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Naval base a terror target as two arrested in Australia operation

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:23 PM PST

Police in Sydney on October 3, 2015Two men were arrested on Wednesday during a counter-terrorism operation in Sydney, with a key Australian naval base among locations they were allegedly targeting, police said. Following the latest raids, a 24-year-old faces charges of making a document likely to facilitate a terrorist attack and another man, 20, with conspiracy to "do an act in preparation to commit a terrorist act". New South Wales police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn said the latest arrests related to evidence gathered late last year when 15 people were taken into custody and an alleged plan to kidnap and behead a member of the public was uncovered.


Bowe Bergdahl arraigned at North Carolina Army base

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:55 PM PST

FILE - This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner for years by the Taliban after leaving his post in Afghanistan. The popular podcast Wearing a dress blue uniform, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faced a military judge Tuesday for the first time since the U.S. Army decided to proceed with a military trial that could result in a life sentence for ...


UN renews attempt to get aid into Syria

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:09 PM PST

A Syrian man escorts his injured wife following reported air strikes by regime forces on the town of al-Nashabiyah in the eastern Ghouta region, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on December 14, 2015The UN Security Council Tuesday renewed a resolution facilitating the cross-border delivery of aid to millions of Syrians, while complaining previous such measures were not seen through on the ground. The resolution extends authorization for UN humanitarian convoys to cross into Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, in line with a previous text adopted in July 2014 and due to expire in January. The document said the Security Council was "gravely concerned at the lack of effective implementation of its resolutions" calling for greater facilitation of aid deliveries.


QASU FAMILY ODYSSEY 2

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 01:33 PM PST

Map tracks migrant's journey from Iraq to Germany. ; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;

UN demands Syria allow urgent aid deliveries to 13.5 million

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 12:15 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing a worsening humanitarian crisis in Syria, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday demanding that all combatants but especially the Syrian government allow the urgent delivery of desperately needed food and medicine to more than 13.5 million people.

Turkish tanks pound Kurdish militants in week-long military campaign

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 12:12 PM PST

A Kurdish demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back at riot police during a protest against the curfew in Sur district in the southeastern city of DiyarbakirBy Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish tanks on Tuesday pounded Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in Cizre, a southeastern town at the heart of a military operation that the army said has killed 127 Kurdish militants in a week. Black smoke rose from buildings in the town after shelling from hilltops and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 23 civilians had been killed in the violence. A 16-year-old boy was killed in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the region, from a gunshot wound to the chest during protests against the curfews, security sources said.


Soldier who walked of Afghan post appears in military court

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 11:29 AM PST

U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bergdahl leaves the courthouse Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, after his arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl, who disappeared in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, was scheduled to appear Tuesday before a military judge on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (Andrew Craft /The Fayetteville Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDITFORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faced a military judge Tuesday for the first time since the U.S. Army decided to proceed with a military trial that could result in a life sentence for his disappearance in Afghanistan in 2009.


1 Million Migrate to Europe in 2015, and Now German Police Warn of Terrorism

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 11:00 AM PST

1 Million Migrate to Europe in 2015, and Now German Police Warn of TerrorismThe International Organization of Migration announced Monday that the number of migrants and refugees to enter Europe through "irregular" means this year has crossed 1 million, a 400-percent increase over 2014. War, poverty, persecution, and rules in Middle Eastern countries against refugees holding legitimate jobs have prompted many to leave their homes in countries from Ukraine to Senegal and even camps built to house those fleeing war in Syria. More than 800,000 of those entering Europe came through Greece, mostly via a route from Turkey to the island of Lesbos.


U.N. blames Saudi-led coalition for most attacks on Yemeni civilians

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 10:36 AM PST

A Houthi militant screams to people to go away while standing on the rubble of a house damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in the neighbourhood of Al-Garda at Shomila area in Yemen's capital SanaaBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition's military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a "disproportionate amount" of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking at the council's first public meeting on Yemen since the Saudi-led bombing campaign began nine months ago, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said he had "observed with extreme concern" heavy shelling from the ground and air in civilian areas of Yemen including the destruction of hospitals and schools.


Iraq forces advance into centre of IS-held Ramadi

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 10:34 AM PST

Iraqi pro-regime forces hold a position during clashes with Islamic State fighters on the outskirts of Ramadi, on December 16, 2015Iraqi security forces advanced Tuesday into the centre of Ramadi for a final push aimed at retaking the city they lost to the Islamic State group in May, officials said. "We went into the centre of Ramadi from several fronts and we began purging residential areas," said Sabah al-Noman, spokesman of the elite Iraqi counter-terrorism service. The fresh push was launched on Monday night and aims to result in the full recapture of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province in western Iraq.


