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• Obama plays down US intervening in Syria
• Villagers unsatisfied by life sentence for Bales
• Manning's gender transition sets up legal showdown
• U.S. soldier who killed Afghan villagers gets life without parole
• Suicide bomber targets busy Baghdad cafe, killing 25
• Obama warns of cost of US action in Syria
• Initial Western intelligence finds Syrian forces used chemical weapons
• Military jury convicts soldier in Fort Hood attack
• Fort Hood shooter convicted of massacre, could get death penalty
• Soldier guilty of murder for Fort Hood shootings
• 'Core' US interests now at stake in Syria, Obama says. Will he take action?
• Fort Hood shooter Hasan convicted, faces death penalty
• Suicide bombing in park, attacks kill 36 in Iraq
• Suicide bomber kills 25 at Baghdad park
• Suicide bombing in park, attacks kill 32 in Iraq
• Blasts kill 29, wound hundreds in north Lebanon
• Officials: 26 killed in Iraq suicide bombing
• Nidal Hasan guilty in Fort Hood massacre. Next question: life, or death?
• One million children flee Syria conflict in 'tragic milestone': UN
• On Syria, Obama says no rush toward costly interventions
• Jury: Life in prison for Afghanistan massacre
• Maine Military Authority to cut 140 jobs
• Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Hasan Convicted, Could Face Death
• Flood of Syria refugees to Iraq tops 40,000
• As One Million Child Refugees Flee Syria, a Glimpse into Their Lives
• Soldier convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage
• UN Logs 1 Millionth Syrian Child Refugees
• Should Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan get the death penalty?
• Iraq pushes for investment as India seeks more oil
• Prosecutors: Bales deserves no chance of release
• Tensions in Lebanon skyrocket as bombs explode at Sunni mosques
• Jury mulling fate of admitted Fort Hood shooter
• A million Syrian child refugees is "shameful milestone": UN
• A million Syrian child refugees is 'shameful milestone': U.N.
• Obama: Alleged Syrian chemical massacre demands U.S. ‘attention’
• UN: Syrian war has uprooted 1 million children
• Insight: In small American town, a window into Egyptian general's past
• Time for action on Syria
• Our imperial disdain for the emerging world
• How Syria's Jihadists Win Friends and Influence People

Obama plays down US intervening in Syria Posted: 23 Aug 2013 04:18 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday played down the prospect of speedy U.S. intervention in Syria, stressing the difficulty of ordering military action against the Assad government without a strong international coalition and a legal mandate from the United Nations.

Villagers unsatisfied by life sentence for Bales Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:53 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians last year in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole — the most severe sentence possible, but one that left surviving victims and relatives of the dead deeply unsatisfied.

Manning's gender transition sets up legal showdown Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:52 PM PDT Bradley Manning is the first transgender military inmate to ask for hormone treatments, officials say, a request that could lead to a legal showdown over how — and if — the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case will be allowed to live as a female behind bars.

U.S. soldier who killed Afghan villagers gets life without parole Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:49 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A decorated American soldier was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday for killing 16 unarmed Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, in two bloody nighttime forays from his military post. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. ...

Suicide bomber targets busy Baghdad cafe, killing 25 Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:36 PM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 25 people and wounded more than 50 in Baghdad on Friday when he detonated his explosives inside a busy cafe near a park popular with families, police and medical sources said. It was one of the worst attacks in Iraq since suicide bombers hit the same district two months ago, targeting a Shi'ite mosque and killing 29 worshippers during noon prayers. Friday's bombing took place in al-Qahira, a northern district of the capital that is home to mainly Shi'ite Muslims. ...

Obama warns of cost of US action in Syria Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:33 PM PDT President Barack Obama warned the United States must be wary of costly and difficult foreign interventions as calls mount for military action against Syria over alleged chemical warfare.

Initial Western intelligence finds Syrian forces used chemical weapons Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have made a preliminary assessment that chemical weapons were used by Syrian forces in an attack near Damascus this week, likely with high-level approval from the government of President Bashar al-Assad, according to American and European security sources. ...

