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- US: Will Turks train Syrian opposition in Turkey?
- Army War College revokes Sen. John Walsh's degree
- Iraqi forces in 'tenuous' position in west: US official
- Iowa Senate candidates call in star power to swing tight race
- US warns of possible reprisal attacks over war against IS
- US reports 'progress' in pressing Turkey to join IS fight
- White House says need to accelerate Turkish help in Iraq, Syria
- Coalition military chiefs to meet in US next week: officials
- German downturn casts shadow over world economy
- U.S. says sees higher chance of Islamic State reprisal attacks
- U.N. says thousands likely to be massacred if jihadists take Kobani
- IS jihadists execute Iraqi journalist, 12 other people
- Senator Walsh of Montana stripped of degree for plagiarism
- Kobani's fall would be symbolic setback for Obama Syria strategy
- Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared
- Turkey to support training, equipping Syrian opposition: U.S.
- Egypt says kills top militant leader in Sinai
- US renews global terrorism warning
- Ambassador Bolton Endorses & Makes PAC Contributions To 6 GOP Candidates
- UN envoy warns of Kobane 'massacre', urges Turkey to let Kurds fight
- Tight Arkansas Race Hangs on Money, Voter ID Law
- Giving Vietnam Veterans a Second Chance to Come Home
- Algerian army kills five suspected militants
- Syrian Kurdish leader urges Turkey to help fighters get weapons
- IS jihadists execute nine people in northern Iraq
- Egypt to host donor conference for war-hit Gaza
- We must negotiate with IS, says father of slain US reporter
- Obama's Iraq-Syria strategy, way back in June 2014 ... and now
- France pushes buffer zone for Syria, Turkey
- The Smartphone Apps That Help Cops Track Down Illegal Wildlife Products
- Serbia backs jail terms for Serbs fighting in foreign conflicts
- Islamic State holds 40 percent of Kobani, could capture it: U.S. adviser
- U.N. envoy calls on Turkey to prevent Srebrenica-style massacre in Kobani
- U.S. military says conducts nine airstrikes in Syria, most near Kobani
- Spain to send 300 soldiers to train Iraqi troops
- Angry protesters yell at riot police in St. Louis
- The Merger of ISIS and al-Qaeda Could Cripple the Civilized World
- Kurds hold off IS in Syria town, pressure mounts on Turkey
- The New U.S. Price Tag for the War Against ISIS: $40 Billion a Year
- A beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence?
| US: Will Turks train Syrian opposition in Turkey? Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:52 PM PDT TOLEMAIDA MILITARY BASE, Colombia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that the U.S. wants to know how far Turkey is willing to go in helping train and equip moderate opposition fighters trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. |
| Army War College revokes Sen. John Walsh's degree Posted: 10 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT
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| Iraqi forces in 'tenuous' position in west: US official Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:52 PM PDT
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| Iowa Senate candidates call in star power to swing tight race Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:45 PM PDT An Obama-Romney rematch is brewing in Iowa. Well, sort of. |
| US warns of possible reprisal attacks over war against IS Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:28 PM PDT
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| US reports 'progress' in pressing Turkey to join IS fight Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:26 PM PDT
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| White House says need to accelerate Turkish help in Iraq, Syria Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday emphasized the importance of quickly getting Turkish military help in the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, an issue that came to the forefront this week in the Syrian border town of Kobani. Lisa Monaco, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, met with Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan on Friday, part of a series of U.S-Turkish meetings on Turkey's support for training moderate Syrian fighters. Monaco "expressed appreciation for Turkey's support to ongoing U.S. ... |
| Coalition military chiefs to meet in US next week: officials Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:55 PM PDT
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| German downturn casts shadow over world economy Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:24 PM PDT
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| U.S. says sees higher chance of Islamic State reprisal attacks Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday that it sees a higher chance of reprisal attacks on members of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group since they began airstrikes against the fighters last month. In a periodic update of its "Worldwide Caution" on potential global threats, the State Department noted the United States and regional partners began military action against Islamic State, also referred to as ISIL, on Sept. 22. "In response to the airstrikes, ISIL called on supporters to attack foreigners wherever they are," it added. ... |
| U.N. says thousands likely to be massacred if jihadists take Kobani Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:03 PM PDT
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| IS jihadists execute Iraqi journalist, 12 other people Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:49 PM PDT
