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• Obama responds to Romney's tough talk on Mideast
• Obama foreign policy bright spot now looking dimmer
• Libyan army tackles rogue militias as two disband
• Iraq shrugs off calls to reconsider death penalty
• Dangerous and deepening divide between Islamic world, West
• Eyes wide shut, world watches Syria bleed
• Libyan army gives rogue militias ultimatum after two disband
• Police: 5 killed in Iraq attacks
• Fighting in Turkey kills soldier, three Kurdish militants
• Ryan Lets His Inner Wonk Flag Fly
• Minibus bombing kills 3 in Iraq
• Egypt's Mursi says Iran is vital to ending Syria's crisis

Obama responds to Romney's tough talk on Mideast Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:51 PM PDT President Barack Obama, defending his foreign policy record at a time of anti-American rage in the Muslim world, fired back at suggestions from Republican Mitt Romney that the president has been weak with allies and enemies alike.

Obama foreign policy bright spot now looking dimmer Posted: 23 Sep 2012 04:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you thought Mitt Romney was the only presidential candidate whose problems were piling up in the final stretch of the 2012 election campaign, think again. From Middle East upheaval to the troubled Afghan war effort to a more assertive Russia, President Barack Obama is facing pressures that threaten to chip away at a foreign policy record his aides hoped would be immune to Republican attack. The White House is increasingly concerned but isn't hitting the panic button, yet. ...

Libyan army tackles rogue militias as two disband Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:41 AM PDT TRIPOLI/DERNA, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's army on Sunday ordered rogue armed groups in and around Tripoli to leave state and military premises or be ejected by force, apparently seeking to capitalize on the withdrawal of militias from Benghazi and Derna. The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a town in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, said on Saturday they were disbanding after one of them, Ansar al-Sharia, was driven out of Libya's second city, Benghazi. ...

Iraq shrugs off calls to reconsider death penalty Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT Iraq has executed nearly 100 people so far this year, a big increase over previous years that has intensified concern about whether defendants are receiving fair trials in a country where the United States has spent billions of dollars trying to reform the judicial system after decades of dictatorship.

Dangerous and deepening divide between Islamic world, West Posted: 23 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters)- For those who believe in a clash of civilizations between the Islamic world and Western democracy, the last few weeks must seem like final confirmation of their theory. Even those who reject the term as loaded and simplistic speak sadly of a perhaps catastrophic failure of understanding between Americans in particular and many Muslims. The outrage and violence over a crude film ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad points to a chasm between Western free speech and individualism and the sensitivities of some Muslims over what they see as a campaign of humiliation. ...

Eyes wide shut, world watches Syria bleed Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thirty years ago Hafez al-Assad cut phone lines from Hama to stop word spreading of his bloody crackdown on an uprising in the city, ensuring that the 1982 Syrian revolt was crushed and many thousands killed before the world even knew of it. Three decades on, his son is 18 months into a military campaign waged, despite efforts at censorship, in the glare of a global media spotlight; but Bashar too can rely on Cold War-era divisions among major powers, and a growing sense of impotence and indifference, to shield him from armed foreign intervention. ...

Libyan army gives rogue militias ultimatum after two disband Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:00 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's army on Sunday ordered rogue armed groups in and around the capital to leave state and military premises in Tripoli or be ejected by force, apparently seeking to capitalise on the withdrawal of militias from Benghazi and Derna. The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a town in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, said on Saturday that they were disbanding in the town, a day after one of them, Ansar al-Sharia, was driven out of Libya's second city, Benghazi. ...

Police: 5 killed in Iraq attacks Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:39 AM PDT Attacks killed five people in Iraq's capital on Sunday, targeting security forces and Shiite Muslims in the small but steady stream of continuing violence across the country.

Fighting in Turkey kills soldier, three Kurdish militants Posted: 23 Sep 2012 07:22 AM PDT TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Clashes in Turkey overnight killed one soldier and three Kurdish militants, the latest in the heaviest fighting the country has seen in more than a decade, security sources said on Sunday. Fighting erupted outside the southeastern town of Tunceli after two groups of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters simultaneously attacked two military outposts, the sources said. ...

Ryan Lets His Inner Wonk Flag Fly Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:51 AM PDT ORLANDO, Fla. – Let Paul be Paul.

Minibus bombing kills 3 in Iraq Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:56 AM PDT Iraqi officials say a bomb attached to a minibus has killed three people in the capital Baghdad.

Egypt's Mursi says Iran is vital to ending Syria's crisis Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:28 AM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President said on Saturday that having a strong relationship with Iran is important for Egypt at this time to be able to work out a way to end the bloodshed in Syria. Speaking in a televised interview, his first to state TV since his election last June, President Mohamed Mursi described Iran as "a main player in the region that could have an active and supportive role in solving the Syrian problem. ...

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