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Top Asian News 12:49 a.m. GMT

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:49 PM PST

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher Wednesday, the second of three days of restrictions triggered by the city's first red alert for smog. Cars with even-numbered license plates were kept off roads, and schools and constructions sites remained shuttered. Far fewer pedestrians walked the streets than usual — many of them wearing air filtering face masks to aid their breathing. Stuck at home, 8-year-old Zhao Hanxiao said she didn't mind missing school, but was fed up with not being able to play outside or go out to see friends.

What to do against ISIS? Congress largely agrees, Obama doesn't

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:42 PM PST

Since the Paris terrorist attacks and now the San Bernardino shootings, the partisan rhetoric on fighting the Islamic State (IS) has been flying. Republicans who oppose the president's plan to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees are "scared of widows and orphans," President Obama scoffed last month. Some Republicans seem to think if he were just "more bellicose," it would make a difference, he said derisively.

Carter: US willing to do more to help Iraqis retake Ramadi

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:29 PM PST

Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, to testify before the Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on the Islamic State. Carter said the U.S. is prepared to assist the Iraqi army with more personnel and equipment to help them fight Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a steady escalation of the fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. military stands ready to send more American personnel and attack helicopters to Iraq, especially to help retake a key city seized by the extremists, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday.


Man living in Iraq wins $6.4 million US jackpot

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:24 PM PST

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — An Oregon Lottery winner took more than three months to claim his $6.4 million Megabucks jackpot.

Two charged with conspiracy to commit 'terrorism' in Australia after police raids

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:21 PM PST

By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said they had charged a 20-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy with conspiracy to conduct an act of terrorism after they were arrested during early-morning raids in Sydney on Thursday. Police told a news conference the plots could have included attacks on government buildings, including the headquarters of the Australian Federal Police in Sydney, and attacks on random civilians. The arrests on Thursday resulted partly from evidence seized during police raids in December 2014, a police statement said.

Planned Parenthood suspect: 'I am a warrior for the babies'

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:52 PM PST

Robert Lewis Dear talks to Judge Gilbert Martinez during a court appearance on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dear, accused of killing three people and wounding nine others at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Nov. 27, was charged with first-degree murder. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic stunned a courtroom Wednesday when he declared himself a "warrior for the babies" and said he was guilty and won't go to trial.


Senator Cruz introduces bill to let states reject refugees

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:44 PM PST

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a 2nd Amendment Coalition announcement at CrossRoads Shooting Sports in Johnston, IowaBy Alana Wise and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Ted Cruz, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016, said on Tuesday that he introduced legislation to give governors the ability to opt out of refugee resettlement programs. Cruz said that if President Barack Obama wanted to send refugees to any state, his legislation would let its governor refuse to participate, "to conclude that the federal government has not done a sufficient job ensuring that the safety and security of the citizens of the state will be protected." The comments came at a news conference with Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Cruz's home state of Texas. Abbott was one of the first U.S. governors to seek to block the resettlement of refugees from Syria.


California shooters discussed martyrdom before meeting: FBI

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:35 PM PST

Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook are pictured passing through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in this July 27, 2014 handout photoBy Julia Harte and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The couple who massacred 14 people at a California holiday party were discussing jihad and martyrdom online a year before they met in person, but there is no evidence Islamic militants arranged their marriage to facilitate an attack, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, a Pakistani native he married in Saudi Arabia last year, were each inspired by Islamic extremists before they became acquainted, he said on Capitol Hill. The precise origins of the couple's indoctrination in extremist ideology remain to be determined but appear to date back about two years, before Islamic State "became the global jihad leader that it is," Comey said.


Breaking the ISIS economy, bit by bit

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:17 PM PST

The finance ministers set to meet at the United Nations can't put the Islamic State in a financial vise. The core of the Islamic State's wealth is, in many respects, beyond the reach of next week's meetings, hosted by the US. Only Turkey can shut its borders to the smugglers who carry Islamic State oil and other contraband, and only military force can deprive the group of the territory it uses for extortion and taxation.

