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UN diplomat says Islamic State seeking new revenue streams

Posted: 04 May 2016 04:49 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The chair of the U.N. committee monitoring sanctions against extremists says the Islamic State group is looking to increase revenue from taxation, smuggling antiquities "and potentially kidnap for ransom" following the loss of some territory and destruction of oil facilities.

Australia says top IS recruiter killed in US air strike in Iraq

Posted: 04 May 2016 04:06 PM PDT

Smoke rises in the distance behind an Islamic State group flag and banner after Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reportedly captured several villages from IS group jihadists in the district of Daquq, on September 11, 2015Australia's most wanted Islamic State terror suspect, who was linked to several attacks on home soil, has been killed in a US air strike in Iraq, Canberra said on Thursday. The death of Neil Prakash is considered significant by Australian and American authorities because of his highly prominent and influential role as a senior recruiter for the jihadist group. Attorney General George Brandis said Washington had told Canberra that Prakash was killed in Mosul, Iraq, on April 29.


Slain Navy SEAL took lessons from running track into combat

Posted: 04 May 2016 04:04 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, of San Diego. Navy SEAL Keating was shot and killed Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in Iraq during a gunbattle that involved more than 100 Islamic State fighters. (U.S. Navy via AP)PHOENIX (AP) — In cross-country running, your team is only as fast as your slowest athlete. Slain Navy SEAL Charlie Keating IV took that to heart in his youth as a track star, turning around to cheer on his teammates after he crossed the finish line.


Australian Islamic State recruiter killed in U.S. airstrike in Iraq

Posted: 04 May 2016 03:52 PM PDT

An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for the Islamic State has been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, disrupting the militant group's ability to lure new fighters, the Australian government said on Thursday. Attorney-General George Brandis said the United States had advised him that Prakash, who was linked to several Australia-based attack plans and calls for lone-wolf attacks against the United States, was killed in an airstrike in Mosul on April 29.

Iraq PM sacks commander after Green Zone breach: statement

Posted: 04 May 2016 03:11 PM PDT

Iraqi protesters climb over a concrete wall surrounding the parliament (unseen) after breaking into Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" on April 30, 2016Iraq's premier sacked the commander of special forces in Baghdad's Green Zone after protesters breached the fortified area, a military statement said on Wednesday. The removal of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed Ridha may indicate that security forces will take a harder line against demonstrators who are expected to protest later this week. Angry demonstrators, most of them supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, broke into the Green Zone and stormed parliament on Saturday in an unprecedented security breach.


Slain Navy SEAL was part of US rescue squad

Posted: 04 May 2016 02:53 PM PDT

Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, of San DiegoA Navy SEAL who was killed by Islamic State fighters died while helping rescue a team of American troops from an unexpected firefight with the jihadists, an official said Wednesday. Charles Keating IV became the third US troop to be killed in the US-led coalition campaign against the IS group when he was struck by a bullet during a pitched battle on Tuesday. Keating, 31, from Arizona, was part of a "quick reaction force" comprised of special operations troops on a mission to support US military advisers working with local peshmerga forces, Baghdad-based US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.


Army captain sues Obama; says he lacks authority to fight IS

Posted: 04 May 2016 02:50 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army captain sued President Barack Obama on Wednesday, alleging that he doesn't have the proper congressional authority to wage war against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

U.S., allies agree to do more to combat Islamic State

Posted: 04 May 2016 02:34 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces stand with an Islamic State flag which they pulled down in the town of Hit in Anbar provinceBy Phil Stewart STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday that Washington and its allies had agreed to do more in their campaign to defeat Islamic State but that more risks lay ahead. Carter made the comment following talks in Germany with defense ministers and representatives from 11 other nations participating in the alliance. "These risks will continue ... but allowing ISIL safe haven would carry greater risk for us all," he added, using an acronym for Islamic State.


Turkish ruling party preparing to replace PM Davutoglu: officials

Posted: 04 May 2016 01:54 PM PDT

Turkish President Erdogan meets with Prime Minister Davutoglu at the Presidential Palace in AnkaraBy Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling party is set to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at an extraordinary congress in the coming weeks, officials said on Wednesday, signaling the end of his term as premier and plunging the country into political uncertainty. The decision, confirmed to Reuters by five AK Party officials, came after a meeting of more than 1-1/2 hours between Davutoglu and President Tayyip Erdogan that followed weeks of increasingly public tension between the two men. Erdogan wants an executive presidency in Turkey to replace the current parliamentary system, a plan for which Davutoglu has offered only lukewarm support.


