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“During the operations, ISIS fighters engaged coalition forces on several occasions,” CENTCOM said. Those engagements ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit this week reaffirmed its conclusion that the federal government violated the ...
Kim Kallstrom's inclusion at number ten is not representative of him as a player. The Swedish midfielder had a respectable ...
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The Scroll of Antiochus was written to describe what caused the creation of the holiday of Hannukah and to praise its history ...
This is the eighth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...