- Julia Greenberg, Wired
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Possible collision between Polish Submarine project 877E Orzel and Russian Navy Submarine ptoject 636.3 Krasnodar.
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Thank you Naz for the heads up. I was out this evening, I am checking my sources now. If I can corroborate this story with a reliable source source, I will be posting it ASAP.
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