Hillicans? As Trump wins, Clinton explores how to woo GOPers

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:50 PM PDT

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign stop at Jackie O's Production Brewery and Tap Room in Athens, Ohio, Tuesday, May 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — With Donald Trump's remaining rivals bowing out of the race, clearing his path to the nomination, Hillary Clinton is looking for ways to woo Republicans turned off by the brash billionaire.


Oil turns lower after bigger-than-forecast U.S. crude build

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:43 PM PDT

The current price of gasoline is shown on a gas station sign in EncinitasBy Jessica Resnick-Ault and Catherine Ngai NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bigger-than-expected build in U.S. crude inventories to fresh record highs pushed oil markets lower on Wednesday after an early rally over concerns about production cuts in Canada's oil sands region due to a wildfire. U.S. crude stocks, which have been setting record highs since January, grew 2.8 million barrels last week, government data showed, about a million barrels more than analysts' expectations. Gasoline stocks also posted a surprise increase.


Iranian commander threatens to close Strait of Hormuz to US

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 7, 2015, file photo released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Iranian warship Alborz, foreground, prepares before leaving Iran's waters, at the Strait of Hormuz. The deputy commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they "threaten" the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday, April 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The deputy commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Iranian forces will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies if they "threaten" the Islamic Republic, Iranian state media reported Wednesday.


US wins pledge of more resources from anti-IS allies

Posted: 04 May 2016 11:41 AM PDT

A coalition of countries battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq stressed their "strong support ... for the deployment of additional enabling capabilities in the near term"A coalition of countries battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq pledged Wednesday to pour more resources into the fight, after coming under strong pressure from Washington for greater contributions. The promise came after a meeting in Stuttgart of defence ministers from countries involved in the anti-IS coalition, during which US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter drove home the message that to deal IS a body blow, "all must do more". Carter's call to step up the fight came a week after US President Barack Obama reiterated a long-standing demand for members of NATO to increase their defence spending to meet the alliance's target of two percent of output.


Navy SEAL killed in Iraq was part of rescue team

Posted: 04 May 2016 11:13 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, of San Diego. Navy SEAL Keating was shot and killed Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in Iraq during a gunbattle that involved more than 100 Islamic State fighters. (U.S. Navy via AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy SEAL killed during a firefight in Iraq was part of a quick reaction force that moved in to rescue U.S. military advisers from an Islamic State attack, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The attack triggered a massive coalition air response that destroyed equipment, buildings and killed up to 60 militants.


Battles rage in Aleppo as diplomats scramble to save truce

Posted: 04 May 2016 09:59 AM PDT

A coalition of opposition groups fighting under the name "Fatah Halab," or Aleppo Conquest, launched an assault on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces with a tunnel bombFierce fighting raged in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo and air strikes pounded rebels east of the capital Damascus on Wednesday as diplomats scrambled to salvage a collapsing truce. Intense international efforts to bring a halt to the latest surge in Syrian fighting continued, with talks between senior diplomats in Berlin and the UN Security Council set for an urgent meeting later Wednesday. The renewed violence has threatened the complete breakdown of a landmark ceasefire between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and non-jihadist rebels brokered by Moscow and Washington in late February.


U.S. Navy SEAL killed in Iraq was part of 'quick reaction force'

Posted: 04 May 2016 09:58 AM PDT

A U.S. Navy SEAL killed by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq on Tuesday was part of a "quick reaction force" called in after a firefight broke out involving American advisers, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday. Islamic State militants breached the Kurdish forward lines at about 07:30 a.m. local time (12.30 a.m. ET) while an American team of advisers was at the village of Tel Asqof, approximately 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away, the spokesman said. The American advise and assist team called in the quick reaction force about 20 minutes later after becoming involved in a firefight with Islamic State forces, he said.

Relief in Yemen's Mukalla after year of Qaeda rule

Posted: 04 May 2016 09:53 AM PDT

A street in the Yemeni port of Mukalla, in Hadramawt province, 480 km (300 mi) east of Aden on May 3, 2016 with banners hung by Al-Qaeda militants announcing Islamist ordersTen days after Gulf-backed forces drove Al-Qaeda out of the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, the signs of their harsh year-long rule are still everywhere for relieved residents to see. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took advantage of the chaos of fighting between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels to expand its control in southern Yemen, seizing Mukalla in April last year. AQAP ruled with an iron fist over the city of 200,000 people, capital of the vast desert province of Hadramawt.


