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• UN urges global support for Iraq to fight terror
• Kerry at the UN builds support for anti-IS coalition
• United States says role for Iran in tackling Islamic State
• Turkey reopens border to Syrian Kurds fleeing IS jihadists
• Iran, six powers head into 'very tough' nuclear talks
• U.S. won't telegraph when Syria strikes will begin: Rice
• France joins US against Islamic State over Iraq
• US Senate: $10 mn bounty on journalists' murderers
• U.S. aims to keep Iran atomic talks separate from Islamic State conflict
• White House says training Syrian rebels to take months
• Eradicating poverty will defeat extremists: Kerry
• Two Iranians held in Kenya amid terror alert
• Fighting Islamic State: Why US training of Iraqi forces will be harder this time
• Congress backs Obama on aid to Syrian rebels
• General: Airstrikes tougher as militants blend in
• Glossary of extremists in Mideast and Africa
• Iraqi neighbourhood holds out against jihadists
• No boost yet for Dems from fight with extremists
• Three years after Somali famine, new hunger crisis looms
• School District Returns Its $700K MRAP from Pentagon
• Syrian Kurds fleeing IS group cross into Turkey
• Kurdish leader urges world to protect Syrian town from Islamic State
• US says discussed IS militant threat with Iran
• Iran can no longer stall in nuclear talks: German foreign minister
• Foreign fighters, Ebola top Obama's UN agenda
• German Muslims rally against extremism
• Spending, war disputes to dog post-election, lame-duck Congress
• In Case You Missed It, the First Foreign Policy Debate of 2016 Just Happened
• How many House seats does NRCC chairman Greg Walden think GOP will gain?
• Bomb attacks kill at least 31 people in Iraq
• France carries out first air strike in Iraq: Hollande
• France strikes Islamic State group's depot in Iraq
• German Muslims condemn Islamic State in nationwide day of prayer
• Fierce fighting in Yemeni capital kills 120
• Photography from all over the world, in pop-up form
• AP EXCLUSIVE: CIA halts spying in Europe
• ISIL IRAQ SYRIA
• Dempsey lauds French airstrike against militants
• Iraqi Kurd president urges world community to protect Syrian city

UN urges global support for Iraq to fight terror Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:53 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged the international community Friday to expand support for the Iraqi government as it fights the Islamic State group and its allies, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said there is a role for nearly every country in the world — including Iran.

Kerry at the UN builds support for anti-IS coalition Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:44 PM PDT United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry brought together 35 countries at the UN Security Council on Friday to build support for Iraq's new government and the campaign to confront jihadists.

United States says role for Iran in tackling Islamic State Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:33 PM PDT By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. "The coalition required to eliminate ISIL (Islamic State) is not only, or even primarily, military in nature," Kerry told a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iraq. "It must be comprehensive and include close collaboration across multiple lines of effort. ...

Turkey reopens border to Syrian Kurds fleeing IS jihadists Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:31 PM PDT Ankara (AFP) - Turkey on Friday reopened its border with Syria to Kurds fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants, saying a "worst-case scenario" could drive as many as 100,000 more refugees into the country.

Iran, six powers head into 'very tough' nuclear talks Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:23 PM PDT United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Iran and six powers returned to the negotiating table on Friday with only two months left to overcome hurdles in the way of a deal on curbing Tehran's nuclear program.

U.S. won't telegraph when Syria strikes will begin: Rice Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:20 PM PDT By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten days after President Barack Obama said he had authorized U.S. air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the White House gave no sign on Friday that attacks were imminent as he prepared to meet world leaders at the United Nations. At a White House briefing, national security adviser Susan Rice was vague as to when the new air campaign might begin in Syria, and whether Obama would in fact sign off on any final attack plan developed by the Pentagon. ...

France joins US against Islamic State over Iraq Posted: 19 Sep 2014 03:07 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — France is back at America's side in conducting military strikes in Iraq.

US Senate: $10 mn bounty on journalists' murderers Posted: 19 Sep 2014 03:06 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - The US Senate has unanimously approved a bill providing up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of people involved in executing two American journalists murdered by jihadists.

U.S. aims to keep Iran atomic talks separate from Islamic State conflict Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:50 PM PDT By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials hope to prevent two diplomatic challenges with Iran from colliding next week: the Iranian nuclear program and the threat posed by the Islamic State militant group. Their basic dilemma is how to keep Iran from hardening its stance in the nuclear talks out of a belief, which U.S. officials say would be misguided, that Washington might make nuclear concessions in exchange for help against IS. ...

