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• Killed in Syria, the French football fan turned bombmaker
• Turkey to lift curfew in cut-off Cizre
• Russia tells Washington: talk to us over Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'
• U.S., allies conduct 30 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
• Obama warns Russia against helping arm Syrian government
• Egypt says it has killed 98 militants in Sinai operation
• Refugees vs. Migrants: What's the Right Term to Use?
• Obama: Assad inviting Russian military into Syria
• Bombs kill 13 Iraq Kurds in anti-IS operation
• Iran says US had no option except nuclear deal
• September 11's Aftermath and Anniversary: the 'Newsweek' Coverage
• Young American arrested for alleged plan to attack 9/11 memorial event
• Pro-Kurdish Leader Challenges Turkish PM to Prove Cizre Dead are PKK Militants
• Urban killings, air strikes as bloodshed worsens in Turkish southeast
• Obama leads US in moment of silence on 9/11
• Damascus to Berlin; a Syrian family's escape to new life
• Russia in Syria: Ghosts of Afghanistan may limit Kremlin's options now
• 'Francofonia' Venice film shows art as fragile world treasure
• Turkey to lift curfew on mainly Kurdish town
• Did Joe Biden just announce he's not running?
• In Jordan, Syrians who can afford it dream of Europe
• Video shows 18 Turks abducted in Baghdad, makes demands on Ankara
• Militant video shows 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Iraq
• Kidnapping of 18 Turks in Iraq claimed by unknown militants
• Orban: Hungary will arrest 'rebellious' migrants
• Massive Dust Storm Swirls in New Photo from Space
• Afghan Taliban leader sends envoy abroad to win support, unite group
• Iran nuclear deal: Why Congress finds itself on sidelines on foreign policy
• Oil production in US, Russia seen tumbling due to price drop
• Iraq's top Shiite cleric urges faster reforms
• Video shows refugees fed 'like animals in pen' in Hungary camp
• Bulgaria jails driver who helped smuggle migrants across Turkish border
• China says its citizen likely kidnapped by Islamic State
• Future University in Egypt International Conference: Middle East Strategic Landscape 100 Years After WWI, From Islamic State in Iraq to Levant (ISIL), Sept. 12-14, 2015
• Saudi Arabia's Game of Thrones
• Joe Biden hesitant about presidential bid in interview
• Biden says he's unsure he can commit fully to be president
• In Europe's heart, makeshift tent camp shelters refugees
• Japan boosts embassy security worldwide after IS threat
• Joe Biden Tells Stephen Colbert He's Not Sure If He's Emotionally Ready to Run for President

Killed in Syria, the French football fan turned bombmaker Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:15 PM PDT From football matches to international jihad, the 25-year-old Frenchman David Drugeon converted as a teen to Islam and drifted toward ever more radical groups, up until his death in July in a coalition air strike in Syria. Drugeon -- by now a bombmaker for an Al-Qaeda offshoot -- was believed killed once before, in an air strike in November 2014.

Turkey to lift curfew in cut-off Cizre Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:40 PM PDT Turkey on Friday said it would lift a week-long curfew in a southeastern city imposed to support a military operation against Kurdish rebels but which has also fuelled fears of a possible humanitarian crisis. The curfew in Cizre, in place since September 4, will end on Saturday at 7:00 am (0400 GMT), said the statement from Sirnak region governor Ali Ihsan Su. The operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants had sparked concern for Cizre's inhabitants, with reports of food running out, residents unable to seek urgent treatment and even burials impossible.

Russia tells Washington: talk to us over Syria or risk 'unintended incidents' Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:40 PM PDT By Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called on Friday for Washington to restart direct military-to-military cooperation to avert "unintended incidents" near Syria, at a time when U.S. officials say Moscow is building up forces to protect President Bashar al-Assad's government. The United States is leading a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syrian air space, and a greater Russian presence would raise the prospect of the Cold War superpower foes encountering each other on the battlefield. Both Moscow and Washington say their enemy is Islamic State.

U.S., allies conduct 30 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:37 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition led by the United States bombarded Islamic State militants on Thursday with 27 air strikes in Iraq and three in Syria, according to a statement released on Friday. In Iraq, the air strikes near Tuz, Ramadi, Mosul, Fallujah and other locations hit tactical units and fighting positions and destroyed vehicles, buildings and weapons belonging to the militant group, the Combined Joint Task Force said in the statement. In Syria, two air strikes targeted Islamic State positions near Al Hawl, while one strike destroyed two excavators near Palmyra, the statement said. ...

Obama warns Russia against helping arm Syrian government Posted: 11 Sep 2015 01:46 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned Russia Friday against doubling down on its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, casting a recent buildup of Russian military equipment and personnel in Syria as an effort to prop up the embattled leader.

