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• The Latest: Putin doesn't rule out Syrian air strikes
• Bomb blast near Baghdad liquor store kills two
• At least 23 civilians dead in Syria regime raids on IS-held city: monitor
• Obama admits mistakes in Libya, says West should have done more
• At U.N., Obama and Putin clash over working with Syria's Assad
• Rouhani says Iran ready to help bring democracy to Syria, Yemen
• Putin Claims Russia Is Cleaning Up Obama’s Mess in Syria
• World leaders at UN lay out sharply different views on Syria
• Woman pleads guilty to role in effort to aid terror groups
• GOP Leadership Getting an Overhaul, but Its Policies Sound Familiar
• President Obama Confronts Russia, China and Iran In Speech to UN
• 7 Major Players to Watch at the United Nations General Assembly
• Contender for House speaker blasts Obama foreign policy
• Five children hurt in bomb blast in southeast Turkey
• Obama, Putin clash over Assad's fate in UN duel
• At UN, Putin talks tough against IS. Will the West work with him?
• Hope, fear, waiting at French migrant camps run by smugglers
• House leader calls for beefed-up US response to IS, Russia
• Iran's president says thousands died in hajj tragedy
• McCarthy calls for beefed-up US response against IS, Russia
• Turkey urges renewed global efforts to stem refugee wave
• France will carry out 'more strikes' against IS in Syria: defence minister
• U.S. Program to Train Syrian Rebels Is Nearing Meltdown
• Putin, at UN, calls for broad coalition against IS
• Rare US success in Syria, Iraq: Finding senior militants
• Obama’s UN Speech Masks an Off-Balance Foreign Policy
• ISIS in America: how doomsday Muslim cult is turning kids against parents
• Saudi security forces kill 2, arrest 3 in anti-terror raids
• Review: 'Black Flags' traces the Islamic State group's rise
• Bid to revive Miss Iraq pageant draws ire of hardline clerics, tribal leaders
• Ban opens UN assembly with call for action on Europe's migrant crisis
• Finland's hockey team urges protesters not to wear its jersey
• News Guide: A look at the UN General Assembly
• U.S., allies target Islamic State with 23 air strikes: statement
• Iraq defends intelligence sharing with Russia, Syria, Iran
• As insults fly, Iran-Saudi haj row aggravates regional rifts
• A wary Obama meets with Putin on Syria crisis. Can Russia help?
• Putin heads for UN showdown with Obama over Syria
• Russia seizes initiative in Syria
• 'Corbynistas' revel in victory at UK Labour conference

The Latest: Putin doesn't rule out Syrian air strikes Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:36 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Developments as the United Nations General Assembly marks its 70th year and world leaders debate issues gripping the global community and governments.

Bomb blast near Baghdad liquor store kills two Posted: 28 Sep 2015 03:28 PM PDT A car bomb exploded near a liquor store in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least two people, security and medical sources said. The Islamic State jihadist group, which has controlled swathes of Iraq since last year, frequently claims responsibility for car bombs in Baghdad.

At least 23 civilians dead in Syria regime raids on IS-held city: monitor Posted: 28 Sep 2015 03:21 PM PDT At least 23 civilians, including eight children, were killed in regime air raids on a market in a jihadist-held city of eastern Syria on Monday, a monitoring group said. "Regime military aircraft fired at least two missiles at a souk (market) in Mayadeen, killing at least 23 civilians including eight children and five women," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The ultra-radical organisation has imposed its extreme interpretation of Islam in areas under its control across swathes of Syria and Iraq.

Obama admits mistakes in Libya, says West should have done more Posted: 28 Sep 2015 03:19 PM PDT By Lesley Wroughton UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the international community should have done more to avoid a leadership vacuum in Libya, which has been in disarray since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi four years ago. Obama told the United Nations General Assembly the international community must work harder in future to ensure states do not implode. The rapid descent of Libya into violent chaos was one of the most dramatic events in the "Arab Spring," the abrupt collapse of long-standing autocratic governments in a number of Arab countries in the face of popular protests.

At U.N., Obama and Putin clash over working with Syria's Assad Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:58 PM PDT By Jeff Mason and Denis Dyomkin UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it was willing to cooperate with Russia, as well as Iran, to try to end the Syrian civil war, but the two big powers clashed over whether to work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at the annual United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Barack Obama described Assad as a tyrant and as the chief culprit behind the four-year civil war in which at least 200,000 people have died and millions have been driven from their homes. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in contrast, told the gathering of world leaders that there was no alternative to cooperating with Assad's military in an effort to defeat the Islamic State militant group, which has seized parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Rouhani says Iran ready to help bring democracy to Syria, Yemen Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:56 PM PDT By Parisa Hafezi and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran was ready to help bring democracy to war-torn Syria and Yemen, and blamed the spread of terrorism in the Middle East on the United States. In a speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, Rouhani said Iran was prepared to assist in "the eradication of terrorism and in paving the way for democracy". "As we aided the establishment of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are prepared to help bring about democracy in Syria and also Yemen," said Rouhani.