Iraqi troops advance in battle for IS-held city of Ramadi

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 10:23 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers advance their position in northern Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces on Tuesday reported progress in the military operation to retake the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, saying they made the most significant incursion into the city since it fell to the militants in May.


Bavaria minister says refugees with false passports may have ISIS link

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:59 AM PST

A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported. The minister spoke after top-selling daily Bild reported that about a dozen refugees were in Germany with false passports originating from the same place as those held by two Islamist militants involved in attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 which killed 130 people. Bild cited government sources as saying the passports were stolen and had "the same forgery features" as those held by the two Paris attackers.

EU gets one million migrants in 2015, smugglers seen making $1 billion

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:43 AM PST

Refugees and migrants arrive aboard the passenger ferry Eleftherios Venizelos from the island of Lesbos at the port of PiraeusBy Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. "This is three to four times as many migrants and refugees coming north as we had in 2014, and the deaths have already far surpassed the deaths last year," IOM chief William Lacy Swing told Reuters. Another 20 percent were Afghans, and 7 percent were Iraqis, IOM and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a joint statement.


The Long Battle for Ramadi

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:23 AM PST

Iraqi ground forces stormed Ramadi on Tuesday in an attempt to wrest control of the Iraqi city from the Islamic State, which has controlled it for months.

IRAQ RAMADI

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:07 AM PST

Map locates Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;

What you need to know about artificial intelligence, and the imminent robot future

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 09:00 AM PST

What you need to know about artificial intelligence, and the imminent robot futureFrom autonomous warfare to still-distant sentience, artificial intelligence in 2015 is nothing like we expected. Here are three things every geek who dreamed of a robot future needs to know.


Forged passports 'spark security fear in Germany'

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 08:50 AM PST

French security forces have been on a maximum state of alert after jihadist gunmen killed 130 people in Paris on November 13About a dozen migrants may have entered Germany on forged Syrian passports like those used by two Paris suicide bombers, according to a news report Tuesday which authorities did not confirm. Bild newspaper, citing unnamed government sources, said the passports bore the "same forgery characteristics" as those carried by two men involved in the November 13 France attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. The passports were stolen blanks issued by the Syrian government, but filled in by forgers with the personal details of people who then joined tens of thousands on the refugee trail to Europe, according to Bild.


Iraq FM denies any link to abduction of Qataris

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 08:17 AM PST

Wealthy citizens of Sunni Gulf states commonly venture to Iraq to hunt with falcons, escaping the restrictions they face at homeIraq's foreign minister denied Tuesday any link between his government and the kidnappers of 26 Qatari hunters, allegedly people linked to Shiite militiamen on whom Baghdad relies heavily against the Islamic State group. "I categorically deny that the Iraqi government has any link to the (kidnapping) case," Jaafari said.


Egypt hires consultancy to check airport security after Russia crash

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 08:12 AM PST

Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kama and Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou speak to media after a news conference in CairoBy Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has hired global consultancy Control Risks to review security at its airports after the crash of a plane carrying Russian holidaymakers that killed all 224 aboard and damaged the country's tourism industry. Egypt said this month it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the October crash, but Russia said in November that the jet was brought down by a bomb. Islamic State, the militant group that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility and said it had smuggled a bomb on board hidden in a soft drink can.


Iraqi troops storm into center of Islamic State-held Ramadi

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 08:04 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stand with an Islamist State flag which they pulled down at the University of Anbar, in Anbar province"Our forces are advancing toward the government complex in the center of Ramadi," the counter-terrorism units' spokesman Sabah al-Numani said. "The fighting is in the neighborhoods around the complex, with support from the air force."Iraqi intelligence estimates the number of Islamic State fighters entrenched in the center of Ramadi, capital of Western Anbar province, at between 250 and 300.