Military jury convicts soldier in Fort Hood attack Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:06 PM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiatrist eligible for the death penalty in the shocking assault against American troops by one of their own on home soil.

Fort Hood shooter convicted of massacre, could get death penalty Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:23 PM PDT By Karen Brooks and Jana J. Pruet FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A military jury convicted U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan on Friday of killing 13 people and wounding 31 others in 2009 when he walked into a medical facility at Fort Hood, Texas, yelled "Allahu akbar" and opened fire on unarmed soldiers with a laser-sighted handgun. It was the deadliest mass murder ever at a U.S. military base. The convictions mean Hasan could face the death penalty by lethal injection, possibly making him the first soldier to be executed by the U.S. military since 1961. ...

Soldier guilty of murder for Fort Hood shootings Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:20 PM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military jury on Friday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiatrist eligible for the death penalty in the shocking assault against American troops by one of their own on home soil.

'Core' US interests now at stake in Syria, Obama says. Will he take action? Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:05 PM PDT President Obama's assertion that "core national interests" are now on the line following what looks increasingly to have been large-scale use of chemical weapons this week against rebel strongholds outside Damascus suggests the US is moving closer to some form of intervention in Syria.

Fort Hood shooter Hasan convicted, faces death penalty Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT A US Army officer who killed 13 people in a rampage on a Texas military base was found guilty of premeditated murder Friday and now faces a possible death sentence.

Suicide bombing in park, attacks kill 36 in Iraq Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:55 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a park in northern Baghdad crowded by cafe- and restaurant-goers Friday night, the bloodiest attack in a day of violence that killed at least 36 people across the country, authorities said.

Suicide bomber kills 25 at Baghdad park Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:42 PM PDT A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people in Baghdad on Friday while seven died in other attacks, as security forces seek to stem spiralling violence with wide-ranging anti-insurgent operations.

Suicide bombing in park, attacks kill 32 in Iraq Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a park in northern Baghdad crowded by cafe- and restaurant-goers Friday night, the bloodiest attack in a day of violence that killed at least 32 people across the country, authorities said.

Blasts kill 29, wound hundreds in north Lebanon Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:25 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — In scenes reminiscent of Lebanon's devastating civil war, charred bodies lay in the streets Friday after twin car bombs exploded outside mosques packed with worshippers, killing 29 people and wounding hundreds.

Officials: 26 killed in Iraq suicide bombing Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq say at least 26 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who attacked a park in northern Baghdad.

Nidal Hasan guilty in Fort Hood massacre. Next question: life, or death? Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:48 PM PDT US Army Maj. Nidal Hasan got the verdict Friday he seemed to have already accepted: guilty on all counts for his Nov. 5, 2009, attack at the US military base at Fort Hood.

One million children flee Syria conflict in 'tragic milestone': UN Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:47 PM PDT One million children have fled war-torn Syria, the UN said on Friday, marking what it called a "tragic milestone' in the conflict.

On Syria, Obama says no rush toward costly interventions Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:43 PM PDT By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called the apparent gassing of hundreds of Syrian civilians a "big event of grave concern" but stressed on Friday he was in no rush to embroil Americans in a costly new war. As opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad braved the frontlines around Damascus to smuggle out tissue samples from victims of Wednesday's mass poisoning, Obama brushed over an interviewer's reminder that he once called chemical weapons a "red line" that could trigger U.S. action. ...

Jury: Life in prison for Afghanistan massacre Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:38 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians last year in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was sentenced Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Maine Military Authority to cut 140 jobs Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:28 PM PDT A business that got its start overhauling military Humvees and trucks is preparing to slash its workforce by more than half because of reduced demand. Maine Military Authority said Friday that it intends ...

Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Hasan Convicted, Could Face Death Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:14 PM PDT Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan killed 13, wounded 32

Flood of Syria refugees to Iraq tops 40,000 Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:04 PM PDT More than 40,000 Syrians have fled to Iraqi Kurdistan in little over a week to escape an escalation in fighting between Kurdish rebels and Islamists, the United Nations said Friday.

