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Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:32 PM PDT

TIANJIN, China (AP) — The death toll from the fiery explosions at a warehouse of hazardous chemicals climbed Thursday to 50, and the Chinese government sent experts to the shattered and smoldering port to assess any environmental dangers from the spectacular blasts. More than 700 people were injured and dozens were reported missing in the explosions shortly before midnight Wednesday that demolished a workers' dormitory, tossed shipping containers as if they were toy blocks and turned a fleet of 1,000 new cars into scorched metal husks. Windows were shattered for miles around by the shockwaves.

US investigating whether Islamic State used chemical weapons

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:25 PM PDT

EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (AP) — The United States is investigating whether the Islamic State used chemical weapons, the White House said Thursday, following allegations that IS militants deployed chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.

Tenor Anthony Kearns Headlined Private Concert for Wells of Life Charity

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:07 PM PDT

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On July 24, 2015, renowned tenor Anthony Kearns headlined a private performance in support of Wells of Life, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit group dedicated to providing safe drinking water to communities in Uganda. Wells of Life was founded in 2009 by real estate broker Nick Jordan to break the cycle of poverty in Uganda by funding 1,000 water wells. The goal of 1,000 wells will provide clean water to one million villagers.

Military says it is committed to fairness in Manning case

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, then-Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after the third day of his court martial. Manning could be placed in solitary confinement indefinitely for allegedly violating prison rules by having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste, among other things, her lawyer said Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. military said Thursday that it is committed to "a fair and equitable process" in the case of national security leaker Chelsea Manning and other prisoners accused of breaking rules at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth.


Ex-President Warren Harding's Love Child Confirmed Through DNA Testing

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:52 PM PDT

Ex-President Warren Harding's Love Child Confirmed Through DNA TestingAfter nearly 100 years of rumors and historical speculation, DNA testing has confirmed that President Warren Harding had a child out of wedlock – his only biological child – with mistress Nan Britton. Britton first came forward publically with the claim that her daughter, Elizabeth Ann, was Harding's daughter in a 1927 autobiography "The President's Daughter." In her account, Britton detailed a steamy six-year-long affair with the 29th president, including one encounter in a White House closet, before his untimely death in 1923. Britton was labeled a "sex pervert" and "degenerate," and a book was even written to counter her claims about Harding, who was married to Florence Mabel Harding.


Jeb Bush leaves door open for use of torture by government

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:39 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, speaks during a forum sponsored by Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government.


U.S. believes Islamic State likely used mustard agent in Iraq attack: WSJ

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:33 PM PDT

Kurdish security forces gather at the site of a bomb attack in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan regionThe United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. "We have credible information that the agent used in the attack was mustard," a senior U.S. official told the Journal. Islamic State could have obtained the mustard agent in Syria, whose government admitted to having large quantities of the blistering agent in 2013, when it agreed to give up its chemical weapons arsenal, the newspaper reported.


U.S. bombing of Islamic State rebels surged in July

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:29 PM PDT

By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. bombing campaign against Islamic State rebels surged in July as Kurdish fighters pushed into territory held by the militant group in Syria and Iraqi forces prepared an offensive to retake strategic northwestern cities, Pentagon figures showed. The U.S. military spent an average of $4.6 million per day on bombs and other munitions between July 15 and July 31, nearly double the daily average of $2.33 million spent in the previous month. Lieutenant Commander Kyle Raines, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said the number of bombs and other munitions used in July increased by 67 percent over the previous month, jumping from 1,686 to 2,829.

Jeb Bush rejects Democrats' criticism over his Iraq stance

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:06 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at a town hall meeting in North Las Vegas, NevadaBy Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of not ensuring Iraq remained stable after his brother left a "fragile but secure" environment, returning to the topic of Iraq for the second time this week. At a national security forum in Davenport, Iowa, Bush rejected Democratic criticism that he is trying to rewrite history by saying Obama's policies, not the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq launched by then-President George W. Bush, contributed to the rise of the Islamic State militant force.


