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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for nearly two hours on Monday. Kerry received commitments from Maliki to begin the process of forming a new national government in Baghdad by July 1, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Syria has dismantled its chemical weapons program, roughly 1,290 metric tons, and is to be destroyed on board a U.S. ship, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Matteo Renzi, the Italian Prime Minister, said that Italy will push for a “United States of Europe” during its six-month EU presidency, the Telegraph reported.

Pro-Russian Militas took control of a tank base in Ukraine seizing 221 tanks, 288 armored vehicles, 12 self-propelled guns, 18 Grad volley fire systems, 183 infantry vehicles, and 12 mortars, Interfax reported.

President Barack Obama authorized a secret plan to aid Iraq by sharing intelligence on Sunni jihadist’s camps. However, only a handful of U.S. specialists were tasked to the operation, and it provided limited information to Iraq, due to U.S. concerns that the Iraqi government would share sensitive information to its Shiite counterpart, Iran, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Any military cooperation between the United States and Iran in Iraq was dismissed by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni. On Sunday, Khamenei stated, “We don’t support any foreign interference in Iraq and we’re strongly opposed to U.S. interference there.”

In a social experiment, all vendors along a street in Manchester will only accept cards as payment for a day. Within 20 years, some experts predict transactions with physical currency will cease to exist.

Over the past few days, the message was loud and clear as newspapers, TV and Radio programs in Central America repeated the same message — “The U.S. will not give asylum to migrant children.”

Pope Francis targeted Italy’s most dangerous crime organizations, the Mafia, stating the Mafiosi and their actions were an example of the “adoration of evil” and any members of the crime syndicate were excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured four towns in Western Iraq, including a strategic border crossing, in a campaign to establish an Islamic Caliphate across the Middle East.

With a July 20 deadline rapidly approaching, Iran said it would not accept ‘excessive demands’ the West was trying to impose on its nuclear program.

Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs, according to USA Today.

On Saturday, an Egyptian Court sentenced to death Mohamed Badie, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, along with more than 180 others, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Over 65,000 Russian troops were placed on combat alert and ordered to take part in readiness drills by Russian President Vladmir Putin. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department levied sanctions against seven separatists with broader measures being readied against finance, defense, and technology industries, Bloomberg reported.

The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is now entering a “second wave” and raging “totally out of control”, Doctors without Borders told the Associated Press.

President Obama is preparing to send up to 300 military advisers to aid the Iraqi military. Along with the 275 Obama announced on Thursday, it could place close to 600 additional U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq.

Iraq is descending into chaos, but not for the reasons you’re being fed by the politicians and the mainstream media.

President Obama said Iran can play a “constructive” role in Iraq. Watch the press conference that took place today.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) occupy a chemical-weapons production facility built by Saddam Hussein, a complex U.S. officials said still contain a stockpile of old weapons, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Iraq has requested the U.S. for air support to target the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said during a Congressional hearing yesterday.