美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-29

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Video posted online appears to show supporters of the Islamic State celebrating after capturing a major military base in northeastern Syria. This victory is part of the Jihadist group's aggressive push to consolidate² its hold on northern and eastern provinces along the Syria-Iraq border. It's the 3rd military base in the area to fall to extremists since last month.

 

And an American journalist kidnapped and held hostage for nearly 2 years by Al-Qaida-linked group in Syria is free. Peter Theo Curtis, who wrote under the byline³ Theo Padnos, was released less than a week after the beheading of American journalist James Foley by Islamic militants⁴.

 

And a young elk⁵ wandered into an office building in eastern Germany. Footage aired Germany television showed the animal standing⁶ calmly in a corridor after he apparently⁷ broke a glass door.

 

Maggie Mazzetti, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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