Egypt beheading blow to tourism, may boost military aid

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:23 PM PDT

A picture released by the Egyptian Presidency on July 4, 2015, shows President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) shaking hands with a member of the security forces during a visit to the Sinai Peninsula following a wave of attacks by Islamic State jihadistsThe Islamic State group's apparent beheading of a Croatian engineer in Egypt threatens to scare off tourists and foreign investment but could boost Western support for Cairo's fight against jihadists, analysts say. The purported execution of Tomislav Salopek, who worked for a French geoscience company, is likely to encourage the policy of Washington and Paris of supplying weapons to Cairo to battle extremists, according to experts. The West has been accused of turning a blind eye to human rights violations under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ex-army chief who has overseen a deadly crackdown on supporters of his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi.


Sarah Chayes battles a worldwide scourge: deep-rooted corruption

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:00 PM PDT

Sarah Chayes bounds around the corner to greet a guest who's just stepped off the elevator at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Before joining the international think tank, Ms. Chayes was a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio and  was assigned in 2001 to cover post-Taliban Afghanistan. First she lived as a civilian in Afghanistan for nearly a decade, where she launched Arghand, a sustainable soap and skincare cooperative in Kandahar Province that created jobs for impoverished women.

Egyptian military plane crashes near Libyan border, four dead

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:55 PM PDT

An Egyptian military aircraft crashed near the Libyan border while on a mission against Islamist militants on Thursday, killing four people and injuring another two, the military said. The Egyptian army and air force were conducting a joint operation against militants in the border area and destroyed four of their vehicles, a military spokesman said. Egypt is facing an increasingly brazen insurgency based in the Sinai region that has killed hundreds of police and soldiers since the army ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after mass protests against his rule in 2013.

Kuwait seizes arms, holds suspects in militant plot: local media

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:45 PM PDT

Kuwait authorities seized a huge arms cache smuggled from Iraq and hidden beneath houses near the border, arresting three suspected members of a militant cell that was plotting to destabilize the country, local media said. Majority-Sunni Muslim Kuwait has been on alert since an Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in the capital Kuwait city in late June, killing 27 people. A total of 19,000 kg (42,000 lb) of ammunition, 144 kg of explosives, 68 weapons and 204 grenades were seized from three properties in the al-Abdali area, state news agency KUNA said.

Did the Army and Air Force Squander $500 Million Fighting Over a Drone?

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:31 PM PDT

A newly uncovered report by the Defense Department's own top watchdog says the Army and Air Force may have squandered more than $500 million to develop the same unmanned drone aircraft. A 2010 Pentagon ...

Truck bomb targeting Shiites kills 67 at Baghdad market

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:20 PM PDT

People evacuate the body of a victim killed from a bombing in Jameela market in the Iraqi capital's crowded Sadr City neighborhood Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in the early morning hours on Thursday, killing dozens of people, police officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — In one of the deadliest single attacks in postwar Baghdad, a truck bomb shattered a popular fruit-and-vegetable market in a teeming Shiite neighborhood Thursday, killing 67 people and wounding more than 150 others.


Croatia says 2 groups were involved in Egypt abduction

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:19 PM PDT

This image made from a militant video posted on a social media site on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, purports to show a militant standing next to another man who identifies himself as 30-year-old Tomislav Salopek, kneeling down as he reads a message at an unknown location. An online image purports to show the Croatian hostage being held by an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt has been beheaded. (Militant video via AP, File)SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The alleged beheading of a Croatian hostage in Egypt took a sinister new turn Thursday with the revelation that a criminal gang kidnapped him, then demanded a ransom from his employer before turning him over to the Islamic State group.


Turkey faces autumn election after coalition talks fail

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:45 PM PDT

Turkey's Prime Minister Davutoglu meets with main opposition CHP leader Kilicdaroglu as part of their coalition talks in Ankara, TurkeyBy Gulsen Solaker and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey faces a snap election this autumn after talks on forming a coalition government broke down on Thursday, increasing uncertainty in the NATO member state as it battles Islamic State insurgents on its borders and Kurdish militants at home. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a fresh election now appeared to be the only option after last-ditch negotiations between his Islamist-rooted AK Party and the main opposition CHP yielded no deal. "An understanding has emerged that there are no grounds right now to form a government partnership," Davutoglu told a news conference after meeting CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu.


