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• Pentagon to propose boosting US military presence in Iraq
• UN chief urges release of detained and missing UN staff
• Pope on Good Friday decries terror profaning God's name
• Football pitch suicide attack kills 30 south of Baghdad
• US says death of IS number two 'hampers' its operations ability
• ISIS ‘second in command’ killed by US raid in Syria, Sec. Carter says
• IS claims suicide bombing on stadium in Iraq that killed 29
• Iraq forces secure villages south of Mosul
• Pentagon moving to increase US troop numbers in Iraq soon
• US Says Momentum Has Shifted in the War Against ISIS
• Hollande: Paris, Brussels jihadist network 'being destroyed', others remain
• Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are gun runners in trailer for Hangover director’s War Dogs
• Iraq's Sadr vows protests will remain non-violent
• A look back at when Radovan Karadzic was just a pol on the street
• UN atomic chief warns on 'nuclear terrorism'
• Kosovo jails 3 for trying to join Islamic extremists
• Macedonia: 6 sentenced for joining ISIS, recruiting fighters
• Thais edge closer to World Cup qualification
• Thousands rally in Baghdad in support of Shiite cleric
• "War Dogs" trailer from "The Hangover" director unleashed
• 10 Things to Know for Friday
• Factbox: Break up big banks, end free-trade agreements. What a President Sanders would do
• Karadzic trial shows genocide hardest crime to prove
• US official says Marines expanding combat role in Iraq
• The Edge: Security Lapse in Belgium Draws Questions
• Obama dances tango in Argentina, comes under criticism

Pentagon to propose boosting US military presence in Iraq Posted: 25 Mar 2016 04:44 PM PDT The Pentagon will submit proposals to President Barack Obama for strengthening military support to Iraqi forces in the near future, a top US military official said Friday. "We have a series of recommendations that we will discuss with the president in the coming weeks to further enable our support for the Iraqi security forces," said General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "(Defense Secretary Ashton Carter) and I both believe that there will be an increase in US forces in Iraq in coming weeks, but that decision hasn't been made," Dunford said Friday during a news conference at the Pentagon.

UN chief urges release of detained and missing UN staff Posted: 25 Mar 2016 03:47 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for the release of all missing and detained staff on Friday and urged that those responsible for killing a U.N. official in Iraq and others be brought to justice.

Pope on Good Friday decries terror profaning God's name Posted: 25 Mar 2016 03:38 PM PDT ROME (AP) — Pope Francis at the traditional Good Friday cross procession denounced those committing "terrorist acts" while profaning God's name and lamented what he called "anesthetized" consciences over war refugees flooding Europe.

Football pitch suicide attack kills 30 south of Baghdad Posted: 25 Mar 2016 03:33 PM PDT A suicide bomber blew himself up on a football pitch as trophies were being presented after a local tournament south of Baghdad Friday, killing at least 30 people, police and medics said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack that wreaked carnage on the field where supporters, officials and security forces were gathered after the game. "They were just handing the trophy to the winners, when the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd," a police captain from the village, Al-Asriya, told AFP.

US says death of IS number two 'hampers' its operations ability Posted: 25 Mar 2016 01:06 PM PDT US forces killed the Islamic State group's second-in-command this week, dealing a blow to the extremists' ability to conduct operations in Iraq, Syria and abroad, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Friday. "We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Carter told reporters, referring also to the killing early in the month of Omar al-Shishani, the man known as "Omar the Chechen," who was effectively IS's defense minister. The latest killing "will hamper the ability for them to conduct operations inside and outside of Iraq and Syria," Carter said of Abd ar-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, referring to him as Haji Imam.

ISIS ‘second in command’ killed by US raid in Syria, Sec. Carter says Posted: 25 Mar 2016 12:47 PM PDT An Islamic State (IS) top official has been killed in yet another US raid, Defense Sec. Ashton B. Carter said Friday. Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, also known as Haji Imam – a former Iraqi physics teacher – was the finance minister who administered IS funding and other activities through its networks.

IS claims suicide bombing on stadium in Iraq that killed 29 Posted: 25 Mar 2016 11:52 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a soccer stadium south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 29 people and wounding 60, security officials said, as the military announced new gains on the ground against the Islamic State group.

