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US voices sympathy after terror strikes in Mali, Saudi

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 04:02 PM PDT

A photo taken on August 8, 2015 shows a burned vehicle in front of the Hotel Byblos in the central Malian town of Sevare, after gunmen stormed the hotel on August 7The United States on Saturday condemned deadly terror strikes in Mali and Saudi Arabia, and offered condolences to both nations over the loss of life. At least 12 people, including four foreign UN contractors, died in a hostage standoff at a hotel in central Mali. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said a suicide bomber who detonated an explosives-packed vest in a mosque inside a police headquarters, killing 15 people on Thursday, was one of its own citizens.


Thousands of Kurds in Germany march against Turkish air strikes

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 02:18 PM PDT

Zubeyir Aydar, president of the People's Congress of Kurdistan, addresses Kurdish protesters during a demonstration against alleged attacks perpetrated by the Turkish army against Kurds, August 8, 2015, in BrusselsSeveral thousand people marched Saturday through the western German city of Cologne in protest at continued Turkish air strikes against Kurdish separatists. The rallies were called by an alliance of pro-Kurdish groups to say "No to the war", after the two weeks of Turkish air raids on Kurdish separatist targets, mostly in northern Iraq. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has struck back killing at least 20 members of the Turkish security forces.


Activists: Hundreds of Syrian Christians flee Islamic State

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:30 PM PDT

In this photo provided Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, by the Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, Muslim worshipers attend Friday prayers in a mosque in the central Syrian town of Qaryatain. The Arabic on the bottom banner reads, "Friday prayers after the conquest of Qaryatain." Activists on Saturday said hundreds of families fled the Christian town of Sadad as Islamic State militants captured Qaryatain on Thursday, which is about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of Sadad. (Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants via AP)BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Christian families have fled a central Syrian town as Islamic State fighters advance toward it, activists said Saturday, the anniversary of the U.S. beginning airstrikes against the extremists in Iraq.


A year into bombing ISIS: How successful was the campaign?

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 01:18 PM PDT

Saturday marks the one year anniversary of US-led airstrikes against the self-declared Islamic State, and analysts say the campaign can point to few triumphs. Over the last year there have been nearly 6,000 coalition airstrikes against ISIS, ABC reports. In addition, 3,300 US military personnel are currently deployed to Iraq, along with an additional 1,200 forces from 17 other countries on the ground to train Iraq's army.

Typhoon Soudelor hits Taiwan, moves toward China: Were they prepared?

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 11:26 AM PDT

Soudelor, a typhoon registered as the strongest of 2015 as it blew across the western Pacific earlier this week, made landfall in Taiwan early on Saturday, and moved into the Taiwan Strait and toward mainland China later in the day. The center of the storm hit eastern Taiwan at 4:40 a.m. local time Saturday, causing electricity outages that affected more than 3 million, and leaving six people dead, four missing, and more than 100 injured, according to the Associated Press. Authorities had deployed more than 30,000 military personnel to help relocate residents of vulnerable areas as the typhoon made its way across the Pacific toward the island nation. Authorities in southeast China evacuated about 163,000 people, mostly fishermen, and ordered around 32,000 ships back to port ahead of the typhoon, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Pro-Kurdish party leader calls for steps to halt Turkey violence

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 11:24 AM PDT

Women mourn during a funeral ceremony for three Turkish Kurdish men, who were killed during clashes between security forces and PKK on Friday, in the southeastern town of Silopi in Sirnak province, TurkeyBy Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - The leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP urged the militant Kurdistan Workers Party on Saturday to "remove its finger from the trigger" and said the government should launch talks to halt a surge in violence. The militant PKK announced it was stepping up attacks in mid-July, saying Turkish forces were violating a 2013 ceasefire. Turkey began an air campaign against PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24.


Islamic State targeted in 19 strikes by U.S.-led coalition: statement

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 11:08 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition conducted 19 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday, the Command Joint Task Force said on Saturday. The greatest concentration of attacks was near the Syrian city of Hasaka, where nine fighting positions, three bunkers, a weapons cache and other targets were destroyed, the task force said in a statement. Tactical units also were hit. Islamic State assets near Aleppo, Raqqa and Deir al-Zor also were struck. In Iraq, 10 air strikes near eight cities hit tactical units, vehicles, weapons facilities and fighting positions. ...

