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WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
Turkish soldiers 'training Iraqi troops' near Mosul
Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Russia boasts satellite proof of Turkey's ties to Islamic State oil trade, claims Erdogan benefiting
Russia's defense ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2015
Don't feel sad when George H.W. Bush dies
George H.W. Bush is a very elderly man and likely won't be with us much longer. When he dies, do not believe the soon-to-be-everywhere hype. Dubya's dad is and was a very bad man.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 25, 2015
U.S. developing new tools of economic war against the Islamic State
Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck the Islamic State group's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates has cut the group's black-market earnings from oil by about a third.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 25, 2015
Ban blasts Balkan border curbs, 'profiling' of refugees; Greece arrivals ebb
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned new restrictions on refugees that have left around 1,000 migrants stuck at the main border crossing into Macedonia from Greece, denied entry due to their nationalities in violation of international law.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 24, 2015
French jets pound Islamic State targets in Iraq; Britain offers Cyprus base
French jets from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle struck Islamic State targets in Iraq on Monday while Britain offered France the use of an air base on Cyprus to hit the militants behind the Paris attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015
Key Democrat Feinstein hits U.S. approach to strengthening, spreading Islamic State
Leading Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday the United States is not doing enough to fight Islamic State, and the group is gaining strength outside Iraq and Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2015
Russia's Syria-bound cruise missile flyovers prompt Iraq to ground northern flights
Iraq said it was suspending flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniya for two days starting on Monday due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighboring Syria.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
In rare admission, U.S. says civilians were killed in an airstrike in Iraq
A U.S. airstrike that targeted an Islamic State checkpoint in Iraq in March likely killed four civilians, one of whom may have been a child, the U.S. military said on Friday in a rare statement acknowledging the death of civilians.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2015
Obama vows to veto House Republican bid to block Syria, Iraq refugees
President Barack Obama will veto a House Republican proposal that would sharply tighten screening of refugees from Syria and Iraq, according to the White House, which said the bill wouldn't improve U.S. security after last week's terrorist attacks in Paris.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2015
Obama nixes ground war against Islamic State, vows intel boost to France, hits GOP refugee snub
President Barack Obama ruled out dispatching a major U.S. ground force against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, saying it would be a "serious mistake" that would lead the nation into an unsustainable strategy requiring a long-term occupation in the region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2015
Islamic State vows in video to attack Washington, 'crusader campaign' allies
Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in airstrikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack Washington.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 16, 2015
Denmark F-16s to return to fight Islamic State; foreign minister seeks Syria strikes
Denmark's fighter jets, which had been in action in Iraq earlier this year and will return next year, should also have the mandate to bomb Islamic State positions in Syria, the Danish foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday following the attacks in Paris.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2015
For father of slain Yukawa, closure remains elusive after killing of 'Jihadi John'
The apparent death of the man known as "Jihadi John," the public face of the self-styled Islamic State, may represent a kind of karma but it doesn't bring closure for the father of one Japanese hostage beheaded nearly a year ago.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
U.S., allies stage 11 airstrikes in Syria, 17 in Iraq
The United States and its allies conducted 11 strikes against Islamic State in Syria and 17 in Iraq on Tuesday, the coalition leading the operations said.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2015
Suspected Islamic militant cell stages rare, suicidal raid on Kurdish town in north Iraq
Islamist militants launched a rare attack inside Kurdish-held territory in northern Iraq on Tuesday, briefly taking over a local government compound near several producing oil fields.
WORLD
Nov 2, 2015
Al-Qaida chief seen warming to Islamic State as he urges united fight against Russia, U.S.
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslim supporters to band together to confront the threat from the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq, the latest recording suggesting greater unity between al-Qaida and Islamic State.

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