| Man killed in Colorado shooting was veteran, served in Iraq Posted: 29 Nov 2015 04:29 PM PST  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A look at the three people who were killed in a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic:
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| Stay-at-home mom, Iraq war veteran named as Colorado clinic fatalities Posted: 29 Nov 2015 04:20 PM PST The Colorado Springs Police Department named the two civilians as Jennifer Markovsky, 35, and Ke'Arre Marcell Stewart, 29, though it said the identifications were preliminary pending completion of the autopsies. Also killed in the shooting was Garrett Swasey, 44, a campus police officer for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. |
| Planned Parenthood says Colorado shooter opposed abortion Posted: 29 Nov 2015 04:19 PM PST  By Keith Coffman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that news reports that the gunman who attacked its Colorado health clinic had uttered "no more baby parts" during his arrest showed the suspect was motivated by an anti-abortion agenda. The remark attributed to suspect Robert Lewis Dear was an apparent reference to Planned Parenthood's abortion activities and its role in delivering fetal tissue to medical researchers, a hot-button issue in the 2016 race for the presidency. "We now know the man responsible for the tragic shooting at PP's health center in Colorado was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion," the organization said on Twitter.
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| The Latest: Victim of Colorado clinic shooting was Iraq vet Posted: 29 Nov 2015 04:17 PM PST  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado (all times local):
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| 'No more baby parts': Reclusive suspect's words draw focus Posted: 29 Nov 2015 03:14 PM PST  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Robert Lewis Dear told authorities "no more baby parts" after being arrested for the shooting of a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic, according to a law enforcement official, part of a rambling statement that investigators are parsing to understand the reasoning behind an assault that left three dead.
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| Assad says enemies boosting his opponents Posted: 29 Nov 2015 01:43 PM PST  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said his enemies have increased support for rebels fighting his regime as loyalists backed by Russia and Iran push an offensive to regain lost territory. The Britain-based Observatory also reported that the Islamic State group had murdered more than 3,500 people in Syria, including 2,000 civilians, since declaring its "caliphate" last June. The latest developments came as Britain pressed efforts to widen its participation in a US-led air coalition battling IS in Iraq to include Syria.
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| Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly IS-held Sinjar Posted: 29 Nov 2015 12:15 PM PST  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish officials said Sunday three more mass graves have been found in the northern town of Sinjar, where Kurdish forces backed by heavy U.S.-led airstrikes drove out Islamic State militants earlier this month.
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| Britain yet to garner parliament support for Syria action - minister Posted: 29 Nov 2015 12:05 PM PST  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has yet to drum up the support it needs to win parliamentary approval for launching air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, defence minister Michael Fallon said on Sunday. Prime Minister David Cameron has said it is time to join the air strikes against Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for killing 130 people in Paris earlier this month.
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| Iran condemns West's 'double standards' in letter to youth Posted: 29 Nov 2015 11:54 AM PST  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday condemned the West's "double standards" in a letter to the youth of America and Europe following the Paris attacks that killed 130 people. "The military invasions of the Islamic world in recent years -- with countless victims -- are another example of the contradictory logic of the West," Khamenei argued.
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| U.S. senators call for 20,000 troops in Syria and Iraq Posted: 29 Nov 2015 11:50 AM PST  By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two senior U.S. senators called on Sunday for Washington to nearly triple military force levels in Iraq to 10,000 and send an equal number of troops to Syria as part of a multinational ground force to counter Islamic State in both countries. Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham criticized President Barack Obama's incremental Islamic State strategy, which relies on air strikes and modest support to local ground forces in Iraq and Syria, and said the need for greater U.S. involvement was underlined by this month's Paris attacks.
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| Senior lawmaker worried about Americans returning from IS combat Posted: 29 Nov 2015 11:42 AM PST  Hundreds of Americans have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight for the Islamic State group and around 50 have returned to America, a senior US lawmaker said Sunday. "And the Paris attacks were the classic case of the foreign fighter," McCaul told CNN, referring to a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the Paris attackers. "We've had hundreds of them travel over there and 50 have come back to the United States," the congressman added.
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| Turkey recovers body of pilot from downed Russian jet Posted: 29 Nov 2015 10:56 AM PST  By Dasha Afanasieva and Lidia Kelly ANKARA/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey recovered the body of a Russian pilot from northern Syria and presented it to Russian diplomats on Sunday, five days after shooting down his warplane in an incident that wrecked relations between two of the main powers involved in Syria's war. A coffin carrying Oleg Peshkov arrived by ambulance on the tarmac of Hatay Airport in southern Turkey near the Syrian border, a Reuters photographer said. It was flown to the capital Ankara, where according to Russia's RIA news agency it was met at an airfield by Moscow's ambassador and military attache.
