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• 'Friends of Syria' agree to give urgent rebel aid
• Iraq attacks kill more than 30
• Western, Arab states to step up Syrian rebel support
• Kerry: Syria urgently needs a political solution
• Suicide bombers, gunmen kill 23 in Iraq attacks
• Suicide bomber kills 14 in Iraqi mosque
• Suicide bomb, shootings kill 9 in northern Iraq
• Gettysburg offers lessons on battlefield medicine
• Suicide bomb, shootings kill 9 northern Iraq
• Kerry seeks to coordinate aid to Syrian rebels
• Officials: Suicide attack kills 4 northern Iraq

'Friends of Syria' agree to give urgent rebel aid Posted: 22 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT DOHA (Reuters) - Western and Arab countries opposed to President Bashar al-Assad agreed at talks in Qatar on Saturday to give urgent military support to Syrian rebels fighting for his overthrow, and to channel it through a Western-backed rebel military command. Ministers from the 11 main countries which form the Friends of Syria group agreed "to provide urgently all the necessary materiel and equipment to the opposition on the ground, each country in its own way in order to enable them to counter brutal attacks by the regime and its allies". ...

Iraq attacks kill more than 30 Posted: 22 Jun 2013 01:48 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in northern Baghdad killing at least 12 people during evening prayers, police and medics said, in the deadliest of a series of attacks that claimed more than 30 lives across Iraq on Saturday. Sectarian tensions in Iraq and the wider region have been inflamed by the civil war in Syria, where mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect derives from Shi'ite Islam. ...

Western, Arab states to step up Syrian rebel support Posted: 22 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT By Yara Bayoumy and Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - International opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Saturday to give urgent military support to Western-backed rebels, aiming to stem a counter-offensive by Assad's forces and offset the growing power of jihadist fighters. Assad's recapture of the strategic border town of Qusair, spearheaded by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, and an expected assault on the divided northern city of Aleppo have alarmed supporters of the Syrian opposition. The U.S. ...

Kerry: Syria urgently needs a political solution Posted: 22 Jun 2013 12:21 PM PDT DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Unless the bloodshed in Syria stops, the region could descend into a chaotic sectarian conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday, as he called for an urgent political resolution to the war that has dragged on for two years and claimed 93,000 lives.

Suicide bombers, gunmen kill 23 in Iraq attacks Posted: 22 Jun 2013 11:37 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bombing inside a Shiite mosque during evening prayers and other attacks north of Baghdad killed 23 people in Iraq on Saturday, as officials announced preliminary results for local elections in two provinces that showed the bloc of the country's speaker of parliament in the lead.

Suicide bomber kills 14 in Iraqi mosque Posted: 22 Jun 2013 11:07 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad, killing 14 and wounding 32 others.

Suicide bomb, shootings kill 9 in northern Iraq Posted: 22 Jun 2013 10:37 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomb and other militant attacks killed nine people in northern Iraq on Saturday, as election officials announced preliminary results for local elections in two provinces that showed the bloc of the country's speaker of parliament in the lead.

Gettysburg offers lessons on battlefield medicine Posted: 22 Jun 2013 09:04 AM PDT GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — As gunshots ravaged the bodies of tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, military doctors responded with a method of treatment that is still the foundation of combat medicine today.

Suicide bomb, shootings kill 9 northern Iraq Posted: 22 Jun 2013 03:17 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomb and other militant attacks killed nine people in northern Iraq on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that has killed nearly 2,000 Iraqis since the start of April.

Kerry seeks to coordinate aid to Syrian rebels Posted: 22 Jun 2013 02:30 AM PDT By Lesley Wroughton and Yara Bayoumy DOHA (Reuters) - Washington wants Western and Arab allies to commit to directing all aid to Syrian rebels through the Western-backed Supreme Military Council, a senior U.S. official said before talks in Qatar on Saturday, to try to reduce the power of jihadi groups. Speaking before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Doha for the meeting with European and Arab foreign ministers, the official said the United States was also seeking to ensure that aid promises for the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict are honored. U.S. ...

Officials: Suicide attack kills 4 northern Iraq Posted: 22 Jun 2013 01:55 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a suicide car bomb in northern Iraq has killed at least four people.

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