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US: Will Turks train Syrian opposition in Turkey?

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:52 PM PDT

TOLEMAIDA MILITARY BASE, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that the U.S. wants to know how far Turkey is willing to go in helping train and equip moderate opposition fighters trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Army War College revokes Sen. John Walsh's degree

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT

In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., right, and his son Michael leave the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walsh says the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. has revoked his master's degree after an investigation into plagiarism allegations. The college launched the probe in August 2014 after The New York Times published a story showing Walsh borrowed heavily from other sources for a research paper he wrote in 2007. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army War College revoked Democratic Sen. John Walsh's master's degree after an investigation completed Friday concluded that he plagiarized a research paper required to graduate.


Iraqi forces in 'tenuous' position in west: US official

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:52 PM PDT

A member of the Iraqi security forces keeps watch on August 14, 2014 on the main highway near Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capitalWashington (AFP) - Iraqi government forces are in a "tenuous" position in the west of the country but are holding out for the moment against Islamic State jihadists, US defense officials said Friday.


Iowa Senate candidates call in star power to swing tight race

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:45 PM PDT

An Obama-Romney rematch is brewing in Iowa. Well, sort of.

US warns of possible reprisal attacks over war against IS

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:28 PM PDT

Alleged Islamic State (IS) militants stand next to an IS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Kobane on October 6, 2014Washington (AFP) - The United States on Friday warned of possible attacks against Western targets in reprisal for its military campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.


US reports 'progress' in pressing Turkey to join IS fight

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:26 PM PDT

Turkish armoured vehicles patrol at the border line with the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, on October 10, 2014Washington (AFP) - The United States reported progress Friday in pressing Turkey for more involvement in the fight against the Islamic State group, in particular with a pledge from Ankara to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels.


White House says need to accelerate Turkish help in Iraq, Syria

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday emphasized the importance of quickly getting Turkish military help in the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, an issue that came to the forefront this week in the Syrian border town of Kobani. Lisa Monaco, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, met with Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan on Friday, part of a series of U.S-Turkish meetings on Turkey's support for training moderate Syrian fighters. Monaco "expressed appreciation for Turkey's support to ongoing U.S. ...

Coalition military chiefs to meet in US next week: officials

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:55 PM PDT

Smoke rises after strikes from the US-led coalition in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, on October 10, 2014Washington (AFP) - Military chiefs from 21 countries in the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq will gather next week in Washington to discuss the war effort, two defense officials said Friday.


German downturn casts shadow over world economy

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - The Feb. 14, 2013 file photo shows containers piled up at the Duisburg harbour, Germany. German exports plunged in August as increasing uncertainty over the crisis in Ukraine and the timing of summer holidays combined to produce the largest drop in five years. The Federal Statistical Office reported Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 that August exports dropped 5.8 percent over July while imports dropped 1.3 percent in calendar and seasonally adjusted terms. The country's trade surplus narrowed to an unadjusted 14.1 billion euros (US$17.83 billion). (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As if the global economy didn't have enough troubles, it looks like Germany, Europe's traditional growth engine, risks falling into recession — or growth so weak it holds back the entire euro currency union's weak recovery.


U.S. says sees higher chance of Islamic State reprisal attacks

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday that it sees a higher chance of reprisal attacks on members of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group since they began airstrikes against the fighters last month. In a periodic update of its "Worldwide Caution" on potential global threats, the State Department noted the United States and regional partners began military action against Islamic State, also referred to as ISIL, on Sept. 22. "In response to the airstrikes, ISIL called on supporters to attack foreigners wherever they are," it added. ...

U.N. says thousands likely to be massacred if jihadists take Kobani

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:03 PM PDT

Smoke rises after an US-led air strike in the Syrian town of KobaniBy Tom Miles and Ayla Jean Yackley GENEVA/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Thousands of people most likely will be massacred if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday, as militants fought deeper into the besieged Syrian Kurdish town in full view of Turkish tanks that have done nothing to intervene. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said Kobani could suffer the same fate as the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where 8,000 Muslims were murdered by Serbs in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, while U.N. peacekeepers failed to protect them. ...


