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• Five killed in Saudi Shiite shooting claimed by IS
• Islamic State gunman kills five at Shi'ite center in Saudi Arabia
• Results in Afghanistan suggest long US troop mission
• Witness to the Drone Strike That Killed an American Terrorist
• US urges Turkey to uphold due process in journalist case
• Why the US will stay in an ‘endless war’
• Number of displaced Iraqis hits 3.2 million: UN
• Turkey pours cold water on EU migrant plan
• EU migration chief warns of risks to refugee relocation
• Ankara bombing attacks trail leads to homegrown jihadists
• Foreign toll figures show hajj tragedy deadliest in history
• Iraqi forces in huge anti-jihadist push in Baiji
• Bryan Adams goes retro with 'Get Up' album
• 14-year-old pleads guilty to killing Iraqi boy, 13, in US
• 14-year-old pleads guilty to killing Iraqi boy, 13, in NY
• Canada Liberal leader pledges improved U.S. relations
• Man accused of hacking U.S. data for IS was well known to Kosovo police
• IS pays recruiters $10,000 per person: UN
• Iraqi forces retake key oil refinery from IS militants
• Scottish nationalists to oppose any UK anti-IS air strikes in Syria
• CBS bans advertising for critical film
• U.S., allies conduct 24 air strikes in Syria and Iraq: military
• Migrants the key issue as Swiss vote in national elections
• AP PHOTOS: Objects left on the beach by migrants on Lesbos
• Kurdish militants shoot dead Turkish police officer
• Who will lead Canada: Harper, Trudeau or Mulcair?
• Absent powerbrokers pull strings in Polish election campaign
• Russia may fire missiles at Syria militants from Mediterranean, says official
• How Many Promises Has Obama Kept?
• South Africa looks to buy Iraqi crude to boost supply security
• 'IS hacker' accused of stealing US data arrested in Malaysia
• Goal of getting US troops out of 2 wars eludes Obama
• Canada set to vote in tight election race
• China repeats opposition to force in Syria
• CBS Bans Ads for Dan Rather Movie 'Truth'
• Migrants dig in for a Calais winter as bids to reach UK go on
• Northeast Nigeria hit again as army warns on Boko Haram
• More than 250,000 people killed in Syria war: monitor

Five killed in Saudi Shiite shooting claimed by IS Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:07 PM PDT A gunman shot dead five people at a Shiite gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday before police gunned him down, the interior ministry said. A group claiming affiliation with the so-called Islamic State Sunni extremists said it carried out the attack, the latest in a series of bombings and shootings linked to the group in Saudi Arabia over the past year. The murders, in the Qatif area of Eastern Province, came two days after the start of commemorations of Ashura, one of the holiest occasions for the Shiite faith, a minority in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia.

Islamic State gunman kills five at Shi'ite center in Saudi Arabia Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:20 PM PDT A gunman shot and killed five people in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim meeting hall in Saudi Arabia on Friday before being shot dead by police, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The deadly assault will raise tensions in the kingdom's largely Shi'ite Eastern province, a focus of the ultra-violent Sunni militants who view them as apostates worthy of death. A resident reached by telephone told Reuters that the assailant approached the meeting hall in the eastern city of Saihat in a taxi but was stopped at a checkpoint manned by volunteers protecting the site.

Results in Afghanistan suggest long US troop mission Posted: 16 Oct 2015 01:50 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — America's war in Afghanistan, now in its 15th year, is long on official U.S. optimism about building a self-reliant Afghan army but short on convincing evidence that the goal will be reached anytime soon.

Witness to the Drone Strike That Killed an American Terrorist Posted: 16 Oct 2015 01:28 PM PDT Lt. Col. Mark McCurley stood tense and quiet in the operations cell in Djibouti, Africa with his eyes transfixed on the large, high-definition monitor before him. It was playing a real-time video feed from a Predator drone -- the same video McCurley said was being beamed to high-level officials in Washington, D.C., more than 7,000 miles away. Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and senior member of al Qaeda, was in the lead car with his bodyguards.

US urges Turkey to uphold due process in journalist case Posted: 16 Oct 2015 01:21 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In August, Mohammed Rasool was helping two Western journalists with a dangerous assignment along Turkey's border with Iraq. Cities in the area had turned into urban warzones amid clashes between supporters of the militant Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, and government authorities.