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| Iran's top leader calls Paris attacks 'blind terrorism' Posted: 29 Nov 2015 10:36 AM PST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official news agency is quoting the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as calling the recent Paris attacks "blind terrorism." |
| US senators want 100,000 foreign troops to fight IS in Syria Posted: 29 Nov 2015 10:04 AM PST  US senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham called Sunday for 100,000 foreign soldiers, most from Sunni regional states but also including Americans, to fight the Islamic State group in Syria. Both McCain, the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and Graham, one of its members, sharply criticised current US strategy as insufficient and unsuccessful in defeating the jihadists.
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| Macedonia finishes fence at Greek border Posted: 29 Nov 2015 08:20 AM PST  Macedonia on Sunday finished building a fence on its frontier with Greece becoming the latest country in Europe to build a border barrier aimed at checking the flow of migrants. Some three-kilometre (1.8-mile) long metal fence was erected by the army at the Gevgelija crossing, on the main road north from the Greek city of Thessaloniki to Macedonia's capital Skopje. The building of the 2.5-metre-high (8-foot) fence, which started on Saturday, sparked clashes between angry migrants and police.
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| U.S., allies conduct 22 strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military Posted: 29 Nov 2015 06:28 AM PST The United States and its allies conducted 19 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and three in Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. Seven of the strikes in Iraq hit around Ramadi, destroying a machine gun position, two ISIL buildings and two weapons caches, and wounding an ISIL fighter, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Sunday. In Syria, two strikes near Raqqa destroyed two ISIL vehicles and struck two separate ISIL tactical units, it said. |
| IS executes 3,500 in Syria since declaring 'caliphate': monitor Posted: 29 Nov 2015 06:06 AM PST  The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,500 people in Syria, including nearly 2,000 civilians, since declaring its "caliphate" in June last year, a monitor said Sunday. In the last month alone IS executed 53 people -- including 35 civilians -- in areas it controls in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The new figures from the Britain-based Observatory bring to 3,591 the number of people executed by IS in Syria since it declared its Islamic "caliphate" after seizing control of large parts of the country.
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| UK govt lobbies opposition to force Syria airstrikes vote Posted: 29 Nov 2015 05:30 AM PST  Britain's defence minister on Sunday said the government was intensively lobbying opposition Labour lawmakers to support airstrikes in Syria as efforts mount to force a vote next week. Michael Fallon told BBC's Andrew Marr Show that "we've been talking to Labour MPs all week" but that the government had "not yet" secured enough support to be sure of winning a vote to extend airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a humiliating defeat in 2013 when opposition from Labour MPs blocked military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and is expected to call a vote only when he is sure of winning.
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| Thousands of Syrian refugee children left in legal limbo Posted: 29 Nov 2015 04:11 AM PST  ZAWERGOSK, Iraq (AP) — Aria is stateless. Like thousands of other children born to Syrian refugees living in Iraq, the 10-month-old girl is beginning her life in legal limbo.
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| Here’s Why Donald Trump’s Lies May Be Good for U.S. Politics Posted: 29 Nov 2015 03:30 AM PST  Finding an upside to Donald Trump's presidential candidacy is a struggle. The billionaire former reality television star has coarsened the national dialogue about race and immigration, made personal attacks on his opponents commonplace, and spewed so many falsehoods and exaggerations into the national conversation that truth – always a casualty in presidential campaigns – seems to matter even less than it usually does. It's in that last area though, that maybe, just maybe, we can find a silver lining: Having used up his allowable limit of candidate innuendo and exaggeration early on, Trump decided to simply make stuff up.
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| PKK leader urges US, EU to broker peace with Turkey: report Posted: 29 Nov 2015 03:16 AM PST  A Kurdish rebel leader said Sunday that Turkey has slipped into a civil war with the Kurds, as he urged the European Union and the United States to step up as peace brokers to end the conflict. "Military tanks, artillery and helicopters are being deployed in the south of Turkey against the Kurdish civilian population. The situation is the worst in decades," Cemil Bayik, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) told Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
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| Belgian scheme tries to nip radicalisation in the bud Posted: 29 Nov 2015 12:21 AM PST  In the troubled Brussels district of Molenbeek, politician Sarah Turine is on the frontline of her own war to stop the sons of Belgian families going off to Syria to join Islamic State fighters. "We must try to defuse this anger among the young," Turine, who oversees a radicalisation prevention programme in Molenbeek, told AFP over tea at an upscale Arab cafe. "We have to assure them they have a place here, that they are not second-class citizens, and to undermine the recruiters' arguments," said Turine, a member of the leftist Ecolo party.
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| A Very Refugee Thanksgiving Posted: 29 Nov 2015 12:00 AM PST  As the United States grapples with immigration, newcomers from all over the world celebrate the most American of holidays.
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| Carson after tour: Syrian refugees don't want to come to US Posted: 28 Nov 2015 11:08 PM PST  AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — After touring Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Saturday suggested that camps should serve as a long-term solution for millions, while other refugees could be absorbed by Middle Eastern countries.
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| Today in History Posted: 28 Nov 2015 09:02 PM PST Today in History |
