| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Advisers could be close to combat | | President Obama has said there would be no "boots on the ground" in the fight to stamp out ISIS in Iraq and Syria, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said Tuesday that he would recommend sending military advisers into combat if necessary. |
| Sen. Manchin: I'll vote 'no' on arms | | As the pounding of war drums intensifies against ISIS and its advances in Iraq and Syria, at least one senator is voicing opposition to plans to arm Syrian rebels and says he's willing to shut down the government over it. |
| CNN witnesses anti-ISIS operation | | A thousand troops with Kurdish Peshmerga were in position by dawn, ready to strike. The goal: to push ISIS forces back westward toward Mosul and farther from Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region. |
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