DELIVERS AIRSTRIKES TO BLOCK ISLAMIC STATE CONVOYContinue Reading BelowThe U.S. military carried out at least one airstrike to stop hundreds of Islamic State militants evacuated from the Lebanese-Syrian border from relocating to an extremist stronghold in Syria near the border with Iraq. NATO WILL SEND THREE OBSERVERS TO RUSSIAN MILITARY EXERCISEThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced it would send three observers to Russia's Zapad military exercise but said the invitation fell short of Moscow's international obligations. MOSCOW CONFIRMS RECEIVING EMAIL FROM TRUMP ORGANIZATION LAWYERKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that his office received an email from the Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen regarding a building project in Moscow but said Russian President Vladimir Putin had never been informed. RUSSIA SAYS WAR GAMES ARE 'PURELY DEFENSIVE'The Russian military on Tuesday dismissed Western concerns over a major war game in the Baltic Sea region, as the U.S. further beefed up its presence there. (For continuously updated news from the Wall Street Journal, see WSJ.com at http://wsj.com.)

Source: Wall Street Journal August 30, 2017 22:20 UTC