Putin Claims Russia Is Cleaning Up Obama’s Mess in Syria Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:31 PM PDT In Vladimir Putin's version of the Middle East, the current civil war and attendant humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is a mess of the United States' making, and one that the Russian military – out of the Kremlin's commitment to stability in the region – is being forced to clean up. Appearing at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday not long after U.S. President Barack Obama, Putin described the crisis in Syria as the result of foreign governments fomenting revolts in various countries during the Arab Spring, and creating a vacuum into which ISIS was able to step. In Putin's worldview, the shadowy power behind popular uprisings against tyrannical leaders – from Ukraine in Europe to Syria in the Middle East, and to Libya in North Africa, is always the United States.

World leaders at UN lay out sharply different views on Syria Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:14 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Vladimir Putin played it cool, Barack Obama was earnest but firm and Iran's president walked in smiling. World leaders glided through the opening day of a U.N. gathering Monday that aims to wrestle with the globe's biggest crises — a historic flood of refugees, the rise of threats like the Islamic State group and the conflict in Syria.

Woman pleads guilty to role in effort to aid terror groups Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:14 PM PDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Bosnian immigrant pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge for her role in an effort to support terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.

GOP Leadership Getting an Overhaul, but Its Policies Sound Familiar Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:00 PM PDT House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday signaled that just because GOP leadership is undergoing an overhaul, that doesn't mean its policies will do the same. In a hawkish foreign policy address, ...

President Obama Confronts Russia, China and Iran In Speech to UN Posted: 28 Sep 2015 01:45 PM PDT President Obama took on a confrontational tone in his speech this morning to the United Nations General Assembly, specifically calling out Russia, China and Iran for destabilizing activities in various world conflicts. Obama opened his speech directly decrying "strong states that seek to impose their will on weaker ones," then alluded to Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "On this basis, we see some major powers assert themselves in ways that contravene international law," Obama said.

7 Major Players to Watch at the United Nations General Assembly Posted: 28 Sep 2015 01:45 PM PDT More than 150 world leaders will gather in New York today for the 70th United Nations General Assembly. CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING Chinese President Xi Jinping's first speech at the United Nations will likely stress China's status as a charter member.

Contender for House speaker blasts Obama foreign policy Posted: 28 Sep 2015 01:41 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the leading candidate to be the next House speaker, voiced sharp disagreement with President Barack Obama's foreign policy on Monday with calls for a tougher response to Islamic State and Russian aggression in Ukraine. McCarthy was strongly critical of the Democratic president in a speech that could increase his appeal to hard-line conservatives who sought to oust the current speaker, John Boehner. Boehner abruptly announced his resignation on Friday.

Five children hurt in bomb blast in southeast Turkey Posted: 28 Sep 2015 12:55 PM PDT By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Five children were injured on Monday when a bomb tore through a street in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, where deadly clashes have followed the collapse of a ceasefire by Kurdish militants. In a separate attack, masked gunman on a motorcycle killed a police officer and wounded another in the city of Adana, which has a sizeable Kurdish population, security sources said. The most intense fighting since the 1990s has engulfed the mainly Kurdish southeast after the state launched air strikes against the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey and Iraq in July.

Obama, Putin clash over Assad's fate in UN duel Posted: 28 Sep 2015 12:52 PM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama sparred over Syria in duelling UN speeches on Monday, as Moscow and Tehran mounted a fierce defense of Bashar al-Assad. The Russian leader urged UN General Assembly members to unite to fight the Islamic State group and said it would be a disastrous error not to support Syria's beleaguered president. Iran piled on behind Russia, but Western leaders remained adamant Assad must step down and Obama branded him a child-killing tyrant whose actions had fuelled the jihadists' rise.

At UN, Putin talks tough against IS. Will the West work with him? Posted: 28 Sep 2015 12:24 PM PDT Vladimir Putin made the offer everyone expected when he took to the UN General Assembly podium on Monday. Recommended: Sochi, Soviets, and tsars: How much do you know about Russia? In a speech that sounded more like a prosecutor's than a diplomat's, Mr. Putin laid blame for the current state of chaos in the Middle East at the feet of the US and the West – in a tone which Russian experts concede will likely undermine progress at a meeting with President Obama this afternoon.

Hope, fear, waiting at French migrant camps run by smugglers Posted: 28 Sep 2015 12:10 PM PDT TETEGHEM, France (AP) — A Mercedes and a BMW, both with British license plates, sit in a forest clearing on the edge of a small migrant camp in northern France. Everyone here speaks in whispers, or not at all. Bullet holes pock two shipping containers sheltering migrants, all trying to get to England, helping to explain the silence.