Iran advises citizens to avoid land travel to Turkey

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 08:00 AM PDT

Iranians wait at a bus station under a mural of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Enghelab (Revolution) square in TehranIran issued an advisory warning its citizens Saturday to avoid land travel to neighbouring Turkey after an Iranian bus was attacked by gunmen. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but Turkish authorities blamed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants. "Based on recent movements and insecurity in Turkey's east, the foreign ministry advises our citizens travelling to Turkey to avoid land routes until further notice and to use air routes," a foreign ministry travel advisory read.


Riyadh says mosque suicide bomber was Saudi

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 07:15 AM PDT

An image grab taken from Saudi Al-Ekhbaria TV on August 6, 2015 shows Saudi security forces inspecting the site of an explosion which was reported triggered by a suicide bomber at a mosque located inside a special forces headquarters in AbhaSaudi Arabia said Saturday that the suicide bomber who detonated an explosives-packed vest in a mosque inside a police headquarters, killing 15 people, was one of its own citizens. Thursday's bombing of a mosque frequented by members of a police special weapons and tactics unit in the southern city of Abha was claimed by the Islamic State group. The Saudi interior ministry named the bomber as Yussef bin Sleiman bin Abdullah al-Sleiman, aged 21.


Saudi Arabia says Saudi citizen carried out mosque bombing

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 06:43 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency SPA, the governor of Asir, Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz, left, listens to a doctor, as he visits an injured man, who was wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a mosque inside a police compound, in the city of Abha, the provincial capital of Asir, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. An allegedly new Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in the country's southwest on Thursday that killed several people, most of them members and recruits of the kingdom's special forces. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A 21-year-old Saudi man carried out an Islamic State-claimed suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound that killed 15 people, the Interior Ministry said Saturday, the latest citizen blamed in a wave of extremist violence gripping the kingdom.


Austrian police find 86 refugees in truck, driver flees

Posted: 08 Aug 2015 06:32 AM PDT

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Austrian police who stopped a small truck that appeared overloaded have found 86 refugees crammed inside during sweltering heat.

IS top command dominated by ex-officers in Saddam's army

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 11:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2009, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers stroll past two bronze busts of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Under its leader, Iraqi jihadi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State group's top command is dominated by former officers from Saddam's military and intelligence agencies, according to senior Iraqi officers and top intelligence officials. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — While attending the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words "God is great."


US military rethinking how to put Syrian soldiers into fight

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 11:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2015, file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The murky aftermath of the attack on Syrian rebels last week by al-Qaida-linked militants has raised questions about how the small, ragtag group of U.S.-trained forces was sent into battle and whether the military needs to make adjustments to the program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON (AP) — The murky aftermath of the attack on Syrian rebels last week by al-Qaida-linked militants has raised questions about how the small, ragtag group of U.S.-trained forces was sent into battle and whether the military needs to make adjustments to the program.


Iran disagreement shakes Democratic party politics

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 09:29 PM PDT

The loss of Congress's most influential Jewish member is a blow to President Barack Obama, who is trying to rally enough votes in the Senate to protect the agreement from being overturnedThe White House responded with ill-disguised anger to news that Chuck Schumer, a key Democratic ally in the Senate, will oppose the landmark nuclear deal with Iran. In a statement -- purposely announced at the same time as the blockbuster Republican presidential debate Thursday -- Schumer said planned inspections of Iran's nuclear sites were not intrusive enough and would allow it to become a threshold nuclear state. The loss of Congress's most influential Jewish member is a blow to President Barack Obama, who is trying to rally enough votes in the Senate to protect the agreement from being overturned.


Today in History

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 09:02 PM PDT

Today is Saturday, August 8, the 220th day of 2015. There are 145 days left in the year.

Attack on Syrian rebels raises questions about training

Posted: 07 Aug 2015 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2015, file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The murky aftermath of the attack on Syrian rebels last week by al-Qaida-linked militants has raised questions about how the small, ragtag group of U.S.-trained forces was sent into battle and whether the military needs to make adjustments to the program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON (AP) — The murky aftermath of the attack on Syrian rebels last week by al-Qaida-linked militants has raised questions about how the small, ragtag group of U.S.-trained forces was sent into battle and whether the military needs to make adjustments to the program.


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