1. ISIS
No strategy: It’s too soon to say what steps the United States will take against ISIS in Syria, President Barack Obama said yesterday. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” Obama told reporters during a White House news briefing. “We don’t have a strategy yet.” Obama said he’s asked America’s top defense officials to prepare “a range of options” about what the United States could do to go after ISIS in Syria, which he described as “a safe haven” for the Sunni extremist group that calls itself the Islamic State.
2. UKRAINE
Balance of power: Up to 1,000 Russian troops have crossed Ukraine’s southern border to fight alongside pro-Russian rebels, a U.S. official said yesterday. Intelligence shows Russian forces have moved into southern Ukraine with heavy weapons and are fighting there. NATO provided what it said is evidence: satellite images showing Russian troops engaged in military operations inside Ukraine. Commercial satellite images showed the same thing. A rebel leader said up to 4,000 Russians are fighting in eastern Ukraine, some of them active military.
3. MICHAEL BROWN AUDIO
The sound of a shooting: A company whose video chat service apparently captured audio of Michael Brown’s shooting said Thursday the recording was created at the time the Missouri teenager was killed this month. The revelation appears to bolster a man’s claim that he inadvertently recorded audio of gunfire at the time a police officer shot and killed the 18-year-old Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on August 9. Police have said Brown was trying to grab the officer’s gun. Witnesses say the teen was holding his hands in the air when he was fatally shot. Investigators are determining whether to accuse the officer of wrongdoing; no charges have been filed. The audio may help determine what happened.
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source: CNN.com
