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• Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action
• In Iraq, a test of Obama's use of force doctrine
• US aids displaced Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds
• US launches 4 airstrikes against Iraqi militants
• Thousands from Iraq minority flee to Syria
• Obama vows to save Iraqis stranded on mountain
• No optical illusion: Obama balances world crises with golf, time off
• US planes, drones conduct more airstrikes in Iraq
• Obama warns of 'long-term project' in Iraq
• Obama says ending Iraq crisis could be 'long-term project'
• McCain says U.S. airstrikes in Iraq can't stop Islamic State: NY Times
• President Obama: three takeaways on the way forward in Iraq
• Obama leaves DC for Massachusetts island vacation
• Jihadists Stoned Women To Death In Syria
• Top Asian News at 8:00 p.m. GMT
• Kurdish pleas for weapons may finally be heard
• Top Asian News at 7:30 p.m. GMT
• France to deliver first aid equipment to Iraq 'in coming hours'
• Top Asian News at 7:00 p.m. GMT
• Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery
• Obama, Cameron call for end to hostilities in Gaza: White House
• Obama proposes broader long-term strategy in Iraq
• Top Asian News at 6:30 p.m. GMT
• Iraq MP pleads for help to rescue Yazidis
• British aid drops expected 'imminently' in Iraq
• Obama says tackling Iraq's insurgency will take time
• France to deliver first aid to Kurds in north Iraq
• Top Asian News at 6:00 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 5:30 p.m. GMT
• Top Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT
• Obama Says ISIL in Iraq Is a 'Long-term Project'
• As bombs fall over Iraq, old emotions rise in US

Obama offers no time limit on Iraq military action Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:45 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't think "we are going to solve this problem in weeks" as the country struggles to form a new government.

In Iraq, a test of Obama's use of force doctrine Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In making the case for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, President Barack Obama is drawing on the doctrine involving the use of American force that he outlined less than three months ago, when it seemed he was trying to avoid potential U.S. military action anywhere.

US aids displaced Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT KHAZER CAMP, Iraq (AP) — President Barack Obama justified the U.S. military's return to fighting in Iraq Saturday by saying America must act now to prevent genocide, protect its diplomats and provide humanitarian aid to refugees trapped by Islamic State militants on a mountain ridge near the Syrian border.

US launches 4 airstrikes against Iraqi militants Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:37 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says American jet fighters and drones have conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, taking out armored carriers and a truck that were firing on civilians.

Thousands from Iraq minority flee to Syria Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:12 PM PDT CAMP BAJID KANDALA, Iraq (AP) — With shocked, sunburnt faces, men, women and children in dirt-caked clothes limped into a camp for displaced Iraqis, finding safety after harsh days of hiding on a blazing mountaintop after fleeing from the extremist Islamic State group.

Obama vows to save Iraqis stranded on mountain Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:09 PM PDT US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to help rescue thousands of civilians besieged by jihadists on an Iraqi mountain, as an MP warned they would not survive much longer. He gave no timetable for the first US operation in Iraq since the last American troops withdrew three years ago and put the onus on Iraqi politicians to form an inclusive government and turn the tide on jihadist expansion. "The United States can't just look away. The United States has conducted multiple air strikes since Friday, and announced a wave of strikes Saturday it said were to defend attacks on members of the Yazidi minority, who have been stranded on Mount Sinjar since they fled Islamic State attacks on their homes a week ago.

No optical illusion: Obama balances world crises with golf, time off Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:06 PM PDT By Jeff Mason OAK BLUFFS Mass. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave Americans an update on U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Saturday from a podium on the White House lawn with Marine One, the presidential helicopter, parked in the background. Four hours later, he offered an altogether different tableau: a golf game with friends at a lush course on Martha's Vineyard, the upscale Massachusetts island where the president and his family began a two-week vacation. With crises boiling in Gaza, Iraq and Ukraine, Obama - like his presidential predecessors in similar circumstances - proceeded with plans for a summer break, but only after making his Iraq statement against the very presidential backdrop. "The president will be traveling to Massachusetts with an array of communications equipment and national security advisers and others to ensure that he has the capacity to make the kinds of decisions that are required for the Commander-in-Chief," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Friday.

