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• Car bomb targeting police kills 11, wounds 36 in Istanbul
• U.S. Navy jets hit more Islamic State targets in Iraq, Syria
• Spats among Iraq's security forces delay advance on Fallujah
• California man sentenced to 12 years for attempting to join Islamic State
• A confident Assad vows to 'liberate' every inch of Syria
• Thousands flee IS Syria stronghold as coalition closes in
• Unlike Muhammad Ali, fellow boxer Bob Carmody went to war
• Bomb attack on police kills 11 in Istanbul
• Visa-free countries not sharing extremist info with US: report
• Carrier spearheads US show of strength in eastern Mediterranean
• Steely Fomenko leads Ukraine into Euro 2016
• America says goodbye to the last known 9/11 search and rescue dog
• Iraqi PM sacks security chief, six state bank executives
• Car bomb in Shiite holy city in Iraq kills 10
• Fallujah liberation 'days' away: commander
• Poor U.S.-Russia relations increase risk of dirty bomb in Europe: experts
• Car bomb kills at least five, wounds 10 in Iraq's Kerbala: security officer
• U.N. has reports of Iraqis escaping Falluja being abused, killed
• Maniatis hits stunning long-range goal as Greece beat Australia
• Falluja refugees say Islamic State uses food to enlist fighters
• 7 Ways Bernie Sanders Transformed the 2016 Election
• Syrian army, U.S.-backed forces advance separately against Islamic State
• At Ramadan, migrants in Europe dream of family and comfort food
• Moroccan arrested in Spain for alleged jihadi recruiting
• Spanish police arrest Moroccan man accused of recruiting for Islamic State
• France fearful of 'soft target' Euro 2016 attack
• Today in History
• Roseanne Barr on Trump "Playing the Heel for Hillary," Pot and Being a Farmer
• Three Jordanian intelligence officers killed in attack in Palestinian camp
• Jordan king pledges action after intelligence officers killed
• The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

Car bomb targeting police kills 11, wounds 36 in Istanbul Posted: 07 Jun 2016 03:01 PM PDT The car was detonated as police buses passed, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters, in the fourth major bombing in Turkey's biggest city this year. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Kurdish militants have staged similar attacks on the security forces before, including one last month in Istanbul. Wars in neighbouring Syria and Iraq have fostered a home-grown Islamic State network blamed for a series of suicide bombings, while militants from the largely Kurdish southeast have increasingly struck in cities further afield.

U.S. Navy jets hit more Islamic State targets in Iraq, Syria Posted: 07 Jun 2016 02:47 PM PDT By Andrea Shalal ABOARD USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets have dropped 35 smart bombs and pamphlet bombs on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in strikes launched from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier since it moved from the Gulf to the Mediterranean last Friday, Navy officials said. The Truman, which is due to hand off to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier in several weeks, has deployed more than 1,460 smart bombs and pamphlets against the militant group since last December, when it first arrived in the Gulf, they said. U.S. officials have said the attacks, which are being closely coordinated with U.S-backed ground forces, are starting to have results, eroding the amount of territory held by Islamic State in Iraq and reducing the group's oil revenues.

Spats among Iraq's security forces delay advance on Fallujah Posted: 07 Jun 2016 02:12 PM PDT NAYMIYAH, Iraq (AP) — After securing the southern edge of militant-held Fallujah, seven battalions of Iraqi special forces units have been unable to advance for two days — a delay that commanders say isn't due to counterattacks or difficult terrain, but rather to disagreements about battlefield strategy among the disparate Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State group.

California man sentenced to 12 years for attempting to join Islamic State Posted: 07 Jun 2016 01:20 PM PDT A California man who pleaded guilty to trying to join the Islamic State militant group in Syria was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in federal prison, the U.S. Justice Department said. Nicholas Michael Teausant, 22, pleaded guilty in December in a federal court in Sacramento to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. "Mr. Teausant was fixated on violence as documented by his social media posts, his pre-arrest statements, and the nature of the group he attempted to join," acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a statement announcing the sentence.

