| SPIEGEL ONLINE | INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER |
| Compiled on September 01, 2014, 06:16 PM CET |
| FAILED DIPLOMACY NATO Hardliners Push for Firmer Stance against Russia After months of failed telephone diplomacy between Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin, hardliners are gaining the upper hand in discussions over the appropriate response to Russia. They may soon prevail with demands that go far beyond new economic sanctions. |
| ISLAMIST INFLUX Several Radicalized Ex-German Soldiers in Iraq Germany on Sunday presented the list of weapons it plans to send to the Kurds in northern Iraq. Some of them, though, may end up being used against former German soldiers. SPIEGEL has learned that 20 ex-Bundeswehr troops have joined jihadists in the region. |
| A TWO-FACED FRIENDSHIP Turkey Is 'Partner and Target' for the NSA Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal wide-scale spying against Turkey by America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ. They also show the US worked closely with Ankara to battle Kurdish separatists. |
