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• Suspect held over Jordan 'terror attack'
• Three Jordanian intelligence officers killed in attack in Palestinian camp
• U.S.-backed Syria force closes in on IS-held city; slow Iraq advance causes rift
• Long ordeal for Seattle worker who exposed veteran's fraud
• Allegations of human rights violations in Fallujah fight
• Obama to make last trip to Europe
• Civilians die trying to flee Iraq's besieged Fallujah
• Suspect arrested over Jordan 'terror attack': government
• U.S. man pleads guilty to hoax threat to blow up Statue of Liberty
• The Taliban Has Overtaken ISIS as the World’s Top Terror Group
• U.S. fighter jets bomb 16 more IS targets in Syria, Iraq: U.S. admiral
• Meet Two Iraqi Men Who Risked Their Lives for Love
• Advances on IS strongholds underlines US, Russia convergence
• Charlie Hebdo victims added to journalist memorial
• Why Jordan, intelligence hub on ISIS, took a rare hit today
• Russia-backed Syria regime bears down on key IS town
• Euro 2016: How France is guarding against a terrorist attack
• UN: Small arms imports to Middle Eastern countries doubled
• Wounded Veterans Get Hooked on Crappie Fishing
• Afghan president condemns killing of NPR reporters in south
• Slain NPR Photographer Recently Explained the Perils of Covering War
• Kazakh police kill five more Aktobe gunmen in raid after suspected Islamist attack
• Britain warns of possible terrorist attacks in South Africa
• Rare militant attack on Jordan security compound kills 5
• Muslims mark start of Ramadan, many under cloud of war
• Special Report: A teen’s turn to radicalism and the U.S. safety net that failed
• Ramadan begins, overshadowed by conflict for many in the Middle East
• David Gilkey: Slain photojournalist found humanity amid war
• National Press Club Mourns Loss of National Public Radio Employees in Afghanistan
• Embed quickly turned deadly for NPR team in Afghanistan
• U.N. warns Manbij battle could uproot more than 200,000 Syrians
• Iraqi army, Shi'ite coalition bicker on Falluja war operations
• DC beauty commands army unit, Miss USA crown
• Top Asian News 3:58 a.m. GMT
• NPR Journalist David Gilkey, Translator Killed on Assignment
• In Saddam's former jail, cash aid allays grim routine for refugees
• National Democratic Strategist Robert Weiner Rebuts Hillary Clinton Email, Benghazi Critics; Commends Foreign Policy Speech, Makes Case On Rick Smith Radio Show, Six PA Stations

Suspect held over Jordan 'terror attack' Posted: 06 Jun 2016 04:03 PM PDT Jordanian authorities have arrested a suspect accused of gunning down five intelligence agents on Monday in their office at a Palestinian refugee camp. "Investigations are under way but early indications are that this was an isolated and individual act," said government spokesman Mohammed Momani, announcing the arrest without identifying the suspect. The gunman struck at Baqaa camp north of the capital early Monday -- the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan -- in what Momani called a "terrorist attack".

Three Jordanian intelligence officers killed in attack in Palestinian camp Posted: 06 Jun 2016 03:49 PM PDT By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Three Jordanian intelligence officers and two other security personnel were killed in an attack on their security office in a Palestinian refugee camp outside the Jordanian capital, Amman, and one suspect was arrested, officials said on Monday, saying it appeared to be an "individual and isolated act." The incident at the Baqaa camp, the biggest of its kind in Jordan, jolted the U.S.-backed Arab kingdom, whose relative stability has distinguished it from powerful war-ravaged neighbors, Syria to the north and Iraq to the east. Earlier, when Jordan announced the incident, Momani described it as a terrorist attack that took place at 7 a.m. (0000 ET), adding that alongside three officers, a guard and a telephone exchange operator at the security office were killed.

