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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Soccer-Brazil beat Japan but protests spoil opening day

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 03:52 PM PDT

* Neymar gets Brazil off to flying start * Paulinho, Jo also on target for hosts * Protests mar opening day of tournament (adds details, quotes) By Mike Collett BRASILIA, June 15 (Reuters) - Neymar's stunning early strike set Brazil on the way to a 3-0 win over Japan in the opening match of the Confederations Cup on Saturday although the occasion was marred by trouble at a protest outside the stadium. ...

CA-NEWS Summary

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 03:16 PM PDT

Turkish riot police storm Istanbul park in bid to end protests ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish riot police stormed an Istanbul park at the heart of two weeks of protest against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannon and sending hundreds scurrying into surrounding streets. Lines of police backed by armored vehicles sealed off Taksim Square in the center of the city as officers stormed the adjoining Gezi Park, where protesters had been living in a ramshackle tent camp. ...

Kerry: US condemns rocket attack on Baghdad camp

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 02:12 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. "strongly condemns" a rocket attack on a Baghdad camp housing Iranian exiles.

East or West, few expect Rohani to reconcile Iran with its foes

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 02:03 PM PDT

By Andrew Roche LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's enemies and friends responded to the election of Hassan Rohani as its next president with a little hope, but more skepticism, that the moderate cleric can close the rift between Tehran and much of the world. Washington said it stood ready to engage with Iran to reach a "diplomatic solution" over its nuclear program, which the West suspects is intended to produce nuclear weapons - something Iran denies. ...

Al-Qaida's Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 01:59 PM PDT

FILE - Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013. The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from Al-Baghdadi that was posted online Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Fawzi, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday.


Mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills three

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:43 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp killed three people in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources said, and the Mujahidin-e-Khalq (MEK) group said Iran was probably to blame, with Iraqi complicity. MEK said two of the camp's residents were killed and 40 wounded in the attack. An Iraqi died when a stray mortar round hit a residential complex for Baghdad airport employees nearby. A similar attack on the camp in February killed at least five members of the MEK, which was removed from the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations last year. ...

U.S. missiles, jets to stay in Jordan as Syria crisis rages

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel testifies at a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on "Department Leadership." on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy David Alexander and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it will keep Patriot missiles and F-16 jet fighters in Jordan after joint military exercises end next week while Secretary of State John Kerry said a political solution to the civil war in neighboring Syria may be getting "out of reach." The decision to put Patriot batteries - an air and missile defense system - in Jordan has been particularly controversial for Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main global ally. ...


Iran's Rowhani seeks 'constructive interaction'

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 11:06 AM PDT

FILE -- In front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, June 15, 2013, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory in 2005, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani stepped down from the post after quarrelsome meetings with the new president.


U.S. says political solution to Syria conflict in jeopardy

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of chemical weapons by Syrian government forces and the involvement of Hezbollah fighters show President Bashar al-Assad's lack of commitment to negotiations and threaten to "put a political settlement out of reach," the U.S. State Department said on Saturday, citing comments by Secretary of State John Kerry. The State Department issued a statement after Kerry spoke with Iraq's foreign minister. ...

Iraq Qaeda leader rebuffs move to end dispute with Syria group: SITE

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 10:50 AM PDT

RIYADH (Reuters) - An audio recording attributed to the head of al Qaeda in Iraq suggests he has rebuffed efforts by the group's global leader Ayman al-Zawahri to end a dispute with the movement's Syrian wing, the SITE Monitoring group reported on Saturday. Al Qaeda in Iraq announced in April it had united with Syria's Nusra Front in a new group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, angering the Nusra Front which said it had not been informed. Zawahri stepped in last week, annulling the supposed merger and saying the two groups were separate. ...

USCCAR Condemns Third Rocket Attack on Camp Liberty, Deplores Inaction by State Department

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 10:27 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), on behalf of hundreds of Iranian-Americans whose loved ones in Iraq's Camp Liberty were the target of a massive Tehran-engineered rocket attack today, deplores the US government's indifference toward a dire humanitarian situation despite its assurances that relocation to Liberty would ensure the safety of the residents. ...