Explosions hit two oil wells in northern Iraq's Kirkuk: sources

Posted: 04 May 2016 08:42 AM PDT

A member of the Kurdish security forces stands guard after explosions at two oil wells in Khabbaz oilfield, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of KirkukExplosions at two oil wells near territory controlled by Islamic State in northern Iraq halted production on Wednesday as firefighters worked to put out the flames, oil officials and security sources said. It was not immediately clear who had laid the charges at Khabbaz oilfield, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, in a region under control of the Kurdish peshmerga forces. The field has a maximum production capacity of 15,000 barrels per day (bpd) but was producing around 10,000 bpd before the attack, said officials from the state-run North Oil Company that operates the reservoir.


EU backs Turkey visa-free travel, fines for refusing refugees

Posted: 04 May 2016 08:37 AM PDT

The European Commission, the executive arm of the 28-nation EU, has given conditional backing for Turks to get visa-free travelThe EU on Wednesday gave conditional backing to visa-free travel for Turks under a migrant deal and unveiled new asylum rules including fines for countries that refuse their share of refugees. In its latest bid to tackle the biggest migration crisis since World War II, the European Commission proposed making countries pay a "solidarity contribution" of 250,000 euros ($290,000) per refugee they decline to take. Turkey has threatened to tear up a March agreement to take back migrants from Greece if the EU fails to keep its promise to allow nearly 80 million Turkish citizens to travel without visas to Europe.


U.S., allies target Islamic State in Mosul with 10 strikes: statement

Posted: 04 May 2016 08:30 AM PDT

The United States and its coalition partners on Tuesday launched 22 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, including 10 near the key city of Mosul, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Wednesday. The coalition is working alongside Iraqi forces to try and retake Mosul from the militant group's control. The strikes there hit an Islamic State headquarters and nine Islamic State units of fighters as well as various weaponry, including a heavy machine gun, three large machine guns, two weapons caches, and four mortar systems, the coalition said.

The Peculiar Language of Soldiers

Posted: 04 May 2016 07:24 AM PDT

JERUSALEM—"We have two flowers and one oleander. We need a thistle." Listening to the Israeli military frequencies when I was an infantryman nearly two decades ago, it was (and still is) possible to hear sentences like these, the bewildering cousins of sentences familiar to anyone following America's present-day wars. "Vegas is in a TIC," says a U.S. infantryman in Afghanistan in Sebastian Junger's book War. What does it all mean?

Turkey could send ground troops into Syria in self-defense: PM

Posted: 04 May 2016 07:15 AM PDT

Turkey is ready to send ground forces into Syria to tackle Islamic State militants if need be, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, as two more rockets fired by the group struck a border town. President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would respond to all rockets fired by Islamic State and vowed that the jihadists would suffer greater losses if they continued their aggression. Turkey has argued the case for ground troops in Syria in the past, although it has always said it would not mount a unilateral incursion unless its national security was threatened.

Iraq's all-female combat unit seeks revenge on Islamic State

Posted: 04 May 2016 06:36 AM PDT

The Wider Image: Yazidi women fight Islamic StateBy Emily Wither NAWARAN, Iraq (Reuters) - When Islamic State swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants attacking women and girls from their community. "They took eight of my neighbors and I saw they were killing the children," Asema Dahir told Reuters last month at a checkpoint near a front line north of Mosul. Dressed in military fatigues, the 21-year-old is now part of an all-female unit in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, which have played an important role in pushing back Islamic State in northern Iraq.


Coalition vows to build up further against Islamic State

Posted: 04 May 2016 05:36 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter delivers a statement to the press following the meeting of the alliance of Defense Ministers in the fight against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) in Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (Christoph Schmidt/dpa via AP)STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — An international coalition leading the military campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq agreed Wednesday to accelerate their contributions but did not publicly specify what those would be. The group also called on Iraqi leaders to reconcile political differences.


Turkish PM under pressure as rift with Erdogan deepens

Posted: 04 May 2016 04:41 AM PDT

Turkey's President Erdogan chats with Prime Minister Davutoglu during a Republic Day ceremony at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk, in Ankara, TurkeyBy Orhan Coskun and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's drive to tighten his grip on power has triggered an open rift with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, raising questions about the premier's future and troubling allies dependent on the NATO member's stability. The political uncertainty comes as Europe looks increasingly to Turkey for help in curbing a migration crisis and as Washington draws on Ankara's support in fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. At home, Turkey itself faces attacks by Kurdish militants and spillover of Syian violence.


