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• Britain arrests three more in terrorism" investigation
• Coalition commanders seek plan to counter IS advance
• Cotton, Pryor stick to familiar themes in debate
• Turkey: No new deal with US on using air base
• Turkey has not reached new deal to let U.S. use base: officials
• Kerry to meet Libyan FM in Paris
• Obama reviews foreign, domestic response to Ebola
• Iraq forces at critical juncture as Anbar teeters
• Sister of British IS hostage urges captors to resume talks
• Britain sees no early demand from U.S. for air strikes in Syria
• Thirty killed in three bombings in Shi'ite parts of Baghdad
• Iceland shuts down 'Islamic State' website
• Oil resumes slide after OPEC shrugs off glut worries
• IS jihadists boast of enslaving Yazidis
• San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Announces "Road to Recovery Week" for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes at Kick-Off Reception on Oct. 4, 2014
• Saudi top diplomat criticizes Iran over conflicts
• Jihadists fight way into centre of Syria border town
• UN cuts Syria food aid over funding shortfall: official
• Islamic State demands for U.S. hostage cannot be met, parents say
• ISIS Is Now Bragging About Enslaving Women and Children
• Militants take Iraq army camp as bombs hit Baghdad
• Islamic State forces 180,000 to flee in Iraq
• Turkey denies allowing US to use bases for anti-IS strikes
• U.S. Army says it faces huge equipment, training risks with budget cuts
• Iran must withdraw 'occupying' forces from Syria: Saudi
• Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan: The world must support Kurds in their fights for legitimate rights
• Triple Baghdad blasts kill at least 22: police
• Homeland Security’s Morale Crisis Puts Americans at Risk
• Three suicide attacks hit Kurdish town on Syria-Turkey border
• Somali government as corrupt, Shebab as deadly as ever: UN
• Guerrilla groups hunt down Islamic State in Syria
• Turkey's Kurdish peace process at risk amid fury over Syrian town
• Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq
• Haitian Story of Triumph and Survival Featured at NYC Independent Film Festival
• Britain's Hammond sees Scotland referendum as 'model' for Iraq
• Syria eases aid flow but U.N. absent from Islamic State areas
• Islamic State: Britain's top diplomat says endgame is regime change in Syria
• Khamenei blames United States, 'wicked' Britain, for creating Islamic State
• Insight - Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalisation
• U.N. says up to 180,000 refugees flee Iraqi town

Britain arrests three more in terrorism" investigation Posted: 13 Oct 2014 04:25 PM PDT London (AFP) - British police arrested three men on Monday in central London on suspicion of Islamist-linked "terrorism", following a series of arrests last week.

Coalition commanders seek plan to counter IS advance Posted: 13 Oct 2014 04:12 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - Military commanders from the US-led coalition against the Islamic State will meet in Washington on Tuesday to discuss ways to halt the jihadist group's relentless advance in Iraq and Syria.

Cotton, Pryor stick to familiar themes in debate Posted: 13 Oct 2014 04:06 PM PDT CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton repeatedly tried to tie Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor to President Barack Obama, while Pryor accused his rival of being beholden to billionaire backers as the two squared off Monday for their first debate in Arkansas' heated Senate race.

Turkey: No new deal with US on using air base Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:59 PM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement on its use for operations against Islamic State militants.

Turkey has not reached new deal to let U.S. use base: officials Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:47 PM PDT By Ozge Ozbilgin ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has not reached a new agreement to let the United States use its Incirlik air base in the fight against Islamic State militants, and talks are continuing on the subject, Turkish officials said on Monday. Turkey had reached an agreement with Washington on the training of Syrian rebels, sources from the Turkish prime minister's office told reporters, without saying who would train the insurgents or where. The comments come after U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Turkey had agreed to let forces from a U.S. ...

Kerry to meet Libyan FM in Paris Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:33 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold surprise talks in Paris with his Libyan counterpart on Tuesday amid growing international concern over the turmoil flourishing in the North African nation.