Why the US will stay in an ‘endless war’ Posted: 16 Oct 2015 01:19 PM PDT President Obama reneged on a 2008 campaign promise when he announced Thursday that US forces would remain in Afghanistan into 2017 and therefore beyond his term of office. Comparisons with Iraq shouldn't be overdrawn, but it's clear that the disintegration of that country after US forces exited – and the need for the US to return – must have weighed in Mr. Obama's decision. More recently, the temporary fall of the Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz to Taliban forces showed how just how weak the Afghan government still is – and the importance that US air power played in helping to retake the city.

Number of displaced Iraqis hits 3.2 million: UN Posted: 16 Oct 2015 12:43 PM PDT The number of people who have been displaced by conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014 has reached 3.2 million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday. The UN agency said it identified 3,206,736 internally displaced Iraqis (534,456 families) from then through September 29 of this year. More than four million fled the country, including about 250,000 to Iraq.

Turkey pours cold water on EU migrant plan Posted: 16 Oct 2015 12:31 PM PDT The EU's much-hyped deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants looked shaky on Friday after Ankara said Brussels had offered too little money and mocked Europe's efforts to tackle the refugee crisis. Just hours after the European Union announced the accord with great fanfare at a leaders' summit, Ankara said the plan to defuse a crisis that has seen some 600,000 mostly Syrian migrants enter the EU this year was just a draft. Cracks in the deal emerged as Bulgaria's president apologised after an Afghan refugee was shot dead crossing the border from Turkey.

EU migration chief warns of risks to refugee relocation Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:56 AM PDT The European Union's top migration official on Friday warned that a compromise deal to share out refugees in the bloc could flounder if the migrants themselves refuse to cooperate. "The message for everybody is to follow the rules," European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a news conference held with Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency. Many refugees from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea are currently failing to lodge asylum requests upon arriving in Greece because they fear they will be trapped in the recession-hit country.

Ankara bombing attacks trail leads to homegrown jihadists Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:37 AM PDT Turkey is confronting the uncomfortable prospect the suicide bombers behind the Ankara attack were homegrown jihadists who were radicalised at home and already known to the authorities as a potential menace to society. Ninety-nine people were killed on October 10 when two suicide bombers detonated their charges in a gathering of union, leftist and Kurdish activists in the heart of the Turkish capital. The government has said the Islamic State (IS) group, which has captured swathes of neighbouring Syria up to the Turkish border, is the prime suspect over the bombing.

Foreign toll figures show hajj tragedy deadliest in history Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:21 AM PDT Dubai (AFP) - The death toll from last month's hajj stampede has risen to at least 1,753, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it the deadliest incident in the pilgrimage's history.

Iraqi forces in huge anti-jihadist push in Baiji Posted: 16 Oct 2015 11:18 AM PDT Iraqi forces defused booby traps and hunted down holdout jihadists in the strategic Baiji area Friday as part of their biggest advance against the Islamic State group in months. Baiji lies at a crossroads between several frontlines, and control of the area is seen as the key to progress in other regions, including Anbar province where forces were also closing in on IS strongholds. The army, police and counter-terrorism services, as well as thousands of fighters from the Popular Mobilisation (Hashed al-Shaabi), continued to gain significant ground in and around Baiji, officers said.

Bryan Adams goes retro with 'Get Up' album Posted: 16 Oct 2015 10:30 AM PDT Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams says his new album, "Get Up," is the ideal follow-up record to his iconic "Reckless" album of 30 years ago. The album, released on Friday, features several fast, catchy tunes like "Brand New Day," and "You Belong to Me" which harken back to the signature feel-good style that made Adams a household name in the 1980s with hits like "Heaven" and "Summer of '69." "In many ways it is the album I wish I'd been able to make 25 years ago," Adams said, describing "Get Up," as carefree, rocking and retro sounding.

14-year-old pleads guilty to killing Iraqi boy, 13, in US Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:56 AM PDT BUFFALO, New York (AP) — A 14-year-old has pleaded guilty to killing a 13-year-old boy whose family had immigrated to the U.S. to escape the war in Iraq.

14-year-old pleads guilty to killing Iraqi boy, 13, in NY Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:48 AM PDT BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A 14-year-old has pleaded guilty to killing a 13-year-old boy whose family had immigrated to the U.S. to escape the war in Iraq.

Canada Liberal leader pledges improved U.S. relations Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:33 AM PDT By Randall Palmer MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (Reuters) - Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, the frontrunner in the race to the Oct. 19 election, said on Friday one of his top priorities if elected will be to repair Canada's relationship with the United States. Trudeau said relations with Canada's largest trading partner had been damaged by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's singular focus on promoting TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline - which President Barack Obama has not backed. "If I earn Canadians' trust in four days' time, it'll be one of my most crucial priorities to begin once again having a productive and constructive relationship with our closest ally and neighbor," Trudeau said during a campaign stop near Toronto.

