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Here are Some of the Toughest Battles Still to be Fought against ISIS

Sun Jul 16, 2017 15:13:33

The battle of Mosul is over, but the war against the ISIS is far from done. The militants have lost some 60 percent of the territory they controlled at the peak of their expansion, but that leaves a sizable area, mostly in Syria but also Iraq, to be recaptured.

U.S. questions detainees in Yemen prisons rife with torture: AP

Thu Jun 22, 2017 16:31:00

Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al Qaeda militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme -- including the "grill," in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found.