| Mosul's Vigilante Brigades Risk It All To Take On IS |
 | Their identities are secret. They work after sundown, preferring deserted areas of the city. No one knows where they will strike next. They target different neighborhoods each time. Their mission is simple: to kill Islamic State (IS) militants. |
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| Will Iraq, Syria Survive As States? |
 | U.S. intelligence chiefs have repeated their assessment that Iraq and Syria may have been permanently fractured by war and sectarian strife and may not survive as nation-states. |
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| Turkey Sends Ground Troops Into Iraq |
 | Turkey deployed ground forces across the border into northern Iraq September 8 for the first time since 2011 to pursue Kurdish militants involved in attacks that killed 31 Turkish police in recent days. |
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| Explainer: Who Gets Asylum In Germany? |
 | With as many as 800,000 migrants and refugees expected to arrive in Germany this year, here are five things to know about their chances of gaining asylum there. |
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