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• Iraq screening 20,000 to stop IS infiltrators: army
• 5 Colorado Republicans fight to take on Democrat Bennet
• U.N. can't verify incendiary bombs in Syria, concerned by reports
• US-backed Syria fighters edge into IS border hub
• Hundreds of Syrian Kurds flee IS-held areas amid abductions
• Syrian or Russian air strikes kill dozens in eastern Syria: monitoring group
• Today in History
• IS captures 900 Kurdish civilians in north Syria in 3 weeks

Iraq screening 20,000 to stop IS infiltrators: army Posted: 25 Jun 2016 01:00 PM PDT Iraq is screening 20,000 people leaving the Fallujah area to stop jihadists of the Islamic State group escaping among civilians displaced by fighting, the army said on Saturday. Tens of thousands of people have fled as government forces fight to oust IS from Fallujah, a city 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad. Of those detained, 2,185 were suspects based on testimonies or other information, while 11,605 were released and about 7,000 were still being checked, said a spokesman for Iraq's Joint Operations Command.

5 Colorado Republicans fight to take on Democrat Bennet Posted: 25 Jun 2016 11:39 AM PDT DENVER (AP) — Not so long ago, Colorado's Republican Party relished the chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in this presidential swing state. Now it's presiding over a primary featuring five second-tier candidates who are fighting just to make themselves known to deliver Bennet an opponent.

U.N. can't verify incendiary bombs in Syria, concerned by reports Posted: 25 Jun 2016 10:06 AM PDT The United Nations is concerned by the Syrian opposition's accusations that incendiary weapons have been used in Syria but said on Friday it is unable to verify the reports. The Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to launch an investigation into its accusations that Russia has used air-delivered incendiary weapons and cluster bombs in Syria.

US-backed Syria fighters edge into IS border hub Posted: 25 Jun 2016 09:55 AM PDT US-backed fighters edged further into the Islamic State group stronghold of Manbij on Saturday, threatening a key stop on the jihadists' lifeline from Turkey to their "caliphate" in Syria and neighbouring Iraq. Thirty-one civilians were killed in three raids alone, but it was not immediately clear whether the 16 others were civilians or IS fighters, said the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman. In Manbij, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces overran a key road junction in the city's south after capturing nearby grain silos overnight.

Hundreds of Syrian Kurds flee IS-held areas amid abductions Posted: 25 Jun 2016 08:23 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurds fleeing Islamic State-held villages in northern Syria amid a wave of mass abductions have come under fire, with several killed or wounded, opposition activists and a Kurdish official said Saturday.

Syrian or Russian air strikes kill dozens in eastern Syria: monitoring group Posted: 25 Jun 2016 08:01 AM PDT Air strikes carried out by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed dozens of people in eastern Syria on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported. The militant group Islamic State controls most of Deir al-Zor province and has laid siege since March last year to the remaining government-held areas in the city of the same name, which is close to Syria's eastern border with Iraq. Deir al-Zor province links Islamic State's de facto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory it controls in Iraq.

Today in History Posted: 24 Jun 2016 09:01 PM PDT Today in History

IS captures 900 Kurdish civilians in north Syria in 3 weeks Posted: 24 Jun 2016 11:46 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants abducted about 900 Kurdish civilians in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo over the past three weeks, forcing the captives to build fortifications for the extremists in retaliation for a Kurdish-led assault on a nearby IS stronghold, activists said Friday.

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