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• On the Brink: The Story of One French Teenager Who Almost Joined ISIS
• US pilots tell of encounter with Syrian jets
• 11 Turkish police killed in PKK suicide bombing
• Neocon Wolfowitz slams Trump, may back Clinton
• The Pentagon has shipped more than a million small arms to Iraq and Afghanistan’s defense forces
• Erdogan opens third bridge over Istanbul's Bosphorus
• Former Bush adviser Wolfowitz to vote for Clinton: Spiegel
• Turkey signals no quick end to Syria incursion as truck bomb kills police
• Philippine troops kill 11 Islamist militants
• Kuwait detains member of Islamic State cyber army: newspapers
• Some hotels in Chinese city block people from five Muslim countries
• Iran investigates young men at risk of being recruited by IS
• Who is fighting who in Syria?
• U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel
• US fears over IS group's SE Asia expansion
• Changing mood in Europe a year after Austria migrant disaster
• Kuwaiti government employee arrested over IS online postings
• Nine dead, dozens wounded in blast at police headquarters in southeast Turkey
• Kurd advance angers Turkey, Washington's impossible ally
• Harvard scientists develop first autonomous soft robot

On the Brink: The Story of One French Teenager Who Almost Joined ISIS Posted: 26 Aug 2016 03:30 PM PDT "I always wanted to preserve [my son] from this," Fathima said, her face obscured in darkness to conceal her identity. It was Nov. 2014 -- just months after ISIS declared its caliphate across Iraq and Syria -- when her son, Omar, was first approached by Muslim men on the streets across from their suburban home. "They said this [Syria] is where we have to help the Muslim brothers," Omar told ABC News.

US pilots tell of encounter with Syrian jets Posted: 26 Aug 2016 02:53 PM PDT Two US fighter pilots have told of a high-stakes encounter over northern Syria, when they stealthily shadowed a pair of Syrian regime jets and were prepared to shoot them down. The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq last week scrambled fighters to intercept Syrian jets targeting Kurdish forces working with US advisers near the northeastern city of Hasakeh. The pilots said they got to within 2,000 feet (600 meters) of the Syrian jets.

11 Turkish police killed in PKK suicide bombing Posted: 26 Aug 2016 10:17 AM PDT The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday claimed a suicide truck bombing on a police building in Turkey's southeast that killed 11 officers and wounded dozens more. The blast came two days after the Turkish army launched an offensive in Syria that the government says is targeting both Islamic State (IS) jihadists and a Syrian Kurdish militia detested by Ankara. The explosion tore the facade off the headquarters of the Turkish riot police in the town of Cizre, a bastion of PKK support just north of the Syrian border.

Neocon Wolfowitz slams Trump, may back Clinton Posted: 26 Aug 2016 10:08 AM PDT Leading neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz said he would not back Donald Trump for US president and might vote for Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton instead, in an interview published Friday. Wolfowitz, a top advisor to George W. Bush during his presidency and vociferous champion of the "preemptive war" in Iraq, told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that he saw Trump as a security risk. "I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for," said Wolfowitz, also a former World Bank chief.

The Pentagon has shipped more than a million small arms to Iraq and Afghanistan’s defense forces Posted: 26 Aug 2016 10:03 AM PDT The quantity of arms exported – worth several billion dollars – is greater than the number of personnel in their security forces

Erdogan opens third bridge over Istanbul's Bosphorus Posted: 26 Aug 2016 09:48 AM PDT President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated the third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul, a spectacular project at the heart of his drive to create a lasting historical legacy. The work -- one of the longest suspension bridges in the world -- will allow Erdogan to show that his dream of creating a glitzy "new Turkey" with ultra-modern infrastructure is on track despite the July 15 failed coup and a string of militant attacks. Erdogan cut the ribbon to open the bridge and was then driven across in a presidential bus flanked by a security convoy of dozens of cars and motorcycle outriders.

Former Bush adviser Wolfowitz to vote for Clinton: Spiegel Posted: 26 Aug 2016 09:31 AM PDT Paul Wolfowitz, a Republican adviser to former U.S. President George W. Bush, plans to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election despite his "serious reservations", Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday. Wolfowitz, who served as deputy defense secretary under Bush and also as president of the World Bank, said he viewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a security risk because of his admiration of Russian President Putin and his views on China, the magazine reported.

Turkey signals no quick end to Syria incursion as truck bomb kills police Posted: 26 Aug 2016 07:47 AM PDT By Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL/KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of Islamic State and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents killed at least 11 police officers. The suicide attack at a police headquarters in a province bordering Syria and Iraq came two days after Turkey launched its first major military incursion into Syria, an operation meant to drive Islamic State out of the border area and stop Kurdish militias from seizing ground in their wake. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meanwhile tried on Friday at a meeting in Geneva to finalize an agreement on fighting Islamist militants in Syria.

Philippine troops kill 11 Islamist militants Posted: 26 Aug 2016 05:06 AM PDT Philippine commandos killed 11 Islamist militants on a remote southern island on Friday, an army spokesman said, stepping up the offensive after President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his aim to "destroy" one of Asia's most notorious kidnap gangs. Major Filemon Tan said dozens of Abu Sayyaf rebels, a small but brutal group affiliated with Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, were also wounded in the 45-minute gun battle in the jungle of Jolo island. Seventeen commandos were wounded, Tan said, adding the soldiers clashed with about 100 Abu Sayyaf militants holding about 20 hostages, including eight Indonesians, five Malaysians, a Norwegian and a Dutch national.