Iraqi family braves perilous journey to new life in Germany

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 07:58 AM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 photo, Yazidi refugee Samir Qasu, 45, from Sinjar, Iraq, and his wife Bessi, 42, their two daughters Delphine, 18, Dunia 13, and their two sons Dilshad, 17, and Dildar, 10, walk toward a gathering point to board a bus to a registration center, after arriving on a vessel from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. The Qasus, left the Turkish coast before dawn on Dec. 3 bound for the island of Lesbos, the first port of EU call for nearly 400,000 asylum seekers this year. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)HEIDELBERG, Germany (AP) — The Qasus do not normally cry, but this felt nothing like normal. Like hundreds of thousands before them and untold more to come, the Iraqi family had just completed a disorienting dash across Europe and found refuge in Germany.


QASU FAMILY ODYSSEY

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 07:44 AM PST

Map tracks migrant's journey from Iraq to Germany.; 4c x 5 inches; 195.7 mm x 127 mm;

Egypt hires consultancy firm to check airport security after Russia crash

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 06:03 AM PST

Egypt's tourism minister Hisham Zazou speaks during an interview with Reuters in LondonBy Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has hired global consultancy Control Risks to review security at its airports following the crash of a plane carrying Russian holidaymakers over the Sinai Peninsula, killing all on board and hurting the country's tourism industry. Egypt said this month it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the October crash, in which 224 people were killed, but Russia said in November that the plane was brought down by a bomb. Islamic State, the militant group that has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility and said it had smuggled a bomb on board hidden in a soft drinks can.


Questions and answers about Europe's migration crisis

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 06:02 AM PST

An Iraqi man disembarks from a dinghy on a beach after his trip with other refugees and migrants from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. European Union leaders on Thursday set a six-month deadline for deciding whether to push ahead with plans for a border guard agency that could deploy to member states unable or unwilling to manage their borders as thousands of migrants continue to arrive in Europe daily. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)BRUSSELS (AP) — One million — and counting. The International Organization for Migration says its statistics show the number of people fleeing conflict or poverty who have arrived in the European Union by sea this year has hit the seven-digit mark.


Work on new Russian nuclear reactors in Iran 'to start next week'

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 05:46 AM PST

The existing Russian-built nuclear power reactor at Bushehr in southern IranRussia will start constructing two nuclear reactors in Iran next week, as Tehran seeks to reduce its reliance on oil and gas with 20 facilities over the coming years, an official said Tuesday. The start of construction follows a historic deal between Iran and world powers in July that ends a decade-long standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme. Iran plans to build 20 more nuclear plants in the future, including four in Bushehr.


Iran's growing clout spurs Saudi action on Syria

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 05:05 AM PST

Syria's bitter civil war has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people since the start of the conflict in March 2011After years of tense relations with President Bashar al-Assad, Saudi Arabia has adopted a bolder approach towards Syria, prompted by rival Iran's growing regional influence. The kingdom recently brought Syrian political and armed opposition factions together for unprecedented talks in Riyadh, the culmination of months of manoeuvring by the Sunni Muslim power. The step highlighted Saudi Arabia's rising profile in efforts to end the war in Syria, where Shiite Iran gives military and financial support to Riyadh's longtime opponent Assad.


Iraq denies responsibility for abduction of Qatari hunters

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 05:05 AM PST

Kuwait Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah alKhalid al Sabah and Iraq's Foreign Affairs Minister Ibrahim AlJaafari enter a news briefing in Kuwait CityIraq's foreign minister denied on Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping of a group of Qatari hunters in the south of the country this month. "I deny categorically that this issue (of the kidnapping) has any relation to the Iraqi government," Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told reporters at a news conference with his Kuwaiti counterpart in Kuwait. The Gulf Cooperation Council, of which Qatar is a member, described the abduction as "an action that harms the bonds of brotherly relations between Arab brothers," state media in another member, Saudi Arabia, reported on Tuesday.


Control Risks to review Egypt's airport security after Russian plane crash

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:58 AM PST

Egypt's tourism minister Hisham Zazou speaks during an interview with Reuters in LondonCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has hired global consultancy Control Risks to review security at some of its airports, tourism minister Hisham Zaazou said on Tuesday, after a plane carrying Russian tourists crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in October killing all aboard. Egypt said this month it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the crash, which killed 224 people, but Russia said in November that the plane was brought down by a bomb. ...


US candidates split along odd lines on Mideast regime change

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:52 AM PST

In this Dec. 15, 2015 photo, Donald Trump, left, watches as Ted Cruz speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. A growing debate over America's role in promoting regime change in the Middle East is creating unusual alliances among 2016 presidential candidates that cross party lines. (AP Photo/John Locher)WASHINGTON (AP) — America's 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines.