House leader calls for beefed-up US response to IS, Russia Posted: 28 Sep 2015 12:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The front-runner to become the next leader of the U.S. House of Representatives denounced President Barack Obama's foreign policy on Monday, saying the U.S. has "lost the respect of allies and adversaries alike."

Iran's president says thousands died in hajj tragedy Posted: 28 Sep 2015 11:49 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's president on Monday blamed Saudi "incompetence" for the mass deaths of Muslim pilgrims four days ago during the hajj in Saudi Arabia, comments that stoked already high tensions between the two Middle East rivals.

McCarthy calls for beefed-up US response against IS, Russia Posted: 28 Sep 2015 11:43 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the front-runner to replace House Speaker John Boehner, denounced President Barack Obama's foreign policy on Monday, saying the U.S. has "lost the respect of allies and adversaries alike."

Turkey urges renewed global efforts to stem refugee wave Posted: 28 Sep 2015 11:35 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS — Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged the international community on Monday to step up efforts to address the refugee crisis which has uprooted thousands from their homes and forced them to flee to surrounding countries and Europe.

France will carry out 'more strikes' against IS in Syria: defence minister Posted: 28 Sep 2015 10:54 AM PDT France will carry out "more strikes" against the Islamic State group in Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday. "There will be more strikes, there will be more actions to protect ourselves, to prevent these training camps for foreign combattants from continuing and training terrorist actors who will come to France, or Europe, to attack us," he said on France's BFMTV. France carried out its first air strikes in Syria on Sunday, when six French warplanes hit an IS training camp near the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.

U.S. Program to Train Syrian Rebels Is Nearing Meltdown Posted: 28 Sep 2015 10:15 AM PDT The Obama administration's troubled $500 million program to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants is veering towards complete meltdown. The thus far useless effort experienced another major setback late last week when a spokesman from U.S. Central Command, which overseas military operations in the Middle East, confirmed U.S.-trained rebels gave away a quarter of their equipment – including vehicles and ammunition – to the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage into the war-torn country. "If accurate, the report of [New Syrian Forces] members providing equipment to al-Nusra Front is very concerning and a violation of Syria train and equip program guidelines," Colonel Patrick Ryder said, in a statement.

Putin, at UN, calls for broad coalition against IS Posted: 28 Sep 2015 10:03 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called for a "broad coalition" to fight the Islamic State group in Syria, in his address to the UN General Assembly. "We must address the problems that we are all facing and create a broad anti-terror coalition," Putin said in his address, his first to the world body in a decade. Putin took to the podium after US President Barack Obama offered to work with Russia and Iran on ending the carnage in Syria, but slammed support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

Rare US success in Syria, Iraq: Finding senior militants Posted: 28 Sep 2015 09:41 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A dedicated manhunt by the CIA, the National Security Agency and the military's Joint Special Operations Command has been methodically finding and killing senior militants in Syria and Iraq, in one of the few clear success stories of the U.S. military campaign in those countries.

Obama’s UN Speech Masks an Off-Balance Foreign Policy Posted: 28 Sep 2015 09:19 AM PDT In a forceful speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday morning, President Obama pointedly criticized Russia, and by implication Russian President Vladimir Putin, for its invasion of Ukraine's Crimea, its support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and the increasing suppression of dissent and the news media within its borders. The explicit condemnation of Russia's actions was surprising given that Putin himself was scheduled to speak before the same body later in the day and that the two men are scheduled to sit down for face-to-face talks later in the day.

ISIS in America: how doomsday Muslim cult is turning kids against parents Posted: 28 Sep 2015 08:53 AM PDT American families are under assault from an Islamic extremist group that is quietly turning young minds against their parents, against their religious faith, and against their country. The group, the self-proclaimed Islamic State in occupied sections of Syria and Iraq, is using social media and the worldwide reach of the Internet in a sophisticated recruitment campaign that is making families feel helpless to stop a slow-motion kidnapping of their children. "It is psychological warfare," says Daniel Koehler, director of the Berlin-based German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies (GIRDS).

Saudi security forces kill 2, arrest 3 in anti-terror raids Posted: 28 Sep 2015 08:52 AM PDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said Monday that security forces killed two suspected militants and arrested three others during a series of counterterrorism raids, who state-linked media said were part of an alleged Islamic State cell.

Review: 'Black Flags' traces the Islamic State group's rise Posted: 28 Sep 2015 08:28 AM PDT "Black Flags" (Doubleday), by Joby Warrick

Bid to revive Miss Iraq pageant draws ire of hardline clerics, tribal leaders Posted: 28 Sep 2015 07:25 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The first internationally-recognized Miss Iraq beauty contest in more than 40 years was supposed to present a gentler, softer side to a country whose name has become synonymous with violence and bloodshed. Instead, organizers are facing an angry backlash from religious hardliners and conservative tribal leaders who say such pageants are un-Islamic and threaten public morality. At least two young women have pulled out of the contest after receiving death threats.

