From NPR news in Washington I'm Janine Herbst.The Pentagon says a new round of air strikes for US fighter jets and unmanned drones targeted Islamic militants in northern Iraq.The US central command says the strike's to destroy armed vehiclesincluding one that was firing on Kurdish forces approaching the city of Erbil.Congressman Peter King told NBC's meet the pressthe US can not afford to wait before hitting the Iraqi militants harder.Everyday that goes by, ISIS builds up its caliphate and it becomes a direct threat to the United States of America.They are more powerful now that Al Qaeda was on 9/11.This is the fourth round of air strikes against Islamic State forces and the strikes were authorized by president Obama.Meanwhile the prime minister of Iraq sayshe will file a legal complaint against the country's new president for committing a clear constitutional violation.Nouri al-Maliki says Fouad Massoum didn't name a prime minister by today's deadline.But the US says it fully supports Massoum.State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf says in a statement thatthe US affirms its support for a process to select a prime minister who can build a national consensus.In Turkey, unofficial results show prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan making history by becoming the republican's first elected president.NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Istanbul thatErdogan appears to have gained over 50% of the votes against two rivals, avoiding a run-off.The results won't be official before Monday if not later.But Erdogan's party, the AKP, declared their man the victor a few hours after the polls closed.
