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• General killed in Afghan attack was engineer
• Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15
• Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT
• Pentagon says US general killed in Kabul attack
• Top Asian News at 11:00 p.m. GMT
• Museum rediscovers ancient skeleton in storage
• US general killed in Afghanistan: How big is threat of insider attacks?
• Top Asian News at 10:30 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT
• U.S. terrorism database doubles in recent years
• Top Asian News at 9:30 p.m. GMT
• Ceasefire agreed in Lebanese border town battle
• Top Asian News at 9:00 p.m. GMT
• US officials: US general killed in Afghan attack
• This Couple Built a Gorgeous Retreat for Injured Vets After Their Son Was Killed in Action
• Appeals mount to save Iraq's Yazidis from extinction
• Pennsylvania museum says finds 6,500-year-old skeleton in its cellar
• Top Asian News at 8:30 p.m. GMT
• Gaza border town in ruins after Israeli attack
• Top Asian News at 8:00 p.m. GMT
• Spain locks up 14-year-old girl jihad suspect
• Top Asian News at 7:30 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 7:00 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 6:30 p.m. GMT
• Half Of All People On Government Terrorist Watchlist Have No Terrorist Connections
• 'Liberty Kids' shake up L.A. Republican Party, look to other states
• Saddam Hussein's tomb damaged in fighting
• Top Asian News at 6:00 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 5:30 p.m. GMT
• Pentagon confirms US general killed in Kabul attack
• Top Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT
• Iraq's Yazidis face Islamic State or perilous mountains
• Top Asian News at 4:30 p.m. GMT
• Five Best Tuesday Columns
• Top Asian News at 4:00 p.m. GMT
• Party seeks censure vote against Turkish minister
• Top Asian News at 3:30 p.m. GMT
• Dubai's Emirates halting flights to northern Iraq
• Turkey builds camp for Turkmen refugees in northern Iraq

General killed in Afghan attack was engineer Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who on Tuesday became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an expert in developing and fielding the Army's war materiel. He was on his first deployment to a war zone.

Afghan soldier kills US general, wounds about 15 Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:41 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals.

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals. The American officer was Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a U.S. official said. An engineer by training, Greene was on his first deployment to a war zone and was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year. He was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

Pentagon says US general killed in Kabul attack Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:21 PM PDT A US general was killed in an attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking American fatality since the 9/11 attacks, the Pentagon said. The US Defense Department also identified the assailant as an Afghan soldier and said that he was killed in turn after he opened fire on coalition forces, his supposed allies. In a condolence message, the military identified the deceased as Major General Harold J. Greene, who was the deputy for acquisitions at the US Army headquarters in Washington. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Major General Harold J. Greene's family, and the families of our soldiers who were injured today in the tragic events," said army chief General Ray Odierno.

Top Asian News at 11:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:03 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals. The American officer was Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a U.S. official said. An engineer by training, Greene was on his first deployment to a war zone and was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year. He was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

Museum rediscovers ancient skeleton in storage Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:03 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An archaeology museum in Philadelphia has made an extraordinary find — in its own storage rooms.

US general killed in Afghanistan: How big is threat of insider attacks? Posted: 05 Aug 2014 03:41 PM PDT The news that a two-star general was shot in Afghanistan Tuesday – the first US general to be killed in action during America's wars in Iraq or Afghanistan – will inevitably renew questions about the threat of insider attacks on US troops, and whether a change in the US game plan might be in order to mitigate those risks. Top Pentagon officials insist there is no reason why the death of the highest-ranking US officer in America's post-9/11 war effort will change US strategy. Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) "continue to perform at a very strong level of competence and confidence – and warfare capability," Rear Adm. John Kirby, Pentagon press secretary, said during a briefing with reporters Tuesday, adding that the Pentagon is withholding the general officer's name pending the notification of his family. Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggested at the time that the killings were the result of Pakistani intelligence services brainwashing Afghan recruits.

Top Asian News at 10:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 03:32 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals. The American officer was Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a U.S. official said. An engineer by training, Greene was on his first deployment to a war zone and was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year. He was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

Top Asian News at 10:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals. Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, who was on his first deployment to a war zone, was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year. An engineer by training, he was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

U.S. terrorism database doubles in recent years Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:41 PM PDT A government database of known or suspected terrorists doubled in size in recent years, The Associated Press has learned. The growth is the result of intelligence agencies submitting names more often after a near-miss attack in 2009.

Top Asian News at 9:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:32 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. official has identified the senior officer killed in Afghanistan Tuesday as Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the highest-ranking American officer killed in combat since 1970. Greene was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan. An engineer by training, Greene was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year.