U.S. warns of more risks in Iraq after Navy SEAL's death

Posted: 04 May 2016 04:36 AM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Carter testifies on operations against the Islamic State on Capitol Hill in WashingtonSTUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter cautioned on Wednesday of risks ahead in the campaign against Islamic State as he confirmed the identity of a Navy SEAL killed during attack by the militant group in northern Iraq on Tuesday.


10 Things to Know for Today

Posted: 04 May 2016 03:04 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by his wife Melania, right, and daughter Ivanka, left, as he arrives for a primary night news conference, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:


Obama's Secret Troop Deployments Cost Taxpayers

Posted: 04 May 2016 03:00 AM PDT

Shockingly, that huge troop total doesn't count our presence in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and other theaters of the war on terror. Take Iraq, for example. In October, a Pentagon representative said that U.S. troops "are not in a combat role in Iraq'' -- but the exact same week, Col. Steve Warren, a military spokesman actually located in Baghdad, said the exact opposite.

Islamic State seeks news blackout in Mosul as Iraqi army nears

Posted: 04 May 2016 02:44 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers work at a radio station at Makhmour base, IraqBy Stephen Kalin MAKHMOUR, Iraq (Reuters) - For Iraqis living in the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, news is dwindling about the U.S.-backed army massing to the south for an assault on the city that could begin this year. Soon after Iraqi forces established a foothold in the Makhmour area in February, about 60 km (40 miles) from the northern city, the jihadists began restricting access to television for its 1 million-strong population, according to residents. With limited and erratic access to internet and mobile networks, civilians in Mosul have depended on satellite TV for their primary source of news from the outside world since Islamic State captured the city two years ago.


Kenya says arrests key member of militant group plotting attacks

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:37 AM PDT

Riot police run down the street to disperse supporters of Kenya's opposition before their rally at the Uhuru park grounds in NairobiBy Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police have arrested a suspected key member of an Islamist militant group that was plotting attacks similar to one in 2013 on the Westgate shopping mall that killed at least 67 people, authorities said on Tuesday. Militant attacks mostly by al Shabaab militants from neighbouring Somalia have increased in recent years in Kenya, which has a large Muslim population concentrated mostly along its Indian Ocean coast. President Uhuru Kenyatta sent troops into Somalia in 2011 to join African Union military operations against al Shabaab that have driven it out of its major territorial strongholds but not ended its ability to carry out selective, deadly attacks.


9 Muslim Albanians jailed for recruiting for terror groups

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:25 AM PDT

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian court has sentenced nine Muslims to jail terms ranging from seven to 18 years for inciting terror, recruiting and sending more than 70 men to join rebel groups in Syria.

Quotations in the News

Posted: 04 May 2016 12:01 AM PDT

"Ted Cruz — I don't know if he likes me or he doesn't like me — but he is one hell of a competitor." — Donald Trump after he all but clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocked Cruz out of the race.

Kerry warns Assad as truce talks shift to Berlin

Posted: 03 May 2016 11:08 PM PDT

Syrian civil defence volunteers evacuate a man and children from a residential building in the rebel-held eastern neighbourhood of Bab al-Nayrab in Syria's second city Aleppo following a reported air strike on April 29, 2016US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syria's Bashar al-Assad of "repercussions" if his regime flouts a new truce being negotiated, as talks to halt the violence shifted to Berlin Wednesday. "If Assad does not adhere to (the new ceasefire), there will clearly be repercussions and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and they go back to war," Kerry told reporters after returning from an earlier round of talks in Geneva. "I don't think that Russia wants that.


Sanders: Clinton team thinks race 'is over. They're wrong'

Posted: 03 May 2016 07:39 PM PDT

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife Jane Sanders, wave after a campaign rally Tuesday, May 3, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.


Islamic State kills U.S. Navy SEAL in northern Iraq

Posted: 03 May 2016 07:16 PM PDT

By Phil Stewart and Andrea Shalal STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Islamic State militants killed a U.S. Navy SEAL in northern Iraq on Tuesday after blasting through Kurdish defenses and overrunning a town in the biggest offensive in the area for months, officials said. The elite serviceman was the third American to be killed in direct combat since a U.S.-led coalition launched a campaign in 2014 to "degrade and destroy" Islamic State and is a measure of its deepening involvement in the conflict. "It is a combat death, of course, and a very sad loss," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters during a trip to Germany.

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