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• Trump questions U.S. financial backing for NATO
• Clinton hits Trump ahead of his address to pro-Israel lobby
• New U.S. base in Iraq draws more Islamic State fire, militia threat
• Trump outlines isolationist policy and advisor team
• U.N. 'homework' for Syrian delegates hones in on basics of governance
• US Marines deploy to northern Iraq to provide protection
• Marine deployment to Iraq fire base first of its kind: US military
• Factbox: Four myths about rape in war
• Israel 'rescues' 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen in covert operation
• Sadr wants Iraqis to get a share of country's oil revenue
• Erdogan says Turkey battling 'terrorist wave' after Istanbul bombing
• Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia demands withdrawal of U.S. force deployed in Iraq
• U.S.-led allies report 11 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
• Islamic State: How Iraqi widow's resistance became a symbol of hope
• Beirut buses provide rare bridge to IS turf
• Iran Has a Surprising Favorite in the U.S. Presidential Race
• 10 Things to Know for Today
• Fears in Iraqi government, army over Shiite militias' power
• Today in History
• 10 Things to Know for Monday

Trump questions U.S. financial backing for NATO Posted: 21 Mar 2016 03:58 PM PDT By Mark Hosenball and Emily Flitter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should significantly cut spending on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Monday, questioning a policy that has underpinned U.S. foreign relations for nearly 70 years. Trump, whose world views have been rebuked by a section of the Republican establishment, made the comments as he unveiled a partial list of foreign policy advisors who are relatively little known. "We are paying disproportionately (for NATO).

Clinton hits Trump ahead of his address to pro-Israel lobby Posted: 21 Mar 2016 02:43 PM PDT Hillary Clinton on Monday bashed Donald Trump as prejudiced and insufficiently pro-Israel, signalling some of the leading Democrat's likely points of attack should she face the Republican frontrunner in November's US presidential election. Hundreds of people at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) confab, including rabbis, plan to walk out in protest when Trump takes the stage. US presidential hopefuls routinely make pilgrimages to AIPAC during election years.

New U.S. base in Iraq draws more Islamic State fire, militia threat Posted: 21 Mar 2016 02:41 PM PDT By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fledgling U.S. base in northern Iraq came under attack again on Monday from Islamic State and even drew a threat from an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia, two days after a U.S. Marine there was killed in a rocket attack. Firebase Bell, as the artillery outpost is called, is the first independent U.S. base of its kind in Iraq since the return of American forces to the country in 2014 and is the latest sign of deepening U.S. military involvement in the conflict. Bell's existence was meant to be kept secret until it was deemed operational, the U.S. military said, but Islamic State appeared to learn of the U.S. presence before the American public did.

Trump outlines isolationist policy and advisor team Posted: 21 Mar 2016 02:21 PM PDT White House hopeful Donald Trump outlined Monday a starkly isolationist stance and a advisory team drawn from the energy industry and the wilder fringes of Washington's foreign policy establishment. Trump, who is closing in on the Republican presidential nomination, had been under pressure to name a foreign policy team, amid reports that mainstream experts are loath to endorse him. "I do think it's a different world today, and I don't think we should be nation-building anymore," Trump told the paper, dismissing his fellow Republican's record in Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.N. 'homework' for Syrian delegates hones in on basics of governance Posted: 21 Mar 2016 01:56 PM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's opposition delegation at peace talks in Geneva spent the weekend thinking about the basics of how to run a country, in response to questions given to them by the mediator of the talks, according to a text seen by Reuters on Monday. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura has said he dreads a post-war Syria collapsing into the kind of chaos experienced by Iraq and Libya. De Mistura describes Syria's political transition as "the mother of all issues", but its definition has not been narrowed beyond a U.N. resolution that says the talks should set up "credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance".

US Marines deploy to northern Iraq to provide protection Posted: 21 Mar 2016 01:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has set up a small Marine artillery outpost in northern Iraq to protect a nearby Iraqi military base, expanding the number and the combat exposure of American troops in the country as Iraqi security forces plan and prepare for a counteroffensive against the Islamic State in Mosul.

Marine deployment to Iraq fire base first of its kind: US military Posted: 21 Mar 2016 01:40 PM PDT About 200 US Marines have established an artillery position in northern Iraq, the US military said Monday -- a first-of-its-kind deployment whose existence was revealed only after one of the Marines was killed in a rocket attack. The marine, Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin, was killed Saturday in an Islamic State rocket attack on the fire base that wounded several others. US President Barack Obama acknowledged Cardin's death on Monday at a press conference in Havana with Cuban President Raul Castro, saying his thoughts and prayers were with his family.