Kuwait detains member of Islamic State cyber army: newspapers Posted: 26 Aug 2016 05:05 AM PDT Kuwaiti authorities have detained a state employee suspected of belonging to the Islamic State-linked "Cyber Caliphate Army", and hacking official websites of foreign countries to spread militant ideology, local media reported on Friday. The Arabic-language al-Watan and al-Qabas reported that the 26-year-old man identified as Othman Zebn Nayef was arrested after months of surveillance. Al-Qabas quoted the interior ministry's public information department as saying in a statement that Nayef confessed to being "a main member of the so-called Caliphate Cyber Army", believed to be the electronic arm of Islamic State.

Some hotels in Chinese city block people from five Muslim countries Posted: 26 Aug 2016 05:02 AM PDT Police have ordered some low-end hotels in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou not to allow guests from five Muslim-majority countries to stay, though China's foreign ministry said it had never heard of the policy. Three hotels with rooms costing about 150 yuan ($23) a night told Reuters that they had received police notices from as early as March telling them to turn away people from Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan. The notice appears only to apply to cheaper hotels at the bottom of the price scale.

Iran investigates young men at risk of being recruited by IS Posted: 26 Aug 2016 04:26 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's intelligence minister says security officers have investigated more than 1,500 young men at risk of being recruited by the extremist Islamic State group.

Who is fighting who in Syria? Posted: 26 Aug 2016 03:23 AM PDT Beirut (AFP) - Syria's conflict broke out in March 2011 with peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government but has evolved into a complex war involving jihadist groups and regional and international powers.

U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel Posted: 26 Aug 2016 03:19 AM PDT By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week. "They did feel compelled ultimately to fire three warning shots and the reason for that is... they had taken steps already to try and de-escalate this situation," spokesman Peter Cook told reporters. Tensions have increased in the Gulf in recent days despite an improvement in relations between Iran and the United States.

US fears over IS group's SE Asia expansion Posted: 26 Aug 2016 02:29 AM PDT Islamic State jihadists are eyeing expansion into Southeast Asia by joining forces with local extremists, a senior US counter-terrorism official warned Friday. IS has a history of partnering with militant groups around the world, including in Egypt, Libya and Nigeria, and wants to broaden its reach in the region, according to Justin Siberell, acting coordinator for counter-terrorism at the US State Department. Siberell also noted that militants from Southeast Asia fighting with IS in Iraq and Syria have been deployed in a unit called the Katibah Nusantara, and could pose a threat when they eventually return to their home countries.

Changing mood in Europe a year after Austria migrant disaster Posted: 26 Aug 2016 12:32 AM PDT Vienna (AFP) - The gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck in Austria last August shocked Europe and led countries to open their borders to a massive influx of people fleeing war and poverty, mainly from the Middle East.

Kuwaiti government employee arrested over IS online postings Posted: 25 Aug 2016 11:39 PM PDT KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait's Interior Ministry says a government employee has been arrested for spreading Islamic State ideology and hacking social media pages of "some friendly and sister countries."

Nine dead, dozens wounded in blast at police headquarters in southeast Turkey Posted: 25 Aug 2016 11:16 PM PDT A car bomb explosion rocked a police headquarters in the town of Cizre in Turkey on Friday, killing nine people and wounding dozens, sources said, in the latest in a spate of attacks in the country's turbulent south east. News channel NTV showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the site which it said was a police checkpoint. State-run Anadolu Agency blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been involved in almost daily clashes in the region since last July, when a ceasefire between it and the government collapsed.

Kurd advance angers Turkey, Washington's impossible ally Posted: 25 Aug 2016 10:39 PM PDT As Turkish troops ostensibly hunting Islamic State (IS) group fighters shelled a US-backed Kurdish militia inside Syria, analysts warned that Ankara's alliance with the West is at stake. US Vice President Joe Biden tried to patch up ties with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government this week, but the conflict in Syria has forced Washington into a delicate balancing act. NATO member Turkey is a nominal part of the anti-IS coalition, but regards the YPG as part of the same "terrorist" movement as the PKK Kurdish separatist group waging a guerrilla war within its borders.

Harvard scientists develop first autonomous soft robot Posted: 25 Aug 2016 06:00 PM PDT Meet the octobot, a unique new creation out of Harvard that the university says could be the first step in a new kind of bot. This totally soft robot has eight movable legs, just like its flesh-and-blood marine cousin, which was the inspiration for the device. Created partially through 3-D printing, the octobot is autonomous, according to Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Its power source is hydrogen peroxide, which together with a catalyst of platinum, creates gas that travels into the bot's appendages to move them. "One long-standing vision for the field of soft robotics has been to create robots that are entirely soft, but the struggle has always been in replacing rigid components like batteries and electronic controls with analogous soft systems and then putting it all together," Robert Wood, a professor of engineering and one of the lead researchers behind the octobot, said in a statement . "This research demonstrates that we can easily manufacture the key components of a simple, entirely soft robot, which lays the foundation for more complex designs." Right now, based on a video released by Harvard, the octobot doesn't seem to do much: it just moves its arms around. But the next step is to make it do more things, like crawl. In the future, this kind of device could be the first step towards making more soft robots that can control themselves, according to Harvard. A study about the octobot technology was published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Related:  Flying pizza looks to be on its way to New Zealand as Domino's demos drone delivery MIT scientists invent solar-powered sponge that can boil water Iraq to battle ISIS with machine gun-toting robot Want a HUD in your motorcycle helmet? Livemap survives where Skully crashed

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