Egypt says it has killed 98 militants in Sinai operation Posted: 11 Sep 2015 01:28 PM PDT Egyptian security forces have killed 98 militants in Sinai during a recent military operation, the military said on Friday. Egypt is battling an insurgency that gained pace after the army overthrew President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule. The insurgency, mounted by Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate, has killed hundreds of soldiers and police and has started to attack Western targets.

Refugees vs. Migrants: What's the Right Term to Use? Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:45 PM PDT As thousands of people, mostly from war-torn countries in the Middle East, such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, continue to make the dangerous seabound journey to safety in Europe, news organisations and the public have grappled with what to call them. In July, António Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said the crisis unfolding in Europe is 50 percent are from Syria, where more than 4 million refugees have fled since civil war erupted in 2011.

Obama: Assad inviting Russian military into Syria Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:33 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it appears Syrian President Bashar Assad is inviting the Russian military into his country because he's worried about his grip on power.

Bombs kill 13 Iraq Kurds in anti-IS operation Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:25 PM PDT Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the Islamic State jihadist group in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday, officers said. "The aim (of the operation) is to secure the Baghdad-Kirkuk road and the centre of the Daquq district and to end activity by (IS) members," said Mohammed Mustafa Hama, a brigadier general in the autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces. Hama said that roadside bombs and explosives-rigged vehicles left by the jihadists killed 13 peshmerga and wounded 47 during the operation, figures confirmed by a second Kurdish brigadier general who declined to be identified by name.

Iran says US had no option except nuclear deal Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:46 AM PDT Iran's foreign ministry said on Friday that the United States had no option but to strike a nuclear deal with Tehran, after a Republican bid to block the agreement failed. US President Barack Obama hailed as a "victory for diplomacy" Thursday's Senate vote during which a Democratic minority in the US Senate staved off the bid to sink the nuclear deal.

September 11's Aftermath and Anniversary: the 'Newsweek' Coverage Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:22 AM PDT Newsweek's reporting on the aftermath of the attack captured the national climate during one of the most important periods in American history.

Young American arrested for alleged plan to attack 9/11 memorial event Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:55 AM PDT A young American who assumed the online identity of an Australian jihadist has been arrested for an alleged plan to bomb a September 11 memorial event, authorities said. Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who was arrested in Florida, has admitted to providing instructions on how to make a pressure cooker bomb with the intent "to kill and injure persons," according to court documents. Australian Federal Police confirmed they had helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation track down the 20-year-old man.

Pro-Kurdish Leader Challenges Turkish PM to Prove Cizre Dead are PKK Militants Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:19 AM PDT The joint leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said he would resign from his post on Friday if the government can prove that victims of the military's siege on the city of Cizre are Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, according to Turkish media reports. The Turkish military began a security operation in Cizre against Kurdish militants last Friday, imposing an eight-day curfew on the city and killing at least 30 people in clashes as the conflict with the militant group escalates. In reaction to the claim that those killed were militants, Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-chairman of the HDP, threatened to leave his position in a press conference held in the southeastern town of Idil on Friday.

Urban killings, air strikes as bloodshed worsens in Turkish southeast Posted: 11 Sep 2015 09:02 AM PDT Kurdish militants shot dead a waiter and wounded three police officers in a restaurant in southeast Turkey on Friday, as the region descended further into the worst bloodshed it has seen since the 1990s. Turkish jets bombed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq for a fifth straight night, while the leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition accused security forces of a shoot-to-kill policy in another town, Cizre. Amidst a largely bleak security picture and despite a bomb blast targeting security forces, a Turkish official said on Friday that a controversial 8-day round-the-clock curfew in Cizre would be lifted on Saturday morning.

Obama leads US in moment of silence on 9/11 Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:57 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday led the United States in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, marking a 14th anniversary replete with echoes of that autumn day and the now perennial terror threat. At 8:46 am (1246 GMT) on the South Lawn of the White House, a bell chimed three times to mark the moment when Flight 11, piloted by Al-Qaeda operatives, careened into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. Crystalline blue skies and the hum of jet planes landing and taking off at nearby National Airport evoked that day of tragedy.

Damascus to Berlin; a Syrian family's escape to new life Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:56 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — The Syrian family asks with wonder why they didn't die like thousands of others like them: killed by bombs in their native Damascus; drowned by the rough waves of the Mediterranean; or suffocated in overcrowded trucks speeding them through Europe.

Russia in Syria: Ghosts of Afghanistan may limit Kremlin's options now Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:55 AM PDT Russia is stepping up its involvement in Syria according to multiple reports, and may launch air strikes against Islamic State forces opposing the Bashar al-Assad regime. The USSR's painful intervention in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 – which killed 15,000 Soviet troops -- scarred a generation of Russians, arguably contributed to the collapse of the state, and left Russia with an abiding public aversion to using force beyond its borders. Recommended: Sochi, Soviets, and tsars: How much do you know about Russia?