U.S.-backed Syria force closes in on IS-held city; slow Iraq advance causes rift Posted: 06 Jun 2016 03:42 PM PDT By John Davison and Maher Chmaytelli BEIRUT/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have surrounded the Islamic State-held city of Manbij from three sides as they press a major new offensive against the jihadists near the Turkish border, a spokesman for the fighters said on Monday. The simultaneous assaults on Manbij in Syria and Falluja in Iraq, at opposite ends of Islamic State territory, are two of the biggest operations yet against Islamic State in what Washington says is the year it hopes to roll back the caliphate. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), including a Kurdish militia and Arab allies that joined it last year, launched the Manbij attack last week to drive Islamic State from its last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier.

Long ordeal for Seattle worker who exposed veteran's fraud Posted: 06 Jun 2016 03:36 PM PDT A federal employee in Seattle helped expose a fraud in which an Army veteran lied his way to a Purple Heart and hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits. Her reward? The agency Cristina ...

Allegations of human rights violations in Fallujah fight Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:56 PM PDT CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — As Iraqi security forces tighten their grip on the outskirts of militant-held Fallujah allegations of human rights violations are surfacing on both sides of the operation.

Obama to make last trip to Europe Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:55 PM PDT US President Barack Obama will visit Poland and Spain in July, in what will likely be his final presidential trip to Europe, a continent that has often presented more problems than opportunities during his term. The White House said that Obama will travel to Warsaw on July 7-9 for "his fifth and final summit with NATO leaders," before going on his first trip to Spain. During his nearly eight years in office, Obama has at times had difficult relationships with America's oldest allies.

Civilians die trying to flee Iraq's besieged Fallujah Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:43 PM PDT Amriyat al-Fallujah (Iraq) (AFP) - Civilians desperate to flee Fallujah were having to dodge sniper fire from the Islamic State group, which was keen to keep its "human shields" inside the city as Iraqi forces closed in Monday. "We know from witness testimonies that civilians... are being forced to stay and are being threatened," Nasr Muflahi, the Norwegian Refugee Council's Iraq director, told AFP. Footage carried by Iraqi channels showed civilians paddling for their lives on the river, others drifting in inflated wheel chambers.

Suspect arrested over Jordan 'terror attack': government Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:37 PM PDT A suspect has been arrested for allegedly carrying out a gun attack Monday that killed five Jordanian intelligence agents at their office at a Palestinian refugee camp, an official said. The gunman struck at Baqaa camp north of the capital early Monday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in what Momani called a "terrorist attack". Jordan is a leading member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in neighbouring Iraq and Syria, and has been the target of jihadist attacks.

U.S. man pleads guilty to hoax threat to blow up Statue of Liberty Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:37 PM PDT A West Virginia man on Monday pleaded guilty to making a hoax threat to blow up the Statue of Liberty last year, which prompted the evacuation of thousands of tourists from Liberty Island in New York harbor. Smith made the threat by placing a call from his iPad to New York City's emergency 911 system, using a service for the hearing-impaired, authorities said.

The Taliban Has Overtaken ISIS as the World’s Top Terror Group Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:30 PM PDT The number of terrorist attacks across the world dropped last year, the first dip since 2012, the State Department reported in its annual terrorism survey released last week. The drop, which translated to 14 percent fewer terrorism-related deaths, was attributed to fewer attacks and deaths in Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria. Iran remains the "foremost state sponsor" of terrorism.

U.S. fighter jets bomb 16 more IS targets in Syria, Iraq: U.S. admiral Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:26 PM PDT U.S. Navy fighter jets flying from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea bombed 16 new Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on Monday. Now in their fourth day, the strikes from the Mediterranean have opened a new front in the U.S. air campaign against the militant group. "We're getting the job done," Rear Admiral Bret Batchelder, commander of the USS Harry S. Truman strike group, told reporters on the ship as the strikes were being conducted.