IS jihadists execute Iraqi journalist, 12 other people

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:49 PM PDT

A flag of the Islamic State (IS) is seen in Iraq on September 11, 2014.Samarra (Iraq) (AFP) - Islamic State militants executed an Iraqi news cameraman and 12 other people on Friday in several towns and villages north of Baghdad, officials, relatives and witnesses said.


Senator Walsh of Montana stripped of degree for plagiarism

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:49 PM PDT

Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh speaks to reporters after being named to replace Baucus in Helena(Reuters) - The U.S. Army War College has revoked the master's degree of U.S. Senator John Walsh of Montana, the result of a plagiarism scandal that prompted him in August to abandon his election bid, both Walsh and the college said on Friday. "The board found that then-Colonel John Walsh did commit the offense of plagiarism and thus his master's degree and status as a graduate of the U.S. Army War College should be revoked," said Carol Kerr, a spokeswoman for the college, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. ...


Kobani's fall would be symbolic setback for Obama Syria strategy

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:27 PM PDT

Turkish Kurds look towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani from the top of a hill close to the border line between Turkey and Syria near MursitpinarBy Phil Stewart and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's not a particularly strategic location, the United States and its allies never pledged to defend it, and few people outside the region had even heard of it before this month.     But the symbolism of U.S.-led airstrikes failing to stop Islamic State militants from overrunning the Syrian city of Kobani could provide an early setback to U.S. President Barack Obama's three-week old Syria air campaign - far beyond its battlefield importance.     If Islamic State seizes full control of the city - which U.S. ...


Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:17 PM PDT

A picture taken in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar on October 10, 2014 shows smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the KurdsSuruc (Turkey) (AFP) - Islamic State jihadists captured the headquarters Friday of Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian border town of Kobane, with a UN envoy warning thousands would likely be massacred if it falls to them.


Turkey to support training, equipping Syrian opposition: U.S.

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:13 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. "Turkey has agreed to support train-and-equip efforts for the moderate Syrian opposition," spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters in describing talks on Thursday between U.S. and Turkish officials in Ankara. "There will be a (U.S. ...

Egypt says kills top militant leader in Sinai

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A top leader of Egypt's most active Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis was killed on Friday by Egyptian soldiers in the lawless north of the Sinai Peninsula, a military spokesman said on Facebook. Sinai-based Ansar, which seeks to topple the government, has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police over the past year and beheaded several people in recent weeks, saying they were spies for Israeli intelligence. ...

US renews global terrorism warning

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:51 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the Islamic State group and its supporters.

Ambassador Bolton Endorses & Makes PAC Contributions To 6 GOP Candidates

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:20 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Finishing strong the last month of the 2014 midterm elections, Ambassador John Bolton endorses six Republican candidates running for election to the U.S. House and Senate, and John Bolton PAC makes a contribution in the amount of $5,000-$10,000 to each candidate for a total of $37,500. The donations include contributions to primary and general campaign funds. This follows 10 endorsements last week along with a $5,000 PAC contribution to each candidate. ...

UN envoy warns of Kobane 'massacre', urges Turkey to let Kurds fight

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:05 AM PDT

Syrian and Turkish Kurds pray during the Friday prayer at the Turkish-Syrian border opposite the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, on October 10, 2014Geneva (AFP) - Kurdish residents in Kobane "will be most likely massacred" by advancing Islamic State jihadists, a UN envoy warned Friday, urging Turkey to stop blocking Kurds from crossing into Syria to defend the besieged town.


Tight Arkansas Race Hangs on Money, Voter ID Law

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT

The battle over control of the Senate is growing fiercer by the minute – especially in states like Arkansas where polls are showing the race is a toss-up. Republicans have zeroed in on incumbent Senator Mark Pryor, one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate. Pryor is being challenged by Rep. Tom Cotton, a rising star in the conservative faction of the House GOP. Outside spending groups have already poured about $17 million into attacking Pryor and have repeatedly tied him to President Obama, who is vastly unpopular in the state.