Australian police say arrest two in 'counter-terror' raids

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:08 PM PST

By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian federal and state police said on Thursday morning they had arrested two people as part of an ongoing operation to thwart attacks against civilians by home-grown and foreign radicals. "Two people have been arrested by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team Sydney as part of the ongoing Operation Appleby," the New South Wales State Police said in a statement. Sky News reported that one of those targeted in the raids was a 15-year-old boy.

U.S. ready to send advisers, helicopters to Iraq to help retake Ramadi

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:49 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Carter testifies before House Armed Services Committee in WashingtonBy Phil Stewart and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is prepared to deploy advisers and attack helicopters if requested by Iraq to help it "finish the job" of retaking the city of Ramadi from Islamic State, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday. Carter's remarks were the latest sign of U.S. preparations to intensify its military campaign against the group, which controls wide swaths of Iraq and Syria and has orchestrated and inspired attacks abroad.


Putin’s War of Words with Turkey Escalates to Nukes and Ethnic Cleansing

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:45 PM PST

Putin's War of Words with Turkey Escalates to Nukes and Ethnic CleansingWhile there has been no further military engagement between Russia and Turkey since a Russian bomber was shot down by the Turkish Air Force last month, the war of words in the most volatile region of the Middle East continues to escalate. In a roundtable interview with reporters on Wednesday, a senior Turkish official accused Russia of conducting an "ethnic cleansing" campaign in the northern part of Syria. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin was reminding the world in general, and Turkey in particular, that not only is Russia a nuclear power, but that the Kremlin has nuclear-capable missiles aboard a submarine stationed just off Turkey's coastline.


Erdogan: Turkish troops in Iraq at Iraqi PM's request since 2014

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:30 PM PST

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkish troops had been stationed at a military base in northern Iraq at the request of Iraq's leader since 2014, but Iraq had not made it an issue until this week, al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday. "We were asked by Prime Minister al-Abadi to help train soldiers and, at his request, we set up a training camp in Bashiqa in 2014," Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Qatar-based channel. Erdogan said Abadi "did not say a word until just now" because of developments in the region.

Man living in Iraq wins $6.4 million Oregon jackpot

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:04 PM PST

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon Lottery winner took more than three months to claim his $6.4 million Megabucks jackpot.

Does Islamic State have a heart? Red Cross hopes so.

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 01:49 PM PST

While more countries – as well as American presidential candidates – seek stronger military action against Islamic State, one group is doing just the opposite. As a neutral party representing humanitarian principles, the ICRC simply wants to aid the millions of civilians affected by the conflict and living under Islamic State rule. The ICRC, which serves as guardian of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, hopes to persuade the jihadists that they should comply with the global norms of humanitarian law.

Greek police remove 2,300 migrants from Macedonia border

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 01:48 PM PST

Migrants and refugees walk to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni on December 9, 2015Greek police launched an operation Wednesday to remove more than 2,000 migrants gathered at the border with Macedonia, after Skopje began filtering those who can cross the frontier by nationality. The migrants -- mainly from Pakistan, Somalia, Morocco, Algeria and Bangladesh -- will be sheltered in disused Olympic stadiums, police said, adding that some 350 riot officers were mobilised at dawn for the operation. Greece and Macedonia are both on the migrant trail that has seen hundreds of thousands of people, fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and elsewhere, head to northern Europe this year after landing from Turkey in flimsy boats.


For police, shootings reinforce need for military-style gear

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 01:02 PM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2014 file photo, a law enforcement officer watches from an armored vehicle after a device was fired to disperse a crowd during a protest for Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo. Law enforcement officials have lobbied to protect federal programs that have funneled billions of dollars in high-powered weapons and other military-style equipment to state and local police forces, calling the equipment critical in this era of terror threats and the all-too-frequent mass shootings that demand a swift and effective response. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)Backlash over the images of protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, clashing with officers in combat gear drove an ongoing national push to scale back the militarization of police — an effort that has mostly steamrolled over concerns among law enforcement that they're losing equipment they need.


