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• Bomb attacks on Shiite districts kill 15 people in Iraq
• Syria army enters last rebel bastion by Lebanon border
• Kuwait mulls charging more than 40 over mosque bomb
• US-led coalition unleashes wave of airstrikes on Raqqa
• Fears of Syria war persist in Lebanese border village
• Islamic State targeted in 38 air strikes by U.S.-led coalition: statement
• Tunisia declares state of emergency following terror attack on beach resort
• 'High risk of terror attack' in Spain: minister
• Islamic State attacks power plant in Hasaka, in northeast Syria: army
• Factbox: A timeline of Iran's nuclear program, efforts to curb it
• Islamic State suicide bombers strike in Iraqi refinery town
• Iran deploys new home-built long-range radar
• Tunisia's president declares state of emergency after hotel attack
• Today in History
• Family channels 7/7 loss into helping fight extremism
• Syria rebels battle regime in Aleppo's fiercest fighting

Bomb attacks on Shiite districts kill 15 people in Iraq Posted: 05 Jul 2015 11:25 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say bombings targeting Shiite districts have killed 15 people in and around Baghdad.

Syria army enters last rebel bastion by Lebanon border Posted: 05 Jul 2015 10:14 AM PDT Syrian government forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah entered the town of Zabadani on Sunday in a bid to take the last rebel-held bastion along the Lebanese border. Elsewhere, at least 30 people, including six civilians, were killed in some of the heaviest US-led air strikes yet on the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. Syrian state television and Hezbollah's Al-Manar station announced the advance into Zabadani on Sunday, a day after a major operation against it began.

Kuwait mulls charging more than 40 over mosque bomb Posted: 05 Jul 2015 09:50 AM PDT Kuwait is considering charging more than 40 people in connection with a deadly suicide bombing in a Shiite mosque claimed by the Islamic State group, a security official said Sunday. "More than 40 suspects, including a number of women, have been referred to the public prosecution," the official told AFP, requesting anonymity. "Now, it is up to the prosecution whether to press charges against all of them or not," the official said.

US-led coalition unleashes wave of airstrikes on Raqqa Posted: 05 Jul 2015 09:12 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a wave of airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said Sunday was one of its most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date.

Fears of Syria war persist in Lebanese border village Posted: 05 Jul 2015 09:03 AM PDT By Mariam Karouny QAA, Lebanon (Reuters) - The barren mountains separating the Lebanese village of Qaa from Syria have helped shield it from the war raging next door, yet fears of missile attacks, abductions and incursions have persisted since the conflict erupted more than four years ago. In recent weeks, residents of this Christian village say life has started to feel a little more normal, thanks to an offensive waged by Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah against the insurgents just over the border in Syria. The Hezbollah operation targeting Islamic State and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has helped halt the short-range rockets fired periodically at border villages in Lebanon, repeatedly jolted by spillover from the war in Syria.

Islamic State targeted in 38 air strikes by U.S.-led coalition: statement Posted: 05 Jul 2015 08:29 AM PDT Eighteen of the strikes were near the Syrian city of Raqqa, capital of the 'caliphate' that Islamic State has declared. The statement from the Combined Joint Task Force said tactical units and vehicles had been hit and 16 bridges had ben destroyed. The attacks in Syria also included five near Hasaka and three near Kobani, in which tactical units, vehicles and fighting positions were hit.

Tunisia declares state of emergency following terror attack on beach resort Posted: 05 Jul 2015 08:12 AM PDT A week after a gunman killed 38 tourists at a beach resort in Tunisia, President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency, granting additional powers to the security services and restricting large assemblies. The Saturday move came as Tunisia is coming to grips with its second major terrorist attack in four months. In March a terrorist attack on the National Bardo Museum near Tunis killed 22 people, most of them tourists.

'High risk of terror attack' in Spain: minister Posted: 05 Jul 2015 06:36 AM PDT Spain is facing its highest level of terror threat since 2004 because of the danger posed by jihadists, said the country's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz on Sunday. "We are at the maximum alert level since the attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid," said Fernandez Diaz in an interview published Sunday, referring to the attacks that left 191 dead and nearly 2,000 injured. The risk is heightened particularly because the head of Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, recently urged the mujahideen to commit attacks in their countries for the one-year anniversary of the jihadist organisation, said the minister.