Giving Vietnam Veterans a Second Chance to Come Home

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT

In August 1971, Terry Sorrells came home to southern Indiana from the Vietnam War and asked his dad if he wanted to go squirrel hunting. The season had just started, and it was a pastime they'd shared before he left for the war. So they took their shotguns, walked to the back of their farm, and parked themselves under a tree.

Algerian army kills five suspected militants

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:48 AM PDT

Algerian troops conduct a search operation on October 10, 2014, near the village of Ait Ouabane, 80 kilometres south of Tizi OuzaAlgiers (AFP) - Algerian soldiers killed five gunmen during anti-militant operations, the defence ministry and army said Friday, a day after raiding the suspected hideout of jihadists who beheaded a French hostage.


Syrian Kurdish leader urges Turkey to help fighters get weapons

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT

Salih Muslim, leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), during an interview in Marseille, southern France, on December 1, 2013Suruc (Turkey) (AFP) - The head of the main Kurdish political party in Syria on Friday called on Turkey to allow its territory to be used for passing weapons to Kurdish fighters defending the key Syrian town of Kobane.


IS jihadists execute nine people in northern Iraq

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:53 AM PDT

A flag of the Islamic State (IS) is seen in Iraq on September 11, 2014.Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Islamic State group fighters executed nine people on Friday in two northern Iraqi towns on suspicion of ties to anti-jihadist Sunni grassroots organisations, security sources and witnesses said.


Egypt to host donor conference for war-hit Gaza

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:43 AM PDT

Palestinians and security forces stand on the rubble of a destroyed building on October 9, 2014 in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza StripJerusalem (AFP) - Envoys from dozens of countries will gather Sunday for a conference that aims to raise billions of dollars to rebuild conflict-battered Gaza, despite fears of renewed violence and "donor fatigue".


We must negotiate with IS, says father of slain US reporter

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:32 AM PDT

This handout picture courtesy of Nicole Tung taken on November 5, 2012 in Aleppo shows US freelance reporter James FoleyParis (AFP) - The father of James Foley, the US reporter beheaded at the hands of Islamic State militants in August, said Friday he believed governments would have to negotiate with the extremists "eventually".


Obama's Iraq-Syria strategy, way back in June 2014 ... and now

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:12 AM PDT

On June 19, shortly after Iraqi troops fled the country's second largest city, ceding it to the army of the so-called Islamic State, President Barack Obama held a press conference on the situation in Iraq and Syria and what his administration was going to do about it.

France pushes buffer zone for Syria, Turkey

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:08 AM PDT

Turkish Kurds in the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, offer their Friday prayers as they gather to support Syrian Kurds over the border in nearby Kobani, Syria, where fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group intensified, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)PARIS (AP) — France's foreign minister is calling for the creation of a buffer zone between Syria in Turkey to protect refugees and civilians as the Islamic State group advances in the region.


The Smartphone Apps That Help Cops Track Down Illegal Wildlife Products

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:02 AM PDT

One of the unintended consequences of sending the United States military abroad is to promote illegal trafficking in wildlife. Young soldiers typically want souvenirs of their foreign service, and neither military patrol officers on bases abroad nor customs agents back home can usually tell whether, say, that fur hat is made from Eurasian lynx (illegal) or Corsac fox (not wonderful, but OK).

Serbia backs jail terms for Serbs fighting in foreign conflicts

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 07:59 AM PDT

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's parliament approved on Friday jail terms of up to eight years for anyone found guilty of fighting in foreign wars, in an effort to dissuade citizens from joining conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere. The amendments to the criminal code may also be used to crack down on the lucrative business of mercenaries who have used their experience in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s to fight for money in places such as Sierra Leone, Algeria and more recently in Libya. ...