Iraq forces secure villages south of Mosul Posted: 25 Mar 2016 10:26 AM PDT Iraqi forces cleared roadside bombs and booby traps Friday in villages from which they ousted jihadists a day earlier south of Mosul, the Islamic State group's main hub in the country, officials said. Soldiers and allied paramilitary forces sealed their grip on four villages between Makhmur and IS-held Qayyarah, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) south of Mosul. The army Thursday described the operation in which these villages were retaken as the first phase of an offensive to recapture Nineveh province and its capital Mosul.

Pentagon moving to increase US troop numbers in Iraq soon Posted: 25 Mar 2016 10:16 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Friday it was moving to increase the number of American forces in Iraq and announced that U.S. forces have killed the Islamic State's finance minister. "We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.

US Says Momentum Has Shifted in the War Against ISIS Posted: 25 Mar 2016 10:15 AM PDT After almost two years, nearly 11,000 airstrikes and more than $6.5 billion in taxpayer money spent, there are new reasons to be cautiously optimistic about the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State. The Pentagon on Friday capped what has been a grim week following the deadly terror attacks in Brussels by announcing it had killed the ISIS finance minister, Haji Imam, whose real name is Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli. "We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during a press briefing, before declining to provide details about the operation.

Hollande: Paris, Brussels jihadist network 'being destroyed', others remain Posted: 25 Mar 2016 09:47 AM PDT The jihadist network behind the Paris and Brussels attacks are "in the process of being destroyed" but others remain, warned French President Francois Hollande on Friday. "We have had some results in finding the terrorists and, in Brussels as well as Paris, there have been a number of arrests and we know that there are other networks," said Hollande. French police arrested 34-year-old Reda Kriket in Paris on Thursday, and accused him of being in the advanced stages of planning an attack and having ties to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the November 13 terror attacks in the French capital.

Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are gun runners in trailer for Hangover director’s War Dogs Posted: 25 Mar 2016 09:12 AM PDT Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for  War Dogs , the new film from The Hangover franchise director Todd Phillips, and the preview offers our first look at Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as the stoner pals who became international gun runners during the Iraq War. And the most outrageous part? The film is based on an outrageous true story. Related: Netflix series Maniac will unite Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and director Cary Fukunaga Phillips' wartime comedy is based on journalist Guy Lawson's article for Rolling Stone about a trio of friends who, in their 20s, exploited a government initiative allowing small businesses to bid on big-time government contracts during the Iraq War. Lawson later chronicled their story in his 2015 novel  Arms and the Dudes . War Dogs casts Moneyball actor Hill and Whiplash actor Teller as two guys living in Miami who manage to win a $300 million contract to supply weapons during the war. Their subsequent efforts to fulfill that contract while still making a profit end up putting them in the crosshairs — both figuratively and literally — both home and abroad. The film features a script co-written by The Hangover franchise writer Phillips, as well as Stephen Chin ( Another Day in Paradise ) and Jason Smilovic ( Lucky Number Slevin ), and is the first film directed by Phillips since the 2013 franchise-ending sequel  The Hangover III . Previously in development under the working title  Arms and the Dudes , the film was originally expected to star Jesse Eisenberg and Shia LaBeouf, but was later recast with its current duo. Along with Teller and Hill, the film also stars Ana de Armas ( Knock Knock ) and Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook  and American Sniper  actor Bradley Cooper. Phillips, Cooper, and Mark Gordon ( Steve Jobs ) serve as producers on the film. War Dogs is scheduled to hit theaters August 19.

Iraq's Sadr vows protests will remain non-violent Posted: 25 Mar 2016 09:05 AM PDT Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Friday urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to propose a "convincing" reform package but hinted that further protests if he did not would remain non-violent. In a speech read by another cleric, Asaad al-Nasseri, to thousands of supporters gathered in Baghdad, Sadr said Abadi should unveil a reform package on Saturday. The young Najaf-based cleric's movement says the sit-in is aimed at offering Abadi the kind of street power he does not have to overcome resistance to reforms from within his own political bloc.