Factbox: Four myths about rape in war Posted: 21 Mar 2016 01:28 PM PDT By Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Congo's Jean-Pierre Bemba became the highest-ranking politician to be convicted by the international war crimes court on Monday, when it judged him responsible for a 2002-2003 campaign of rape and murder in Central African Republic. It is the International Criminal Court's first case to focus primarily on crimes of sexual violence committed in war, as well as the first in which the court has found a high official directly responsible for the crimes of his subordinates. Rape can be a weapon of choice for armed groups, and it has the power to destroy entire communities – as well as individual victims' lives – and instill fear across regions.

Israel 'rescues' 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen in covert operation Posted: 21 Mar 2016 01:16 PM PDT Israel has spirited 19 Jews out of war-torn Yemen in a "covert operation" to rescue some of the last remnants of one of the world's most ancient Jewish communities, officials said Monday. The operation transporting them to Israel almost brings to an end the presence of the Jewish community in Yemen, which once numbered around 60,000 people and dates back some 2,000 years. Only 50 or so Jews now remain and have chosen to stay in the war-ravaged Arabian Peninsula country, according to the Jewish Agency, responsible for immigration to Israel.

Sadr wants Iraqis to get a share of country's oil revenue Posted: 21 Mar 2016 10:03 AM PDT Influential Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged followers demonstrating in Baghdad for a new government to also demand that politicians give every Iraqi a direct share of the nation's oil revenues. Sadr's followers have been staging protests for about a month demanding a new government be formed with technocrats not affiliated with political parties in order to fight what they say is rampant corruption.

Erdogan says Turkey battling 'terrorist wave' after Istanbul bombing Posted: 21 Mar 2016 06:44 AM PDT By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey would use all its military and intelligence might to battle "one of the biggest and bloodiest terrorist waves in its history", after a suicide bomber killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon described Turkey as "awash in terrorism". Turkey's main opposition party blamed what it called the government's "adventure-seeking policies" in the Middle East for turmoil washing across Syria's borders.

Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia demands withdrawal of U.S. force deployed in Iraq Posted: 21 Mar 2016 05:51 AM PDT An Iranian-backed militia said on Monday it said it would treat U.S. Marines deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State as forces of occupation and "deal" with the foreign troops. Washington said on Sunday a detachment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit was in Iraq, bolstering efforts by the United States and a coalition of allies against Islamic State. "If the U.S. administration doesn't withdraw its forces immediately, we will deal with them as forces of occupation," the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia said on its TV channel, al-Ahd.

U.S.-led allies report 11 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria Posted: 21 Mar 2016 04:27 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 11 strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, a military statement said. Seven strikes were conducted in Iraq, including three near the city of Mosul, and four in Syria, targeting Islamic State units, weapons and equipment, the statement said on Monday. One strike near Hit in Iraq "produced inconclusive results," the statement said without elaborating. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom Editing by W Simon)

Islamic State: How Iraqi widow's resistance became a symbol of hope Posted: 21 Mar 2016 04:00 AM PDT When Khalid Ismael got a desperate call from an army friend saying jihadists had surrounded him and five other soldiers, his mother didn't hesitate. The sister was there for a reason: the jihadists known as Islamic State (IS) weren't stopping vehicles with women. "I told Khalid 'you have to go – Iraq needs its sons,'" says Ms. Jabouri, known as Um Qusay.

Beirut buses provide rare bridge to IS turf Posted: 21 Mar 2016 03:26 AM PDT Beirut (AFP) - "Raqa! Manbij! Al-Bab!" drivers call out at a bus station in the heart of bustling Beirut looking for passengers to make the perilous journey to Islamic State group strongholds in Syria. "Just before we reach the first Daesh checkpoint, everyone throws out their cigarettes," said Abu Ali, a bus driver in his 40s, using a derogatory Arabic name for IS. "And we spray perfume in the bus so that they can't smell the tobacco, otherwise we'll be whipped!" he said with concern etched into his expression, as he prepared to travel up to Manbij in northern Syria.

Iran Has a Surprising Favorite in the U.S. Presidential Race Posted: 21 Mar 2016 03:15 AM PDT Iran's reemergence is due in no small part to the nuclear deal reached with the Obama administration and other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council that limits the country's nuclear enrichment program in exchange for lifting the international sanctions. Like most countries, Iran won't interfere with U.S. domestic politics, says Amir Khaleghiyan, a researcher at the Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 21 Mar 2016 03:03 AM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

Fears in Iraqi government, army over Shiite militias' power Posted: 20 Mar 2016 11:04 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — It was a tense confrontation between two forces supposed to be on the same side in Iraq.

Today in History Posted: 20 Mar 2016 09:01 PM PDT Today is Monday, March 21, the 81st day of 2016. There are 285 days left in the year.

10 Things to Know for Monday Posted: 20 Mar 2016 06:01 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

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