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• Box Office: 'Hobbit' wins, 'Interview' has strong VOD sales
• Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes
• Box Office: 'Hobbit' wins Christmas, 'Big Eyes' flops
• NATO ends its 13-year Afghan war, but insurgency boils
• 10 ways the world changed in 2014
• Iranian senior commander killed in Iraq
• Iranian general killed by sniper bullet in embattled Iraqi city
• Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months: monitor
• AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the Middle East
• U.S.-led forces launch 13 air strikes in Syria, Iraq
• 2014: The Year of the Pointless Freakout
• Afghan police lead insurgent fight at high cost

Box Office: 'Hobbit' wins, 'Interview' has strong VOD sales Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:58 PM PST LOS ANGELES (AP) — Audiences had their pick of genres during the Christmas weekend, but despite a host of fresh arrivals, splashy holiday fare like "Unbroken" and "Into the Woods" proved no match for "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies."

Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes Posted: 28 Dec 2014 03:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a joke. "Are you still president?" comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month.

Box Office: 'Hobbit' wins Christmas, 'Big Eyes' flops Posted: 28 Dec 2014 01:46 PM PST Audiences had their pick of genres over the Christmas weekend, but despite a host of fresh arrivals, splashy holiday fare like "Unbroken" and "Into the Woods" proved no match for "The ...

NATO ends its 13-year Afghan war, but insurgency boils Posted: 28 Dec 2014 12:45 PM PST NATO formally ended its war in Afghanistan on Sunday, holding a low-key ceremony in Kabul after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence.

10 ways the world changed in 2014 Posted: 28 Dec 2014 09:04 AM PST Lots happened in 2014. The news was a daily parade of discrete events. Here are some, picked (almost) at random: Afghan opium production hit a record high, calling into question government control outside Kabul. More investment cash flowed out of China than in, showing how important Beijing has become to global prosperity. Men favored Republicans by 16 points in the US midterms, a gender gap that helps explain the GOP's big election gains.

Iranian senior commander killed in Iraq Posted: 28 Dec 2014 08:33 AM PST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has been killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq, the Guard said Sunday.

Iranian general killed by sniper bullet in embattled Iraqi city Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:42 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - A sniper killed an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander who was training Iraqi troops and Shi'ite militia fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in the Iraqi city of Samarra, official Iranian media reported on Sunday. Brigadier General Hamid Taqavi, a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, was killed by snipers hiding behind a power transformer in Samarra, an embattled city north of Baghdad and home to holy Shi'ite shrines, they said, quoting a Revolutionary Guards' statement. Several people with him were wounded in the rain of sniper fire, they said. ...

Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months: monitor Posted: 28 Dec 2014 07:31 AM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organization said on Sunday. Islamic State also killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, in the last two months, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The militant group has taken vast parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in territory under its control in June. ...

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from the Middle East Posted: 28 Dec 2014 06:38 AM PST Across the Middle East this week, it was a somber Christmas for many in the region, especially in northern Iraq, where worshippers gathered far from home after being displaced by the Islamic State group's summer blitz. Baghdad's Christians worshipped in the very same church that came under siege a few years ago by an earlier incarnation of the IS group.

U.S.-led forces launch 13 air strikes in Syria, Iraq Posted: 28 Dec 2014 05:48 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces on Sunday conducted eight air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and five strikes on IS targets in Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement. In Syria, air strikes centered on the town of Kobani near the Turkish border, the Combined Joint Task Force said. The strikes in Iraq included IS positions near Sinjar and near Mosul, the task force said. (Reporting by Eric Beech; editing by Jason Neely)

2014: The Year of the Pointless Freakout Posted: 28 Dec 2014 02:15 AM PST Horrific diseases, terrorist attacks, foreign tyrants, and an influx of disease carrying illegal immigrants overwhelming the country…the list of things that was supposed to kill us all in 2014 or at the very least destroy the U.S. economy, is long indeed. While they deplored his actual actions, they loved his tactics.

Afghan police lead insurgent fight at high cost Posted: 27 Dec 2014 10:35 PM PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When brothers Amir and Mosha Jan joined Afghanistan's police two years ago they believed that their patriotic duty was more important than obeying their father, who did not want his only sons joining the ranks of a police force on the front lines of the war against the Taliban.

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