Islamic State holds 40 percent of Kobani, could capture it: U.S. adviser

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:53 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) militants now control 40 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border and might well capture it, Deputy U.S. National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said on Friday. Blinken said as of Thursday, IS fighters had taken over about 40 percent of Kobani with local Kurdish forces holding about 60 percent, echoing figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ...

U.N. envoy calls on Turkey to prevent Srebrenica-style massacre in Kobani

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:46 AM PDT

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy called on Turkey on Friday to help prevent a slaughter in the Syrian border town of Kobani at the hands of Islamic State fighters, saying he feared a repeat of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre when thousands died. Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations' envoy to Syria, appealed to Ankara to let "volunteers" cross the frontier so that they can reinforce Kurdish militias defending the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory. ...

U.S. military says conducts nine airstrikes in Syria, most near Kobani

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:28 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conducted nine airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria during the past two days, including seven strikes near the border town of Kobani, U.S. Central Command said on Friday. Two strikes on Thursday and Friday hit southeast of Kobani, destroying two Islamic State training facilities, it said in a statement. Four others hit south of the town near Syria's border with Turkey, striking vehicles, a tank and two small units of Islamic State fighters, the U.S. military said. ...

Spain to send 300 soldiers to train Iraqi troops

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:19 AM PDT

MADRID (AP) — Spain says it plans to send 300 soldiers to help train the Iraqi army for combat against the Islamic State group.

Angry protesters yell at riot police in St. Louis

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:44 AM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters angered by the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by police faced off with officers in south St. Louis for a second night as accusations of racial profiling prompted calls for a federal investigation ahead of a weekend of planned rallies and civil disobedience.

The Merger of ISIS and al-Qaeda Could Cripple the Civilized World

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:45 AM PDT

"I think Britain, Germany and France will witness significant attacks in their territories by the Islamic State. Al-Baghdadi [the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, otherwise known as ISIS] may reconcile with al-Zawhiri [the leader of the al-Qaeda central organization] to fight the crusader enemy. The attacks by the United States and her allies will unite the two groups," said Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi researcher who just finished writing a book about ISIS based on his unique access to the organization's documents and years of research and advising Iraqi security forces.  "I have been monitoring al-Qaeda's leaders' rhetoric towards Baghdadi.

Kurds hold off IS in Syria town, pressure mounts on Turkey

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:05 AM PDT

Smoke rises after an airstrike on Syria's Kobane, October 9, 2014. A US-Turkish team will meet to discuss the fight against ISMursitpinar (Turkey) (AFP) - Kurdish militia fought to hold off Islamic State group jihadists in the battleground Syrian border town of Kobane on Friday as pressure grew for action by neighbouring Turkey.


The New U.S. Price Tag for the War Against ISIS: $40 Billion a Year

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Earlier, Gordon Adams, a military analyst at American University, told The Fiscal Times that the mission to stop ISIS will cost $15 billion to $20 billion annually, based on his "back of the envelope" calculations. The estimated $30 billion to $40 billion of new spending would come on top of the Pentagon's  $496 billion fiscal 2015 operating budget for personnel and contractors and the roughly $58.6 billion in an "Overseas Contingency Operation" fund that is used to finance U.S. The OCO, as it is known, has paid for the protracted U.S. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has urged the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees to schedule hearings as soon as possible to provide taxpayers with a realistic assessment of what it may cost in the coming decade to battle ISIS -- and gauge the likely impact on the deficit and other spending priorities.

A beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence?

Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:19 AM PDT

Moore, Okla., is a sleepy suburb where major crime is almost unheard of — especially something like the grisly decapitation of one person by a co-worker and the attempted decapitation of another. Local officials have described what happened at Vaughan Foods as a horrifying but random case of an angry worker lashing out. But while the FBI says it has found no links so far between the confessed killer and the Islamic State or other extremist groups, there is little doubt that he sympathized with their cause.

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