Meet Two Iraqi Men Who Risked Their Lives for Love Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:04 PM PDT Brushing each other's hair out of their eyes, exchanging quick kisses, and whispering sweet nothings in Arabic, Nayyef Hrebid and Btoo Allami are clearly a couple in love. "I am proud of our life," Allami told TakePart, tapping his heart with one hand and gesturing toward his husband with the other. Hrebid and Allami are the subjects of the documentary Out of Iraq, which made had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival last week.

Advances on IS strongholds underlines US, Russia convergence Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:00 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State group and its self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a quiet convergence of strategy between the U.S. and Russia to defeat the extremists, with Syria's Kurds emerging as the common link.

Charlie Hebdo victims added to journalist memorial Posted: 06 Jun 2016 01:41 PM PDT Eight journalists killed in the 2015 attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had their names added Monday to a US memorial honoring reporters killed in the exercise of their profession. The memorial wall at the Newseum, a Washington museum of news and journalism, added the names of 20 people killed last year, as a reminder of the threats faced by journalists in many parts of the world. Also honored were two US television journalists shot to death on live TV and reporters, bloggers and camera operators killed in Bangladesh, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Mexico, Pakistan, Somalia, Turkey and Syria.

Why Jordan, intelligence hub on ISIS, took a rare hit today Posted: 06 Jun 2016 01:39 PM PDT A group of unknown assailants succeeded today in striking an institution that has been on the top of jihadists' hit-lists for nearly two decades: Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID). Known and feared as the mukhabarat, they are Jordan's first line of defense, the lynch pin of the kingdom's stability, and the West's greatest asset in the war on terror. Observers say among potential targets for IS worldwide, Jordan's intelligence services would be at the top of its list.

Russia-backed Syria regime bears down on key IS town Posted: 06 Jun 2016 01:31 PM PDT Russian-backed Syrian regime forces inched closer Monday to a key stop on a vital Islamic State group supply line, as a twin offensive bore down on the jihadists' northern stronghold. The advance comes as 17 civilians were killed in air raids on a popular market in eastern Syria on the first day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. The UN, meanwhile, backtracked on its plan to move ahead with airdrops of humanitarian aid to Syria, saying it was focusing for now on security access for land convoys.

Euro 2016: How France is guarding against a terrorist attack Posted: 06 Jun 2016 01:12 PM PDT Ukraine's intelligence agency, known as the SBU, has arrested a Frenchman accused of plotting terrorist attacks "before and during" the upcoming UEFA European Championship 2016 soccer tournament, heightening already high levels of concern about a potential attack. Margaret Gilmore, a senior associate fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, tells The Christian Science Monitor there is a low chance of an attack. "There will be massive security, and the slightest terrorist attack would get global publicity.

UN: Small arms imports to Middle Eastern countries doubled Posted: 06 Jun 2016 01:03 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Annual sales of small arms and light weapons sales to Middle Eastern countries nearly doubled in dollar terms in 2013 over the year before, as conflicts heated up across the region, according to a study released Monday.

Wounded Veterans Get Hooked on Crappie Fishing Posted: 06 Jun 2016 11:52 AM PDT "We had to wear three layers," says U.S. Army veteran, and Wounded Warrior Project®(WWP) Alumna, Ginger MacDonald, "but that didn't keep us from enjoying a fantastic crappie fishing excursion." Ginger and other wounded veterans recently participated in the annual crappie contest organized by Fishing for Life and WWP. Ginger and Donna didn't catch the "big one," but, with so many warriors and family members participating, there was enough for a huge fish fry at the end, and both agreed on the most important thing: the day at the lake helped them realize they are not alone.

Afghan president condemns killing of NPR reporters in south Posted: 06 Jun 2016 11:40 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The president of Afghanistan on Monday condemned the killings of David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and Afghan journalist Zabihullah Tamanna in an insurgent ambush while on assignment.