IS Afghan operations growing, evolving: US

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:40 PM PDT

Afghan children who fled from Kot district of the eastern Nangarhar' province, following threats from the Islamic State group to leave their homes, are pictured at their temporary shelter in Jalalabad on July 5, 2015The Islamic State group is operating in Afghanistan but does not appear able to coordinate their operations in the country, a top US military official said Thursday. The extremist group is now considered "operationally emergent," said Brigadier General Wilson Shoffner, the spokesman for the US-led mission in Afghanistan. "We do have reports of them operating in different part of the country but again not in a coordinated fashion," Shoffner told reporters, speaking from Kabul.


Kuwait breaks ups 'terror' cell

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:34 PM PDT

A photo released by the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA on August 13, 2015, shows Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Khaled al-Sabah (C) alongside a policeman looking at seized weapons in Kuwait CityKuwait has broken up a new three-member "terror" cell and seized large amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the interior ministry said on Thursday. Three Kuwaiti citizens were arrested and have confessed to joining a "terror" group, a statement said. Security forces seized "19 tonnes of ammunition" as well as 144 kilos (316 pounds) of TNT, as well as rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades, firearms and detonators, the ministry said.


IS truck bomb kills at least 54 in Baghdad market

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:21 PM PDT

An Iraqi man with blood-stained clothes walks past the wreckage of a truck following a bomb explosion in Baghdad's northern Shiite district of Sadr City on August 13, 2015A truck bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 54 people in a Shiite-majority area of Baghdad Thursday, the deadliest single attack in Iraq's capital in months. The blast, which was likely aimed at undermining confidence in the government and stoking sectarian tensions, came after the outgoing US army chief warned that reconciliation in Iraq is becoming increasingly difficult and that the country may ultimately have to be partitioned. The bomb went off in a wholesale vegetable market in the Sadr City area of north Baghdad at around 6:00 am (0300 GMT), peak time for shops buying produce.


US general says Islamic State gaining in Afghanistan

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 22, 2015 file photo, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner salutes at Kabul International Airport base in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat, a U.S. Army general said Thursday.Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon from his offices in Kabul, Shoffner said the Islamic State, which rose to prominence by capturing large swaths of Syria and Iraq, is not yet capable of coordinating military operations in more than one part of Afghanistan at a time. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group is making small inroads in Afghanistan and could grow into a more worrisome threat, a U.S. Army general said Thursday.


What If Barack and Bibi Are Both Right?

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 12:10 PM PDT

What If Barack and Bibi Are Both Right?Robert Hunter, a former ambassador and longtime foreign-policy eminence, has written that the Iran debate has reached the familiar "cairn-building" stage. That's the stage in which each side adds a new rock—of argument, endorsement, rebuttal—to the piled-up cairn it has created. "The merits of the arguments are politically meaningless," Hunter says. "The side with the highest pile of stones wins!" But as he goes on to say, these piles themselves also become meaningless. All that matters is what actually weighs on the senators and representatives who will cast up or down votes.


Paris murder suspect faces trial as Kurdish tensions resurface

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:52 AM PDT

A Turkish man suspected of murdering three Kurdish activists in Paris in 2013 is to face trial, putting the spotlight on a key rallying point for ethnic Kurds amid renewed violence in Turkey's Kurdish southeast. According to a French judicial source, the charge against the main suspect in the case, 33-year-old Omer Guney, will be "assassination in connection with a terrorist organization", as requested by an investigating magistrate in July. Judicial sources have said he is thought to have acted under instructions from people in Turkey, and that those people may have had connections to the Turkish intelligence services.

