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Police Taser drones authorized in North Dakota

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Criminals in North Dakota may soon find themselves zapped by Tasers from on high. That's one of the possibilities presented by the state's House Bill 1328, which allows police departments to equip drones with non-lethal weapons such as Tasers, tear gas and rubber bullets.
     

To Prove Its CAS Capabilities, F-35 To Face Off Against A-10

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The Pentagon’s top weapons tester has declared the JSF must face off against the lumbering A-10.
       

First Turkish air strikes against ISIS in Syria

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August 29, 2015, 4:21 PM (IDT)
Turkey says Saturday its jets carried out their first air strikes as part of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Obama appoints a hostage envoy — but not a 'czar'

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President Obama appointed a career diplomat to the newly created post of hostage envoy Friday as part of an effort to overhaul the way the government handles U.S. citizens taken by terrorists overseas.
     

Turkish jets join US-led coalition in airstrikes against Islamic State

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Turkey announced Saturday that its fighter jets have carried out their first airstrikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria.
     

Suspected bomber arrested by Thai police possibly Turkish

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August 29, 2015, 4:34 PM (IDT)
Thai police who Saturday arrested a suspect in the Aug. 17 bombing attacks on a Bangkok Hindi shrine, which killed 20 people, most of them tourists, say he is a foreigner, aged 28 and possibly Turkish. They add he is not the man filmed on security cameras as he left the scene, but they believe he is part of the network which engineered the two bomb attacks. The two Turkish passports found in his apartment appear to be fake, among many other “empty fake passports and various kinds of evidence,” said Thai police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri. Also found in his apartment were “the same types of fuses, ball bearings, and pipes” as used in the attack.
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US lags behind Russia and other nations in the Arctic

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s Barack Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit the Arctic next week, the U.S. is falling behind other nations in the critical region.
     

Navy looking at security changes after Chattanooga shooting

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - The U.S. Navy is looking into possible security changes after the July 16 slaying of four Marines and a sailor at Chattanooga's U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center.
Capt. Jack Hanzlik, Fleet Forces Command spokesman, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press (http://bit.ly/1Vlr9cj ) the Navy is ...

Markets are a mess, but don't blame China: Pro - CNBC

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Markets are a mess, but don't blame China: Pro
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This week, stock markets put investors on a stomach-churning roller-coaster ride. While uncertainty over China's economy has been widely cited as a catalyst behind the whipsaw action, one market strategist says the underlying problems in the U.S. are ...

AP sues over access to FBI records involving fake news story - Casper Star-Tribune Online

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AP sues over access to FBI records involving fake news story
Casper Star-Tribune Online
At issue is a 2014 Freedom of Information request seeking documents related to the FBI's decision to send a web link to the fake article to a 15-year-old boy suspected of making bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Washington. The link enabled ... 
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CIA Admits to Congress the Agency Uses Mainstream Media to Distribute Disinformation: 1975 Video 

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It has been verified by a source who claims she was there that then-CIA Director William Casey did in fact say the controversial and often-disputed line “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is…

Ruth Leger Sivard, economist who measured the cost of militarism, dies at 99

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Ruth Leger Sivard, an internationally known economist who sought to demonstrate the cost of militarism, died Aug. 21
     
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Why N. Korea Caved On War Threat: China Warned, 'Don't Rain On Our Parade' - Forbes

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Why N. Korea Caved On War Threat: China Warned, 'Don't Rain On Our Parade'
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Kim Jong-un, however, had one all-important reason for backing down — and it wasn't the threat of the Americans and South Koreans bringing all that firepower down on his outsized but outgunned military establishment. He knew pretty well that the U.S ...

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Iranians hope to fill vacuum as US lowers its Mideast profile

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Iran’s agreement to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief by world powers was welcomed at every level of society here, but nowhere more warmly than in the foreign policy community.
     

