President Obama not to send u.s. troops to the foretold Syria

San Jose, Costa Rica (Reuters)-the United States President Barack Obama Friday said he did not foresee a scenario in which he would send U.S. Army to Syria.

At a press conference in the capital of Costa Rica, Obama also vowed that the United States will take a cautious approach to respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons, Syria, Reuters reported.

He said it would not "jump before we see."

The US President on Tuesday warned it was not in a hurry to decide stance regarding chemical weapons in Syria, but said if there is evidence they use it, it will be the trigger for a "consideration" to question keengganannya take military.

Setekah appears the various criticisms, stating he let Syria step over the "boundary line" United States, Obama said Washington believes there is the use of chemical weapons during the civil war in the country, although it has not been able to ascertain which side fired them.

At a news conference at the White House, Obama also offered a number of criteria that the steps taken by the US military intervention is evidence that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad directly ordered the use of chemical weapons. (AK)

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Nigerian troops kill 20 terrorists Boko Haram members

Kano, Nigeria (Reuters)-Nigerian Forces killed 20 members of Boko Haram that attempted to attack military barracks in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, the region, the military said Sunday.

"Boko Haram Terrorists tried to attack a military barracks (Borno) around 05.00 p.m. (11.00 GMT)," said military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa in a statement, AFP reported.

He stated, the attack took place in the village of Monguno, about 200 kilometers from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State churns that Boko Haram's headquarters was considered, the group accused of waging a deadly attack dozens of.

The attack on the military barracks that has been broken, said Moses. "The Clashes killed 20 terrorists Boko Haram."

He added, the Group of assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed the military location with three 4 x 4 trucks and eight bicycle-motor.

Boko Haram violence estimated to have killed up to 3,000 people since 2009, including killings by the security forces.

The Group declared war to establish an Islamic State in Northern Nigeria's muslim majority.

Violence escalates in Nigeria since the attacks killed dozens of people during Christmas celebrations 2011 which was claimed by hardline muslim group Boko Haram.

Kano, the city has a population of about 10 million people in Northern Nigeria, a region which was hit hardest in the violence.

A series of bombings and shootings swept Kano after Friday prayers on January 20, 2012, killing 185 people, in attacks claimed by Boko Haram which aimed at the police headquarters and the offices of other policemen, a police building and immigration offices.

The attacks were the most deadly operations by the Group and is aimed primarily at the police station.

Boko Haram claimed dozens of attacks in Nigeria, including suicide bombings in August at UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 24 people.

A series of bomb attacks in the city of Jos, central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve 2010 also claimed by Boko Haram.

Boko Haram launched a violent action in 2009 that the uprising was crushed brutally by the military which killed about 800 people and destroying mosques and their headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

The Group was inactive for about a year and then appeared again in 2010 with a series of murders.

Nigeria's population of over 160 million people split in the northern region, which is mostly Muslim and the South largely Christian. (M014)

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Russia troops shoot dead three militants in Dagestan

Moscow (Reuters)-security forces shot dead three militants in the turbulent weeks of the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan, Russia, local media said.

According to the RIA News Agency, the militant was hiding in a forest and opened fire towards troops inspect the area on Sunday morning, Reuters reported.

"Three militants were killed. No law enforcement officers were wounded, "said the Interfax news agency quoted the Agency's criminal investigators Russia.

President Vladimir Putin, who became famous after muslim rebelion in Chechnya, ordered security forces on high alert to secure the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in the Black Sea coastal town of Sochi, Krasnodar region, separated from the North Caucasus by three small Territories.

The Kremlin is still trying to cope with muslim guerrillas in the North Caucasus, a decade after the federal troops in Chechnya separatists mendongkel dominance.

Suicide bombing attacks launched by a principal of the North Caucasus, killing 37 people in the most densely populated Russia Domodedovo Airport in Moscow in January 2011.

The attack was made the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev was then fired a number of medium-level police officials and leading to Domodedovo pendongkelan senior managers.

The suicide bombing was claimed by Doku Umarov, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate.