Man accused of hacking U.S. data for IS was well known to Kosovo police Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:59 AM PDT By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - A Kosovo man arrested in Malaysia on charges of hacking the personal information of U.S. security officers and passing it to Islamic State was well known to Kosovo police before he left to study abroad. The U.S. justice Department said Ardit Ferizi, 20, had been charged with hacking the details of 1,351 U.S. military personnel and federal employees and handing them over to the militant group in Syria so it could target the individuals. A Kosovo police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Ferizi had been arrested and released in Kosovo before he left to study abroad.

IS pays recruiters $10,000 per person: UN Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:20 AM PDT The Islamic State group is paying supporters up to $10,000 for each person that they recruit to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq, UN experts said Friday after a visit to Belgium, one of the main countries of origin for so-called foreign fighters. Elzbieta Karska, who chairs a UN group studying the issue, said IS is using social media and informal networks of friends and family, with many of them in Syria, to recruit new jihadists in Belgium.

Iraqi forces retake key oil refinery from IS militants Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:06 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militia fighters have driven out Islamic State group militants from a key oil refinery north of Baghdad in a wide-scale military operation, authorities said Friday.

Scottish nationalists to oppose any UK anti-IS air strikes in Syria Posted: 16 Oct 2015 07:57 AM PDT Scottish National Party (SNP) members of parliament, who form the third-largest bloc in the British parliament, will oppose any move by Prime Minister David Cameron to win parliamentary approval for Britain to attack Islamic State in Syria, the party said on Friday. Cameron is keen for Britain to begin its own air strikes in Syria, joining allies in a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State (IS), a self-declared caliphate spanning large areas of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

CBS bans advertising for critical film Posted: 16 Oct 2015 07:31 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — CBS has refused to run advertising for "Truth," the film starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford that revisits a painful episode in the network's past involving a discredited 2004 news story on former President George W. Bush's military service record.

U.S., allies conduct 24 air strikes in Syria and Iraq: military Posted: 16 Oct 2015 05:44 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition led by the United States conducted three air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday and bombarded the militant group with 21 strikes in Iraq, according to a statement released on Friday. The Combined Joint Task Force said the Syria strikes near Aleppo, Washiyah and Mar'a hit tactical units and an improvised explosive device cluster, and also destroyed a vehicle and motorcycle used by Islamic State. ...

Migrants the key issue as Swiss vote in national elections Posted: 16 Oct 2015 05:38 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — Europe's migrant influx is the burning issue for Swiss voters electing a new legislature this weekend, with polls suggesting a boost for a nationalist party behind efforts to ban face-covering veils and construction of Muslim minarets.

AP PHOTOS: Objects left on the beach by migrants on Lesbos Posted: 16 Oct 2015 05:07 AM PDT LESBOS, Greece (AP) — The migrants arrive by the hundreds on the beaches of the Greek island of Lesbos. And in their eagerness to move on, they leave behind belongings they carried on their backs.

Kurdish militants shoot dead Turkish police officer Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:52 AM PDT Kurdish fighters shot dead a Turkish police officer and wounded another in a southeast town on Friday, officials said, as clashes raged on despite a unilateral ceasefire announced days earlier by the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group. Gunfire broke out as state workers moved in to demolish PKK barricades and fill in ditches in parts of Sirnak, said officials, a town caught up in a surge of violence in the mainly Kurdish region since a two-year ceasefire collapsed in July. Saturday's unilateral ceasefire declaration came shortly after a double suicide bombing which killed 99 people at a rally of pro-Kurdish activists in Ankara.

Who will lead Canada: Harper, Trudeau or Mulcair? Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:03 AM PDT Stephen Harper is an economist once seen as prickly and more at home ploughing through economic theory than mingling with voters on the campaign trail. Harper is seeking his fourth mandate since 2006, while a Mulcair victory would mean the first ever New Democratic government in Canada. A win by Justin Trudeau, the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, would mark the return of the party that ruled most of the last century but was relegated to third spot in the last ballot in 2011.

Absent powerbrokers pull strings in Polish election campaign Posted: 16 Oct 2015 04:02 AM PDT By Wiktor Szary and Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) - In a televised debate in Poland in 2007, center-right leader Donald Tusk accused election rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski of once pulling a gun on him in a lift. "Killing you would be as easy as spitting," Tusk, who is now president of the European Council, quoted Kaczynski as saying. The conservative politician, the twin brother of late President Lech Kaczynski and the prime minister at the time, denied the accusation but lost the debate, widely seen as key to Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) winning the election.

