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A senior Navy intelligence official has been indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy as part of a long-running federal probe into a secretive operation featuring the Navy SEALs and untraceable rifle silencers.
The militants’ latest push occurred in the remote and mountainous region of Badakhshan, and they have also made gains in the northern provinces of Takhar and Baghlan.
A reader describes the Russian president’s calculated moves under the guise of helping to fight ISIS.
The president said the United States would not cooperate in Russian military operations that he said would provide a recruiting tool for Islamic radicals.
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President Barack Obama says the Syrian civil war is not going to become a 'proxy war' between the U.S. and Russia, as the two countries conduct airstrikes on different groups inside Syria.
Obama criticizes Russia on Syria, defends his own strategyby LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is vehemently rejecting Russia's military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissing the idea that Moscow is strengthening its hand in the region. He vows not to let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia "proxy war."
At a White House news conference Friday, Obama pledged ...
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II. Guantánamo
Steve Vladeck, The Bass-Ackwards Detainee Transfer Provision in the FY2016 NDAA (Thursday, October 1)
III. Electronic Communications Privacy Act
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Kristen Eichensehr, The US-China Cyber Agreement: What’s In and What’s Out (Monday, September 28)
VI. UK Anti-Terror Laws
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Jason Coats, Guest Post: Rest Easy Professeurs de Trahison, You Are Not Targetable Under LOAC (Thursday, October 1)
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Just Security, National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, September 28–October 2 (Monday, September 28)
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A Secret Service official’s allegedly deliberate decision to embarrass Rep. Jason Chaffetz could “give pause” to other lawmakers who have applied for federal jobs, cautioned former House Judiciary Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
Three days into its bombing campaign in Syria, Russia on Friday at last targeted Islamic State positions, striking at the de facto capital of the terror organization and at least one other site.
Russia’s military intervention in Syria appears to be aimed at helping the government recover control of key population centers and ensure a role for President Bashar Assad in any peace process, undermining the U.S. demand that he give up power, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.
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October 3, 2015, 6:50 PM (IDT)
The Russian defense ministry said that in the past 24 hours, the Russian air force had conducted 20 air strikes near Raqqa, ISIS headquarters in Syria – including nine Saturday. Targets destroyed included ammunition and oil depots and all-terrain vehicles.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The latest developments from Afghanistan, where the international charity Doctors Without Borders says that nine local staffers were killed when its clinic came under "sustained bombing" as government and international forces continue to battle Taliban fighters in the northern city of Kunduz (all times local):
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The market for military drones is expected to almost double by 2024 to beyond $10 billion (€8.9 billion), according to a report published Friday by specialist defense publication IHS Jane's Intelligence Review.
October 3, 2015, 7:30 PM (IDT)
First report: Several people injured in a Palestinian stabbing attack on a group of Israelis near Lions Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem Saturday night.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Saturday ordered a full investigation into an airstrike on a hospital served by charity doctors in Afghanistan that killed at least 16, including 3 children, and created immediate outrage in the war-torn country,
"A full investigation into the tragic incident is under way in coordination ...
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October 3, 2015, 8:24 PM (IDT)
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli family near the Lions Gate in Jerusalem Saturday night, critically injuring the father and mother, slightly injuring their 2-year old child and hurting a passing woman. The father died a short time ago. After the stabbing attack, the terrorist snatched the sidearm of the wounded man and opened fire on passing tourists before he was shot dead by Border Guard police. The family was attacked near Lions Gate on the main street to the Western Wall that was packed with people on their way to the Kotel. All the Old City streets leading to the Kotel and Western Wall have been shut down.
October 3, 2015, 9:13 PM (IDT)
In the space of 48 hours, during the Jewish festival season, two pairs of Israel parents were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. After gunmen killed the first couple Eitam and Na’ama Henkin in a drive-by ambush near Alon More Thursday night, a second couple and their two-year old child were knifed in the Old City of Jerusalem Saturday night, Oct. 3 by a another Palestinian terrorist on their way to the Western Wall. They were among a large crowd thronging through the main street to the Kotel.
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Iraqi officials: Suicide bomber in Baghdad kills 10by Qassim Abdul-Zahra | AP
Iraqi officials say a suicide attack on a security checkpoint north of the capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 10 people.
Russia pledges to intensify its air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, saying the bombing has significantly weakened the militants.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron added his voice to criticism of Russia’s military action in Syria, as Russian warplanes continued airstrikes.
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Controversial Nobel Prize winners by Karl Ritter | AP
It’s just a prize, right? Maybe so, but the Nobel Prizes have a way of sparking ferocious debate about whether the winners were worthy or whether the judges’ decisions were politically biased.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel wants to avoid an adversarial relationship with Moscow and is unsure how Russia's recent military intervention in Syria will affect the situation there.
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At least 18 people are killed in two suicide car bomb attacks in a mainly Shia district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police say.
Russia says it’s making gains against the Islamic State, but the West says it’s attacking other rebel groups.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is arguing for a more robust approach to Syria, with the president dismissing her ideas as campaign politics.
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Nato forces must stay the course in Afghanistan or risk creating another recruiting ground for the Islamic State
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Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) demands full investigation after suspected US air-strike kills 16, including nine staff
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Airstrikes Kill Rescue Worker and Family of 5 in Syriaby HWAIDA SAAD and KAREEM FAHIM
The attack followed a pattern that has come to be known as the double tap, where warplanes bomb an area, then bomb again, often after rescuers have arrived.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Two former senior officials in the Venezuelan police were indicted on drugs charges in a U.S. court last month, documents seen by Reuters show, the latest case to involve Venezuela, a suspected major smuggling route for South American cocaine.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in two of Baghdad’s mainly Shi’ite districts on October 3, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens, according to the police.
Priest gives interview, holds demonstration on eve of synod to discuss family issues.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin had promised to use his influence in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region to ensure progress in the Ukraine conflict's Minsk peace process, The Kremlin's spokesman said on Saturday according to Interfax.
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region said on Saturday that "better results" could be achieved in the war against Islamic State militants if Russia and the international coalition coordinated their efforts.
The latest developments from Afghanistan, where the international charity Doctors Without Borders says that nine local staffers were killed when its clinic came under “sustained bombing” as government and international forces continue to battle Taliban fighters in the northern city of Kunduz (all times local):
A senior priest at the Vatican who has revealed he is gay has said every gay person is "a son of God".
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