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Islamic State finance chief, other leaders, likely killed

Islamic State\’s top finance officer and other senior leaders were likely killed this week in a major offensive targeting the militant group\’s financial operation, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday.

Obama: faster progress needed against Islamic State

President Barack Obama said on Monday that Islamic State militants had lost swaths of territory they once controlled in Iraq and Syria but that progress needed to be made faster against the group.

Shaming the murderers

A religious Muslim who murders an innocent person in the name of the Quran desecrates his own religion. I wish that idea had been the theme of last week’s White House Conference on Violent Extremism.\n

Local congressman urges decision on authorizing use of military force

Disagreement is brewing among elected officials over whether a bill empowering President Barack Obama to wage war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) should limit the scope of the military’s involvement in the conflict, arousing lingering unease over the length of recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Islamic State says U.S. hostage killed in Syria

The Islamic State militant group said on Friday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria had been killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held, the SITE monitoring group said.

As L.A.’s Muslims condemn French attacks, a gap on what’s to blame

Following the recent terror attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists that left 17 dead and 22 wounded at a satirical magazine and kosher market, the debate within the local Muslim community over what to blame and even how to label the ideology behind the attacks has only intensified.

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