The U.S. isn’t returning combat troops to Iraq, President Obama insists, despite his top general’s suggestion that the Pentagon could consider that option. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/politics/obama-isis/index.html?hpt=imi_c2
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Former Russian paratroopers say lead combat in rebel-held east Ukraine
By Anton Zverev LUHANSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in trademark blue beret boasts that only “professionals” such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Yakut, the nom de guerre offered by the fighter, says he left […]