White House says training Syrian rebels to take months Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:46 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - Training and equipping moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State extremists will take months, the White House warned Friday a day after Congress approved the plan.

Eradicating poverty will defeat extremists: Kerry Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:45 PM PDT Washington (AFP) - Top US diplomat John Kerry Friday made a passionate plea to wipe out poverty and improve health and education as the most powerful antidote to the "toxic" beliefs of extremists.

Two Iranians held in Kenya amid terror alert Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:39 PM PDT Nairobi (AFP) - Authorities in Kenya said Friday they have arrested two men believed to be Iranian nationals transiting through the east African nation on fake passports.

Fighting Islamic State: Why US training of Iraqi forces will be harder this time Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:14 PM PDT The US military's efforts to train Iraqi soldiers to take on jihadist insurgents is going to be harder than it was during the Iraq War, the nation's top Army officer warned Friday.

Congress backs Obama on aid to Syrian rebels Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:00 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law legislation authorizing the U.S. military to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels fighting Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

General: Airstrikes tougher as militants blend in Posted: 19 Sep 2014 01:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army's top officer warned Friday that it will become increasingly difficult to target and launch precision airstrikes against Islamic State militants hiding among the Iraqi population.

Glossary of extremists in Mideast and Africa Posted: 19 Sep 2014 01:03 PM PDT President Barack Obama presses ahead with his campaign to diminish and eventually defeat Islamic State group extremists in Iraq and Syria, but the list of radical Islamic elements the United States and many of its coalition allies are fighting does not stop there. Violent radicals inspired by al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden pepper the map from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic.

Iraqi neighbourhood holds out against jihadists Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:49 PM PDT Dhuluiyah (Iraq) (AFP) - Caught between jihadists and the Tigris River, residents of one neighbourhood in a Sunni town in Iraq have taken up arms alongside security forces and held out for months.

No boost yet for Dems from fight with extremists Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a political rule of thumb that the public often rallies behind the president when the country faces peril from abroad. Sometimes, that can help candidates from his party in the next election.

Three years after Somali famine, new hunger crisis looms Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:08 PM PDT By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - When African peacekeepers and Somali troops launched an offensive against Islamist militants in Somalia's small seaside town of Marka, Rukia Nur and her 10 children joined the stream of thousands who have fled to the capital in past months. They now make their home in a sprawling camp in Mogadishu's outskirts - a place at the center of a growing hunger crisis three years after Somalia's devastating 2011 famine. The United Nations said this month more than a million people in this war-ravaged country were struggling to meet daily nutritional needs. ...

School District Returns Its $700K MRAP from Pentagon Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:06 PM PDT Recognizing that their schools probably don't have a legitimate day-to-day use for an 18-ton $700,000 military-grade MRAP – or mine-resistant ambush protective vehicle – officials from the San Diego Unified School District have decided to return their heavily armored truck to the Pentagon. The school district acquired the MRAP through the Defense Department's now-controversial 1033 program, which has been scrutinized for outfitting local police departments like the one in Ferguson, Mo., with battlefield equipment intended for warzones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The congressionally authorized program has transferred more than $5 billion in surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies since it was created in the 1990s – all at very little cost to the agencies themselves. The San Diego Unified School District, for example, paid only $5,000 to get the 6-wheel vehicle—though it's unclear what the cost will be to return it to DOD.

Syrian Kurds fleeing IS group cross into Turkey Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:03 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Several thousand Syrians, most of them Kurds, crossed into Turkey on Friday to find refuge from Islamic State militants who have barreled through dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria in the past 48 hours.

Kurdish leader urges world to protect Syrian town from Islamic State Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:42 AM PDT By Seyhmus Cakan DIKMETAS Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani called on Friday for international intervention to protect a Kurdish town in neighboring Syria from Islamic State fighters who have forced many Syrian Kurds to flee across the border into Turkey. Thousands of Kurds crossed the frontier on Friday, fearing an imminent attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, known as Kobani in Kurdish, as Islamic State (IS) fighters advanced after seizing dozens of nearby villages over the past two days. ...

US says discussed IS militant threat with Iran Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:39 AM PDT Washington (AFP) - The United States has discussed the threat posed by Islamic State militants with envoys from its traditional foe Iran on the sidelines of nuclear talks, the State Department revealed Friday.