Another Paris attacker named, had been in Syria

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:59 PM PST

Jules Frutos, co-managing partner of the Bataclan concert hall, walks past a makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks in front of the Bataclan in ParisBy Marine Pennetier and Gilbert Reilhac PARIS, WISSEMBOURG, France (Reuters) - The third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13 has been identified as a 23-year-old French national who went to Syria two years ago, according to officials involved in the inquiry into the multiple attacks on the French capital. Investigators identified Foued Mohamed-Aggad as one of three Islamist gunmen who killed 90 people at the Bataclan after his mother told them that she had been informed of his death by text message from Syria, a lawyer for the dead man's family said. Officials have yet to put names to all of eight dead gunmen and suicide bombers directly involved in last month's attacks, for which Islamic State, a militant group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility.


Syrian opposition seeks to close ranks as army gains on ground

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:54 PM PST

A rebel fighter from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement gathers pieces of the wreckage of an unidentified and unmanned aircraft that had crashed at their base in Maarchmarein village in the southern part of Idlib provinceBy Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Syria's fragmented opposition and rebel groups sought common ground on Wednesday ahead of planned negotiations to end a conflict which has devastated the country and drawn forces from Cold War and Middle East rivals into ever deeper combat operations. The talks in Saudi Arabia mark the most ambitious attempt yet to unify President Bashar al-Assad's enemies around a joint political platform - seen as a crucial first step to finding a peaceful end to four years of war and battling Islamic State. The powerful Kurdish YPG is among several groups excluded from the talks and those there are deeply divided over central issues like how to manage a transition from Assad and the role Islam should play in Syria.


US Willing to Provide Apache Helicopters and Advisers to Help Retake Ramadi, Ash Carter Says

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:47 PM PST

The U.S. is prepared to help the Iraqis retake Ramadi by providing Apache attack helicopters and accompanying advisers, if requested by Iraqi Prime Minister Abadi, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. Carter noted recent progress by Iraqi forces in retaking Ramadi, including the retaking of the Anbar Operations Center on the northern bank of the Euphrates River across from Ramadi's city center. "This is an important step, but there is still tough fighting ahead," Carter said.

IS gains and losses in Iraq and Syria

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:34 PM PST

A Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) is fired by Iraqi security forces in the rural town of Husayba, in the Euphrates Valley seven kilometres east of Ramadi on December 7, 2015Here is a recap of key cities and towns in Iraq and Syria seized by the Islamic State group or recaptured from the jihadists, as Iraqi forces press an offensive in Ramadi. It is the capital of Anbar, the country's largest province, which stretches from the borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the western approach to the capital. On December 8, Iraqi troops retook Al-Tameem, a large area on the southwestern side of the city, with support from US-led air strikes.


Iraqi Kurd leader meets Erdogan as PM defends deployment

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:25 PM PST

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) meets with Iraqi Kurdish Regional President Massud Barzani at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, December 9, 2015Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for key talks on Wednesday as Ankara seeks to defuse a diplomatic standoff with Baghdad over the deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also met Barzani, defended the deployment of several hundred troops -- which has enraged Baghdad -- as a necessary measure to help Iraq in the fight against Islamic State jihadists.


West will remain vulnerable to IS threat: experts

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:12 PM PST

People gather at a makeshift memorial near the Inland Regional Center during the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed 14 people on Sunday, December 6, 2015 in San Bernardino, CaliforniaThe Islamic State group has brought down a crowded airliner over Egypt, shot up Paris cafes and other soft targets, and inspired attacks like the shooting rampage last week in California. "Every European security service that I have talked to in the last year is petrified of the issue of foreign fighters, and there is almost no solution to it," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official who now works at the Brookings Institution. The Soufan Group, an intelligence consultancy, released a report Tuesday that said the number of foreign fighters who have travelled to Iraq and Syria since 2011 is thought to have reached 27,000 to 31,000, from at least 86 countries -- double the estimate from a year ago.


Rep. McCaul: why US is in 'highest threat environment since 9/11'

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:02 PM PST

Stating that the United States is in the highest terrorist threat environment since 9/11, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Wednesday that America must make a greater effort to reach out to the Muslim community to spot early warning signs of self-radicalization. In last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., family members had noticed Syed Rizwan Farook's radicalization, but they didn't say anything, said Rep. Michael McCaul (R) of Texas. "We have to be more engaged with the Muslim community," said Representative McCaul, speaking at a breakfast for reporters hosted by the Monitor.

