2014年10月8日星期三

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Australia launches first airstrike in Iraq

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:36 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Defense officials say an Australian jet fighter has made the country's first airstrike against an Islamic State target in Iraq since the Australian government committed its air force to combat missions last week.

Kurds remain in control of Kobane: US military

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:34 PM PDT

Armed men, believed to Islamic State group militants, walk along a street in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border on October 8, 2014Washington (AFP) - Kurdish forces are "holding out" against the Islamic State group in the Syrian border town of Kobane, and US-led warplanes have intensified bombing raids to push back the jihadists intent on seizing the area, the US military said Wednesday.


Obama claims progress combatting Islamic State

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:19 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with senior military leadership including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, at the Pentagon on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a stubborn enemy, President Barack Obama professed confidence Wednesday that the U.S. will keep making progress against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, as the reality set in of a lengthy military conflict with limited prospects for success.


U.S. frustrated by Turkish inaction, but seeks support over time

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:12 PM PDT

By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is frustrated by Turkey's failure to stop the Islamic State onslaught on the Syrian town of Kobani but hopes to win its support against the group over time, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. Turkish troops have sat on the sidelines as Islamic State militants have fought to gain control of Kobani, a Syrian town on the border with Turkey that is largely populated by Kurds, who also constitute large minorities in Turkey and Iraq. Analysts and U.S. ...

Australian jets strike first Islamic State targets in Iraq

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 04:02 PM PDT

By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian fighter jets have made their first strike against Islamic State militants in Iraq, the Australian Defense Force said on Thursday, where a U.S.-led coalition is engaged in a fierce bombing campaign to weaken the group. Last week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Australian special forces troops would be deployed to Iraq and that its aircraft would also join the air strikes. "Overnight the Australian Air Task Group operating in the Middle East attacked its first target in Iraq," the Australian Defense Force said in a statement. ...

Australia conducts first air strikes in Iraq

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:59 PM PDT

This handout photo taken by the Australian Defence Force on September 24, 2014 shows a Royal Australian Air Force airman waiting to marshal an RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet after its arrival at Australia's main support base in the Middle EastA Super Hornet fighter jet has carried out Australia's first bombing raid in the fight against the Islamist State group in Iraq, the defence ministry said Thursday.


US pressing Turkey to join anti-IS coalition

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:54 PM PDT

Black smoke rises during ongoing fighting in the Syrian town Kobane by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern town of Suruc, on October 8, 2014Washington (AFP) - The United States is pushing Turkey to join the fight against Islamic militants, amid frustration and wariness in both governments heightened by Ankara's unease at helping besieged Kurdish communities.


Army imposes curfew after 21 killed in Turkey pro-Kurdish protests

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Turkish soldiers stand guard by their armoured vehicle in the empty streets of Diyarbakir on October 8, 2014Diyarbakir (Turkey) (AFP) - Turkey's military on Wednesday imposed a curfew in parts of the southeast after at least 21 people were killed in pro-Kurdish protests over the government's failure to act against jihadists attacking the Syrian border city of Kobane.


Obama allies getting harder to find these days

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:22 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is finding himself with few friends in Washington.

US warns air power cannot save Syrian town from IS

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 03:01 PM PDT

Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby arrives for a press conference on September 2, 2014 in Arlington, VirginiaWashington (AFP) - President Barack Obama conferred with commanders Wednesday on the "difficult" fight against Islamic State jihadists as the US military warned air power alone could not prevent the group from seizing a key Syrian border town.


Canada suspects 80 returnees of 'terror' links

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:44 PM PDT

Alleged Islamic State group militants stand next to a black IS flag atop a hill in at the eastern part of the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, on October 7, 2014Ottawa (AFP) - Canada said Wednesday 80 citizens and immigrants who recently returned from war zones including Iraq and Syria are suspected of having links to "terrorism" groups.


What Obama associates are saying about him

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:25 PM PDT

How some of Obama's associates have been treating him lately:

Canada seeks to jail 80 who took part in foreign terror plots

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 02:24 PM PDT

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada wants to arrest 80 people who returned to the country after taking part in suspected terrorism-related activities, the public safety minister said on Wednesday. Canadian security officials have fretted for years about the number of young men traveling abroad to join militant groups, including Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The Canadian Parliament approved a government plan on Tuesday to send six fighter jets to the Middle East to join a U.S.-led bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters in Iraq. ...

French family of 11 believed to have left for Syria jihad

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:57 PM PDT

A view of Nice, in southeastern France, seen on November 23, 2013Paris (AFP) - Eleven members of the same family from the French city of Nice are believed to have left for Syria, with some suspected of planning to fight alongside jihadists, a judicial source said on Wednesday.


WWII author Rick Atkinson says faces learning curve for next project

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:42 PM PDT

By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Author Rick Atkinson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a best-selling World War Two history, said on Wednesday he was facing a steep learning curve for his next project on the American Revolution. After 15 years of researching and writing about World War Two, Atkinson said the 1775-1781 war that freed 13 American colonies from Britain and created the United States was a brand new subject. "It's a steep learning curve for me. I know a lot about World War Two, a lot less about the Revolution and 18th century warfare and 18th century societies," he said. ...