As One Million Child Refugees Flee Syria, a Glimpse into Their Lives Posted: 23 Aug 2013 11:48 AM PDT Half a world away from Syria, with information fed through sound bites by the evening news and interpreted by politicians and pundits, it's easy to think the faces of the Syrian civil war belong to President Bashar al-Assad, his military forces, and a rag-tag cadre of freedom fighters with widely varying ideological goals.

Soldier convicted of murder for Fort Hood rampage Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:38 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Maj. Nidal Hasan has been convicted of premeditated murder for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. That means he's now eligible for the death penalty.

UN Logs 1 Millionth Syrian Child Refugees Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:37 AM PDT Syria crossed a new milestone today as the civil war churns on with no end in sight: a million child refugees. In a joint statement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNICEF announced that they registered the 1 millionth Syrian child today. Antonio Guterres,...

Should Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan get the death penalty? Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT Everyone agrees on his guilt. His punishment is another matter.

Iraq pushes for investment as India seeks more oil Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT Iraq's prime minister on Friday pitched for investment from India to rebuild his war-shattered nation, which is a critical energy supplier to New Delhi.

Prosecutors: Bales deserves no chance of release Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' own "stomach-churning" words prove he knew what he was doing when he massacred 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year, a prosecutor told jurors Friday during closing arguments in the sentencing hearing.

Tensions in Lebanon skyrocket as bombs explode at Sunni mosques Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:45 AM PDT Two powerful car bombs exploded Friday outside Sunni mosques in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, killing at least 27 people and wounding 350.

Jury mulling fate of admitted Fort Hood shooter Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:35 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Military jurors resumed deliberations Friday in the trial of the Army psychiatrist who told them he was responsible for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood and mounted nearly no defense, even as prosecutors asked for a sweeping conviction that would allow a death sentence.

A million Syrian child refugees is "shameful milestone": UN Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of Syrian children forced to flee their devastated homeland reached 1 million on Friday, half of all the refugees driven abroad by a conflict that shows no sign of ending, the United Nations said. Another two million Syrian minors are uprooted within their country where they are often attacked, recruited as fighters, and deprived of their education, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. ...

A million Syrian child refugees is 'shameful milestone': U.N. Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:16 AM PDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of Syrian children forced to flee their devastated homeland reached 1 million on Friday, half of all the refugees driven abroad by a conflict that shows no sign of ending, the United Nations said. Another two million Syrian minors are uprooted within their country where they are often attacked, recruited as fighters, and deprived of their education, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. ...

Obama: Alleged Syrian chemical massacre demands U.S. ‘attention’ Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:11 AM PDT Will apparent atrocity spur U.S. military action?

UN: Syrian war has uprooted 1 million children Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:55 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Insight: In small American town, a window into Egyptian general's past Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:42 AM PDT By Phil Stewart CARLISLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Unlike today's ubiquitous images of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in crisp uniform decorated with medals, the U.S. Army War College yearbook shows the officer who would one day seize power in Egypt smiling at a party in a small Pennsylvania town, looking relaxed in a yellow polo shirt. There is a picture of Sisi visiting a U.S. Civil War battleground and another of his family taken at a Halloween party they attended, with his wife and daughter grinning next to a woman dressed like the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra. ...

Time for action on Syria Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:39 AM PDT By Anja Manuel The Syrian civil war now threatens to split the Middle East along a Sunni-Shia chasm. The horrifying news reports Wednesday about the Assad government's possible chemical attack on civilians, if proven true, mean that the Obama administration's "red line" has been crossed yet again. Thursday, both France and Turkey called for stronger action — including a possible use of force. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) renewed his call for a no-fly zone. ...

Our imperial disdain for the emerging world Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:18 AM PDT By Zachary Karabell August this year has been exceptionally unkind to the emerging world. We know that Egypt has been plunged into political and economic turmoil, yet that is only the most extreme case. Elsewhere, stories proliferate about economic slowdowns in Peru and China, and protests in Brazil and Turkey (among others). Yet rather than viewing these events in the larger context of the past decade, the most common response is to write the obituary of emerging world development. ...

How Syria's Jihadists Win Friends and Influence People Posted: 23 Aug 2013 05:02 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- Groups like al-Nusra are turning to charity stunts and service provision to ensure they have a loyal following even after Assad.

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