Good Morning Australia! - Is the US military undermining the Obama Administration? - Iraq mounts a major move to retake a city from Islamic State - Outrage over the election of a nazi mayor - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The US Military is going around President Barack Obama's back and providing intelligence to the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, according a veteran but controversial US journalist.  Seymour Hersch claims members of the Pentagon joint staff are providing intelligence through third party nations - including Russia, Germany and Israel - with the understanding that it be used to combat extremist groups such as Islamic State and Al Nusra.  In return, Syria would "restrain" its Hezbollah allies from attacking Israel.  Anonymous sources formerly with the Joint Chiefs of Staff purportedly believe that the Obama Administration's view on Syria is still rooted in the Cold War.  The White House and Pentagon have not responded, and outlets friendly to the Obama White House are referring to this report as a "conspiracy theory". 

Iraqi forces are storming the city of Ramadi to remove Islamic State forces.  "The city will be cleared in the coming 72 hours," said Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service spokesman Sabah al-Numani.  "We did not face strong resistance - only snipers and suicide bombers, and this is a tactic we expected," he added.  Ramadi fell to IS in May in an embarrassing defeat for the Iraqi army, but government forces encircled it last month, cutting off militants inside the centre from strongholds elsewhere in Anbar province and in neighboring Syria. 

Boko Haram has forced about a million children out of school in Nigeria and the three neighboring where its Islamist insurgency has spread.  The group's name means "Western education is forbidden".  More than 2,000 schools in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad have shut their doors amid the gruesome violence.  Meanwhile, some former captives of Boko Haram are accusing Cameroonian troops of burning huts and killing as many as 150 villagers during operations against Boko Haram, ironically intended to free the group's captives.

Ukrainian Jews are alarmed after the election of a neo-nazi mayor in the town of Konotop.  Artem Semenikhin  of the Svoboda party drives around the northern town in a car with "14/88" license plates - the numbers being part of neo-nazi code for a dumb-ass slogan and the phrase "heil hitler".  Semenikhin he portrait pf President Petro Poroschenko with that of World war II nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera refused to fly the town flag because it contains a Muslim crescent and a Jewish Star of David.  Although Ukrainian law bans the display of nazi symbolism, more ambiguous things like the 14/88 fall into a gray area. 

India's parliament passed a bill which allows juveniles between 16 and 18 years of age to be tried as adults for serious crimes like rape or murder.  This comes after widespread public indignation over the release of the youngest of the 2011 New Delhi gang rape suspects, who was under the age of majority when he was convicted.  The other suspects were given death sentences and are awaiting the appeals process.

The whereabouts of Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli are unknown, after the Supreme Court ordered he be detained for failing to show up for a trial on charges of spying on opponents.  Prosecutors say the conservative tycoon spied on trade union officials and opposition figures as well as rivals in business, using state funds for the illegal venture.  Martinelli through social media denounced the charges as political.