Obama reviews foreign, domestic response to Ebola Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama urged his top national security and public health officials on Monday to incorporate lessons from the most recent Texas Ebola infection into the U.S.'s response plans to the deadly virus. He also called on the international community to deliver assistance more quickly to the countries of West Africa that are struggling against the disease.

Iraq forces at critical juncture as Anbar teeters Posted: 13 Oct 2014 03:00 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - A string of jihadist attacks has shrunk the Iraqi government's footprint in Anbar to a bare minimum and officials are warning time is running out to save the western province from falling completely.

Sister of British IS hostage urges captors to resume talks Posted: 13 Oct 2014 02:45 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The sister of a British man held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Iraq and Syria has urged his captors to resume contact, saying that all communication with those holding him had ceased. Journalist John Cantlie has appeared in a number of videos posted online by IS, which has beheaded four Western hostages. He was captured in northern Syria in November 2012. ...

Britain sees no early demand from U.S. for air strikes in Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2014 01:51 PM PDT By Isabel Coles ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday he saw no immediate demand from the United States and its Gulf allies for Britain to extend its air strikes on Islamic State (IS) fighters to Syria. Britain's parliament approved air strikes against IS in Iraq by a decisive margin last month but is far from united about the need to extend them to Syria. ...

Thirty killed in three bombings in Shi'ite parts of Baghdad Posted: 13 Oct 2014 01:50 PM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in Shi'ite parts of Baghdad on Monday, killing 30 people, police and medical officials said, continuing a wave of attacks targeting Iraq's majority religious group. Baghdad's largest Shi'ite neighbourhood, Sadr City, was rocked by two blasts: a bomb in the late afternoon that killed six people near a marketplace, and a car bomb at a police checkpoint that killed 16 people and wounded 30, according to medical and police officials. ...

Iceland shuts down 'Islamic State' website Posted: 13 Oct 2014 01:28 PM PDT Reykjavik (AFP) - Iceland has closed down a website believed to be used by the jihadist organisation Islamic State and which showed the murder of hostages, the authority responsible for the country's Internet domain name ".is" said Monday.

Oil resumes slide after OPEC shrugs off glut worries Posted: 13 Oct 2014 01:02 PM PDT New York (AFP) - Oil prices slid lower Monday, with Brent hitting a four-year low, on oversupply worries heightened by OPEC signals that producers have no intention of cutting output.

IS jihadists boast of enslaving Yazidis Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:53 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - The Islamic State jihadist group says that it has given Yazidi women and children captured in northern Iraq to its fighters as spoils of war, boasting it had revived slavery.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Announces "Road to Recovery Week" for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes at Kick-Off Reception on Oct. 4, 2014 Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:51 PM PDT SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes, a leading national, non-profit military charity, received a proclamation signed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer during a special musical reception benefit for combat-wounded military veterans and their families on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in Coronado, CA. ...

Saudi top diplomat criticizes Iran over conflicts Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:41 PM PDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday lashed out at regional rival Iran, accusing the Shiite powerhouse of having forces inside Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and insisting that Iran is "part of the problem" in trying to defuse the myriad Mideast crises.

Jihadists fight way into centre of Syria border town Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:24 PM PDT Mursitpinar (Turkey) (AFP) - Jihadists fought their way into central Kobane in heavy clashes with the Syrian border town's Kurdish defenders Monday, ahead of a Washington meeting of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group.

UN cuts Syria food aid over funding shortfall: official Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:21 PM PDT Kuwait City (AFP) - The United Nations said on Monday that it has started cutting the food aid it provides to 4.2 million Syrians ravaged by war because of a shortfall in funding.

Islamic State demands for U.S. hostage cannot be met, parents say Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:20 PM PDT (Reuters) - The parents of an American hostage threatened with beheading by Islamic State militants said in an interview with "CBS This Morning" on Monday that they are unable to meet the financial and other demands of their son's captors. The parents of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an aid worker abducted on Oct. 1, 2013, did not elaborate on what Islamic State had demanded in exchange for their son's freedom. "Their demands have always been ones that we cannot accommodate," Paula Kassig, the captive's mother, told the TV program. ...

