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• World is failing former Yazidi sex slaves: Amnesty International
• Obama describes Trump as insecure
• US forces increasing Iraq footprint ahead of Mosul operation
• Suicide bomber kills at least 10 in town north of Baghdad
• Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in southeast Turkey
• US troops rammed in Kuwait pulled attacker from truck
• With Friends Like Trump, Senate Republicans Don’t Need Enemies
• Nine Turkish soldiers killed in car bombing
• 3 bomb attacks in Iraqi capital kill 10 people, wound 37
• Fewer Russian strikes targeting IS: analyst
• IS-claimed bombing kills five in Baghdad

World is failing former Yazidi sex slaves: Amnesty International Posted: 09 Oct 2016 05:07 PM PDT By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Yazidi women and girls who survived being held as sex slaves by Islamic State urgently need better care and support to recover from the horrific abuse they suffered in captivity, which has led some to attempt suicide, Amnesty International said on Monday. Islamic State (IS) militants, who control a swathe of Iraq and Syria, have killed or enslaved thousands of Yazidis since overrunning the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq in August 2014.

Obama describes Trump as insecure Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:38 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday that he's having a hard time believing some of the rhetoric coming from the top of the Republican presidential ticket, saying that nominee Donald Trump has demeaned women, minorities and immigrants, mocked the disabled and insulted veterans.

US forces increasing Iraq footprint ahead of Mosul operation Posted: 09 Oct 2016 03:19 PM PDT CAMP SWIFT, Iraq (AP) — Thirteen years ago, Chase Snow's father was among the American troops who moved into the Iraqi city of Mosul during the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Now Snow, a U.S. Army specialist, is deployed in Iraq to help in the fight to retake the city from the Islamic State group.

Suicide bomber kills at least 10 in town north of Baghdad Posted: 09 Oct 2016 11:32 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least ten people, including four policemen, were killed by a suicide bomber in a car that targeted a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, police and medical sources said. The attack happened in Udhaim, a Sunni town 90 km (56 miles) north of Baghdad that U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces and Iran-backed Shi'ite militias took back from Islamic State last year. The ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents still control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of Mosul, captured in 2014. ...

Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in southeast Turkey Posted: 09 Oct 2016 08:14 AM PDT Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-tonne truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a military outpost in the country's southeast, the prime minister said. The mountainous Hakkari province, where the attack occurred, lies near the border with Iraq and Iran and is one of the main flashpoint areas in a conflict that has pitted Turkey's army against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for 32 years. A bomb in the vehicle was detonated, which Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters contained some five tonnes of explosives.

US troops rammed in Kuwait pulled attacker from truck Posted: 09 Oct 2016 07:51 AM PDT KUWAIT CITY (AP) — American troops deployed in Kuwait who were intentionally rammed by an Egyptian man over the weekend pulled their attacker from his burning vehicle after it caught fire, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday.

With Friends Like Trump, Senate Republicans Don’t Need Enemies Posted: 09 Oct 2016 06:00 AM PDT As the Republican Party tries desperately to retain its grip on the Senate, Donald Trump is biting its fingers like Sonny Corleone when he's beating up his brother-in-law in The Godfather. At a town hall in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump said that one reason Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois is losing his re-election race is that he has disavowed the GOP presidential nominee.

Nine Turkish soldiers killed in car bombing Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:56 AM PDT Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded on Sunday in a car bomb attack in the restive southeast which was blamed on Kurdish militants, state media reported. The attack took place in Hakkari province close to the border with Iraq and Iran, the official news agency Anadolu reported. Dogan news agency said militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were responsible for the attack which hit a security post in Semdinli district.

3 bomb attacks in Iraqi capital kill 10 people, wound 37 Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:56 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say three bomb attacks have killed 10 people and wounded at least 37 across the Iraqi capital.

Fewer Russian strikes targeting IS: analyst Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:28 AM PDT The proportion of Russian airstrikes in Syria targeting the Islamic State group is falling, suggesting Moscow's priority is to help the Assad regime rather than to combat terrorism, according to analysis published Sunday. In the first quarter of 2016, 26 percent of Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted IS, according to the IHS Conflict Monitor. "Last September, President (Vladimir) Putin said it was Russia's mission to fight international terrorism and specifically the Islamic State," said Alex Kokcharov, principal Russia analyst at IHS Country Risk.

IS-claimed bombing kills five in Baghdad Posted: 08 Oct 2016 05:01 PM PDT A bombing targeting Shiites in Baghdad killed at least five people and wounded 21 others on Sunday, Iraqi officials said, an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. The attack struck the Baghdad Jadida area near a tent where Shiite Muslims provide refreshments to passersby as part of annual commemorations of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite Islam. IS, which frequently targets Shiite Muslims, whom it considers heretics, issued a statement claiming the attack and said it was carried out by a suicide bomber -- an account confirmed by two interior ministry officials.

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