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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie said she hoped Britain's first academic center devoted to women, peace and security studies would benefit millions of girls, like an Iraqi teenager she met who had been kept as a sex slave by Islamic State.

BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about the U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi lawmaker and paramilitary commander Hadi al-Amiri defended Shi'ite fighters at the forefront of the battle against Islamic State from accusations of mass executions and burning homes, and urged the United States to upgrade Iraq's military capabilities.

WASHINGTON - Islamic State's execution of a captured Jordanian pilot by burning him alive has backfired on the militant group by galvanizing the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting it in Syria and Iraq, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - Five blasts across Baghdad on Saturday tempered Iraqis' anticipation of a more relaxed and accessible capital as the government prepared to lift a night-time curfew that has kept the city on a war-time footing for more than a decade. |Video

BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister ordered an investigation on Saturday into the killing of two civilians at the main security office in western Anbar province, where the army and Shi'ite and Sunni volunteers are fighting Islamic State insurgents.

- Six people have been charged with providing money and equipment including U.S. military uniforms to foreign fighters joining al Qaeda, Nusra Front and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates pulled out of U.S.-led air strikes on Islamic State positions partly because it thought they could not succeed without a push to arm Sunni Muslim tribes in Iraq, a newspaper close to the government said on Friday.

ERBIL, Iraq, - A mass grave containing the remains of at least 16 Yazidis was unearthed in northern Iraq on Friday as the atrocities committed by Islamic State against the religious minority gradually come to light.

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