White House: Obama undecided on use of attack helicopters in Iraq

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:48 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama has not decided whether to approve the use of attack helicopters in operations against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq, the White House said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday Defense Secretary Ash Carter told lawmakers at a congressional hearing that the United States was prepared to deploy advisers and attack helicopters if Iraq requested them, in an effort to help it "finish the job" of retaking the city of Ramadi from Islamic State.

Singapore sees Islamist militancy 'clear, present danger' for Asia

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:46 AM PST

Singapore's Defence Minister Ng waits to speak during the IISS Asia Security Summit: The Shangri-La Dialogue in SingaporeBy David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singapore sees a "clear and present danger" to Asia from Islamist militancy, especially from the threat of groups linking up after pledging allegiance to Islamic State, its defense minister Ng Eng Hen said on Wednesday. A day after signing a defense cooperation agreement with the United States that covers trans-national militancy, Ng said intelligence sharing was key to dealing with the issue.


Father of Paris attacker 'would have killed son' if he knew of plot

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:37 AM PST

Foued Mohamed Aggad has been identified as the third bomber involved in the attacks at Paris's Bataclan music hall, police sources said on December 9, 2015A third gunman involved in last month's massacre at a Paris concert hall was identified Wednesday as a Frenchman who had visited Syria, with his father saying he "would have killed him" if he had known his plans. Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, blew himself up in the bloodiest of the attacks on the French capital -- at the Bataclan concert venue, where 90 young music lovers were killed. "I would have killed him myself beforehand," his father, Said Mohamed-Aggad, told AFP after French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced the name of the assailant.


In IS stronghold, residents trapped in 'sealed casket' as Iraqi forces close in

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:31 AM PST

Iraqi security forces stand with an Islamist State flag which they pulled down at the University of Anbar, in Anbar provinceBy Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by Islamic State militants who want to use them as human shields. Iraqi forces cut the hardline group's last supply line into Ramadi in November, surrounding the city and making it almost impossible for the militants to send in reinforcements. All said conditions inside had deteriorated to their worst since Islamic State overran it earlier this year.


Singapore minister warns of Islamic State threat in SE Asia

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:11 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Singapore's defense minister said Wednesday that Islamic State fighters pose a "clear and present danger" to Southeast Asia as they return from Syria and Iraq with a mission to establish a caliphate.

US urges more anti-IS efforts, may back Iraq with helicopters

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:55 AM PST

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter testifies during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 9, 2015Washington called Wednesday for allies to intensify efforts against the Islamic State group and expressed willingness to support Iraqi forces with attack helicopters as they battle the jihadists in Ramadi. Baghdad's forces have been fighting for months to close in around Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, and took a large part of the key city on Tuesday. "The international community -- including our allies and partners -- has to step up before another attack like Paris," US defence chief Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, referring to a militant assault with guns and bombs that killed 130 people.


Syria rebels begin leaving Homs under truce deal

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:32 AM PST

Members of the Syrian government forces escort buses carrying Syrians as hundreds of civilians and Syrian rebel forces began evacuating the last opposition-held district of Waer in Homs, under a deal with the Syrian regime, on December 9, 2015Syrian rebels began evacuating the last opposition-held district in Homs on Wednesday, paving the way for President Bashar al-Assad's regime to take full control of the country's third-largest city. Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians were leaving the Waer district under a rare local ceasefire agreed with the regime at the start of December. Some 2,000 rebels and their families will abandon Waer in Homs -- once dubbed the "capital" of Syria's revolution -- to travel to other opposition-held areas, after enduring a three-year siege that saw the district heavily shelled.