AP IMPACT: Snowden's life surrounded by spycraft

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 10:22 AM PDT

FILE - This Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Posts to online blogs and forums, public records and interviews with Snowden's neighbors, teachers and acquaintances reveal someone who prized the American ideal of personal freedom but became disenchanted with the way government secretly operates in the name of national security. (AP Photo/The Guardian)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation's capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for "No Such Agency." But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency's looming presence was both a very visible and accepted part of everyday life.


Iran president-elect carries reform hopes after routing hardliners

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 09:56 AM PDT

By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's new president, a moderate cleric known for his conciliatory nuclear talks with world powers, will take office carrying the hopes of reformists seeking less repression of social freedoms and a more pragmatic foreign policy. Hassan Rohani is someone world powers are likely to welcome as the successor to hardline populist incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hoping he might pursue peaceful ways out of an increasingly tense standoff with Iran over its nuclear activity. ...

Arabs put (slim) hopes in new Iranian president

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 09:38 AM PDT

By Alastair Macdonald and Angus McDowall CAIRO/RIYADH (Reuters) - The election of a moderate Iranian president could help rein in hostility between Tehran and its Arab neighbors, but many Arabs doubt he can end a sectarian confrontation that has been inflamed by war in Syria. Hassan Rohani, a Shi'ite cleric known for a conciliatory approach and backed by reformists, will have only limited say in policy determined by Iran's supreme leader; but with the Syrian carnage fuelling rage among Sunni Arabs across the region, any gestures from Tehran may help contain it. ...

Al-Qaida's Iraq head refuses to scrap Syria merger

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 08:44 AM PDT

FILE - Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013. The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from Al-Baghdadi that was posted online Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Fawzi, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from him that was posted online Saturday.


Obama takes bolder Syria stand as G-8 talks open

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 08:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 13, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, walk off the stage after their joint White House news conference, where they spoke about Syria's civil war and other topics. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday, June 17, 2013, for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of the world's top industrial nations, where after months of caution he is suddenly positioned more aggressively on Syria. He's expected to prod Britain and France to follow his lead in trying to arm the Syrian rebels, and press Russia to end its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of caution, President Barack Obama suddenly is positioned more aggressively on Syria than the global leaders he's joining at a summit Monday, now that he has authorized weapons and ammunition shipments to struggling rebels.


Two killed in mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 06:16 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two people were killed in a mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police sources said. The Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) group, said a further 27 people were wounded in the attack. A similar attack in February killed at least five of its members. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. MEK, which was removed from the U.S. State Department's official list of terrorist organizations last year, calls for the overthrow of Iran's clerical leaders and fought on Iraq's side in the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980s. ...

Partial vote count in Iran gives Rowhani wide lead

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 06:10 AM PDT

FILE -- In front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013. Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, June 15, 2013, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in a partial vote count Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics.


In Syria, do Americans hear echoes of Vietnam and Iraq?

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 05:22 AM PDT

In deciding to provide weapons to rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – too late, in the view of many critics – President Obama correctly senses the reluctance of most Americans to engage in foreign wars not clearly tied to national security.

Early vote count in Iran gives Rowhani wide lead

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 03:21 AM PDT

An Iranian woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in the presidential and municipal council elections at a polling station in Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013. Iran's supreme leader delivered a salty rebuke to the U.S. Friday as Iranians lined up to vote in a presidential election that has suddenly become a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide: hard-liners looking to cement their control and re-energized reformists backing the lone moderate. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics.


Today in History

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2013. There are 199 days left in the year.

How Obama crossed his own line on Syria after months of debate

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 08:57 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan hold joint news conference at the White House in WashingtonBy Warren Strobel and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Obama's decision to arm Syrian rebels for the first time follows an intense, nearly two-year debate within the White House in which the president and his closest advisers consistently expressed skepticism about U.S. intervention in a Middle East civil war, current and former officials said. ...


Oil price highest since January on Syria concerns

Posted: 14 Jun 2013 01:21 PM PDT

Oil rose to the highest level since January amid concerns about a possible escalation in Syria's civil war. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose $1.16 to close at $97.85 a barrel on the New York Mercantile ...

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