A confident Assad vows to 'liberate' every inch of Syria Posted: 07 Jun 2016 12:56 PM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday his troops would "liberate" every inch of Syria, just like they recaptured the ancient town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group, in a speech that reflected his renewed confidence as the military pressed on toward Raqqa, the extremists' self-styled capital.

Thousands flee IS Syria stronghold as coalition closes in Posted: 07 Jun 2016 12:48 PM PDT Thousands of civilians Tuesday fled a stronghold of the Islamic State group in northern Syria almost surrounded by a US-backed fighters seeking to cut a key supply lifeline for the jihadists. The Arab-Kurdish offensive on the town of Manbij is one of two major assaults on the route IS uses to send in more fighters, weapons and money from the Turkish border to its main Syrian bastion of Raqa. "We have surrounded Manbij from three sides and operations are progressing well," said Sherfan Darwish, who is leading the offensive of the Syrian Democratic Forces launched just over a week ago.

Unlike Muhammad Ali, fellow boxer Bob Carmody went to war Posted: 07 Jun 2016 12:46 PM PDT A big part of Muhammad Ali's life story is about what happened when he took a stand and refused to be drafted during the war in Vietnam.

Bomb attack on police kills 11 in Istanbul Posted: 07 Jun 2016 11:44 AM PDT Police have detained four suspects over an Istanbul car bombing that targeted a police bus on Tuesday, killing 11 people in the third deadly attack to strike Turkey's biggest city this year. The attack in Istanbul's Beyazit district, close to major tourist sites, killed seven police officers and four civilians, state media said. Another 36 people were wounded, three of them seriously, Istanbul governor Vasip Sahin said.

Visa-free countries not sharing extremist info with US: report Posted: 07 Jun 2016 10:56 AM PDT More than a third of countries whose citizens can visit America without visas are failing to tell the US authorities about travelers' criminal histories and alleged links to terror groups, a government watchdog says. Currently, 38 mostly European countries participate in the Visa Waiver Program, through which travelers can come to America for tourism or business for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa. "However, not all countries have shared information through the agreements," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released Monday.

Carrier spearheads US show of strength in eastern Mediterranean Posted: 07 Jun 2016 10:52 AM PDT US planes operating from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean have mounted at least 35 air strikes on Islamic State jihadists since relocating last week from the Gulf, officers on board told AFP Tuesday. In an operation commanders said was aimed at demonstrating the strength and flexibility of US forces in the region, F-18 fighter jets and support aircraft deployed on the USS Harry S. Truman made 50 combat sorties between Friday and midnight on Monday (2300 GMT). In 35 of them, ordnance was dropped with the strikes split evenly across Syria and Iraq, the carrier's spokesman, Lieutenant Tim Pietrack, told reporters on board the ship.

Steely Fomenko leads Ukraine into Euro 2016 Posted: 07 Jun 2016 10:42 AM PDT Drilled in Soviet discipline, Mykhaylo Fomenko has taken a no-frills Ukraine side to the European Championship finals, giving hope to a country at war. As a teenager, Fomenko was plucked from a machine plant team and virtually forced to become one of Dynamo Kiev's most influential players of the 1970s. As a coach, Fomenko guided Dynamo to a famous Champions League victory over a Barcelona side coached by the late Johan Cruyff.

America says goodbye to the last known 9/11 search and rescue dog Posted: 07 Jun 2016 10:25 AM PDT The last surviving 9/11 rescue dog was put down on Monday. Bretagne (pronounced Brittany) was a 16-year-old golden retriever. "She served our country by deploying to the World Trade Center 9/11 disaster, she deployed to Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, several other deployments," Captain David Padovan of the Cy-Fair volunteer fire department, told CNN.