'Francofonia' Venice film shows art as fragile world treasure Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:51 AM PDT By Michael Roddy VENICE (Reuters) - Russian director Alexander Sokurov, who won the top Venice Film Festival prize for "Faust" in 2011, is in the running again with "Francofonia", a tour of the Louvre museum guided in part by Napoleon and Marianne, the symbol of the French republic. The film, co-produced with the French museum, is Sokurov's second foray into inventive cinematic looks at the inner workings of a great museum. Sokurov's latest won generally favorable reviews and as of Friday was the favored film to win the top Golden Lion award on Saturday in a poll of Italian film critics and newspapers published in a daily festival newsletter.

Turkey to lift curfew on mainly Kurdish town Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:48 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey announced Friday it would lift a 24-hour-a-day curfew it imposed on a mainly Kurdish town where security forces battled suspected Kurdish militants. Earlier, the top European human rights body called on the country to allow independent observers into the town.

Did Joe Biden just announce he's not running? Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:33 AM PDT Joe Biden had a moving, emotional interview with Stephen Colbert Thursday night on the "Late Show." The sitting vice president opened up to the talk show host about grief and their shared experience of personal loss. Mr. Biden's son Beau, former Delaware attorney general, died in May. At times, Biden seemed to be fighting tears as he talked about struggling to cope with Beau's absence. Beau never complained about health problems, according to Biden.

In Jordan, Syrians who can afford it dream of Europe Posted: 11 Sep 2015 07:59 AM PDT Al-Roqban (Jordan) (AFP) - "Those with money go to Europe," said Fawzia Soltan, a Syrian refugee who this week fled her war-torn country into Jordan, her face caked in dust. Soltan, in her fifties, said she didn't have the means to attempt a perilous sea crossing to Europe like thousands of other Syrians have in recent weeks. On Thursday, the Jordanian army allowed her and about 40 other Syrians, mostly women and children, through the Al-Roqban frontier post in an arid no-man's land near the Syrian and Iraqi borders.

Video shows 18 Turks abducted in Baghdad, makes demands on Ankara Posted: 11 Sep 2015 07:47 AM PDT Eighteen Turkish construction workers who were kidnapped in Baghdad last week appeared in a video on Friday, apparently being held by a group that threatened to attack Turkish interests in Iraq unless Ankara met its demands. The authenticity of the video could not be verified and officials in Iraq were not immediately available to comment. A Turkish foreign ministry official said the video was under analysis.

Militant video shows 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Iraq Posted: 11 Sep 2015 07:11 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A video from a previously unknown militant group in Iraq surfaced on social media Friday, showing 18 Turkish workers who were abducted in Baghdad last week and threatening Ankara with the "most violent means" if its demands are not met.

Kidnapping of 18 Turks in Iraq claimed by unknown militants Posted: 11 Sep 2015 06:40 AM PDT An unknown militant group has claimed the kidnapping of 18 Turkish workers in Iraq and issued a list of demands it said Ankara must fulfil for them to be released. Gunmen seized 18 employees of major Turkish construction firm Nurol Insaat on September 2 in the Sadr City area of northern Baghdad, where they were working on a football stadium project. One of their demands was that Turkey order rebel forces to stop besieging four Shiite villages in northern Syria.

Orban: Hungary will arrest 'rebellious' migrants Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:39 AM PDT Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Friday that his police would take tougher action from next week against a wave of migrants who he said had rebelled against authorities, seized railway stations and refused to be registered. Hungary, a key transit country for migrants and refugees trying to reach richer and more generous European Union countries such as Germany and Sweden, is racing to construct a fence along its border with Serbia by early October to stem the flow. More than 170,000 migrants have crossed into Hungary from Serbia so far this year.

Massive Dust Storm Swirls in New Photo from Space Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:26 AM PDT The Middle East is known to experience dust storms, but new satellite images captured dramatic aerial views of a dust storm that recently blanketed and rolled across Iran, Iraq and the Persian Gulf. The veil of dust first appeared in satellite photos along the Iraq-Syria border on Aug. 31, according to NASA, and by the next day, it took on a cyclonic shape, similar to a tropical storm. By Sept. 2, the dust cloud reached the Persian Gulf and began to spread out across the gulf's basin the following day.

Afghan Taliban leader sends envoy abroad to win support, unite group Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:18 AM PDT By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban's new leader is wooing powerful figures from the militant movement based in the Middle East who have not yet publicly pledged their support, sources within the group say, as he attempts to stifle a brewing challenge to his position. A battle for the top job could worsen violence in Afghanistan by triggering Taliban-on-Taliban fighting and in turn doom fledgling peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgency. It could also make it easier for Islamic State to expand its influence in one of the world's most unstable regions.