Iraq PM condemns US officer's remarks on partition

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 11:50 AM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi speaks during a bilateral meeting with US president on the sidelines of the G7 Summit at the Schloss Elmau castle resort near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 8, 2015Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office condemned Thursday outgoing US army chief General Raymond Odierno's "irresponsible" statement on the possibility that Iraq might be partitioned. It was "an irresponsible statement and reflects an ignorance of the Iraqi reality," Abadi's media office said. The United States is a key partner in Iraq's battle against the Islamic State group, leading a coalition that is carrying out air strikes against the militants and is training Baghdad's forces.


Blood from gay donors in art exhibit protesting FDA's ban

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:46 AM PDT

This handout photo provided by American University/Jordan Eagles shows Eagles seven-foot-tall sculpture: "Jordan Eagle:Blood Mirror.: Eagles created the sculpture that includes the blood of nine gay, bisexual and transgender men to protest the Food and Drug Administration's ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. The American University Museum will showcase the sculpture in a new exhibit opening Sept. 12. The sculpture includes blood donations encased in resin to preserve the material over time. (American University/Jordan Eagles/Leo Herrera via AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington museum will exhibit a sculpture that uses the blood of nine gay, bisexual and transgender men to protest the federal ban on blood donations from men who have sex with other men.


A Female VP for Trump? Here Are 5 Options (Plus Oprah!)

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:45 AM PDT

After a week of controversy over his battle with Fox News debate moderator Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump now says he would consider a woman as his running mate if he manages to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. "Certainly, I would consider a woman as a running mate," the high-flying Trump told Michael Sneed of CBS-Chicago on Wednesday. Republicans have long had trouble attracting women, Hispanics and other minorities to support their national tickets, and Trump may have just pushed that problem to new heights with his combative – and even menacing – comments to Kelly during the two-hour Republican debate on Fox News last week.

IRAQ ATTACKS

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:37 AM PDT

Chart shows the deadliest attacks in Iraq; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;

U.S., allies target Islamic State in Syria, Iraq with 24 air strikes: U.S. military

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:29 AM PDT

U.S.-led forces conducted 12 air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday and also targeted the group with 12 strikes in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Strikes in Syria were concentrated near Al Hasakah, where five hit tactical units and destroyed fighting positions and a vehicle, the military said in a statement. U.S.-led forces hit Islamic State targets in Iraq, the statement said.

Hidden damage revealed in veterans' brains from IED blasts

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:28 AM PDT

By Jillian Kitchener A research team at Johns Hopkins University says they have found a unique honeycomb pattern of broken and swollen nerve fibers in brains of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived improvised explosive device (IED) blasts, but later died of other causes. The team of eight researchers, led by Vassilis Koliatsos, professor of pathology, neurology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, studied the brains of five U.S. combat veterans and compared them to 24 other brains of people who died from causes such as car accidents, drug overdoses and heart attacks.

One soldier, 7 Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey unrest: army

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 10:17 AM PDT

Turkish police stand near a building where two officers were found shot dead at their home on July 22, 2015 in Ceylanpinar, part of an escalating cycle of violence between the PKK and Turkish security forcesOne Turkish soldier and seven suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in new violence blamed on the Kurdish rebels, the army said Thursday. The deaths were the latest in an escalating cycle of violence between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels that has left a 2013 ceasefire in tatters. The soldier was killed when an explosive device laid by PKK rebels near a railway line in the Genc district of the eastern Bingol province was detonated, the army said.


Turkey coalition talks fail; new elections loom

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:59 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister and leader of Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet Davutoglu, right, talks with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu, prior to their meeting regarding possible coalition government between the two parties, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. Davutoglu's Islamic-rooting ruling party lost its majority in elections in June, forcing it to seek a coalition alliance to remain in power. But many in the ruling party favor new elections instead, and prospects for an alliance look dim and elections are likely to be called if no government is formed by the end of next week. (AP Photo)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Efforts on Thursday by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to forge a coalition alliance with the country's pro-secular party failed, edging Turkey closer toward new elections as it grapples with escalating violence.