US planes, drones conduct more airstrikes in Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 03:58 PM PDT US forces Saturday launched more airstrikes in northern Iraq to defend attacks on Yazidi civilians, the Pentagon said, on the second day of its military campaign. President Barack Obama had announced this week he had authorized US air strikes in part to help break the siege of Mount Sinjar, where fighters from the so-called Islamic State forces have cornered and reportedly threatened to kill thousands of civilian refugees from the Yazidi religious minority. The first strike, at around 11:20 Washington time (1520 GMT), was carried out by a mix of fighter jets and drones, the United States Central Command, which covers the Middle East, said in a statement. It targeted two armored personnel carriers firing on Yazidi civilians near Sinjar, the state said, adding one of the two IS vehicles was hit and destroyed.

Obama warns of 'long-term project' in Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT President Barack Obama warned Saturday that the US offensive in Iraq was a "long-term project" to rout out militants and deliver aid to beleaguered civilians. Recognizing there was no US military solution to reverse Islamic State fighters' advances in Iraq, Obama called on Iraqi officials to urgently form a unity government. While US air strikes have destroyed the militants' arms and equipment within striking distance of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Obama said the operations that began this week could last "months." "We feel confident we can prevent ISIL from going up the mountain and slaughtering the people who are there," Obama said, using the militant group's former name of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Obama says ending Iraq crisis could be 'long-term project' Posted: 09 Aug 2014 03:03 PM PDT By Mark Felsenthal and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday U.S. airstrikes have destroyed arms and equipment that Islamic State insurgents could have used to attack Arbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, but warned Americans it could take some time to end the crisis. This is going to take some time," Obama told reporters before leaving Washington for a two-week vacation in Massachusetts. Obama said the United States would continue to provide military assistance and advice to the Baghdad government and Kurdish forces, but stressed repeatedly the importance of Iraq forming its own inclusive government "right now." "I think this a wake-up call for a lot of Iraqis inside of Baghdad recognizing that we're going to have to rethink how we do business if we're going to hold our country together," he said.

McCain says U.S. airstrikes in Iraq can't stop Islamic State: NY Times Posted: 09 Aug 2014 03:03 PM PDT Republican U.S. Senator John McCain said on Saturday that President Barack Obama's limited military action against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq showed a "fundamental misunderstanding of the threat," and called for strikes against the group's positions in Syria, The New York Times reported. McCain, a frequent critic of Obama's foreign policy including his handling of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the airstrikes authorized by the president are not enough to deal with a growing threat to the United States that he called "the richest, most powerful terrorist organization in history," the paper said. Obama on Thursday authorized the U.S. military to make airdrops of humanitarian assistance to prevent what he called a potential "genocide" of the Yazidi religious sect in Iraq and conduct targeted strikes on Islamic State fighters who have been seizing territory in northern Iraq, a limited operation to protect Americans working in the country.

President Obama: three takeaways on the way forward in Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 02:41 PM PDT President Obama on Saturday laid out terms – but no timetable – for targeted airstrikes against Islamist militants sweeping across Iraq at a pace and level of military sophistication that took Baghdad and Washington by surprise. US F-18 fighter jets and Predator drones on Friday launched three waves of airstrikes targeting artillery positions and fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) near Erbil, the de facto Kurdish capital of northern Iraq. Meanwhile, US cargo planes on Saturday airdropped food and water to thousands of civilians trapped and perishing in the mountains near Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq.

Obama leaves DC for Massachusetts island vacation Posted: 09 Aug 2014 02:37 PM PDT CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday fled Washington for his familiar spot on Martha's Vineyard for a two-week summer vacation, which comes as the U.S. is engaged in airstrikes against Islamic militant targets in Iraq.

Jihadists Stoned Women To Death In Syria Posted: 09 Aug 2014 02:32 PM PDT Militants affiliated with the notorious Islamic State (IS) stoned two woman to death in northern Syria last month.

Top Asian News at 8:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 01:02 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Kurdish pleas for weapons may finally be heard Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Kurdish officials have beseeched the Obama administration to let them buy U.S. weapons. For just as long, the administration has rebuffed America's closest allies in Iraq.

Top Asian News at 7:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:33 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

France to deliver first aid equipment to Iraq 'in coming hours' Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:05 PM PDT France will begin delivery of first aid equipment to Iraq "in the coming hours", the president's office said on Saturday. President Francois Hollande assured the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, by phone that the aid was on its way, according to a statement from the Elysee Palace. Hollande "reaffirmed the will of France to stand by the side of civilian victims of continued attacks" by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the Elysee said. He also "underlined his determination to mobilise the international community and said he had asked the European Union to take necessary measures with great urgency to respond to immediate humanitarian needs."