Slain NPR Photographer Recently Explained the Perils of Covering War Posted: 06 Jun 2016 11:20 AM PDT Award-winning NPR photographer David Gilkey, who was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday, previously spoke to NPR about the dangers of covering war in a Facebook video that was recorded live for the social media website three weeks ago. "One of the amazing things about being embedded [in a combat zone] ... is just how intimate you are with the subjects," Gilkey said in reference to a photo of soldiers questioning a man they suspected of planting roadside bombs. NPR foreign editor Greg Myre responded to Gilkey by asking him questions about his own safety when navigating through a landscape in which roadside bombs are a part of everyday life.

Kazakh police kill five more Aktobe gunmen in raid after suspected Islamist attack Posted: 06 Jun 2016 10:59 AM PDT By Olzhas Auyezov AKTOBE, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Police killed five gunmen and detained two others in a pre-dawn raid in the Kazakh city of Aktobe on Monday after a suspected Islamist militant attack the day before on a national guard base and several firearms shops. On Sunday, gunmen killed three army servicemen and three civilians before responding security forces killed 12 of the attackers and wounded six, the Interior Ministry said, in what was the deadliest such incident in the history of the oil-exporting Central Asian republic. "During the search operation overnight, police killed five more criminals and two were arrested after resistance," the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Britain warns of possible terrorist attacks in South Africa Posted: 06 Jun 2016 09:18 AM PDT By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Britain has warned of a high threat of attacks against foreigners in popular shopping malls in South Africa in an alert issued at the weekend, when a similar advisory was published by the United States embassy in Pretoria. Africa's most industrialised country has a significant expatriate and tourist population but has seldom been associated with Islamist militancy. South Africa's government said the country was safe following the U.S. warning on Saturday.

Rare militant attack on Jordan security compound kills 5 Posted: 06 Jun 2016 09:01 AM PDT BAQAA REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) — One or more assailants armed with an automatic assault weapon attacked a local office of Jordan's national intelligence agency Monday, killing four guards and a receptionist in what the government called a "terrorist attack."

Muslims mark start of Ramadan, many under cloud of war Posted: 06 Jun 2016 08:30 AM PDT More than a billion Muslims observed the start of Ramadan on Monday but in the besieged cities of Syria and Iraq residents struggled to mark the holy month. Islamic authorities announced the start of the fasting month with the sighting of the crescent moon in countries such as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

Special Report: A teen’s turn to radicalism and the U.S. safety net that failed Posted: 06 Jun 2016 08:25 AM PDT Online, he was @AmreekiWitness, among the most active pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts. For months, Ali Shukri Amin had been walking closer and closer to a line. In 2014, the suburban high school student began tweeting instructions on how to use Bitcoin to fund the extremist group.

Ramadan begins, overshadowed by conflict for many in the Middle East Posted: 06 Jun 2016 07:54 AM PDT (Reuters) - Muslims around the world began observing Ramadan on Monday, Islam's holy month during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours. The daily fast often ends with a large evening meal.

David Gilkey: Slain photojournalist found humanity amid war Posted: 06 Jun 2016 06:52 AM PDT A veteran photojournalist and a translator were killed Sunday while on assignment with Afghan troops in the southern part of Afghanistan, the 28th and 29th  journalists to be killed there since 1992. David Gilkey, who had won dozens of awards for his news photography, and Zabihullah Tamanna were in an Afghan Humvee when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in an apparent ambush, NPR reported. Mr. Gilkey and Mr. Tamanna were on assignment for NPR.

National Press Club Mourns Loss of National Public Radio Employees in Afghanistan Posted: 06 Jun 2016 06:23 AM PDT WASHINGTON, June 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of the deaths Sunday in Afghanistan of a National Public Radio photographer and his translator, the National Press Club offered condolences to NPR staffers and the families of those killed. The photographer, David Gilkey, and his Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed on assignment in southern Afghanistan. Gilkey was an award-winning photographer who took on dangerous assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Embed quickly turned deadly for NPR team in Afghanistan Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:34 AM PDT By Zainullah Stanekzai LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The NPR photojournalist and his Afghan colleague killed in Afghanistan on Sunday died on the first day of an embed with local troops, highlighting the risks for reporters in a country where increasing amounts of territory are off-limits. Photographer David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, an Afghan journalist working as a translator, were killed in a Taliban ambush shortly after joining Afghan troops in Helmand province, one of the most volatile areas in the country. The NPR team, including Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva, had just spent several days with coalition troops, including U.S. special forces, before they went over to an Afghan unit, said Colonel Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for the NATO-led military coalition.