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| Senator Walsh of Montana stripped of degree for plagiarism Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:49 PM PDT
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| Kobani's fall would be symbolic setback for Obama Syria strategy Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:27 PM PDT
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| Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria's Kobane, massacre feared Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:17 PM PDT
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| Turkey to support training, equipping Syrian opposition: U.S. Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. "Turkey has agreed to support train-and-equip efforts for the moderate Syrian opposition," spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters in describing talks on Thursday between U.S. and Turkish officials in Ankara. "There will be a (U.S. ... |
| Egypt says kills top militant leader in Sinai Posted: 10 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - A top leader of Egypt's most active Islamist militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis was killed on Friday by Egyptian soldiers in the lawless north of the Sinai Peninsula, a military spokesman said on Facebook. Sinai-based Ansar, which seeks to topple the government, has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police over the past year and beheaded several people in recent weeks, saying they were spies for Israeli intelligence. ... |
| US renews global terrorism warning Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:51 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the Islamic State group and its supporters. |
| Ambassador Bolton Endorses & Makes PAC Contributions To 6 GOP Candidates Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Finishing strong the last month of the 2014 midterm elections, Ambassador John Bolton endorses six Republican candidates running for election to the U.S. House and Senate, and John Bolton PAC makes a contribution in the amount of $5,000-$10,000 to each candidate for a total of $37,500. The donations include contributions to primary and general campaign funds. This follows 10 endorsements last week along with a $5,000 PAC contribution to each candidate. ... |
| UN envoy warns of Kobane 'massacre', urges Turkey to let Kurds fight Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:05 AM PDT
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| Tight Arkansas Race Hangs on Money, Voter ID Law Posted: 10 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT The battle over control of the Senate is growing fiercer by the minute – especially in states like Arkansas where polls are showing the race is a toss-up. Republicans have zeroed in on incumbent Senator Mark Pryor, one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate. Pryor is being challenged by Rep. Tom Cotton, a rising star in the conservative faction of the House GOP. Outside spending groups have already poured about $17 million into attacking Pryor and have repeatedly tied him to President Obama, who is vastly unpopular in the state. |
| Giving Vietnam Veterans a Second Chance to Come Home Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT In August 1971, Terry Sorrells came home to southern Indiana from the Vietnam War and asked his dad if he wanted to go squirrel hunting. The season had just started, and it was a pastime they'd shared before he left for the war. So they took their shotguns, walked to the back of their farm, and parked themselves under a tree. |
| Algerian army kills five suspected militants Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:48 AM PDT
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| Syrian Kurdish leader urges Turkey to help fighters get weapons Posted: 10 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT
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| IS jihadists execute nine people in northern Iraq Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:53 AM PDT
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| Egypt to host donor conference for war-hit Gaza Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:43 AM PDT
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| We must negotiate with IS, says father of slain US reporter Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:32 AM PDT
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| Obama's Iraq-Syria strategy, way back in June 2014 ... and now Posted: 10 Oct 2014 09:12 AM PDT On June 19, shortly after Iraqi troops fled the country's second largest city, ceding it to the army of the so-called Islamic State, President Barack Obama held a press conference on the situation in Iraq and Syria and what his administration was going to do about it. |
| France pushes buffer zone for Syria, Turkey Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:08 AM PDT
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| The Smartphone Apps That Help Cops Track Down Illegal Wildlife Products Posted: 10 Oct 2014 08:02 AM PDT One of the unintended consequences of sending the United States military abroad is to promote illegal trafficking in wildlife. Young soldiers typically want souvenirs of their foreign service, and neither military patrol officers on bases abroad nor customs agents back home can usually tell whether, say, that fur hat is made from Eurasian lynx (illegal) or Corsac fox (not wonderful, but OK). |