White House walks back talk of Syria-Turkey buffer zone

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:41 PM PDT

People watch smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, after an air strike, on October 8, 2014 on the Turkish-Syrian borderWashington (AFP) - The White House denied Wednesday it was planning to create a safe haven along Turkey's border with Syria, after France backed the proposal and the US and British top diplomats said the idea was worth examining.


Senate Debates Are Mostly Heat and No Light

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:21 PM PDT

Senate Debates Are Mostly Heat and No LightWhat are voters actually hearing from Senate candidates in the final bruising weeks of the midterm election campaign? Tuesday evening's debate in North Carolina between embattled Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis is a case in point. Hagan chose to open the debate in Research Triangle Park, N.C., by declaring that "Speaker Tillis has built a record of dividing our state, always putting the wealthy and big corporations first." Later, she called Tillis "spineless" for criticizing President Obama's handling of the ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq while refusing to say what he would do. Meanwhile, an equally rough-and-tumble one-hour debate at the Georgia National Fair between Senate Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn and Republican candidate David Perdue was almost impossible to hear.


Renewed assault on Kobani; 21 dead in Turkey as Kurds rise

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:20 PM PDT

By Daren Butler and Jonny Hogg MURSITPINAR Turkey/ANKARA (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters launched a renewed assault on the Syrian city of Kobani on Wednesday night, and at least 21 people were killed in riots in neighboring Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin. Heavily outgunned defenders said Islamic State militants had pushed into two districts of the mainly Kurdish border city late on Wednesday, despite U.S.-led air strikes that the Pentagon acknowledged would probably not be enough to safeguard the town. ...

U.S. military says air power may not save Syrian town of Kobani

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:14 PM PDT

Smoke rises after an US-led air strike in the syrian town of KobaniBy Arshad Mohammed and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday said air power alone may not save the Syrian town of Kobani from Islamic State militants as U.S. officials appeared to brace for the town's fall. Although the U.S. military carried out six air strikes to try to keep the town from IS hands, it also acknowledged that Kobani and other towns may be overrun by the group, which has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria this year. U.S. ...


Jihadists advance in Syria border town despite air strikes

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:13 PM PDT

Smoke rises following an air strike on the eastern sector of the Syrian town of Kobane, on October 8, 2014Mursitpinar (Turkey) (AFP) - Jihadists fighting to take the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane advanced Wednesday despite intensified US-led air strikes, as deadly protests over the fate of its Kurdish residents shook neighbouring Turkey.


Islamic State group downs another Iraqi helicopter

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Map shows the spread of the Islamic State across Iraq and Syria with ethnic borders on the map.;BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with the Islamic State group on Wednesday shot down an Iraqi military attack helicopter, killing the two pilots on board in the second such incident in a week and raising concerns about the extremists' ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led airstrikes.


Friends: Aid worker captured in Syria knew risks

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:49 PM PDT

In this 2011 photo provided by the Kassig Family, Abdul-Rahman Kassig, right, poses for a photo while fishing with his father, Ed Kassig, near the Cannelton Dam on the Ohio River in southern Indiana. Ed and Paula Kassig said in a statement Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, that their son, Abdul-Rahman formerly known as Peter, indicated he wasn't forced to convert to Islam and is at peace with his beliefs. The Islamic State group has threatened to behead the 26-year-old, who was captured Oct. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An American aid worker threatened with beheading in Syria had researched the region and knew the dangers, but he believed the good he could accomplish through his relief organization outweighed the risk, his friends said Wednesday.


Why Turkey is dragging its feet on helping anti-Islamic State coalition

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:42 PM PDT

Building an international coalition to assist the United States in the effort to degrade and ultimately defeat the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria was never going to be an easy task.

Syria, Iraq conflicts spark street clashes in Germany

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:35 PM PDT

Protesters and policemen stand in front of the Al-Nour mosque during a demonstration against the jihadist group Islamic State on October 8, 2014 in HamburgBerlin (AFP) - Street clashes pitting Kurds against radical Muslims left 23 people wounded in Germany, police said Wednesday amid fears that fighting in Syria and Iraq could further inflame passions.


Turkey cuts 2014 growth forecast, blames Mideast tensions

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 12:28 PM PDT

Turkey lowered its economic growth forecast for 2014 to 3.3 percent, blaming external factors including the chaos in neighbours Syria and Iraq and increased uncertainty in the global economyIstanbul (AFP) - Turkey on Wednesday lowered its economic growth forecast for 2014 to 3.3 percent, blaming external factors including the chaos in neighbours Syria and Iraq and increased uncertainty in the global economy.


Belgium Islamist 'no different to Pussy Riot', trial hears

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 11:55 AM PDT

Spokesman for former radical Islamic group Sharia4Belgium, Fouad Belkacem aka Abu Imran, smiles at the Antwerp criminal court on November 30, 2012 ahead of his trialBrussels (AFP) - A hardline Islamist accused of inspiring dozens of young Belgians to fight jihad in Syria is no different from feminist activists Femen and Pussy Riot, his lawyer said on Wednesday.


