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BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say they have charged three men with terror offenses in connection with the Brussels attacks. At a news conference in Brussels, officials confirmed that 24 of the 31 people killed in the suicide attacks Tuesday have been identified. A doctor who served in Afghanistan said he and his colleagues have been shocked by the extreme injuries suffered by some of the 270 people wounded.
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman killed in the Brussels bombings had warned four months earlier that demonizing Muslims would help drive recruitment of extremists. The 26-year-old Dutch national living in New York, Sascha Pinczowski, posted on Facebook after the Paris attacks in November that "Ignorant spreading of anti-Muslim sentiment and propaganda does nothing but benefit ISIS." Her mother has reposted the Facebook message, saying she wanted to share her daughter's message of tolerance.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Air Force jets have joined coalition forces in attacking Islamic State targets in northern Iraq, hours after a Turkish soldier was killed at a military base in the region from rockets fired by the extremist militants. Although Turkish jets have struck Islamic State positions in Syria, today's attack marks Turkey's first aerial assault on the group in northern Iraq.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say government forces backed by Russian airstrikes have seized three neighborhoods inside Palmyra (pahl-MEER'-uh), a town with famed Roman-era ruins that fell to the Islamic State group last May. Russia's defense ministry says its jets carried out 40 air sorties near Palmyra in the past day, hitting 158 targets and killing over 100 militants.
UNDATED (AP) — Democrats are voting in caucuses today in Hawaii, Alaska and Washington state. Bernie Sanders is hoping to win all three and gain some ground on Hillary Clinton in the delegate race. Sanders attracted 15,000 people to a stadium rally in Seattle yesterday.
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