United States incorporate the Caucasus Emirate to its list of terrorist groups because of the serangan-serangannya in an attempt to dislodge the Government from the North Caucasus region of Russia.

Violence flared in the North Caucasus, where muslim guerrillas are angry because of poverty and global jihad ideology driven by wanting to establish an independent State based on sharia law.

Dagestan, located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, has replaced its neighbouring territories as a center of violence in the North Caucasus who are muslim.

Dagestan borders Chechnya in the North Caucasus, where Russia is facing violent muslim hardliners, and a muslim province that is often hit by attacks targeting law enforcement officers and Government officials.

The attacks have made the Kremlin promised again to quell the guerrillas in the North Caucasus. The area hit by violence since two post-war Soviet happened in Chechnya between separatist guerrillas and Government forces.

The group human rights groups accused the authorities in the North Caucasus region of Russia--ranging from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea--do major offences under the pretext of HUMAN RIGHTS to quell muslim militancy. (M014)

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Obama's Afghanistan plan to pull the troops greet

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Kabul (Reuters)-the Government of Afghanistan on Wednesday, welcoming the announcement of President Barack Obama, who said that the United States will pull soldiers from 34 thousand war-torn countries in the next year.

"We welcome this," said Defence Ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, "we will take all security responsibility by the end of 2013."

"Our troops will replace them," he said, as quoted by AFP.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has long supported the withdrawal of United States combat forces schedule and NATO by the end of 2014.

He says Afghanistan forces are capable of taking responsibility for the fight against Taliban guerrillas.

Obama, who gave the announcement of withdrawal of troops in his State, said that the withdrawal would continue and "at the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will end."

The Taliban called the withdrawal of the troops was not enough.

"The problem will not be completed by reducing or increasing the number of troops," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.

"During the invasion force remains in Afghanistan, the jihad (holy war) continues to progress. The problem is finished with the withdrawal of the occupation forces and the return of the overarching Afghanistan to Afghanistan people. "

Obama's move effectively halving the number of 66 thousand United States soldiers who are in Afghanistan, while NATO forces prepare to hand over control of security operations in Afghanistan security forces 352 thousand by the end of 2014.

NATO, which has about 40 thousand soldiers in Afghanistan, will also pull their troops gradually before the end of 2014.

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Mali troops clear the market fearing attack Gao

Gao, Mali (Reuters)-Mali Troops Monday to clear the main market in Gao for fear there will be attacks, after the northern city was rocked by three days of this suicide bombing attacks and firing by the militants.

"We are concerned about the attack, because that is our clear market Gao for security reasons," said a high-ranking officer, reported AFP.

Traders packed up their belongings and left the Washington Market, which is near the central police station that was used as a base by armed militants to launch guerrilla attacks into the city on Sunday.

France-attack helicopters destroyed a police station in an attack on Monday morning.

The surrounding area is closed by the security forces and the army of France clears mines in the area.

Sporadic gun shots shots were heard in the northern part of the city.

Some medical sources and the military said at least two hard-line militants and three civilians were killed in the fighting Sunday, and 17 others injured.

"We received 15 patients with gunshot wounds, all of them civilians," said Fatoumata Kanté Doctor in the emergency room.

Two soldiers were lightly injured, said a Malian officer.

Oneness and Jihad movement in West Africa (MUJAO), one of the groups that dominate northern Mali before being driven off by the intervention of France that was launched on 11 January, claimed responsibility for the attack in the city and threatened to launch more attacks.

France-led forces recaptured Gao on 26 January from Al Qaida linked militants who ruled the region of northern Mali for 10 months after a military coup.

France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.

Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.

The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.

The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.

Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.

Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.

Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)

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Mali's Army elite troops in the camp attack Bamako

Than 06.00 local time (13: 00 GMT) a heavily armed soldiers from all the Union attacked the camp. "

Bamako, Mali (ANTARA News)-the firefight broke out in the capital of Mali, Bamako when the army attacked a camp of the elite troops loyal to the deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure, said military sources and eye witnesses told AFP.
"From 06.00 local time (13: 00 GMT) a heavily armed soldiers from all the Union attacked the camp," said Yaya Bouare, one of the "Red Beret" inside the camp who attacked it. "A lot of the injuries in the camp."
The latest clash between Mali's Army factions hostile to occur on the same day when a suicide bomber targeting soldiers in the city of Gao to the South after hard-line Islamic groups are removed.
Bamako residents living near barracks that confirm the attack and one of them said troops of the elite "Red Beret" opened fire warnings Thursday night.
Bouare attack was said had to do with a statement by the Defense Chief of staff of the army General Tahairou Dembele on national television earlier this week, who ordered the troops to the front lines of the paratroop war led by France against hard-line groups in the North.
"Because we are facing these problems in the North, you have to go and fight for your brethren with weapons", he said and added he decided to cooperate with the elite forces in other entities.
But the paratroop refused join their new entities, or leaving their camps.
"Red Beret" troops are part of the President's bodyguards who protect Toure, who was removed in March last year by a group of "Green Beret" forces--infantry and other entities.
The coup took place after the Mali army humiliated in the North by the Tuareg petempur who have sophisticated weapons who did revolt for independence in that area in January last year.
A month later, after the overthrow of the President, the army's elite counter doing one coup that failed and the battle between the forces of bersetru, killing 20 people.
With the onset of chaos in Bamako, the Tuareg groups and Islam took control of the entire area north of the hard-line Islamic group before expelling a group of Tuareg secular and impose Islamic law.
Islamic Group that ruled the arid area and spacious, which triggered fears in the West that area could become a new base for radical groups having links with Al Qaida, which sparked France intervened a month ago to oust the hard-line group. (RN/S012)


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U.N. Votes to Remove NATO Troops From Libya

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday canceled its authorization for a seven-month-old NATO military operation in Libya that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The mandate was terminated despite a request from Libya's interim government for the Security Council to wait until the National Transitional Council made a decision on whether it wants NATO to help it secure its borders. [Read: 7 Challenges for a Post-Qadhafi Libya.]

The 15-nation council unanimously approved a resolution terminating the U.N. mandate, which set the no-fly zone over Libya and permitted foreign military forces, including NATO, to use "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians.

The resolution said the U.N. authorization for foreign military operations in Libya will lapse at 11:59 p.m. local Libyan time on October 31.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice welcomed the decision of the council, which U.N. diplomats say became sharply divided over NATO intervention in a civil war that went on much longer than Western nations had expected or wanted.

"This closes what I think history will judge to be a proud chapter in the Security Council's history and experience, where it acted promptly and effectively to prevent mass slaughter in Benghazi and other parts of the east to effectively protect civilians," Rice told reporters.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement that the council move "is another significant milestone toward a peaceful, democratic future for Libya." [Check out a roundup of political cartoons on the Middle East uprisings.]

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the alliance will end its combat mission on Monday, adding that he did not expect NATO to play a major role in post-war Libya.

"If requested we can assist the new Libyan government in the transformation to democracy, for instance with defense and security sector reform, but I wouldn't expect new tasks beyond that," he said.

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Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who had repeatedly accused NATO of overstepping its U.N. mandate to protect civilians, also welcomed the move to end foreign military intervention in Libya. Moscow co-sponsored the resolution.

Rice urged Libya's transitional government to "make the maximum effort to swiftly form an inclusive government that incorporates all aspects of Libyan society in which the rights of all Libyan people are fully and thoroughly respected." [See photos of unrest in Libya.]

While the resolution does not specifically refer to NATO, the alliance's legal mandate to carry out the air strikes that enabled rebel forces to defeat Gaddafi's troops was supplied by Security Council resolution 1973, adopted in March.

The NTC officially announced Libya's liberation on October 23, days after the capture and death of Gaddafi.

Libyan Deputy U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi asked the council on Wednesday to wait before terminating the mandate. He said the government needed time to assess the security situation in its country and its ability to monitor its borders.

Western diplomats said council members did not want to wait. While NATO will terminate its military operations to protect civilians on Monday, a NATO official in Brussels said member states of the alliance were free to give further security aid to Libya individually.