U.S. leads 25 strikes against Islamic State: statement

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:26 AM PST

The U.S.-led coalition staged a fresh round of strikes on Monday against Islamic State with 17 in Iraq and eight in Syria, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement. The strikes near five Iraqi cities included seven near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which hit six tactical units and 12 fighting positions, according to the statement released on Tuesday. In Syria, four strikes near Mar'a hit four Islamic State tactical units and a vehicle, the military said.

Suspected Islamist extremists arrested in Bosnia

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:19 AM PST

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police in Bosnia said Tuesday that they have detained 11 people suspected of links with the Islamic State group and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq.

AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 04:07 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — The far-flung attacks claimed by Islamic State militants and the intensifying global effort to crush them added up to a grim, gripping yearlong saga that was voted the top news story of 2015, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

Syrian foreign minister to visit China this week

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 02:47 AM PST

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem attends a news conference in MoscowSyria's foreign minister will visit China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, amid a renewed bid by Beijing to play a more active role in finding an end to conflict in the Middle East. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will be in China from Dec. 23 to Dec. 26 and will meet his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing.


Bosnian police arrest 11 over Islamic State links

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 01:37 AM PST

Bosnian police said on Tuesday that several locations have been raided and 11 people arrested in a search for suspects believed to be connected with Islamic State. "So far 11 individuals suspected of terrorism, financing of terrorist activities and recruiting Islamic State fighters have been arrested in raids on 13 locations," a spokeswoman for the police directorate of Bosnia's autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation said. "During the raids, an evidence has been found indicating connections with the ISIL structures," the statement from the prosecutor's office said, using an alternative name for Islamic State.

AP photographer walks refugee road, forges bond with family

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 01:35 AM PST

In this Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015 photo, Yazidi refugee Samir Qasu, 45, center, from Sinjar, Iraq, and his daughter Dunia, 13, gestures to a Greek police officer while he an d his family and other refugees and migrants wait to be permitted to cross the Greek-Macedonian border, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni. Within two days of arriving on Lesbos, the Qasus had traveled by midnight ferry from Lesbos to Athens and then by bus to Greece's northern border with Macedonia. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)I never imagined that I would grow so close, and so quickly, to perfect strangers. But the Qasu family will live in my hearts for the rest of my days.


Regime change debate creates unusual 2016 alliances

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 12:56 AM PST

In this Dec. 15, 2015 photo, Donald Trump, left, watches as Ted Cruz speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. A growing debate over America's role in promoting regime change in the Middle East is creating unusual alliances among 2016 presidential candidates that cross party lines. (AP Photo/John Locher)WASHINGTON (AP) — America's 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines.


Iraq bans French poultry products after bird flu outbreak

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 12:37 AM PST

A Mulard duck is being fed by an employee at a poultry farm in DoazitBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has banned all fresh and frozen poultry imports from France where an outbreak of avian flu has been reported, Deputy Agriculture Minister Mahdi al-Qaisi said on Tuesday."The ban is temporary until the World Organization for Animal Health declares France free from the flu," he told Reuters.Several cases of H5N1 bird flu have been detected in France since last month, the first known ones in the country in eight years, according to the French agriculture ministry. (Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed. Writing by Maher Chmaytelli, editing by William Hardy)


Saddam Hussein’s Billion-Dollar Bank Heist

Posted: 22 Dec 2015 12:00 AM PST

Saddam Hussein's Billion-Dollar Bank HeistWhen Saddam Hussein swiped $1 billion from Iraq's central bank on the eve of the U.S. invasion, it was just the start of the stealing.


UN mulls 'light' options to monitor possible Syria truce: envoys

Posted: 21 Dec 2015 09:42 PM PST

Syrian refugees wait to register at the UNHCR office in AmmanBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is mulling "light touch" options for monitoring a possible ceasefire in Syria that would keep its risks to a minimum by relying largely on Syrians already on the ground, diplomatic sources said. The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously called on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to draw up within a month options for monitoring a ceasefire in Syria. It is the second time since the Syrian civil war broke out in March 2011 that the council backed a plan for peace talks and a truce.


Passing away in 2015: some notable deaths

Posted: 21 Dec 2015 09:36 PM PST

Egyptian-born "Doctor Zhivago" film legend Omar Sharif, died July 10, 2015, of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital aged 83Paris (AFP) - From legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif to Germany's ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Nobel-winning author Gunter Grass, here are some of the notable figures who died in 2015:


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