LEADERSHIP: Volunteer Blues In Ukraine

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Cheney: Obama’s falsehoods will bring nuclear war

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August 30, 2015, 9:37 AM (IDT)
Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney, former senior official at State in the Bush administration, devote a chapter in their book due shortly for publication to the nuclear accord signed last month with Iran. “Nearly everything the president has told us about his Iranian agreement is false,” they write in an almost unprecedented attack on Barack Obama. He claims that the accord will prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon, but in fact, say the Cheneys,.“This agreement will actually facilitate and legitimize an Iranian nuclear arsenal” and almost definitely lead to the “first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
 

China fears linger as focus on Fed sharpens - Reuters

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China fears linger as focus on Fed sharpens
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"China, the epicenter of the week's moves, is set to remain in focus over the next week as markets attempt to assess whether the worst of the sell-off has been seen," said Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec. "Despite September lift-off seemingly ...
China turmoil divides Fed over inflationFinancial Times
Fed watching China closely, Fischer saysMarketWatch

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Urgency Needed To Fight Heroin Epidemic - Hartford Courant

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Urgency Needed To Fight Heroin Epidemic
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Imagine a fire department fighting an inferno by waving around squirt guns, all the while congratulating itself for a job well done. That's just what the White House Office of Drug Control Strategy did when it announced its "strong commitment" to ...

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As tragedies shock Europe, a bigger refugee crisis looms in the Middle East

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Those reaching Europe represent a small percentage of the 4 million Syrians who have fled into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.
     

When Mexicans crossed our border – to help

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Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, or the spectacle of U.S. presidential politics, often force to the surface the true character of the players. The Mexicans proved they were neighbors we can count on.
     

Undersea Link in Israel’s Missile Development Chain

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Behind the scenes of Israel’s ballistic missile test program, Navy divers recover essential flight test data some 100 meters underneath the sea.
       

E. Europe Hikes Military Spending Ahead of MSPO Show

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This year’s edition of Poland's MSPO is likely to produce a number of procurements.
       

A laboratory for refugee politics: inside Passau, the 'German ...

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... incidents than to dealing with the victims of civil war, does a daily round at the reception centre, inspecting conditions he said reminded him of second world war injuries he had previously seen only in medical textbooks.

US Businessman Arrested in Sierra Leone 'Blood Diamond' Case

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Aid group: Spain arrests US businessman charged in Sierra Leone 'blood diamonds' case
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Nepal parade to enshrine gay rights

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Gay right activists dance in the streets of Nepal's capital to press their demands for LGBT rights to be enshrined in the new constitution.

Israel has failed to reform Jewish radicals, critics charge

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SHIR HADASH OUTPOST, West Bank (AP) -- The Israeli government initiative has a soothing biblical name, the Hebrew Shepherd, and a serious aim: to keep ultranationalist Jewish settler youths from turning to violence and attacking Palestinians and their property....

Sudan's Bashir to visit China despite international arrest warrant

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is expected to travel to China on Monday for a four-day visit, the foreign ministry said, defying an international warrant for his arrest.









  

Scioli expands lead in Argentina presidential race, runoff seen

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Daniel Scioli, the leftist frontrunner in Argentina's presidential election, widened his lead over his more business-friendly rival, but not enough to avoid a runoff, the first poll since Aug. 9 primaries showed on Sunday.
  

Sanders Says He Would Be Prepared to Use Military Force

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Sanders says he would be prepared to use force when US threatened or in cases of genocide

Pope Francis: ‘Austrian migrant deaths offend the human family’ – video 

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Pope Francis uses his Sunday address in St Peter’s Square to condemn the deaths of 71 migrants in Austria, found suffocated in the back of a lorry. Asking the gathered crowd to pray for migrants who have died trying to reach safety, the Pope appeals for effective cooperation to prevent further deaths, which ‘offend the entire human family’
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Pumps Iron, Grills in Newly Released Photos - ABC News

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Russian President Vladimir Putin Pumps Iron, Grills in Newly Released Photos
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The Kremlin wants the world to know Russian President Vladimir Putin pumps iron and grills meat before most of the world gets out of bed. New photos released by the Kremlin show Putin working out and barbecuing with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a ... 
Watch as Putin, Medvedev hit the gym Add to ...The Globe and Mail
Kremlin releases pictures of President Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry ...Irish Independent
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Vladimir Putin works up a sweat in the gym 

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When he’s not horseback riding, hunting, fishing or generally being an action man, you can find Russian President Vladimir Putin down the gym.
. Report by Hettie Maylam.