Iran can no longer stall in nuclear talks: German foreign minister Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:36 AM PDT By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iran can no longer "play for time" in nuclear negotiations with six world powers that resumed on Friday, Germany's top diplomat said, two months ahead of a deadline for a deal that would end economic sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbing its atomic program. "We are entering the crucial phase of the E3+3 (six powers) negotiations with Iran," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters in New York. "There is no more room for Iran to play for time," he said. "We are willing to offer Iran a fair deal. ...

Foreign fighters, Ebola top Obama's UN agenda Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:22 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will call on fellow world leaders next week to back a United Nations resolution calling on nations to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, as the United States seeks to build legitimacy for its military campaign in Iraq and Syria, the White House said Friday.

German Muslims rally against extremism Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:05 AM PDT Berlin (AFP) - Muslims across Germany held a day of prayer and rallies Friday to condemn both Islamic extremism and a backlash against their faith that has seen arson attacks on mosques.

Spending, war disputes to dog post-election, lame-duck Congress Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:58 AM PDT By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress will face a contentious post-election session in November dominated by a longer-term spending bill and more wrenching questions over President Barack Obama's strategy to defeat Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. Lawmakers darted home on Thursday after approving stopgap funding to avert a government shutdown and authorizing the arming and training of moderate Syrian rebels. But those measures last only until Dec. 11, so Congress will have to revisit them after the Nov. 4 election. ...

In Case You Missed It, the First Foreign Policy Debate of 2016 Just Happened Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:24 AM PDT Nearly Every Senator Considered a Potential Presidential Candidate in 2016 Opposes the Obama's ISIS Plan

How many House seats does NRCC chairman Greg Walden think GOP will gain? Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:10 AM PDT Republicans started their election year focused on "Obamacare," but national security is now "popping" as an issue, said Rep. Greg Walden (R) of Oregon at a Monitor breakfast.

Bomb attacks kill at least 31 people in Iraq Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:08 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of vehicle bombings in Iraq killed at least 31 people Friday, officials said, in the second straight day of attacks in Baghdad blamed on Islamic militants who have seized large parts of the country.

France carries out first air strike in Iraq: Hollande Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:55 AM PDT Paris (AFP) - French jets carried out their first air strike against Islamic State militants in Iraq Friday, successfully destroying their target, President Francois Hollande announced, vowing that more operations would follow.

France strikes Islamic State group's depot in Iraq Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:52 AM PDT Joining U.S. forces acting in Iraqi skies, French fighter jets struck Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot, Iraqi and French officials said.

German Muslims condemn Islamic State in nationwide day of prayer Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:38 AM PDT By Bethan John BERLIN (Reuters) - German Muslims condemned the actions of Islamic State in a nationwide day of prayer on Friday and vowed to stem the tide of youngsters heading to join radical militants in Syria and Iraq. In Berlin, where Friday prayers spilled out onto a busy central street, politicians and non-Muslims joined about a thousand faithful to protest against the radical Islamists. They also stressed that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, amid continued attacks on mosques and fears of rising Islamophobia. Authorities estimate 400 Germans have joined IS in Iraq and Syria. ...

Fierce fighting in Yemeni capital kills 120 Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:38 AM PDT SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Shiite rebels and Sunni militiamen battled in Sanaa for a second day Friday in battles that have killed at least 120 people and have shaken the Yemeni capital with thousands fleeing their homes. The violence raises fears that this chronically unstable country could be dragged into the sort of sectarian conflicts that have plagued other nations in the region.

Photography from all over the world, in pop-up form Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:22 AM PDT One of the biggest photo events in the country, the pop-up festival Photoville returns to New York

AP EXCLUSIVE: CIA halts spying in Europe Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:07 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has curbed spying on friendly governments in Western Europe in response to the furor over a German caught selling secrets to the United States and the Edward Snowden revelations of classified information held by the National Security Agency, according to current and former U.S. officials.

ISIL IRAQ SYRIA Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:05 AM PDT Map shows area of French airstrikes and areas of militant activity, ethnic divisions and Islamic State militant's goals; 3c x 7 inches; 146 mm x 177 mm;

Dempsey lauds French airstrike against militants Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:56 AM PDT CAEN, France (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. appreciates France's airstrike against Islamic State militants.

Iraqi Kurd president urges world community to protect Syrian city Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:49 AM PDT ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region urged the international community on Friday to "use every means" to protect the city of Kobani in neighboring Syria from an impending attack by Islamic State militants. Islamic State fighters are besieging Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, after seizing at least 21 surrounding villages in a major assault against the predominantly Kurdish city on Syria's northern border with Turkey. Several thousand Kurds began crossing from Syria into Turkey on Friday, fearing the attack. ...

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