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Barack Obama

World leaders pressed for response to Paris attacks

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Pressed for a strong response to the Islamic State group's assault on Paris, the world's top industrial and developing nations are set to outline their coordinated response to what President Barack Obama has described as an "attack on the civilized world."

Syria

France carries out raids, names 2 more potential attackers

PARIS (AP) — French police raided more than 150 locations overnight as authorities released the names of two more potential suicide bombers involved in the Paris attacks— one born in Syria, the other a Frenchman wanted as part of a terrorism investigation. The raids came as the hunt continued for members

terrorism

Solidarité

PARIS (AP) — World leaders are reacting to the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. Some of their comments: OECD SECRETARY-GENERAL

terrorism

US targets ‘Jihadi John’ in ISIS slaying videos, fate unclear

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John, according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages was not

Barack Obama

Poll: Americans souring on Obama’s Islamic State plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are souring on President Barack Obama's approach to fighting the Islamic State, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that also found deep pessimism about U.S. prospects for success in Afghanistan and uncertainty about Obama's plan to leave thousands of troops there when

terrorism

Airline exec says external impact caused Egypt plane crash

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Only an external impact could have caused the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed all 224 people on board, a top airline official said Monday, raising more questions about what exactly happened. "We rule out a technical fault of the plane or

Syria

Despite US-led campaign, ISIS rakes in oil earnings

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State rakes in up to $50 million a month from selling crude from oilfields under its control in Iraq and Syria, part of a well-run industry that U.S. diplomacy and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down, according to Iraqi intelligence and U.S.

Iraq

First U.S. combat death occurs in Iraq war against Islamic State

WASHINGTON — The first American killed in combat in Iraq since the war against Islamic State began there in 2014 died during a rescue operation to free captives who faced "imminent mass execution," Pentagon officials said. U.S. and Iraqi special operations forces raided the compound in northern Iraq