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President Obama has said the US military will conduct further air strikes on Sunni Jihadists in northern Iraq if necessary. In a televised address, he again rejected the idea of sending US combat troops back to the country, saying that the militant g
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Kurdish forces in northern Iraq say they have taken back two towns from Islamic State militants. Kurdish officials said that with the help of United States aerial supports, the Kurds had recaptured Gwer and Makhmur. Correspondences say that the Kurdi
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The Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki has angrily denounced the moves by the country's president to oust him, warning that it has no value but it has violated the constitution. He told security forces to remain steadfast in their positions, sayi
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The United Nations Refugee Agency says up to 30,000 people remain stranded in searing temperatures on a mountain in northern Iraq under the threat from Islamist militants. A spokesman for the UN Andrew Edwards said that many were in a bad state after
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Reports from Cairo say Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to extend the ceasefire in Gaza for another five days. A Hamas official has confirmed the new truce but there is no word yet from Israel. Kevin Connolly reports from Gaza. 来自开罗的报
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The embattled Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki has said he would step aside from his post and make way for his nominated replacement Haider al-Abadi. In an address broadcast live in state television, Mr. Al-Maliki pledged support for his succes
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The BBC has learned that US military planes are carrying out air strikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces retake a strategic dam near the city of Mosul.Sources in Mosul say at least 11 militants have been killed
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The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its willingness to impose sanctions on individuals recruiting, financing, supplying weapons or fighting for extremist groups. The move is aimed at weakening the Islamic State ins
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Kurdish sources have told BBC that the Peshmerga fighters have broadly taken control of a strategic dam in the north of Iraq from Islamic militants. Their ground offensives have been coordinated with the US forces who'd provided air cover. Jim Muir i
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President Obama has issued a fresh appeal for calm in Ferguson after more than week of unrest sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Mr. Obama was speaking at a White House news conference. 警方开枪打死手无寸铁黑人少年
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Police in the US state Missouri has shot dead a young black man days after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson triggered violent unrest. The shooting took place close to where Michael Brown were killed 10 days ago. Here is
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President Obama has described the beheading of the American journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants as an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world.Mr.Obama said no just God would stand for what they have done.Kim Ghat
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Top US defense military official has said that the Islamic State group presented a long term threat greater than any other so far, and needed to be defeated in Syria, as well as Iraq. Both US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Chief of Staff Marti
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Western powers have reacted angrily to the unauthorized entry of Russian aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine. The United States call it a breach of Ukraines sovereignty and a dangerous escalation until Moscow to withdraw the vehicle or face fu
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Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized control of the last government held airbase in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a UK based monitoring group said the fighters were now in full control of
