Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Syrian Islamist rebel leader freed after clashes among rival rebels
• Bombs, shootings kill 13 in Iraq
• Gunmen kill five Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq
• Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20
• Iran's top leader urges caution in dealing with US
• Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 18
• Activists: Kurds free al-Qaida-linked commander
• Attacks kill 13 in Iraq
• Activists: Kurds to free al-Qaida-linked commander
• Bombs on outskirts of Baghdad kill 6
• Insight: By relying on Iran, Syria's Assad risks irrelevance
• Islamist rebels would gain sway in long Syrian war: U.S. official

Syrian Islamist rebel leader freed after clashes among rival rebels Posted: 21 Jul 2013 01:50 PM PDT By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - The local commander of a Syrian rebel group affiliated to al Qaeda was freed on Sunday after being held by Kurdish forces in a power struggle between rival organizations fighting President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. However, the pro-opposition activists gave conflicting reports of how the Islamist brigade commander in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border had come to be free. ...

Bombs, shootings kill 13 in Iraq Posted: 21 Jul 2013 01:15 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 13 people on Sunday, as the death toll from a coordinated wave of late-night car bombings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, authorities said.

Gunmen kill five Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq Posted: 21 Jul 2013 12:55 PM PDT KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen killed five members of the Kurdish security forces at a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, bringing the day's death toll from bombings and shootings across the whole country to 14. The attacks are the latest in a campaign of violence that has raised fears of a return to full-blown sectarian conflict in a country where Kurds, Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable way of sharing power. The checkpoint attack took place in al-Zad, a town near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. ...

Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20 Posted: 21 Jul 2013 12:40 PM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said.

Iran's top leader urges caution in dealing with US Posted: 21 Jul 2013 12:28 PM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top leader said Sunday he has not prohibited talks with the U.S. but urged caution with any possible dialogue, describing the American government as untrustworthy.

Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 18 Posted: 21 Jul 2013 12:15 PM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 18 civilians, activist groups said.

Activists: Kurds free al-Qaida-linked commander Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kurdish rebels freed the local commander of an al-Qaida-linked group in a town near Syria's northern border with Turkey in return for 300 Kurdish civilians detained by the group, as part of an agreement to end rebel infighting that erupted a day earlier in the region, activists said Sunday.

Attacks kill 13 in Iraq Posted: 21 Jul 2013 09:46 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 13 people on Sunday, as the death toll from a coordinated wave of late-night car bombings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, authorities said.

Activists: Kurds to free al-Qaida-linked commander Posted: 21 Jul 2013 06:50 AM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kurdish rebels are about to free the local commander of an al-Qaida-linked group in a town near Syria's northern border with Turkey after capturing him in intense fighting, activists said Sunday.

Bombs on outskirts of Baghdad kill 6 Posted: 21 Jul 2013 03:59 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Two bombs killed six people on the outskirts of Baghdad early Sunday, as the death toll from a coordinated wave of late-night car bombings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, according to authorities.

Insight: By relying on Iran, Syria's Assad risks irrelevance Posted: 21 Jul 2013 03:17 AM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Military support from Iran and its Shi'ite ally Hezbollah has given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad new impetus in his fight against the insurgents intent on ousting him, but at a price. Assad now risks losing much of his autonomy to Tehran and becoming a pawn in a wider sectarian war between Sunni Muslims and Shi'ites that may not end even if he is forced to step down, military experts and diplomats in the region say. ...

Islamist rebels would gain sway in long Syrian war: U.S. official Posted: 20 Jul 2013 08:39 PM PDT By Phil Stewart ASPEN, Colo. (Reuters) - - Radical Islamist rebels will gain sway over the many disparate factions opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad unless they are checked, and the country's civil war could last years, a top Pentagon intelligence official said on Saturday. David Shedd, the deputy director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, did not advocate any form of intervention by the United States or its allies, saying that was up to policymakers. ...

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