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Congress hesitant to share IS intelligence with Putin, Assad

Lawmakers are ambivalent about greater cooperation in countering foreign fighters.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin look towards one another during their meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York September 28,  2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque  - RTX1SYAC

Members of Congress want more eyes on the Islamic State (IS). They would just rather the eyes not be Vladimir Putin's.

A bipartisan House Homeland Committee task force on Sept. 29 released a report on terrorist travel to Middle East conflict zones that bemoaned a lack of international cooperation in tracking would-be terrorists. The report laments the absence of a comprehensive strategy in the United States and calls on European nations to do more to keep tabs on its citizens as they travel to Syria, Iraq and Libya.

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