French journalist 'secretly recorded demanding £2million in blackmail from King of Morocco' 

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Eric Laurent was secretly recorded making the alleged demand by a Moroccan lawyer representing King Mohammed VI











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Lebanon Parliament Chief Promises Talks on Political Impasse

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After anti-government rally, Lebanon parliament chief promises talks on political gridlock

Europe trades blame as migrants' bodies pulled from Mediterranean

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TRIPOLI/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Seven people died when a boat carrying migrants sank off Libya's coast on Sunday, the second such fatal accident at sea within days, while European leaders struggled to find a coherent policy on the refugee crisis.









  

Pope Francis a Stranger to the US in Many Ways

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Pope Francis, the 1st Latin American pope, must overcome hurdle of no personal knowledge of US
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Scott Walker: Voters have “very legitimate concerns” about Canadian border - Washington Post

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Scott Walker: Voters have “very legitimate concerns” about Canadian border
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says the United States needs to secure all its borders — and that includes reviewing security on the far-less-controversial northern border it shares with Canada, the longest border in the world at 5,525 miles. Walker ...
Scott Walker: Building a Canada Border Wall is 'Legitimate'TIME
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Hungarian Army Hard At Work On Border Fence

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Hungarian troops were busily continuing with construction of a fence along the country’s 175km border with Serbia, aimed at keeping out migrants from strife-torn countries seeking to enter the European Union. It was announced on August 29 that a line of barbed wire along the border was now complete, but an official said it would take a number of weeks before the fence was ready. (RFE/RL)

Obama invites Pakistan PM Sharif for October visit

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has invited Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, for a meeting at the White House on Oct. 22, the U.S. National Security Council said on Sunday.
  

AP Top News at 2:05 p.m. EDT

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AP Top News at 2:05 p.m. EDT
'Awakenings' author, neurologist Oliver Sacks dies at 82NEW YORK (AP) - There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, the man who mistook his wife for a hat. Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human experience, came from the pen of Dr. Oliver Sacks.
ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) - On the edge of a Hungarian cornfield, the beam from a car's headlights reflects in their eyes: Europe's newest residents catching their breaths, fresh from evading border police. Emotions swing from forlorn to triumphant and back again on this migrant-besieged frontier, as thousands of exhausted trekkers achieve one goal only to face another daunting challenge. Before arriving here, many have already slipped through Syria's border into Turkey lugging children or elderly parents, crossed the choppy seas to Greece and navigated the Balkan nations of Macedonia and Serbia by foot, bus or train.
When the wells run dry: California families cope in droughtTULARE, Calif. (AP) - Looking for water to flush his toilet, Tino Lozano pointed a garden hose at some buckets in the bare dirt of his yard. It's his daily ritual now in a community built by refugees from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl. But only a trickle came out; then a drip, then nothing more. "There it goes," said Lozano, a 40-year-old disabled vet, masking his desperation with a smile. "That's how we do it in Okieville now."
AP PHOTOS: Neighbors fill buckets, pray for rain in droughtOKIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - People living in this dusty neighborhood called Okieville at the heart of California's Central Valley know the harsh reality of drought. Many of their wells have dried up, so some neighbors rig lines from house to house to share water from the remaining wells deep enough to hit water. Others benefit from state drought relief that pays for trucked-in water to fill tanks. Miles of the nation's most productive farms surround Okieville - a neighborhood of about 100 homes named for refugees who came west from Oklahoma during the 1930s Dust Bowl - but many residents come home at night after working in the fields and wonder if they'll be able to take a shower or flush their toilet.
Egypt announces parliamentary vote for October, NovemberCAIRO (AP) - Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will take place in two stages in October and November. Ayman Abbas, head of the Supreme Election Committee, said Sunday that half the governorates will vote on Oct. 18-19. The second stage will take place for the remaining governorates on Nov. 22-23.
Mothers, students join Japan's protests over security billsTOKYO (AP) - Mothers holding their children's hands stood in the sprinkling rain, holding up anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his defense policies to the beat of a drum. Japan is seeing new faces join the ranks of protesters typically made up of labor union members and graying leftist activists. On Sunday, tens of thousands filled the streets outside Tokyo's parliament to rally against new security legislation likely to become law in September.
Global warming carving changes into Alaska in fire and iceANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Global warming is carving measurable changes into Alaska, and President Barack Obama is about to see it. Obama leaves Monday for a three-day visit to the 49th state in which he will speak at a State Department climate change conference and become the first president to visit the Alaska Arctic. There, and in the sub-Arctic part of the state, he will see the damage caused by warming - damage that has been evident to scientists for years.
Fire at Saudi oil company residence kills 11DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A large fire broke out Sunday in the basement of a sprawling residential complex in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich east, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, officials in the kingdom said. The blaze began early in the morning in a multistory residential compound known as Radium in the eastern city of Khobar. The complex houses workers for state oil giant Saudi Aramco, which oversees petroleum production in the OPEC powerhouse.