A look back at when Radovan Karadzic was just a pol on the street Posted: 25 Mar 2016 08:14 AM PDT Some 25 years after I first met him, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands convicted on 10 genocide and war crimes charges for his role in decimating the former Yugoslavia, and for overseeing what became known as "ethnic cleansing" in the first war in Europe since the Nazi period. Mr. Karadzic looked pale and slightly gaunt as he stood in the Hague tribunal court to receive a 40-year sentence. Indeed, he, like the small but savage fratricidal war he helped engineer in Bosnia, has mostly been forgotten in the wake of figures like Osama Bin Laden and larger wars on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the Russian incursion into Ukraine, and the horror of Syria.

UN atomic chief warns on 'nuclear terrorism' Posted: 25 Mar 2016 06:49 AM PDT The world needs to do more to prevent "nuclear terrorism", the head of the UN atomic watchdog has warned ahead of an important summit and in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks. "Terrorism is spreading and the possibility of using nuclear material cannot be excluded," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano told AFP in an interview late Thursday. "Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security," he said.

Kosovo jails 3 for trying to join Islamic extremists Posted: 25 Mar 2016 06:32 AM PDT PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court has jailed three ethnic Albanian men who had tried to join Islamic State extremists in Syria.

Macedonia: 6 sentenced for joining ISIS, recruiting fighters Posted: 25 Mar 2016 05:56 AM PDT SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — A criminal court in Macedonia's capital Skopje has sentenced six people, including an imam, to prison for joining the Islamic State group and recruiting fighters for it.

Thais edge closer to World Cup qualification Posted: 25 Mar 2016 04:37 AM PDT Thailand revelled Friday in a draw against Iraq that propelled the War Elephants into the final World Cup qualifying stage. The dramatic 2-2 draw in Tehran late Thursday handed the Thais the point needed to top Group F in the second qualifying round for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The joint-qualifier also secured Thailand's place in the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

Thousands rally in Baghdad in support of Shiite cleric Posted: 25 Mar 2016 04:28 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands have rallied in Baghdad in support of firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who has taken the lead role in protests demanding government reforms.

"War Dogs" trailer from "The Hangover" director unleashed Posted: 25 Mar 2016 01:08 AM PDT Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for "War Dogs", starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.

10 Things to Know for Friday Posted: 24 Mar 2016 06:01 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

Factbox: Break up big banks, end free-trade agreements. What a President Sanders would do Posted: 24 Mar 2016 05:59 PM PDT (Reuters) - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has made income inequality and Wall Street main themes of his campaign for the Democratic nomination to run for president in November. IMMIGRATION Sanders would expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the Deferred Action for Parents of America program to extend legal protections given to certain immigrants who entered the country illegally. Sanders would end both for-profit and family detention of illegal immigrants.

Karadzic trial shows genocide hardest crime to prove Posted: 24 Mar 2016 05:03 PM PDT A complex verdict against Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of genocide at Srebrenica but acquitted of the same charge in other Bosnian towns, has again shown that the "most heinous" of crimes is the hardest to prove. UN judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday found the former Bosnian Serb leader guilty on 10 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1990s Bosnian war. With his conviction and 40-year jail sentence, some 15 people have now been found guilty of genocide at the ICTY for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.

US official says Marines expanding combat role in Iraq Posted: 24 Mar 2016 03:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The American combat role in Iraq appeared to expand on Thursday as U.S. Marines operating from a small outpost provided targeting assistance and artillery fire to support Iraqi troops inching forward to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants.

The Edge: Security Lapse in Belgium Draws Questions Posted: 24 Mar 2016 02:46 PM PDT Today in One Paragraph Belgium's border security is under scrutiny following this week's deadly attacks in Brussels. The United States indicted seven Iranian hackers for cyber-attacks on U.S. banks and a dam. A special UN court found former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide. And in the Middle East, Iraqi forces have started their campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS insurgents, and Syrian government forces are making gains in the ISIS-controlled city of Palmyra.

Obama dances tango in Argentina, comes under criticism Posted: 24 Mar 2016 01:32 PM PDT BARILOCHE, Argentina (AP) — Dancing the tango, relaxing with family in picturesque Patagonia, catching a baseball game with Cuba's Raul Castro — it's been an unusual week for President Barack Obama.

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