Iran nuclear deal: Why Congress finds itself on sidelines on foreign policy Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:13 AM PDT The almost-certain implementation of President Obama's Iran deal despite heated opposition from most congressional Republicans and some Democrats is yet more evidence that, when it comes to major decisions of US foreign policy, it is the White House that runs the game. Congress sits in the audience and cheers or boos. Recommended: Could you pass a US citizenship test?

Oil production in US, Russia seen tumbling due to price drop Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:45 AM PDT Oil supply from the United States, Russia and other non-OPEC countries is expected to drop sharply next year — possibly the steepest decline since the Soviet Union collapsed — because of low prices, the ...

Iraq's top Shiite cleric urges faster reforms Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:39 AM PDT Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a leading advocate of reform, on Friday urged the government to speed up the pace of change. "We hope that the reform measures will be carried out at a faster pace," Sistani said in a sermon at weekly prayers in Karbala, south of Baghdad, read out by his representative Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai. Sistani, who is revered by millions, has since last month stepped up calls for reform that have helped spur a wide-ranging anti-corruption drive by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and provided him with key political cover.

Video shows refugees fed 'like animals in pen' in Hungary camp Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:19 AM PDT Budapest (AFP) - Disturbing footage emerged Friday of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with Serbia, with images showing families fed "like animals in a pen".

Bulgaria jails driver who helped smuggle migrants across Turkish border Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:01 AM PDT A Bulgarian court has sentenced a man to 11 months in jail for helping to bring more than 50 migrants, crammed into a van, across the EU border with Turkey. Signaling its determination to tackle an influx that has overwhelmed its neighbors, European Union member Bulgaria is building a fence along its Turkish border and has deployed dozens of police officers, including at its borders with Macedonia and Serbia. Bulgarian driver Kalcho Iliev was arrested on Monday after border police officers found some 54 people, including 16 children, from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan packed in a van near the Black Sea town of Ahtopol and close to the border with Turkey.

China says its citizen likely kidnapped by Islamic State Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:22 AM PDT China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a Chinese national reported as being held hostage by Islamic State insurgents appears to be one of its missing citizens. Islamic State, which controls territory in Iraq and Syria, published two photographs of men they called "prisoners" in their English-language magazine Dabiq this week. The hardline Islamist group said one was from Norway and the second a Chinese man identified as Fan Jinghui.

Future University in Egypt International Conference: Middle East Strategic Landscape 100 Years After WWI, From Islamic State in Iraq to Levant (ISIL), Sept. 12-14, 2015 Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:15 AM PDT CAIRO, Sept. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Drastic changes in the Middle East and the Arab World beginning during WWI evolved into the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the collapse of authoritarian regimes in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia among others since 2011. ...

Saudi Arabia's Game of Thrones Posted: 11 Sep 2015 01:00 AM PDT Is it rotten? We're not sure. But OZY's resident spy smells something in the kingdom.

Joe Biden hesitant about presidential bid in interview Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:59 AM PDT Vice President Joe Biden cast doubt on a potential bid for the White House, in an emotional television interview that delved into his faith and grief at the loss of his son Beau. When talk show host Stephen Colbert asked Biden whether he had an announcement to make, the vice president said "yes," keeping the audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York on edge. "I think you should run for president and I'll be your vice president," Biden told Colbert, who ran a mock campaign for president in 2012.

Biden says he's unsure he can commit fully to be president Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:23 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said he is overwhelmed at times by his son's death and unconvinced he could commit fully to being president, in an emotional interview that cast a deep pall over his deliberations about the 2016 presidential race.

In Europe's heart, makeshift tent camp shelters refugees Posted: 10 Sep 2015 11:17 PM PDT A tent village of refugees hoping for a fresh start has sprung up in Brussels, the capital of the European Union, where ordinary people are helping out in place of largely absent Belgian authorities. It's not pretty but it's much better than the dangers faced in Syria or Iraq where civil war and turmoil have killed hundreds of thousands, and forced millions more to risk life and limb on a perilous journey to Europe. "If Belgium decides to send us back to Iraq, my wife and I, we have decided to kill ourselves," one man told AFP.

Japan boosts embassy security worldwide after IS threat Posted: 10 Sep 2015 11:05 PM PDT Japan has ordered beefed-up security at its embassies worldwide, a top official said Friday, after the Islamic State group mentioned its missions in Indonesia, Malaysia and Bosnia-Hercegovina as part of a broader threat. The move comes about eight months after IS claimed to have beheaded two Japanese hostages in Syria and amid anxiety at home over impending legislation that critics fear could drag the officially pacifist country into wars overseas.

Joe Biden Tells Stephen Colbert He's Not Sure If He's Emotionally Ready to Run for President Posted: 10 Sep 2015 09:00 PM PDT The vice president also remembered his son, Beau, who recently died of brain cancer, in an emotional interview.

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