Iraqi PM sacks security chief, six state bank executives Posted: 07 Jun 2016 10:22 AM PDT Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday sacked the intelligence director and the chief executives of six state-owned banks, all appointed by his predecessor. Abadi also ordered the director of the state-run Iraqi Media Network, Mohammed Shabbut, to be sent into retirement. Abadi succeeded Nuri al-Maliki in 2014 after the army and security forces failed to halt an advance of Islamic State militants across northern and western Iraq.

Car bomb in Shiite holy city in Iraq kills 10 Posted: 07 Jun 2016 09:35 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Karbala killed 10 civilians and wounded 26 others on Tuesday, officials said.

Fallujah liberation 'days' away: commander Posted: 07 Jun 2016 09:07 AM PDT The commander of Iraq's operation to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State group said Tuesday victory was days away, but progress was slowed by huge numbers of bombs and traps. "The security forces are advancing towards central Fallujah from the southern side but doing so cautiously, to preserve civilian lives," Lieutenant-General Abdelwahab al-Saadi told AFP. "In the coming days, we will declare the liberation of Fallujah," said Saadi, overall commander of the operation launched on May 22-23 to retake the jihadist bastion west of Baghdad.

Poor U.S.-Russia relations increase risk of dirty bomb in Europe: experts Posted: 07 Jun 2016 08:05 AM PDT By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Tension between Russia and the West may be distracting them from cooperating to prevent an accidental nuclear confrontation or a dirty bomb attack by militants, nuclear policy experts said on Tuesday. Former U.S. Secretary of Defence William Perry said he regretted the current lack of communication between the United States and Russia, which went into a deep freeze after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Anatoly Adamishin, a former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, argued that the U.S. has focused on a policy of "strangling Russia" and hoping for the departure of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has the effect of putting Russia at the forefront of a list of U.S. enemies.

Car bomb kills at least five, wounds 10 in Iraq's Kerbala: security officer Posted: 07 Jun 2016 06:48 AM PDT At least five people were killed and 10 others wounded on Tuesday when a car blew up in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala south of Baghdad, an Iraqi security officer said. The bombing comes as the Shi'ite majority community in Iraq marked the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan. Islamic State, the ultra-hardline Sunni group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria, has claimed most bombings this year in Iraq.

U.N. has reports of Iraqis escaping Falluja being abused, killed Posted: 07 Jun 2016 06:44 AM PDT The United Nations has "extremely distressing, credible reports" of Iraqi men and boys being abused by armed groups working with Iraqi security forces after escaping from the Islamic State-held town of Falluja, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. The Iraqi army is assaulting Falluja, a bastion of Islamic State militants close to Baghdad, while U.S.- and Russian-backed forces are conducting separate offensives against the Sunni Muslim jihadists in neighboring Syria. U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein said in a statement that were also allegations of executions of men and boys who had fled Falluja into surrounding territory controlled by government forces and their Shi'ite Muslim militia allies.

Maniatis hits stunning long-range goal as Greece beat Australia Posted: 07 Jun 2016 06:10 AM PDT Midfielder Giannis Maniatis scored a spectacular 60-metre goal as Greece beat Australia for the time in 38 years in Melbourne on Tuesday. The Greeks won 2-1, with Olympiacos midfielder Maniatis netting a stunning goal over the head of stranded Australian goalkeeper Adam Federici in the first half. Greece took the game to the Socceroos from the kick-off and found the net after just eight minutes against a sluggish home defence.

Falluja refugees say Islamic State uses food to enlist fighters Posted: 07 Jun 2016 05:18 AM PDT By Saif Hameed GARMA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis who fled Islamic State-held Falluja as government and allied forces advanced on the city said they had survived on stale dates and the militants were using food to enlist fighters whose relatives were going hungry. The ultra-hardline Sunni fighters have kept a close guard on food storage in the besieged city near Baghdad that they captured in January 2014, six months before they declared a caliphate across large parts of Iraq and Syria. The militants visited families regularly after food ran short with offers of supplies for those who enlisted, said 23-year-old Hanaa Mahdi Fayadh from Sijir on the northeastern outskirts of Falluja.