U.N. warns Manbij battle could uproot more than 200,000 Syrians Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:32 AM PDT A U.S.-backed offensive to retake the Islamic State-held northern Syrian city of Manbij has displaced some 20,000 civilians and could uproot about 216,000 more if it continues, a U.N. humanitarian agency said on Monday. Syrian fighters have surrounded Manbij from three sides as they press the onslaught against the jihadists near the Turkish border, a spokesman for the fighters said on Monday. The report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it was possible people would "face impediments" to moving out of IS-controlled areas and they had a critical need for shelter, drinking water, food and health care.

Iraqi army, Shi'ite coalition bicker on Falluja war operations Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:25 AM PDT By Ahmed Rasheed, Saif Hameed and Isabel Coles BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi'ite militia leader accused government forces of "betrayal" as a split emerged between the Iranian-backed paramilitaries and the army over tactics for fighting Islamic State. The head of the largest militia, Hadi al-Amiri, criticized the army for moving an armored brigade to the Makhmour area near Mosul - Islamic State's capital in northern Iraq - while the battle to dislodge the militants from Falluja, their stronghold near Baghdad, is still underway.

DC beauty commands army unit, Miss USA crown Posted: 05 Jun 2016 10:39 PM PDT When Miss District of Columbia Deshauna Barber took the Miss USA crown Sunday, the US army reserve officer said she hoped that she was "breaking the mold". The 5'10 feet (1.77 meters) tall Barber is an army reserve logistics company commander and an information technology analyst for the US Commerce Department. The Miss USA pageant for years was owned by billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who sold it last year to a talent management group.

Top Asian News 3:58 a.m. GMT Posted: 05 Jun 2016 08:58 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — As China's Cultural Revolution descended into mob violence, teenage Red Guards dragged Mao Yushi and his father, two proud and bookish engineers, out of their home to sweep a boulevard as a crowd watched and jeered. The pair were then lashed with a copper-flecked whip until their backs were flayed. When Mao later stumbled into work, he didn't know blood was still seeping through his shirt until colleagues pointed it out. "I was whipped through my skin, but I didn't feel pain because in my heart I was so scared I would be beaten to death," Mao recalls. "Every day they pulled dead bodies through ...

NPR Journalist David Gilkey, Translator Killed on Assignment Posted: 05 Jun 2016 08:20 PM PDT Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were traveling with an Afghan army unit near Marjah in Helmand province when the convoy came under fire and their vehicle was struck.

In Saddam's former jail, cash aid allays grim routine for refugees Posted: 05 Jun 2016 07:19 PM PDT By Sebastien Malo AKRE, Iraq (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Mohammed Said Amin witnessed the intensifying battle between government forces and rebel groups for control of his hometown of Damascus, he and his wife made a plan to escape. INFLATION RISK More than 14,000 households receive cash under the program launched in Iraq this year.

National Democratic Strategist Robert Weiner Rebuts Hillary Clinton Email, Benghazi Critics; Commends Foreign Policy Speech, Makes Case On Rick Smith Radio Show, Six PA Stations Posted: 05 Jun 2016 06:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON, June 5, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an Interview aired over this weekend on the Rick Smith Show's six Pennsylvania radio stations and now online, National Democratic Strategist Robert Weiner, a former Clinton White House spokesman and senior staff for Congressmen John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, and Ed Koch, rebuts critics'  claims against Hillary Clinton's emails and Benghazi issues as untrue, gives substantive counter-arguments, and commends her foreign policy speech. Robert Weiner talks commanding Hillary Clinton speech and rebuts Claims about Hillary's emails Benghazi accusations.

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