Ban opens UN assembly with call for action on Europe's migrant crisis Posted: 28 Sep 2015 07:23 AM PDT UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Europe to do more to confront the migration crisis, in his opening address to the General Assembly meeting of world leaders. "I urge Europe to do more," Ban told the 193-nation assembly. Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II looms large over this year's gathering of world leaders as international efforts to end the war in Syria are in disarray.

Finland's hockey team urges protesters not to wear its jersey Posted: 28 Sep 2015 06:55 AM PDT Finland's national ice hockey team on Monday appealed to anti-migration demonstrators to stop wearing its jersey, after several protesters were photographed in the team's fan gear in recent weeks. "Our message is that fan jerseys belong in the stands and not at demonstrations," the Finnish Ice Hockey Association's communications manager Henna Malmberg told AFP. Several anti-migration protests have taken place around Finland in recent weeks as the Nordic country struggles to deal with an unprecedented influx of migrants, arriving mostly from Iraq and Somalia.

News Guide: A look at the UN General Assembly Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:35 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The annual U.N. General Assembly ministerial meeting is always a major event, but this year's is extraordinary. It could bring a record number of world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hasn't attended in years. Most of the attention will be on Putin and President Barack Obama who will have their own separate meeting in New York at a time of tensions over Russia's military involvement in Syria.

U.S., allies target Islamic State with 23 air strikes: statement Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:26 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition launched 23 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement. In Iraq, 20 of the strikes targeted areas near nine cities, including Mosul, Ramadi and Kirkuk. Three strikes targeted the militant group near Abu Kamal, Ar Raqqa and Mar'a, the coalition task force said in a the statement released on Monday. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom)

Iraq defends intelligence sharing with Russia, Syria, Iran Posted: 28 Sep 2015 05:23 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi defended his country's intelligence-sharing agreement with Russia, Syria and Iran on Monday, saying Baghdad needs to share intelligence with these countries and others in order to defeat the Islamic State group.

As insults fly, Iran-Saudi haj row aggravates regional rifts Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:59 AM PDT By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters) - For regional adversaries at loggerheads over the crises in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the disaster at the haj is unlikely to be a game changer in the contest between Iran and Saudi Arabia, merely adding venom to their mutual acrimony. While the Gulf rivals have managed to put aside bad blood after past flare-ups, such moments of detente happened in a much more stable Middle East, years before turmoil in Iraq and Arab Spring uprisings unleashed sectarian hatreds across the region. Today, Iranian and Saudi participation would be crucial in stabilizing Iraq, Syria, Yemen or Lebanon, where the two sides back sectarian proxy forces that are either at daggers drawn or openly at war in conflicts killing thousands each month.

A wary Obama meets with Putin on Syria crisis. Can Russia help? Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:30 AM PDT When President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk Monday at the United Nations in their first meeting of any length since 2013, the two estranged presidents will hardly be motivated by the same interests on Syria. Mr. Obama – who was reluctant to accept the meeting when the Russians first proposed it – appears to want to get a better idea of what Russia is up to. The United States remains unsure of just what Russia's intentions are as it ratchets up its military assistance to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Putin heads for UN showdown with Obama over Syria Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:19 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin will square off Monday with US rival Barack Obama at the United Nations, as the Kremlin leader pushes for a new coalition against the Islamic State group. Putin and Obama are due to make competing speeches before the UN General Assembly in New York, and will come face-to-face for their first official meeting in more than two years at a time of high tension. In the run-up to the meeting, Putin -- isolated by the West over the crisis in Ukraine -- has dramatically thrust himself back into the spotlight with a lightning push on the 4.5-year conflict in Syria.

Russia seizes initiative in Syria Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:09 AM PDT By Arshad Mohammed and John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia appeared to seize the initiative in international efforts to end the conflict in Syria on Sunday as Washington scrambled to devise a new strategy for the war-ravaged country and France sent warplanes to bomb Islamic State targets. As leaders gathered in New York at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed Syria with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. U.S. officials said Kerry was working on a new political initiative in New York that would include Russia and key regional powers.

'Corbynistas' revel in victory at UK Labour conference Posted: 28 Sep 2015 03:59 AM PDT This time last year, most members of Britain's Labour party would not have recognised Jeremy Corbyn. Labour has attracted over 150,000 new members since losing May's general election, many drawn by Corbyn's anti-austerity policies, which promise to redistribute wealth and create a fairer society. "When Jeremy Corbyn came along, we thought 'this is a fantastic time to join'," said 21-year-old student Mohammed Hussain, who stopped Corbyn for a chat before a reception for new members in the southern English seaside town of Brighton.

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