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Obama Plans CIA Expansion On Anti-ISIS Covert Operations

The Obama administration has been mulling plans to increase the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) involvement in providing support to moderate rebels in Syria, in an effort to boost U.S. anti-Islamic State operations, even as the Pentagon prepares to set up additional training facilities.

ISIS Militants

Obama’s Syrian Rebel Training Program Against ISIL Met With Skepticism

President Barack Obama plans to deepen U.S. involvement in dealing with the ISIL threat by providing arms and training to moderate Syrian rebels in the Middle East, officials said on Wednesday. The proposal however, raises questions on how it can be effectively implemented without backfiring on Washington.

Ebola - Dr. Kent Brantly (R) at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia in this undated handout photograph courtesy of Samaritan's Purse.

Ebola Arrives In U.S. As First Patient Is Brought To Atlanta Hospital

An American doctor infected with the deadly Ebola virus while working to save patients infected with the disease in Liberia has arrived in the U.S. on Saturday with the second American expected to arrive later this week.

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