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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send 400 troops to train moderate Syrian rebels this spring.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is boxed in by its promise to limit U.S. military engagement against Islamic State extremists, making it tough to agree to Turkey's condition for joining the fight in neighboring Syria.

Multiple sources are reporting that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is saying that a Syrian town under Islamic State siege is about to fall.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Media reports say police in Istanbul and at least six other Turkish cities clashed with hundreds of demonstrators protesting the Islamic State group's advance on a Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey.

DAMASCUS (AP) — A Syrian official says 17 people, including 10 children, have been killed in twin explosions near a school in the central city of Homs.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and five Arab countries have launched airstrikes on militants in the Islamic State group in eastern Syria.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Islamic State militants once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama expects his expanded military mission against the Islamic State militants to achieve at least three short-term objectives: reverse the extremist group's momentum in Iraq, squeeze their sanctuary in Syria and erode their recruiting appeal across the greater Mideast.