Turkey faces snap polls as coalition talks fail

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:48 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Ahmet Davutoglu, gestures during a press conference at the party headquarters in Ankara on August 13, 2015Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that coalition talks with the main opposition party had failed, paving the way for snap legislative elections as Ankara battles its biggest security crisis against militants in years. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority in June 7 polls for the first time since it came to power in 2002, in a major setback for its co-founder President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. AKP leader Davutoglu and Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu had held a one-and-half hour meeting in Ankara in what was seen as a final chance to agree a coalition government.


Army's top officer: Pioneering women in Ranger School have 'impressed'

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:43 AM PDT

In his last press conference on the job, the Army's top officer reflected on his tenure, including significant shifts in policy that are giving women an ever-greater role – and, as a result one day, a greater voice – in America's armed forces. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, who is retiring from the military after 39 years of service, also outlined what he sees as the most tenable way forward in Iraq, which may involve partitioning the violence-plagued nation. A lifelong infantry officer who previously commanded all US forces in Afghanistan, General Odierno said that the feedback on the female soldiers currently making their way through Army Ranger School – for the first time in US military history – has been almost universally positive.

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri pledges allegiance to new Taliban chief

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:24 AM PDT

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri pledged the group's allegiance to new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar MansourAl-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Thursday pledged his group's allegiance to new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who is facing a bitter struggle over his leadership. "As emir of Al-Qaeda, I pledge to you our allegiance, following the path of Sheikh (Osama) bin Laden and his martyred brothers in their allegiance to Mullah Omar," Zawahiri said in a recording, referring to the former Al-Qaeda leader and to the longtime Taliban chief, whose death was confirmed last month.


Iraq's PM office says U.S. general's comments on partition 'irresponsible'

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:21 AM PDT

Comments attributed to the most senior U.S. army official about the possibility of Iraq being partitioned are irresponsible and ignorant, the media office of the country's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday. General Ray Odierno, who retires as U.S. Army chief of staff on Friday, told reporters in Washington on Wednesday that partition "could happen" but was for the region, politicians and diplomats to figure out. "It might be the only solution, but I'm not ready to say that yet," said Odierno, who has spent most of the last two decades dealing with conflict in Iraq.

4-Star General Calls for Troops on the Ground to Break ISIS Stalemate

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT

In one of the most negative assessments yet of America's war against ISIS, Gen. Ray Odierno said the U.S. should commit ground troops to bolster local forces in order to break the "stalemate" against the terror group. At his final press conference on Wednesday, the outgoing Army Chief of Staff who retires on Friday confirmed the U.S. strategy against ISIS forces in Iraq has stalled and might need more American troops on the battlefield to work.

Pakistan sentences 7 to death over school attack

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:58 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani military courts have sentenced seven Islamic militants to death over a series of attacks, including an assault on an army-run school that killed more than 150 people, the army said Thursday.

Iraq's Anbar governor sacking all aides under Abadi reform plan

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:41 AM PDT

The governor of Iraq's Anbar province said on Thursday he was sacking all aides as part of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's crackdown on corruption and incompetence to boost the government in its battle against Islamic State insurgents. The announcement came two days after parliament unanimously approved Abadi's sweeping reform plan -- the biggest shake-up in Iraq's governing system since the U.S. military occupation.

Kerry complains to Moscow about Iran general's visit

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:37 AM PDT

General Qassem Suleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' foreign operations, pictured on September 14, 2013, reportedly visited Russia in July 2015US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express concern about a visit to Moscow by the commander of Iran's covert forces, a senior State Department official said. General Qassem Suleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' foreign operations, reportedly visited Russia late last month despite being subject to UN-backed international sanctions. A State Department spokesman said Wednesday the United States had confirmed the trip had taken place and said US officials would raise their concerns with Russia at an upcoming New York meeting on violent extremism.


Iraqi Kurdish forces hit with chemical weapon attack: Germamy

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 07:04 AM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been battling Islamic State militants across northern IraqKurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in northern Iraq have reported being attacked with chemical weapons, the German defence ministry said Thursday. "We have indications that there was an attack with chemical weapons" against the peshmerga fighters that left many suffering from "respiratory irritation," a ministry spokesman told AFP. A senior official from the peshmerga told AFP the attack happened two days ago and wounded several dozen fighters.


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