7 Ways Bernie Sanders Transformed the 2016 Election Posted: 07 Jun 2016 04:00 AM PDT However Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont may spin it, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton has locked up the Democratic presidential nomination. And on Tuesday she'll far surpass the magic number ...

Syrian army, U.S.-backed forces advance separately against Islamic State Posted: 07 Jun 2016 03:46 AM PDT Syrian government troops backed by Russian air power moved to within 25 km (15 miles) of an Islamic State-held town in Raqqa province on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as state media reported air strikes against the jihadists in the area. In a separate simultaneous campaign against Islamic State in Syria, U.S.-backed militias captured more territory from the group near the city of Manbij in Aleppo province, a spokesman for the forces told Reuters. The Observatory said they were now 2 km from the Islamic State-held city.

At Ramadan, migrants in Europe dream of family and comfort food Posted: 07 Jun 2016 03:23 AM PDT By Joseph Nasr, Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Karolina Tagaris BERLIN/BASTAD, Sweden/ATHENS, (Reuters) - As Ramadan began in Germany on Monday, Syrian asylum seeker Khairallah Swaid said he would pray for a reunion with his wife, who is stranded at a camp in Greece, and crave his mother's makloubeh, a meat and rice dish served during the fasting month. The Muslim holy month that began this year on June 6 revolves around daily fasts from sunrise to sunset, and then favorite meals with family and friends during the night hours.

Moroccan arrested in Spain for alleged jihadi recruiting Posted: 07 Jun 2016 02:14 AM PDT MADRID (AP) — Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Moroccan man who tried to recruit fighters for the Islamic State group from the Mediterranean city of Valencia.

Spanish police arrest Moroccan man accused of recruiting for Islamic State Posted: 07 Jun 2016 12:51 AM PDT MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man in Valencia on Tuesday accused of recruiting for Islamic State and promoting the militant group on social media, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The man had been communicating with a large number of IS militants, some of them well-known individuals operating in conflict zones in Syria and Iraq, the ministry said. Including Tuesday's arrest, Spain has detained 25 people so far this year with suspected links to Islamist militancy. (Reporting by Angus Berwick; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

France fearful of 'soft target' Euro 2016 attack Posted: 06 Jun 2016 09:54 PM PDT Despite putting unprecedented security measures in place for Euro 2016, France remains deeply concerned over the jihadists' ability to strike a soft target. Millions of foreign visitors, holidaymakers and sporting fans as well as the world's press are set to descend on the country in the next month -- creating endless nightmares for its overstretched security services. Everyone has been mobilised: police, paramilitaries, many soldiers," a senior counter-terrorism official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.

Today in History Posted: 06 Jun 2016 09:02 PM PDT Today in History

Roseanne Barr on Trump "Playing the Heel for Hillary," Pot and Being a Farmer Posted: 06 Jun 2016 09:00 PM PDT The trailblazing comic comes out for Trump ("we would be so lucky if he won"), against Hillary (she "got the receipt, because she paid for the Oval Office") and discusses growing nuts on her farm in Hawaii and opening Roseanne's Joint, a marijuana dispensary in Orange County.

Three Jordanian intelligence officers killed in attack in Palestinian camp Posted: 06 Jun 2016 07:28 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.

Jordan king pledges action after intelligence officers killed Posted: 06 Jun 2016 05:48 PM PDT Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed on Tuesday to act decisively against anyone who threatens the kingdom's security, a day after a lone gunman shot dead five intelligence officers. "Jordan will act with all firmness and force against anyone seeking to undermine its security," he said on a visit to the headquarters of the intelligence services, according to a statement from the royal palace. "National unity is the weapon we will use to thwart all plans that aim to disrupt stability and cohesion," the king said, adding that the country would not be weakened by "the terrorist acts of traitors".

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet Posted: 06 Jun 2016 02:53 PM PDT Bid the French for President campaign adieu. On Sunday, David French—a lawyer, National Review staff writer, and Iraq war veteran—announced that he would not be heeding a campaign to draft him to run for president as a conservative third-party alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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