The resolution does not lift the arms embargo or other U.N. sanctions on Libya that have been in place for half a year. The resolution approved on Thursday made clear that weapons were a problem, voicing "concern at the proliferation of arms in Libya and its potential impact on regional peace and security."

The Security Council on March 17 authorized a no-fly zone and foreign military intervention to protect Libyans from security forces Gaddafi had deployed to suppress pro-democracy uprisings across the country.

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Obama: All US troops leaving Iraq

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21 October 2011 Last updated at 18:28 GMT President Obama: "In the next two months our troops will pack up their gear and board convoys for the journey home"

All US troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year, President Barack Obama has announced.

He ordered a complete withdrawal from the country, nearly nine years after the invasion under President George W Bush.

About 39,000 US troops remain in Iraq, down from a peak of 165,000 in 2008.

The US and Iraq were in "full agreement" on how to move forward, Mr Obama said, adding: "The US leaves Iraq with our heads held high."

"That is how America's military efforts in Iraq will end."

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While Republicans bicker over the choice of a candidate, President Obama is exciting his own base”

End Quote Mark Mardell North America editor, BBC According to the Department of Defense, there have been 4,408 American military deaths in Iraq since March 2003.

Mr Obama spoke at the White House following a video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.

He pledged assistance and "a strong and enduring partnership" with Iraqi government.

The US declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq in 2010. The deadline for complete troop withdrawal by end of 2011 was set during former President George W Bush's term in office.

However, the issue of a full pullout had been the subject of an ongoing debate.

Iraqi leaders had wanted 5,000 US troops to remain in a training capacity. But those trainers would not have received immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law.

Continue reading the main story War began on 19 March 2003 with 173,000 troops, 150,000 of whom were Americans 670,000 Iraqi security forces were on duty as of March 20114,408 American troops have been killed179 British troops have been killed115,405 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have been killed32,195 American troops have been wounded

Source: Brookings Iraq Index, US Department of Defense

The Pentagon refused to accept that condition, with Defence Secretary Leon Panetta insisting that "we protect and provide the appropriate immunity for our soldiers".

The decision to pull out all US troops suggests no deal could be reached, despite Iraq's desire for continued access to US military expertise, correspondents say.

Earlier this month, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said: "If we do not have agreement on the immunity, there will be no agreement on the number."

Many Iraqis are sensitive about the issue, given the number of civilian shootings involving US troops since the US-led invasion. Private contractors have already lost their immunity.

Mr Obama said the withdrawal comes amid changes in American military priorities, including a troop drawdown in Afghanistan, and new political realities in the Middle East and Africa.

"The tide of war is receding," he said.

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U.N. council approves withdrawal of some Haiti troops

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Jordanian U.N. peacekeepers unload electoral materials they escorted from Port au Prince to Anjou March 19, 2011.

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UNITED NATIONS | Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:44pm EDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Friday agreed to withdraw nearly 3,000 blue-helmeted troops and police, bringing the unpopular force's size close to where it was before a devastating earthquake in January 2010.

The 15-nation council unanimously approved a resolution that called for the withdrawal in response to an improved security situation in the Caribbean country, the poorest in the Americas.

The plan is to withdraw 2,750 U.N. peacekeepers from the force, known as the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti or MINUSTAH, according to the resolution passed by the council. That reduction brings the force's size to just under 10,600 troops and police.

Many Haitians have called for the complete withdrawal of the force due to allegations that Nepalese U.N. troops brought a deadly cholera epidemic to the country after their camp latrines contaminated a river. This sparked riots last year.

Last month, the U.N. force faced renewed public protests over allegations that a group of Uruguayan troops raped a man.

MINUSTAH was established by the Security Council in 2004 and has been helping Haiti's short-staffed and ill-equipped police maintain security, especially during elections plagued by fraud and unrest. The size of the force was increased after last year's earthquake.

Despite the improvement in the security situation, the council's resolution voiced "concern that trends since the earthquake reveal an increase in all major categories of crime, including murder, rape and kidnapping in (the capital) Port-au-Prince and the West Department."

But the council said Haiti "has made considerable strides" since the earthquake.