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US Envoy Discusses Afghan Peace Efforts on Pakistan Visit - New York Times

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US Envoy Discusses Afghan Peace Efforts on Pakistan Visit
New York Times
ISLAMABAD — U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Pakistani leaders during a visit to the country on Sunday to discuss efforts to revive peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban which were suspended after the ...
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Jeremy Corbyn’s rise is inspiring. But what if his opponents are correct? | David Edgar 

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We face the risk that the Labour frontrunner’s policies really are electoral anathema or unworkable. Whatever, this moment can renew the centre-left
Before more absurd hyperbole took over – Tony Blair comparing Jeremy Corbyn this weekend to Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen – the prevailing rhetoric was that Labour was in danger of returning to its comfort zone. From the point of view of a loyalist on the soft left of the party, it hasn’t felt like that. I joined just after the Tony Benn/Denis Healey deputy leadership contest in 1981, and so have never had to confront the prospect of the party leadership moving seriously leftwards. Suddenly, completely unexpectedly, Corbyn’s rise made it feel like it was happening. I found that heady and inspiring, but not comfortable at all.
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The Guardian view on the latest Ukraine ceasefire call: why this could be the one that works | Editorial 

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It is too soon to be confident but this time the economic and political pressures may be mounting on Vladimir Putin to make agreements that will stick
The prospects are not good that the new international call for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine will be heeded any more rigorously than its predecessors were. Yet in the continuing 16-month war on Europe’s fringes, some of the dynamics may perhaps be shifting in some important ways. On Saturday the leaders of Germany, France and Russia held a three-way phone conversation in which they backed a joint announcement made by Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists last week, that a ceasefire would be reinstated on 1 September.
The weekend initiative is the latest attempt to put some life back into February’s Minsk agreement, which has all but fallen apart as the fighting has continued. The agreement remains a fragile plant; both sides came out on Saturday with separate statements with very different emphases. Vladimir Putin laid all the blame on the Ukrainian government, while Kiev has been warning that Russia is readying for new offensives. The Minsk agreement will also come under further international scrutiny as the end of the year nears. This marks the deadline for the internationally recognised border to come back under Ukrainian government control. At the moment, however, the Russians maintain an exclusive grip. So other European states will have to decide soon whether to prolong sanctions against Russia, which arms the rebels and continues to give them backing through covert paramilitary involvement.
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Joe Biden: Democrat support grows for US Vice President to enter presidential nomination race

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A quiet rumble of encouragement inside Democratic Party ranks for Joe Biden to get off the fence and declare himself a candidate for president is growing steadily louder amid mounting evidence that Hillary Clinton’s campaign may be in trouble.










Britain, France and Germany urge EU to set up migrant reception centres 

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Pressure mounts on EU to set up reception centres urgently in frontline countries such as Italy and Greece











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Vladimir Putin's workout montage - video 

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The Kremlin has released footage of Russian president, Vladimir Putin, working out alongside the country’s prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. Wearing a white t-shirt and tracksuit trousers, Putin is shown lifting weights in the footage, apparently intended to highlight his healthy lifestyle to the Russian population. The two are also filmed grilling steaks and having tea
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Russia's Vladimir Putin pumps iron wih his PM Dmitrty Medvedev 

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Watch as the Russian president and prime minister do a morning workout at a government building in Sochi









U.S., allies conduct 20 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 20 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.

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