ISIS Is Now Bragging About Enslaving Women and Children Posted: 13 Oct 2014 12:19 PM PDT In the newest issue of Dabiq, the English-language magazine published by ISIS, the extremist group for the first time confirmed and justified the capturing, enslaving, and selling of Yazidi women and children. The article surfaced as a new report from Human Rights Watch said that hundreds of Yazidis are being held captive in makeshift detention facilities in Iraq and Syria, and that some young women and teenagers are being forced to marry the group's fighters.

Militants take Iraq army camp as bombs hit Baghdad Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:54 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with the Islamic State group on Monday captured a military training camp in western Iraq, inching closer to full control of the restive Anbar province, as a spate of deadly bombings shook Baghdad, hitting mostly Shiite neighborhoods and leaving at least 30 dead.

Islamic State forces 180,000 to flee in Iraq Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:39 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province has forced up to 180,000 people to flee since the city of Hit fell to Islamic State earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday. Islamic State fighters extended that advance by overrunning a military base that the Iraqi army had abandoned 8 km (5 miles) west of Hit earlier on Monday, according to an army officer and members of a government-backed Sunni militia. Islamic State has been on the offensive in the desert province of Anbar, bordering Syria, in recent weeks, taking the town of Hit on Oct. ...

Turkey denies allowing US to use bases for anti-IS strikes Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:32 AM PDT Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Monday denied it struck a deal with Washington allowing US forces to use Turkish air bases for bombing raids against Islamic State (IS) militants inside Syria but confirmed it had agreed to help train Syrian rebels.

U.S. Army says it faces huge equipment, training risks with budget cuts Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:28 AM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army warned on Monday that mandatory budget cuts due to resume in fiscal 2016 would be devastating to a service that is already facing huge risks as it tries to keep forces ready for battle, replace aging equipment and respond to crises around the world. "We have to have a national security debate ... because there is too much going on," U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno told reporters at the annual Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) conference. ...

Iran must withdraw 'occupying' forces from Syria: Saudi Posted: 13 Oct 2014 11:13 AM PDT Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Iran must withdraw its "occupying" forces from Syria to help resolve that country's conflict, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Monday after talks with his German counterpart.

Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan: The world must support Kurds in their fights for legitimate rights Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:53 AM PDT FLORENCE, Italy, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Islamic State's assault on Kobani and the brave resistance of Syrian Kurds has brought the Kurds' suffering to the attention of the international community.At the Mediterranean Forum Conference on the Middle East, the Secretary General for the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Abdullah Mohtadi, expressed his deepest support and sympathy to the Syrian brothers and sisters standing for their legitimate rights against any army of religious extremists. ...

Triple Baghdad blasts kill at least 22: police Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:31 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Three bombings within an hour on Monday rocked Shiite neighbourhoods in the Iraqi capital as people filled the streets, distributing sweets for the Eid al-Ghadir Muslim feast, leaving at least 22 dead.

Homeland Security’s Morale Crisis Puts Americans at Risk Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT Amid a new warning that homegrown terrorists and "lone wolves" inspired by ISIS may be planning attacks in this country, the Department of Homeland Security must be at the top of its game to guard against renewed terrorist activities. Over the weekend CNN reported that the FBI and DHS have voiced "fresh concerns" in a new security bulletin about possible terrorist attacks by U.S.-based terrorists sympathetic to ISIS. These attacks would be aimed at FBI agents, other law enforcement personnel and members of the news media. Yet a new government survey shows that the massive homeland security department is plagued by what The Washington Post described as longstanding "debilitating morale problems" that have worsened during the Obama administration and "grown more serious" since Secretary Jeh Johnson took over in December.

Three suicide attacks hit Kurdish town on Syria-Turkey border Posted: 13 Oct 2014 10:16 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Three Islamic State fighters blew themselves up on Monday in Kobani near the Turkish border with Syria, a monitoring group said, with the hardline militants making slight advances inside the besieged Kurdish town. In one of the attacks an IS fighter detonated a truck laden with explosives in a northern district of Kobani, which has been the scene of heavy clashes between Kurdish forces and Islamic State fighters, Kurdish sources said. Idris Nassan, a Kurdish official in Kobani, said two Kurdish fighters had been wounded during the suicide attack. ...

