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• Fifty inmates and 12 police killed in Iraq prison break: officials
• Police: 36 killed as 40 inmates escape in Iraq prison break
• 30 prisoners killed, 40 escape in Iraq jail break claimed by IS
• U.S., allies conduct 28 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
• IRAQ PRISON BREAK
• Death toll from Iraq prison break rises to 62: officials
• Australia police foil alleged terror bomb plot
• Australian police thwart imminent bomb attack, teen charged
• British foreign policy drift threatens US special relationship
• Militants kill three Egyptian policemen, retired officer in Sinai

Fifty inmates and 12 police killed in Iraq prison break: officials Posted: 09 May 2015 12:00 PM PDT Fifty inmates and 12 police died in a prison escape organized by Islamic State, Iraqi officials said on Saturday, while supporters of the group acknowledged it staged the breakout but gave different details. After a riot erupted, dozens of prisoners escaped from the Al-Khalis facility about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, security and police officials said. Militants of Islamic State, the group sometimes known as ISIS which has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, broke in with the help of explosives to free 30 inmates and get into the jail's weapons stores, said Amaq News Agency, which supports the group.

Police: 36 killed as 40 inmates escape in Iraq prison break Posted: 09 May 2015 09:29 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Forty inmates in a prison in northeastern Iraq, including some convicted of terrorism charges, escaped amid a riot that killed at least six police officers and 30 prisoners, authorities said Saturday.

30 prisoners killed, 40 escape in Iraq jail break claimed by IS Posted: 09 May 2015 08:25 AM PDT Dozens of people were killed and 40 inmates escaped in a bloody prison break north of the Iraqi capital for which the Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Saturday. The interior ministry said six guards and 30 detainees were killed Friday while 40 inmates escaped from the police compound prison in Khalis, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Baghdad. After killing him, the inmate headed up to the weapons storage and he seized more weapons," spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan told AFP. The Islamic State group gave its own account, in a statement posted on jihadist forums, and claimed that it simultaneously targeted police outside the prison.

U.S., allies conduct 28 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military Posted: 09 May 2015 08:21 AM PDT The United States and its allies have conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and 13 in Iraq since Friday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. In Syria, 13 air strikes near al-Hasakah hit 10 Islamic State tactical units, destroyed nine fighting positions, 10 vehicles, two heavy machine guns and an armored vehicle, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Saturday. The other two strikes were near Aleppo and Kobani. ...

IRAQ PRISON BREAK Posted: 09 May 2015 08:19 AM PDT Map locates Khalis, Iraq, site of a prison escape; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;

Death toll from Iraq prison break rises to 62: officials Posted: 09 May 2015 05:35 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from a prison break in Iraq climbed to 50 inmates and 12 police on Saturday, prison and police officials said. The deaths occurred inside Al-Khalis prison northeast of Baghdad during a riot and on a manhunt for escaped convicts overnight, they said. (Reporting by Baghdad bureau; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Australia police foil alleged terror bomb plot Posted: 08 May 2015 10:55 PM PDT Australian police said Saturday they had foiled an alleged terror bomb plot reportedly planned for Mother's Day, arresting a Melbourne teenager and detonating three suspected explosive devices. Australian Federal Police (AFP) and their Victoria state counterparts raided a home in the north Melbourne suburb of Greenvale on Friday, arresting and charging a 17-year-old male. "We'll allege the teenager was undertaking preparations to undertake a terrorism act as well as possessing things that relate to the commission of a terrorism act," AFP Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan said.

Australian police thwart imminent bomb attack, teen charged Posted: 08 May 2015 08:34 PM PDT By Morag MacKinnon PERTH (Reuters) - Australian police said on Saturday they had thwarted an imminent terror attack after discovering explosives at a Melbourne home and arresting a 17-year-old boy, in the latest example of the threat posed by radicalized teenagers in the country. Acting on a tip-off from the national security phone line, police and security agencies began investigating the youth and later raided his home in Greenvale, 20 kms (12 miles) north of Melbourne, on Friday when the threat was "imminent." The bomb squad moved three improvised explosive devices to a nearby park where they were "rendered safe" and said there was no longer a threat to the community, police told a news conference. "These are extremely serious offences and they did involve the use of improvised explosive devices," federal police deputy commissioner Mike Phelan told reporters. They did confirm, however, that there was no link to last month's terror raids in Melbourne and the subsequent arrest of five teenagers over the planning of an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack against police officers on the national ANZAC day holiday.

British foreign policy drift threatens US special relationship Posted: 08 May 2015 08:23 PM PDT From across the pond, President Barack Obama has warmly welcomed David Cameron's election victory, but with Britain's role in Europe and the world in doubt so too is its "special relationship" with the United States. White House congratulations are rarely more effusive. Lauding Cameron's "impressive electoral victory," Obama praised the "special and essential relationship" between the United States and Britain.

Militants kill three Egyptian policemen, retired officer in Sinai Posted: 08 May 2015 05:07 PM PDT Militants shot dead three Egyptian policeman and a retired officer in separate attacks in the capital of North Sinai, security officials said on Saturday. Gunmen, suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group's affiliate in Egypt, shot dead two policemen in the town of El-Arish overnight Friday before fleeing in a vehicle, the officials said. Separately, a police officer was killed along with three members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in an exchange of fire north of Cairo when police raided a village looking for wanted Brotherhood members. Militants have killed scores of policemen and soldiers in an insurgency in the Sinai peninsula since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

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