| Serbia backs jail terms for Serbs fighting in foreign conflicts Posted: 10 Oct 2014 07:59 AM PDT BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's parliament approved on Friday jail terms of up to eight years for anyone found guilty of fighting in foreign wars, in an effort to dissuade citizens from joining conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere. The amendments to the criminal code may also be used to crack down on the lucrative business of mercenaries who have used their experience in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s to fight for money in places such as Sierra Leone, Algeria and more recently in Libya. ... |
| Islamic State holds 40 percent of Kobani, could capture it: U.S. adviser Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:53 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) militants now control 40 percent of the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border and might well capture it, Deputy U.S. National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said on Friday. Blinken said as of Thursday, IS fighters had taken over about 40 percent of Kobani with local Kurdish forces holding about 60 percent, echoing figures from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ... |
| U.N. envoy calls on Turkey to prevent Srebrenica-style massacre in Kobani Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:46 AM PDT By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy called on Turkey on Friday to help prevent a slaughter in the Syrian border town of Kobani at the hands of Islamic State fighters, saying he feared a repeat of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre when thousands died. Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations' envoy to Syria, appealed to Ankara to let "volunteers" cross the frontier so that they can reinforce Kurdish militias defending the town that lies within sight of Turkish territory. ... |
| U.S. military says conducts nine airstrikes in Syria, most near Kobani Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:28 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military conducted nine airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria during the past two days, including seven strikes near the border town of Kobani, U.S. Central Command said on Friday. Two strikes on Thursday and Friday hit southeast of Kobani, destroying two Islamic State training facilities, it said in a statement. Four others hit south of the town near Syria's border with Turkey, striking vehicles, a tank and two small units of Islamic State fighters, the U.S. military said. ... |
| Spain to send 300 soldiers to train Iraqi troops Posted: 10 Oct 2014 06:19 AM PDT MADRID (AP) — Spain says it plans to send 300 soldiers to help train the Iraqi army for combat against the Islamic State group. |
| Angry protesters yell at riot police in St. Louis Posted: 10 Oct 2014 05:44 AM PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters angered by the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by police faced off with officers in south St. Louis for a second night as accusations of racial profiling prompted calls for a federal investigation ahead of a weekend of planned rallies and civil disobedience. |
| The Merger of ISIS and al-Qaeda Could Cripple the Civilized World Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:45 AM PDT "I think Britain, Germany and France will witness significant attacks in their territories by the Islamic State. Al-Baghdadi [the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, otherwise known as ISIS] may reconcile with al-Zawhiri [the leader of the al-Qaeda central organization] to fight the crusader enemy. The attacks by the United States and her allies will unite the two groups," said Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi researcher who just finished writing a book about ISIS based on his unique access to the organization's documents and years of research and advising Iraqi security forces. "I have been monitoring al-Qaeda's leaders' rhetoric towards Baghdadi. |
| Kurds hold off IS in Syria town, pressure mounts on Turkey Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:05 AM PDT
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| The New U.S. Price Tag for the War Against ISIS: $40 Billion a Year Posted: 10 Oct 2014 03:00 AM PDT Earlier, Gordon Adams, a military analyst at American University, told The Fiscal Times that the mission to stop ISIS will cost $15 billion to $20 billion annually, based on his "back of the envelope" calculations. The estimated $30 billion to $40 billion of new spending would come on top of the Pentagon's $496 billion fiscal 2015 operating budget for personnel and contractors and the roughly $58.6 billion in an "Overseas Contingency Operation" fund that is used to finance U.S. The OCO, as it is known, has paid for the protracted U.S. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has urged the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees to schedule hearings as soon as possible to provide taxpayers with a realistic assessment of what it may cost in the coming decade to battle ISIS -- and gauge the likely impact on the deficit and other spending priorities. |
| A beheading in Oklahoma: Was it terrorism or workplace violence? Posted: 10 Oct 2014 02:19 AM PDT Moore, Okla., is a sleepy suburb where major crime is almost unheard of — especially something like the grisly decapitation of one person by a co-worker and the attempted decapitation of another. Local officials have described what happened at Vaughan Foods as a horrifying but random case of an angry worker lashing out. But while the FBI says it has found no links so far between the confessed killer and the Islamic State or other extremist groups, there is little doubt that he sympathized with their cause. |
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