Ebola: The kind of enemy the US military excels at fighting

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 11:23 AM PDT

On cable news, it's easy to find both calls for the Obama administration to ramp up its military effort to "destroy" the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – and warnings that the president's deployment of up to 4,000 troops to help contain Ebola in Liberia and its neighbors is a disaster waiting to happen.

2 New York police officers charged in sex assault

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 10:29 AM PDT

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two police officers from New York have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Atlantic City casino.

Thousands of Kurds stage Iraq demo in support of Kobane

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 10:05 AM PDT

Iraqi Kurdish supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party demonstrate against the threat imposed by the Islamic State group jihadists against the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, outside the UN office in Arbil, October 8, 2014Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Thousands of Kurds demonstrated Wednesday in front of the UN headquarters in Arbil to demand international support for the Syrian town of Kobane as it tries to resist a deadly jihadist assault.


Snowden and the Pope tipped for 'wide open' Nobel peace prize

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:47 AM PDT

Pope Francis is the bookmakers favourite for the Nobel Peace Prize for his outspoken defence of the poorOslo (AFP) - The race for the Nobel peace prize, to be announced Friday, has rarely been as open or unpredictable, experts say, with the pope and Edward Snowden tipped as possible winners.


Canada lawmakers approve air strikes against Islamic State

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:45 AM PDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian legislators on Tuesday approved government plans to send fighter jets to Iraq, where they will take part in U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants for up to six months. The result of the vote was never in doubt, since the ruling Conservatives have a majority in the House of Commons. Members of Parliament voted 157-134 in favor of the mission. The two main opposition parties had opposed the mission on the grounds that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had not given enough details and could drag the country into a long drawn-out war. ...

U.S.'s Kerry hints Kobani not strategic goal, buffer zone merits study

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:41 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Wednesday that preventing the fall of the Syrian town of Kobani to Islamic State fighters was not a strategic U.S. objective and said the idea of a buffer zone should be thoroughly studied. "As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani ... you have to step back and understand the strategic objective," Kerry told reporters at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. ...

UK police checking link to Syria in terror probe

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:19 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — London police are questioning four terrorism suspects believed to have been plotting an attack inside Britain and checking a possible link to the Islamic State group.

U.S. calls for 'strategic patience' after strikes near Kobani

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:15 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday reported six airstrikes that helped stop Islamic State militants from taking over the Syrian town of Kobani, but played down the significance of the battle in the long-term U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamist group. The airstrikes destroyed an armored personnel carrier, armed vehicles and artillery belonging to the militant group, which had threatened to overrun the town on the Turkish border, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. ...

Jimmy Carter slams Obama on IS. Pile-on week at White House?

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:09 AM PDT

First this week it was Leon Panetta, former secretary of Defense. Now it's former President Jimmy Carter who's bashing President Obama's approach to the Islamic State takeover of territory in Syria and Iraq.

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE!

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:01 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES -- I could be mad at Vice President Joe Biden, who has been here for two days and tied up traffic for miles at a time. But it's hard. He's just too nice a guy, even if he talks too much -- and worse, these days, tells the truth. In fact, he had to apologize to a few countries last week for telling the truth about them. That would be Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, places governed by proud, thin-skinned men easily shocked by candor. ...

Fayetteville: A Military Town's Second Thoughts

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Jillian McCarthy sits in her home in Fayetteville, North CarolinaBy Andy Sullivan FAYETTEVILLE, NC, Oct 8 (Reuters) - After 13 years of war, life outside the gates of the United States' largest military base has settled into a familiar ebb and flow. Army paratroopers and commandos stationed at Fort Bragg periodically board transport planes bound for Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving spouses to handle the carpooling and holiday planning. So when President Barack Obama announced a new military campaign to contain Islamic radicals in Syria and Iraq several weeks ago, little seemed to change in this city of some 200,000 folks, just west of Interstate 95. On the night the President announced a new wave of air strikes, TVs in the local sports bars were tuned to a football game between the New York Jets and the Chicago Bears.


Iraqi helicopter shot down, pilots killed

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 08:42 AM PDT

Iraqi military helicopters fly out of Baghdad International AirportSamarra (Iraq) (AFP) - An Iraqi military helicopter was shot down by suspected jihadist fighters Wednesday, five days after a similar incident in the same location north of Baghdad, officers said.


French family suspected of waging jihad in Syria

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:46 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — French officials say they suspect an entire family — 11 people including a grandmother — of departing to wage jihad in Syria.

Indonesia's released militants feared new Islamic State recruits

Posted: 08 Oct 2014 07:40 AM PDT

Indonesians wave the Islamic State flag as they demonstrate against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during a 2013 rally in Solo, Java islandThe looming release of hundreds of militants from Indonesia's prisons, hotbeds of radicalism where influential Islamists openly preach extremist ideology, is ringing alarm bells and raising fears some will join forces with the Islamic State group.


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