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12 Sep 2014:Claims that strikes would violate sovereignty, as Syrian rebels welcome move and other Arab states offer 'appropriate' support
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11 Sep 2014: US national security editor Spencer Ackerman breaks down the omissions, inversions and problems of Obama’s Isis speech
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11 Sep 2014:
John Boeher says president’s plans may not go far enough but insists ‘We ought to give the president what he’s asking for’
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11 Sep 2014: Republican hem and haw on how they would confront Isis, as Rand Paul calls Libya ‘a jihadist wonderland’ and Ted Cruz talks about borders
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11 Sep 2014: A year ago, Obama told the nation he was stepping back from military intervention. On Wednesday, he made a starkly different announcement: what amounted to a declaration of war
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11 Sep 2014:
Barack Obama's announcement last night about the war against the Islamic State (Isis) – which he prefers to call Isil – was filled with euphemisms, questionable statements, caveats, omissions and even the occasional truth. Here's an annotated version of the speech to serve as a guide to the fine print
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11 Sep 2014: Editorial: The president offers a plan couched in terms of defending America and degrading Isis but he needs to add to it a diplomatic effort to help settle the Shia-Sunni conflict
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11 Sep 2014:
Battling the jihadis in Syria without giving aid to Bashar al-Assad's regime will be a hugely complicated undertaking, writes Martin Chulov
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11 Sep 2014:
President announces in televised address that US will target Islamic State militants in Syria for the first time
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11 Sep 2014: Afzal Ashraf: Involving regional countries in the conflict represents the most immature part of a risky US plan
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11 Sep 2014: Syrian National Coalition 'ready and willing' to help defeat Isis in the south – but urges Obama to also topple Assad regime
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11 Sep 2014:
US offensive against Isis militants in Iraq is an extension of the strategy the White House deployed in Somalia and Yemen
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11 Sep 2014: Full text of Barack Obama’s televised remarks on an expanded campaign against Isis militants in Iraq and Syria
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11 Sep 2014: For expanded Isis strikes, president relies on legal authority he disavowed only a year ago
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10 Sep 2014:
Hours before Obama to announce expanded military campaign, senior homeland security official claims militants pose no imminent danger at home
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