ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is a caliphate Islamic state declared over large swathes of Iraq and Syria and lead by its caliph Abu Bakr Baghdadi.
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Was ISIS created by the USA?
I hear many folks talking about the founders of ISIS and they say that USA created it to make chaos in the Arabic countries.
Mark Danner in an episode of Talking Heads by Vice News
"In effect the United States created ISIS, nothing like it…
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Did Snowden reveal that ISIS is a USA-Israel tactic?
This reports claims regarding ISIS which evolved since 2003 assuming erstwhile names like ISI,ISIS and now IS:
The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the…
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Were the Paris attackers youths from Syria?
Recently, Bill Nye was interviewed by Huff Post Live.
In one excerpt of the interview he draws a line of causation from a water shortage in Syria to the November 2015 Paris attacks.
He was transcribed by the Washington Times (note: not the…
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Did Obama admit training IS?
In a video, Obama appears to be saying that "We're speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes".
Is this video genuine or fake?
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Is ISIS beheading children in Mosul, Iraq?
On the Gateway Pundit, this claim by Chaldean-American businessman Mark Arabo is posted:
“There is a park in Mosul, where [ISIS] they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick and have them in the park,”
Is this true?
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Did Hillary Clinton admit in her memoirs to creating ISIS?
The Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei claimed in a speech posted on his official website that:
Some Americans have confessed in their own memoirs [including Hillary
Clinton's memoirs] that they have played a role in creating,
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Did Senator McCain ever meet ISIS leader al-Baghdadi?
Since last year I often see an image in both Twitter and Facebook claiming that Senator McCain once meet ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. The image is used as propaganda regarding the belief of some people that the US is behind the empowering of the…
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Is Russia currently deploying troops to Syria?
A recent (31 August, 2015) article from Zero Hedge claims that Russia is currently deploying troops to Syria.
as Ynet reports, not only has Putin not turned his back on Assad, or Syria, but the Russian reinforcements are well on their way. [...]…
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Is ISIS committing genocide against the Yazidis?
From Fact Checks of the Eighth Republican Debate, on the New York Times website:
Senator Marco Rubio said President Obama had played down the threat of
the Islamic State, which practices genocide.
An exaggeration.
Senator Marco Rubio's charge…
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Have more British Muslims joined Islamist groups than serve in British armed forces?
From the New York Times: Her Majesty’s Jihadists
Her Majesty’s Jihadists
More British Muslims have joined Islamist militant groups than serve
in the country’s armed forces. How to understand the pull of jihad.
and from the body of the…
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Is this graphic comparing punishments between ISIS and Saudi Arabia accurate?
I found the following image on a reddit thread.
How accurate is this comparison?
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Are jihadists returning to Örebro, Sweden given psychological help?
Speisa makes this claim:
Jihadists returning to Örebro Municipality will get psychological help.
And not only that: Tvärsnytt now reveals that the municipality council are discussing giving them jobs.
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ISIS Jihadists returning to Örebro will…
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Does this video show the US arming Islamic State?
This video, published by Iran's Press TV 16 Feb 2015, claims to show a US Chinook dropping weapons for ISIL militants.
According to Iraqi media, the video, released by the Iraq-based Hezbollah brigades, shows a US Chinook helicopter dropping two…
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Did US troops drop aid without parachutes?
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/08/12/much-of-the-us-aid-to-yazidis-useless-because-it-was-dropped-from-15000ft-without-parachutes-and-exploded-on-impact/
The site claimed that water and food are dropped from 5000 meters without parachute and it…
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Have one million Christians been persecuted to death or exile in Iraq by jihadis?
On the Breitbart News Network is the claim
In a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of jihadi persecution, while America is basically standing by and…
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