AP EXPLAINS: The rise of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:27 AM PST

FILE - In this June 25, 2015 file photo Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, left, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speak with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels. Merkel has been named Times' Person of the Year, praised by the magazine for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year, just a few weeks after she marked 10 years at the helm of Europe's biggest economic power. Merkel, 61, is the European Union's longest-serving head of government and has been a serial winner of Forbes magazine's title of world's most powerful woman. She's the first woman chosen as Person of the Year since 1986 and only the fourth since 1927. Here's a brief look at some key highlights of her career:


Turkey urges citizens to leave Iraq, excluding Iraqi Kurdistan: foreign ministry

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:05 AM PST

A member of the Iraqi security forces carries a rocket-propelled grenade in a town near Ramadi, on December 7, 2015Turkey on Wednesday called on its citizens to leave all areas of Iraq, excluding Iraqi Kurdistan, due to increased security risks, the foreign ministry said. "The scope of our travel warning to Iraq has expanded to include all provinces except for Dohuk, Arbil and Sulaymaniyah," all of which are in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website. Ankara cited increasing threats targeting Turkish companies recently, as well as declarations encouraging violence, abduction and attacks.


Text to mom announcing death reveals 3rd Bataclan attacker

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:44 AM PST

Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, right, and Julian Dorio pay their respects to 89 victims who died in a Nov. 13 attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. Members of the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal are back at the ravaged Paris theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)PARIS (AP) — It took a text message from Syria to a mother in northeast France to reveal the identity of the third killer at the Bataclan concert venue in Paris: Your son died as a martyr Nov. 13.


As House votes to restrict visa waivers, polls find support for new limits

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:27 AM PST

As lawmakers in the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to limit a visa waiver program that lets citizens of 38 countries come to the United States without a visa for up to 90 days, a new poll finds just over half of Americans worry about consequences of immigration from the Middle East. On Tuesday, the House voted 407-19 to require anyone who has been in Iraq and Syria in the last five years to obtain a visa before entering the US, along with citizens of those countries and any other nation that is deemed to be a terrorist hotspot. The move comes as pressure mounts on lawmakers to respond to a series of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State militant group, including a mass shooting in San Bernadino, Calif., by a couple where the wife – who had reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State – had entered the country on a so-called fiancée visa. The recent attacks in Paris, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility, were carried out by citizens of Belgium and France, which are included in the US visa waiver program.

The Latest: UN: nearly 770,000 people enter Greece in 2015

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:22 AM PST

Migrants, who were lost in an open sea, ask for help from the members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal, as they try to approach on a dinghy the Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. In another incident six children have drowned after a rubber dinghy carrying Afghan migrants to Greece sank off Turkey's Aegean coast. Turkey has stepped up efforts to stop migrants from leaving to Greece by sea. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest in the influx of people into Europe. All times local:


Turkish PM accuses Russia of 'ethnic cleansing' in Syria

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:10 AM PST

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks to the media during a visit to northern CyprusBy Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister accused Russia on Wednesday of attempted "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria, saying Moscow was trying to drive out the local Turkmen and Sunni Muslim populations to protect its military interests in the region. Ahmet Davutoglu's comments could further harm strained relations between Moscow and Ankara, already at their worst in recent memory after Turkish forces downed a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border late last month. "Russia is trying to make ethnic cleansing in northern Latakia to force (out) all Turkmen and Sunni population who do not have good relations with the regime," Davutoglu told foreign reporters in Istanbul.


Turkish army hits Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq overnight

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:10 AM PST

Turkish soldiers in a tank and an armored vehicle patrol on the road to the town of Beytussebab in the southeastern Sirnak province, TurkeyTurkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq overnight and a policeman was killed in southeastern Turkey during clashes with the group. Turkish jets hit targets in the Qandil, Hakurk, Zap and Avasin Baysan areas of northern Iraq, targeting storage units and shelters for the militants, the Turkish army said on Wednesday. The region is part of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish entity known as Kurdistan.


Iraqis eye next steps in Ramadi as IS claims Baghdad bombing

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:08 AM PST

Iraqi Muslims pray at a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces were preparing to push further into the center of the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi as the Sunni militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Baghdad that killed 11 people on Wednesday.


US visas get new scrutiny after California, Paris attacks

Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:06 AM PST

This July 27, 2014 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook, as they passed through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The husband and wife died on Dec. 2, 2015, in a gun battle with authorities several hours after their assault on a gathering of Farook's colleagues in San Bernardino, Calif. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)Visas used by foreigners to travel to the United States are getting new scrutiny in the wake of shooting massacres in California and France.


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