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Marine Gen. John Kelly is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CBS News reported Wednesday morning. Kelly is the third general Trump has tapped for his Cabinet, along with retired Lt. Gen...

BEIRUT >> Kurdish-led Syrian forces began an offensive Sunday to liberate the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, clashing with the extremists north of the Syrian city and warning neighboring Turkey not to interfere in the operation...

U.S. officials are scrambling to contain flaring tensions between Ankara and Baghdad after Turkish officials announced their troops Sunday shelled Islamic State positions near the Iraqi city of Mosul - an artillery barrage, the Turks say, requested by...

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“Islam needs to clarify two questions ... that is, the questions concerning its relation to violence and its relation to reason.” — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVIsize=4> "Giving an Appearance of Solidity to Pure Wind" (New Oxford Review, January-February...