Ceasefire agreed in Lebanese border town battle Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:03 PM PDT By Mariam Karouny and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army and Islamist militants agreed a 24-hour ceasefire on Tuesday after four days of fighting triggered by the rebels' seizure of a border town, in the most serious spillover of Syria's three-year civil war into Lebanon. A security source said the ceasefire would allow time for a mediator to investigate the fate of 22 soldiers missing since the militants seized the town of Arsal on Saturday and to help evacuate civilians, including those wounded in the conflict. "It is like a humanitarian ceasefire," he told Reuters. What happened was to be expected due to differences between the fighters," he said The source said the militants had suffered big losses in the fighting, adding he expected them to leave Arsal before the ceasefire had ended.

Top Asian News at 9:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:02 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was killed Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 U.S. and coalition forces, including a German general and two Afghan generals. The U.S. two-star general was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in either of the nation's post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His name was not immediately released.

US officials: US general killed in Afghan attack Posted: 05 Aug 2014 02:02 PM PDT An American general was killed in an apparent insider attack Tuesday by a member of the Afghan security forces, a Pentagon spokesman said, the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to be killed in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars.

This Couple Built a Gorgeous Retreat for Injured Vets After Their Son Was Killed in Action Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:59 PM PDT On September 14, 2003, Terry and Janet Blumberg's 22-year-old son Trevor was killed while serving as an Army Sergeant in Iraq. After Trevor died, "the men he served with never forgot us," Terry Blum told TakePart. Blums Landing is 3,500-square-foot retreat "for War on Terror military personnel who have endured physical and/or mental wounds from serving the country," according to the Blums Landing website. A registered nonprofit funded by the Blumbergs and donations, Blums Landing invites vets and their families to rest and relax for free on 12 acres of land on Orchard Lake near Rogers City, Mich., and has hosted 30 vets and their families so far.

Appeals mount to save Iraq's Yazidis from extinction Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:38 PM PDT Iraqi helicopters dropped supplies Tuesday to thousands of people hiding from jihadists in desolate mountains, many of them from the Yazidi minority which officials warned risked being massacred or starved into extinction. A Yazidi lawmaker broke down in tears during a parliament session as she urged the government and the international community to save her community from Islamic State militants who overran the Sinjar region. "Over the past 48 hours, 30,000 families have been besieged in the Sinjar mountains, with no water and no food," said Vian Dakhil. Dakhil said 500 Yazidi men were killed by IS militants since they took over the town of Sinjar and surrounding villages on Sunday.

Pennsylvania museum says finds 6,500-year-old skeleton in its cellar Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:35 PM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia archaeology museum said on Tuesday its researchers have discovered an extremely rare 6,500-year-old human skeleton in its own basement, where it had been in storage for 85 years. The Penn Museum, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, said it had lost track of all documentation for the skeleton which dates to roughly 4500 BC. But the paperwork turned up this summer, as part of a project to digitize old records from a 1922-1934 joint expedition by the British Museum and the Penn Museum to modern-day Iraq. Researchers were able to determine that the skeleton was unearthed around 1930 as part of an excavation into the Royal Cemetery of Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley. A researcher on the digitization project, William Hafford, mentioned the records to Janet Monge, the museum' chief curator.

Top Asian News at 8:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:32 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American major general was killed Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 U.S. and coalition forces, including a German general and two Afghan generals. The U.S. two-star general was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in either of the nation's post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His name was not immediately released.

Gaza border town in ruins after Israeli attack Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:16 PM PDT RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Asmahan Ismail Abu al-Rous started wondering a year ago about the cause of the cracks on the walls of her Gaza home. When she asked some of her more savvy neighbors, they told her: Militants were digging an attack tunnel not far away.

Top Asian News at 8:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 01:03 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Spain locks up 14-year-old girl jihad suspect Posted: 05 Aug 2014 12:51 PM PDT A 14-year-old girl detained on suspicion of trying to join Islamic extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria was ordered Tuesday by a Spanish judge to enter a youth detention centre. Police detained the girl and a 19-year-old woman on Saturday as they tried to enter Morocco allegedly to join Islamic State, whose fighters have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria. The pair were detained at the Beni Enzar border crossing in Melilla, one of two tiny Spanish territories on the north African coast. Video footage released by the Spanish authorities showed the two teenagers, both covered in black niqabs, being led away from a small propeller plane, each flanked by balaclava-clad security men.

Top Asian News at 7:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 12:32 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Top Asian News at 7:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 12:07 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Top Asian News at 6:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:32 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Half Of All People On Government Terrorist Watchlist Have No Terrorist Connections Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:32 AM PDT Classified documents leaked from the National Counterterrorism Center and published Wednesday reveal almost half of the nearly 700,000 terrorist suspects included on the government's terrorist watchlist have no connection to known terrorists. According to the documents obtained by The Intercept, out of the 680,000 people included on the list, 280,000 have "no recognized terrorist group affiliation," making it the largest category of any other on the list of "known or suspected terrorists." The next-largest specific terrorist organization on the list is al Qaeda in Iraq, with only 73,189 people.

