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News Roundup – 29 September 2014

September 29, 2014

tags: anti-balaka, arms treaty, CAR, IS, ISIL. Iraq, khorasan, Pakistan, Seleka, Somalia, South-Sudan, Syria

by Katharine Fortin

Arms Treaty to become law but concerns over transfers remain.

Lawfare blog: On Glenn Greenwald’s scepticism on threat claims about the Khorasan group by Jack Goldsmith and A Less Generous take on Greenwald’s Latest by Benjamin Wittes.

Syrian opposition forces, Obama’s key to defeating IS, says the Pentagon isn’t consulting them on airstrikes.

US misjudged ISIL threat, Iraqi army.

Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamist leaving home to join ISIS fighters.

Left behind in North Waziristan.

Libya pleads for help in combating terror group.

Woman executed in rebel held Somali town.

Rights groups hail ICC probe into CAR war crimes.

South Sudan’s Bentui camp still a draw for IDPs.

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