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BYU students, faculty react on withdrawal of American troops in Syria

By Anna Morgan
October 24, 2019 12:00 AM
Several interviewed BYU students and a faculty member said they view President Donald Trump's recent removal of about 1,0000 U.S. troops from Syria in a negative light and worry about the lasting impacts the removal will have.
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Nation

Things you should know today: 4/4/18

By Riley Waldman
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
China lists $50 billion of U.S. goods it might hit with 25 percent tariff
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World

Trump advisers urge against hasty US retreat from Syria

By Associated Press
April 04, 2018 12:00 AM
FILE -- In this Saturday, March 31, 2018 file photo, Syrian boys, right, sit on a pickup truck as they travel next to a U.S. vehicle, on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. President Donald Trump expects to decide 'very quickly' whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and 'we've almost completed that task.' (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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Local

BYU student left family to combat ISIS in Syria

By Trevor Morgan
May 11, 2017 12:00 AM
Porter Goodman, second from right, poses with two Kurds and two other volunteers in Tal Tamir. Goodman traveled to Syria in 2016 to help fight ISIS. (Porter Goodman)
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Campus Events

Amr Al Azm discusses Syrian conflict at Kennedy Center lecture

By Kaleena Mckell
March 08, 2017 12:00 AM
Guest speaker Amr Al Azm talks to BYU students about the Syrian conflict. (Maddi Driggs)
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World

Social media useful in preventing Islamophobia, raising awareness

By Kjersten Johnson
December 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Scrolling through Twitter after an ISIS-related terrorist attack yields tweet after tweet defending the religion of Islam — and a slew of negative, incriminatory and degrading Islamophobic tweets. Many of the positive statements are retweeted and praised, but so are the Islamophobic messages.
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World

UN: IS using tens of thousands as 'human shields' in Mosul

By Associated Press
October 27, 2016 12:00 AM
Internally displaced persons clear a checkpoint in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Islamic State militants have been going door to door in farming communities south of Mosul, ordering people at gunpoint to follow them north into the city and apparently using them as human shields as they retreat from Iraqi forces. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
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Nation

News Roundup: Friday, October 28

October 27, 2016 12:00 AM
State
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World

Islamic State suspect extradited to Germany from France

By Associated Press
September 30, 2016 12:00 AM
In this picture, a terrorism suspect, center, is led away at the German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, Germany, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2016. (Uli Deck/dpa via AP)
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Breaking News

Trump refuses to back away from false claim Obama founded ISIS

By Theresa Davis
August 11, 2016 12:00 AM
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group on Thursday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position.
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Opinion Outpost

Opinion Outpost June 16

June 16, 2016 12:00 AM
Orlando shooting
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World

Pakistan PM vows to fight terror after 70 died in Lahore

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Women try to comfort a mother who lost her son in bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, March 28, 2016. The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose on Monday as the country started observing a three-day mourning period following the attack. (Associated Press)
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World

Suicide bomber hits stadium in Iraqi city, killing 29

By Theresa Davis
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Iraqi security forces evacuate a body of a victim killed from a suicide bomb attack in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 6, 2016. The suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the war-ravaged country. (Associated Press)
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World

IS claims suicide bombing on stadium in Iraq that killed 29

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 25, 2016 12:00 AM
Mourners pray over an Iraqi flag-draped coffin of bomb victim, Rasul Kadim, 24, during his funeral procession at the holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 7, 2016. The suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the war-ravaged country. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in an online statement. (Associated Press)
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Local

ISIS attacks hurting tourism, but not BYU study abroad

By Whitney Hales
March 25, 2016 12:00 AM
Operatives from the Islamic State struck against civilians in Brussels last week, and Paris last November, leaving hundreds of casualties in their wake. Following the Brussels attacks, the Associated Press reported that ISIS has trained an estimated 400 fighters to launch attacks across Europe.
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Nation

Islamic State trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 23, 2016 12:00 AM
Belgian Army soldiers patrol at Zaventem Airport in Brussels on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union's capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after 34 were killed in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station. (Associated Press)
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World

One of the four missionaries injured in Brussels Airport attack in medically induced coma

By Chris Larson
March 22, 2016 12:00 AM
Updated: March 22, 2016 2:56 p.m.
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World

Turkey carries out airstrikes after deadly bombing in Ankara

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 14, 2016 12:00 AM
People stand by the Turkish flag-draped coffin of Murat Gul, 20, a security agent killed at Sunday's explosion during his funeral procession in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, March 14, 2016. A senior government official told The Associated Press that authorities believe the attack was carried out by two bombers, one of them a woman, and was the work of Kurdish militants. It was the second deadly attack blamed on Kurdish militants in the capital in the past month. (Associated Press)
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