Somali government as corrupt, Shebab as deadly as ever: UN Posted: 13 Oct 2014 09:40 AM PDT Nairobi (AFP) - War-torn Somalia's government remains riddled with corruption while Shebab Islamists are as deadly as ever, United Nations investigators warned in a damming report seen by AFP Monday.

Guerrilla groups hunt down Islamic State in Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2014 09:27 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Small groups of Syrians are hunting down Islamic State fighters in one of their main strongholds in eastern Syria in a new guerrilla campaign that has emerged as a response to the Islamists' growing brutality. The main aim is to generate fear in Islamic State's ranks, said the head of "White Shroud" - a group that says it has killed more than 100 Islamic State fighters in attacks in Deir al-Zor province in recent months. ...

Turkey's Kurdish peace process at risk amid fury over Syrian town Posted: 13 Oct 2014 09:27 AM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk DIYARBAKIR Turkey (Reuters) - Windows shattered by looting protesters, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast shows plenty of signs of the violence that swept it last week, but optimism over a fragile peace process with Kurdish guerrillas is far harder to find. There are fears that the fate of the border town of Kobani in neighboring Syria could wreck efforts by the Turkish government to end a three decades long insurgency by the militants, and tip Turkey back into a conflict that has cost 40,000 lives. ...

Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq Posted: 13 Oct 2014 09:27 AM PDT ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war. In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated "idolators". The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq's Sinjar region. ...

Haitian Story of Triumph and Survival Featured at NYC Independent Film Festival Posted: 13 Oct 2014 08:31 AM PDT NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A documentary about hope and healing in the midst of the horrific aftermath of Haiti's 2010 earthquake will be a featured presentation at the NYC Independent Film Festival in the Royal Theatre at the Producers Club, 358 W 44th Street on Friday, Oct. 17, 11:30 a.m. and on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 12:30 p.m. at the Adelante Theatre 25 W 31st St. ...

Britain's Hammond sees Scotland referendum as 'model' for Iraq Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:41 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Britain's foreign secretary said Monday in Baghdad he hoped Scotland's decision to remain in the United Kingdom would inspire Iraqis to remain united.

Syria eases aid flow but U.N. absent from Islamic State areas Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:32 AM PDT By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations aid convoys cannot reach vast areas of Syrian territory under Islamic State control, a senior U.N. official told Reuters, although the Damascus government is allowing better access to besieged areas elsewhere. To get food and medicine to areas ruled by Islamic State, the U.N. relies on partner humanitarian organizations such as the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and on tribal contacts. This has led to "huge gaps" in delivering aid and assessing needs, said Yacoub El Hillo, the U.N. coordinator in Syria. ...

Islamic State: Britain's top diplomat says endgame is regime change in Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2014 07:20 AM PDT Britain's top diplomat says the US-led military campaign in Syria against Islamic State militants must be followed by regime change in Damascus, the seat of power for President Bashar al-Assad.

Khamenei blames United States, 'wicked' Britain, for creating Islamic State Posted: 13 Oct 2014 06:32 AM PDT By Michelle Moghtader DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday blamed the United States and the "wicked" British government for creating the Islamic State in his first speech since undergoing prostate surgery last month. The sharp remarks were a reminder of Iranian suspicions about the West despite the emergence of the ultra-hardline Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria as the common foe of Tehran and Washington. ...

Insight - Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalisation Posted: 13 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. "I'd go there, I'd sign my name, play pool with some other radicals that I was in prison with, and I'd go home," said Rahman, arrested again last month on suspicion of terrorism offences. He denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. ...

U.N. says up to 180,000 refugees flee Iraqi town Posted: 13 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 180,000 people have been displaced by fighting in and around Hit in western Anbar province since the city fell to Islamic State militants earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday. Islamic State fighters overran a military base that the Iraqi army had abandoned about eight kilometers west of Hit earlier on Monday, according to an army officer and three members of a government-backed Sunni militia. The jihadists looted three armored vehicles and at least five tanks and then set the camp ablaze, the officer and Sunni militia fighters said. ...

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