American military transport aircraft have dropped more than 100 pallets of supplies, including ammunition, grenades and rockets to Syrian rebels fighting against the Islamic State group. Our Washington correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, says it's a first concrete sign of a change of strategy from the US. Last week, their factory backed off their train-and-equip programme, and they were trying to find moderate Syrian forces, to train it, put back into Syria to fight Islamic State. That was really a bit of a disaster. Ah so this is the new phase of that campaign, where they're trying to get weapons, equipment to some of the groups already organised on the ground, some of the groups they trust and more than saying is that they're gonna vet the leaders of those groups, and they say the leaders of the groups who got this stuff last night have been vetted, then let them to ensure that they are actually taking on IS.
The Head of the Al-Nusra Front, an Islamist militia in Syria, has said Russia's intervention in support of President Bashar al-Assad is doomed to failure. Abu Mohammad al-Julani called Moscow's air campaign a new crusade and said that it would make Russia forget the horrors they'd faced in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
A former governor of a Mexican state has been shot in a restaurant in the state capital, Colima. He is in a serious but stable condition. Nicholas Rocha has more details. Fernando Moreno Pena was having breakfast with other politicians when 2 gunmen approached. They shot him 6 times. The motive of the attack is not known. Mr. Moreno Pena held office in Colima from 1997 to 2003. But he is not the first governor of the state to become a victim of violence. His successor, Gustavo Vazquez Montes, died in a plane crash in 2005; while Silverio Cavazos, who succeeded Vazquez, was shot dead in 2010, about a year after leaving office.
Police in Kosovo have clashed with hundreds of demonstrators outside the main police station in the capital, Pristina. Protesters threw stones during a demonstration to demand the release of Albin Kurti, an opposition leader who let off tear gas in Parliament last week. Details from Mike Sanders. Around 200 protesters picketed in the police station, when they heard that Mr. Kurti had been detained for questioning. Some threw stones. Police responded with tear gas. Mr. Kurti was eventually released. His Self-determination Party opposes improving ties with Serbia under a deal brokered by the European Union, which both Serbia and Kosovo want to join. The deal includes enhanced rights for the Serb minority in the north of Kosovo.
An Israeli soldier has been stabbed on a bus in Jerusalem in the fourth knife attack in the city on Monday. Earlier, 2 police officers were attacked, while 2 young Israelis were stabbed and seriously wounded in a settlement in the occupied East Jerusalem. World news from the BBC.
The United Nations says criminal gangs are exploiting the migration crisis in Europe by charging thousands of dollars for fake passports and identity cards. The scale of the business has been compared to the illegal smuggling of drugs or weapons. The BBC spoke to one man originally from Latakia in Syria, who managed to get to Brussels using a false European identity card. He described what happened when he presented the document to border officials in Athens. I passed him, and I gave him my identity card and the ticket. And he just said ‘Nice trip, sir'. I said ‘Thanks', and I just walked in like nothing happened. There were really 5 persons, 5 police officers in front of me. So they didn't notice anything. I just go and take like nothing happened.
Officials in a remote Eskimo community in the American state of Alaska say another young adult has killed himself, the fourth suicide in less than 3 weeks. It's though each death may have triggered the next. All the victims, 3 men and a woman, were in their 20s and lived in the village of Holprove on Alaska's western coast. Mental health experts are being sent to the area.
A gay priest, who married his partner last year, has been elected to the Church of England's ruling Synod. Details now from Caroline Wyatt. The Reverend, Andrew said he was feeling elated, daunted and ready, adding that there is hope for a kinder, more compassionate Church. He is a second priest in the Church of England to marry his same-sex partner, despite guidance from the bishops that bans clergy entering into same-sex marriage, although it does allow civil partnerships. Traditionalists have been dismayed by the result. Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, said that in getting married, the priests' actions would designed to undermine the Church and the teaching on marriage. BBC World News.