"For the first time in its history, Haiti has experienced a peaceful transfer of power between one democratically elected president and another from the opposition," it said.

The U.N. Development Program said on Wednesday that workers have removed about half of the twisted piles of concrete, steel and other debris that have clogged Haiti's capital and surrounding areas since the earthquake.

Haiti still faces a massive reconstruction effort following the January 12, 2010 quake, which killed more than 300,000 people and caused massive damage across the nation.

(Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Yemeni troops shell anti-Saleh forces

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Medics tend to a man injured in a mortar attack at a makeshift hospital in Sanaa October 4, 2011.

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SANAA | Tue Oct 4, 2011 7:24pm EDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni soldiers loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened artillery fire late on Tuesday against armed fighters supporting protesters in the southern city of Taiz, in the latest resurgence of violence in the anti-Saleh stronghold.

"Government forces, from the hills and from security barricades, and from al-Thawra hospital and Freedom Square, they are shelling," Abdulkader al-Guneid, a resident in the town 200 km (125 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, told Reuters.

"There are all kinds of flashes and bangs, and we can hear it in the residential areas. Then, sometimes it is interrupted with an exchange of fire," he added.

Al Jazeera television said six people wounded in the shelling had reached hospital and more were expected but added that it was it was not immediately possible to determine the number of casualties.

State television blamed opposition fighters for starting the fighting and said four government troops had been wounded.

Taiz, and other opposition hubs, have been paralyzed by nearly nine months of protests to demand an end to Saleh's 33-year rule.

In the capital Sanaa, mortar fire killed two civilians and wounded six in fighting between forces loyal to Saleh and troops siding with anti-government protesters.

A doctor said a mortar round hit a market in a district contested by government troops and those of rebel general Ali Mohsen, a former Saleh ally. One of the dead was aged 14.

The doctor said he had received death threats for helping the wounded and a bag of bullets was thrown into his yard as a warning.

"We are treating these protesters and civilians but the government wants to threaten us to stop us doing our job. Now they are threatening my family," he said.

Tensions are running high in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country, which is awash with guns.

Last month in Sanaa, political deadlock gave way to a military showdown between Saleh loyalists and Mohsen's forces. More than 100 people were killed in the fighting, most of them protesters caught in the middle.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets again on Tuesday afternoon to draw attention to their demands ahead of an expected briefing by the United Nations' envoy to Yemen before the security council.

The opposition cast doubt on any future dialogue with the government, which it blamed for the apparent failure of mediation attempts by U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar, who left Yemen empty-handed on Monday.

"The dialogue with the regime has stopped and there is no form of dialogue after Saleh wasted all opportunities for dialogue, which led to the departure of the U.N. envoy," opposition spokesman Mohammed al-Sabri said.

Benomar spent two weeks in Yemen trying to broker a deal but left without announcing a breakthrough after days of mediating between the government and the opposition.

The opposition said a newly appointed general was killed on his way to a military base north of Sanaa, where he was due to take command after his predecessor was killed by tribal fighters last week. The defense ministry denied the report.

The upheaval is fanning global fears that weakening state control may help al Qaeda's local wing expand its foothold in Yemen, which borders oil giant Saudi Arabia and lies near shipping routes through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

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The remains of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda, were buried over the weekend near the place where a CIA drone killed him and several comrades, a member of his family said on Tuesday.

The family member told Reuters Awlaki's father traveled from the capital Sanaa to the northern province of al-Jawf on Saturday and identified his son's dagger lying among scattered body parts, which they buried close by.

In Detroit, jury selection began on Tuesday in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane in 2009, who has been linked to Awlaki and al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing.

Yemen's army is fighting to regain territory lost to militants in the south, notably in Abyan province, where al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters control the city of Jaar and other locations.

At least 10 militants were killed in an air force raid in the Jaar area on Tuesday, residents and a local official said.

Three militants and a soldier were killed in a shootout in Abyan's provincial capital Zinjibar, which the government said it had recaptured from Islamist fighters last month.

(Reporting by Erika Solomon, Mohammed Ghobari and Dhuyazen Mukhashaf; Writing by Isabel Coles and Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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