'Liberty Kids' shake up L.A. Republican Party, look to other states Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:12 AM PDT By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amir Zendehnam passionately supports marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Republican Party. The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party's West Los Angeles central committee, is one of a raft of ethnically diverse young libertarians who hold seats in L.A. County's huge GOP apparatus, injecting youthful energy into its operations at a time when the state's Republican Party is nearly moribund. After winning control the executive board of the Los Angeles County Republican Party in December 2012, the "Liberty Kids," as they call themselves, are seeing the fruits of their activism. The Liberty Kids are challenging the party's social conservatives and are drawing the attention of Democrats, who see liberal youth as part of their base.

Saddam Hussein's tomb damaged in fighting Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:12 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The tomb of Iraq's deceased dictator Saddam Hussein was damaged in clashes between militants from the Islamic State radical group and government soldiers in his hometown, according to local officials Tuesday.

Top Asian News at 6:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:02 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Top Asian News at 5:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 10:32 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Pentagon confirms US general killed in Kabul attack Posted: 05 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT The Pentagon on Tuesday confirmed that a US general was killed in an attack in Afghanistan -- the highest-ranking American fatality since the 9/11 attacks. The US Defense Department also identified the assailant, who was wearing a uniform, as an Afghan soldier and said that he was killed after he opened fire on coalition forces, his supposed allies. "I can... confirm among the casualties was an American general officer who was killed," the Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby, told reporters. The general was the highest-ranking US officer killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks when Lieutenant General Timothy Joseph Maude was killed by a hijacked airliner that crashed into the Pentagon.

Top Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 10:04 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed who is believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Iraq's Yazidis face Islamic State or perilous mountains Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:35 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed and Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When the Islamic State made another dramatic push through northern Iraq, many Iraqis fled their towns and villages before the Sunni militants notorious for beheadings arrived. The Islamic State, whose methods seem excessive even to al Qaeda, regards the minority ethnic group as "devil worshippers", making them prime candidates for the sword. Tens of thousands fled the weekend assault on Sinjar and are now surrounded, according to witnesses and the United Nations, after the Sunni militants inflicted a humiliating defeat on Kurdish forces who had held towns in the area for years. The Islamic State captured three towns and a fifth oil field and reached Iraq's biggest dam, consolidating gains made after a lightning sweep through the north in June which poses the biggest threat to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Top Asian News at 4:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:32 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed the highest-ranking U.S. officer of the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Five Best Tuesday Columns Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:02 AM PDT "As ISIS charged toward Baghdad, Kurdish leaders last month sent a delegation to Washington to seek military assistance. Obama Administration officials brushed them off, claiming American aid was tantamount to a green light to Kurdish independence and Iraq's breakup." The editors contend that Obama must do what he can to support our allies in the fight against ISIS in Iraq. "Mr. Obama may be loath to re-enter the fray in the Iraq because it means admitting that he really didn't end the war. Leaving the Kurds alone to battle our common enemy in the jihadist ISIS army would do incalculable damage to America's interests and reputation."

Top Asian News at 4:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:02 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on NATO troops at a military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding some 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. The attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, killed the highest-ranking U.S. officer of the nearly 13-year war and comes as foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the year's end. While details remained murky about what sparked the attack, it showed the challenges still remaining in Afghanistan, a nation that's known three decades of war without end.

Party seeks censure vote against Turkish minister Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:33 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's main opposition party is seeking a vote of no confidence against Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu over the government's handling of a hostage crisis in Iraq.

Top Asian News at 3:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:32 AM PDT LUDIAN, China (AP) — About 10,000 troops used pickaxes and backhoes to clear roads and dig residents from collapsed homes Tuesday after an earthquake in southwest China that killed 410 people. Groups of volunteers, meanwhile, used their bare hands. Jackson Zeng joined about two dozen classmates who headed to Yunnan province's Ludian county, where Sunday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake collapsed thousands of homes in an impoverished region of mountainous farmland.

Dubai's Emirates halting flights to northern Iraq Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:17 AM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Middle East's largest airline, Emirates, said Tuesday it is halting flights to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, as the country struggles to confront a destabilizing insurgency led by jihadist militants.

Turkey builds camp for Turkmen refugees in northern Iraq Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:10 AM PDT Turkey is building a refugee camp in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq to accommodate refugees from the ethnic Turkmen minority fleeing the rapid advance of Islamic State militants, a Turkish official said on Tuesday. Turkish opposition parties had been urging Ankara to help the Turkmens, Iraq's third largest ethnic group after Arabs and Kurds, who have close cultural and linguistic links with Turkey. Turkey already hosts more than a million refugees from the conflict in neighboring Syria, of whom 300,000 live in state-run camps. During the 1991 Gulf War, half a million Iraqis fled to Turkey.

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