The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has split with Al Qaeda and now controls territory in Syria and Iraq. Where did the group come from, and what does it want?
The Kurdish peshmerga took over Kirkuk, while Iraq's forces crumbled. President Obama said he wouldn't 'rule anything out' as an option to aid the Iraqi government, including air strikes.
'I just received information that near Slovyansk, the terrorists — using a Russian man-portable air defense system — shot down our helicopter,' acting President Oleksander Turchynov told parliament.
Ukraine used air strikes and a paratroop assault on Monday to clear rebels from Donetsk's international airport and had pushed the separatists out of the complex by the end of the day.
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