Top Asian News at 7:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:02 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Women stoned to death in Syria for adultery Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:54 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.

Obama, Cameron call for end to hostilities in Gaza: White House Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:46 AM PDT President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Gaza and pressed for action that would lead to a permanent ceasefire. "On Gaza, they condemned the resumption of rocket fire and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities leading to a sustainable ceasefire," the White House said in a statement about the call between the two leaders, during which they also discussed Iraq and Ukraine. "President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron reiterated support for Israel's right to self-defense while emphasizing the need for all sides to minimize civilian casualties." (Reporting by Jeff Mason;

Obama proposes broader long-term strategy in Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:35 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't think "we are going to solve this problem in weeks" as the country struggles to form a new government.

Top Asian News at 6:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:32 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Iraq MP pleads for help to rescue Yazidis Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:20 AM PDT After that they will start dying en masse," Yazidi parliamentarian Vian Dakhil told AFP. "If we cannot give them hope now -- the (Kurdish) peshmerga, the United Nations, the government, anybody -- their morale will collapse completely and they will die," she warned. Thousands of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority following an ancient faith rooted in Zoroastrianism, fled their homes a week ago when Islamic State (IS) militants attacked the town of Sinjar. Many have since been stranded in the nearby mountain range, with no food and water in searing temperatures.

British aid drops expected 'imminently' in Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:14 AM PDT The first consignment of British aid to civilians sheltering in the Sinjar mountains of northern Iraq is expected to be dropped "imminently", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Saturday. Two Royal Air Force (RAF) C-130 transport planes took off from Britain earlier Saturday carrying reusable filtration containers filled with clean water, tents, tarpaulins and solar lights that can also recharge mobile phones. The United States has already started dropping food and water on Mount Sinjar and is conducting air strikes against militants, although Britain has said it currently has no plans for any military intervention. Britain's Department for International Development on Friday released £8 million ($13 million, 10 million euros) in emergency humanitarian aid for Iraq.

Obama says tackling Iraq's insurgency will take time Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:08 AM PDT By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday U.S. airstrikes had destroyed arms that Islamic State militants could have used against Iraqi Kurds, but warned there was no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to tear Iraq apart. Speaking the day after U.S. warplanes hit militants in Iraq, Obama said it would take more than bombs to restore stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government for failing to empower Sunnis. This is going to take some time," Obama told a news conference in Washington. Islamic State has captured wide swathes of northern Iraq since June, executing non-Sunni Muslim captives, displacing tens of thousands of people and drawing the first U.S. air strikes in the region since Washington withdrew troops in 2011.

France to deliver first aid to Kurds in north Iraq Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:07 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — The French president's office says France will deliver a load of first aid to Iraq in the next few hours.

Top Asian News at 6:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:02 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Top Asian News at 5:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:33 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Top Asian News at 5:00 p.m. GMT Posted: 09 Aug 2014 10:02 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the wood-and-leaf hut he was forced to live in away from his children, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical communist regime whose extreme experiment in social engineering took the lives of 1.7 million Cambodians from overwork, medical neglect, starvation and execution.

Obama Says ISIL in Iraq Is a 'Long-term Project' Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:51 AM PDT The U.S. military campaign launched in Iraq Friday could go on for months, President Barack Obama said Saturday from the White House, but noted that he would not provide a specific timeline.  "I'm not going to give a particular timetable," Obama said before leaving for a two-week summer vacation at Martha's Vineyard. "There is no doubt that their advance, their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and I think the expectations of policy makers both in and outside of Iraq," Obama said. "Part of that is not a full appreciation of the full degree to which the Iraq security forces, when they are far away from Baghdad, did not have the incentive or capacity to hold ground against an aggressive adversary."

As bombs fall over Iraq, old emotions rise in US Posted: 09 Aug 2014 09:34 AM PDT It was supposed to be over, America's war in Iraq. So all the old emotions boiled up anew as Americans absorbed the news that U.S. bombs were again striking targets in the nation where the United States led an invasion in 2003, lost almost 4,500 troops in the fight to stabilize and liberate it and then left nearly three years ago.

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