Russia may fire missiles at Syria militants from Mediterranean, says official Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:32 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may use its ships in the Mediterranean Sea to fire missiles at Islamic State militants in Syria, a senior Russian military officer told a newspaper on Friday. Russia has previously launched cruise missiles at the militants from the Caspian Sea flying over Iran and Iraq. When asked if it might launch similar attacks from the Mediterranean if necessary, Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov told the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily: "Without doubt." (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

How Many Promises Has Obama Kept? Posted: 16 Oct 2015 03:28 AM PDT As he reverses himself on troops in Afghanistan, Obama approaches the end of his chance to fulfill expectations.

South Africa looks to buy Iraqi crude to boost supply security Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:34 AM PDT By Peroshni Govender and Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) is seeking to import 24 million barrels of oil a year from Iraq to boost its reserves in what would be South Africa's first crude imports from Baghdad for more than a decade, an official said on Friday. South Africa has not imported crude oil from Iraq since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was toppled.

'IS hacker' accused of stealing US data arrested in Malaysia Posted: 16 Oct 2015 02:13 AM PDT Malaysian police have arrested a "terrorist hacker" wanted by Washington for allegedly stealing data related to more than a thousand US military and government personnel and providing the information to the Islamic State group. In a statement late Thursday, Malaysian police said the 20-year-old man was arrested on September 15 and that he had arrived in the Southeast Asian country last year to study computer science in a private university. The US Department of Justice said in a statement on Thursday it was seeking the extradition of the man, which it identified as Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi, known by his hacking moniker "Th3Dir3ctorY." "This case is a first of its kind and, with these charges, we seek to hold Ferizi accountable for his theft of this information and his role in ISIL's targeting of US government employees," the statement quoted Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin saying, referring to the Islamic State group (IS).

Goal of getting US troops out of 2 wars eludes Obama Posted: 16 Oct 2015 12:12 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama leaves office in 15 months, he'll hand his successor military conflicts in the two countries where he promised to end prolonged war: Afghanistan and Iraq.

Canada set to vote in tight election race Posted: 15 Oct 2015 10:49 PM PDT Canadians go to the polls Monday with the option of choosing to "stay the course" with the Conservatives or plump for change touted by the Liberals and New Democrats, in legislative elections too close to call. In power since 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is seeking a fourth mandate, hoping to hold onto key Conservative support in the western plains and in suburban Toronto, Canada's largest city. In the one corner is Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, 43, the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who is considered the father of modern Canada.

China repeats opposition to force in Syria Posted: 15 Oct 2015 10:13 PM PDT China's foreign minister has repeated his country's opposition to the use of force to resolve the crisis in Syria, saying that a political solution is still the only way out, China's foreign ministry said on Friday. Russia last month began air strikes on targets in Syria in a dramatic escalation of foreign involvement in the civil war. This has been criticized by the West as an attempt to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, rather than its purported aim of attacking Islamic State.

CBS Bans Ads for Dan Rather Movie 'Truth' Posted: 15 Oct 2015 09:00 PM PDT Sony Pictures Classics sought a multimillion dollar ad buy to promote the film on several shows but was turned down.

Migrants dig in for a Calais winter as bids to reach UK go on Posted: 15 Oct 2015 05:56 PM PDT By Matthias Blamont CALAIS, France (Reuters) - Migrants camped on France's north coast continued their bids to reach Britain on Thursday as the first autumn winds blew into their sprawl of tents and shanties and EU leaders arrived in Brussels, 200 kilometers away, to discuss the broader crisis. More than 3,500 migrants fleeing war and poverty in North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere are camped around the town of Calais. A team of Reuters reporters saw groups of migrants going onto rail tracks and heading for the tunnel through gaps in the fence and, in one place about 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) from the tunnel entrance, through an open gate.

Northeast Nigeria hit again as army warns on Boko Haram Posted: 15 Oct 2015 05:22 PM PDT At least 34 people were killed in a wave of suicide bomb attacks in northeast Nigeria, as the military on Friday warned Boko Haram militants threaten the country's sovereignty. Thirty died in a double bombing on a mosque in Molai on Thursday night, Mohammed Kanar, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. Both areas are on the outskirts of the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, which has been increasingly targeted by coordinated bomb and suicide attacks in recent weeks.

More than 250,000 people killed in Syria war: monitor Posted: 15 Oct 2015 05:05 PM PDT More than a quarter of a million people have been killed in Syria's brutal conflict since it began with anti-government protests over four years ago, a monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it has documented the deaths of 250,124 people, including at least 74,426 civilians. Compiled by the British-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria, the toll is an increase from the 240,000 figure it announced in August.

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