Islamic State attacks power plant in Hasaka, in northeast Syria: army Posted: 05 Jul 2015 06:27 AM PDT Islamic State suicide bombers on Sunday blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasaka, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said. State television said a second attack, against a power plant that serves the southern districts of the city, was prevented, but the first had caused "material damage" and led to "casualties". The city is divided into zones run separately by the government of President Bashar al Assad and a Kurdish administration.

Factbox: A timeline of Iran's nuclear program, efforts to curb it Posted: 05 Jul 2015 05:57 AM PDT Iran, the United States and five other major powers are laboring to reach an agreement by Tuesday to restrain the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. The deal seeks to allay suspicions that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability, something Tehran denies, saying its program is for purely peaceful purposes. Below is a chronology of Iran's nuclear program and efforts to constrain it.

Islamic State suicide bombers strike in Iraqi refinery town Posted: 05 Jul 2015 04:17 AM PDT Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters attacked the center of Iraq's northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight, forcing the army and Shi'ite fighters to pull back, military sources and the local mayor said on Sunday. The town of Baiji and its refinery - Iraq's largest - have been a battlefront for more than a year. The hardline Islamists seized the town in June 2014 as they swept through much of northern Iraq towards the capital Baghdad.

Iran deploys new home-built long-range radar Posted: 05 Jul 2015 02:28 AM PDT Iran says it has deployed a new domestically built long-range radar system, signaling a strengthening of its air defenses as it holds what may be the final days of talks on a nuclear deal with world powers. Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) air defense force, unveiled the Ghadir phased-array radar in Ahwaz city in southwestern Khuzestan province near the Iraq border, state television said late on Saturday. Iran says the Ghadir unit is designed and manufactured entirely inside the country and can detect a plane at 600 km (373 miles) and a ballistic missile at 1,100 km. In comments suggesting the radar can also identify miniature unmanned drone aircraft, Esmaili was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying: "Discovering and tracking micro aerial vehicles (MAV) ... is one of the special qualities of the Ghadir radar system." Iran has taken steps to develop its air defenses after U.S. and Israeli officials warned of possible military action to curtail its nuclear program, and is in discussions to buy the advanced S-300 ground-to-air missile system from Russia.

Tunisia's president declares state of emergency after hotel attack Posted: 05 Jul 2015 01:46 AM PDT By Patrick Markey and Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday, saying the Islamist militant attack on a beach hotel that killed 38 foreigners had left the country "in a state of war". Tunisia's emergency laws temporarily give the government more executive flexibility, hand the army and police more authority, and restrict certain rights such as those dealing with public assembly and detention. "Due to the terrorism risk, and the regional context, and spread of terrorism, we have declared a state of emergency," Essebsi said in a televised address.

Today in History Posted: 04 Jul 2015 09:00 PM PDT Today is Sunday, July 5, the 186th day of 2015. There are 179 days left in the year.

Family channels 7/7 loss into helping fight extremism Posted: 04 Jul 2015 08:20 PM PDT Esther Hyman could be forgiven for hating the suicide bomber who killed her sister Miriam, but she has channelled her grief into trying to stop a new generation of Britons from turning to terrorism. "As soon as I would experience it (the anger), I thought: 'Well, that was a waste of energy'," said Hyman, whose sister was one of 52 people killed when four Islamists attacked the London transport system on July 7, 2005.

Syria rebels battle regime in Aleppo's fiercest fighting Posted: 04 Jul 2015 07:00 PM PDT Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began. US-led coalition forces, meanwhile, said they carried out a series of 16 airstrikes against the Islamic State group in their Syrian stronghold of Raqa, one of their biggest assaults on the extremists. The announcement came hours after IS released a video showing teenage members executing 25 Syrian soldiers in an amphitheatre in the ancient ruins of Palmyra.

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