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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Inauguration Weekend Lineup

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:21 PM PST

Inauguration Weekend LineupThe Presidential Inaugural Committee has a weekend packed with star-powered events planned to kick off President Obama's second term. Tune in to the ABC News.com Live page on Monday morning starting at 9:30 a.m. EST for all-day live streaming video coverage of Inauguration 2013: Barack...

Amputee vet hurt in NH avalanche was raising money

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:21 PM PST

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An avalanche has halted an attempt by a retired Marine and amputee to climb the Northeast's highest peak, but if his past comments are any indication, he'll likely try again.

Poe visitor comes nevermore, yet mystery lingers

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:18 PM PST

In this Jan. 15, 2013 photo, a gravestone marking Edgar Allan Poe's original grave stands in a cemetery outside Westminster Hall in Baltimore. For decades, a mysterious man known as the Poe Toaster left three roses and an unfinished bottle of cognac at Poe's grave every year on the legendary writer's birthday. His identity is a great modern mystery, and just as mysteriously, the tradition ended four years ago. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)BALTIMORE (AP) — From the tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe, one can reach the street by taking a narrow dirt path between two tall stone mausoleums and crouching for a few steps underneath a portion of Westminster Hall.

Soccer-UAE leave it late to beat Iraq in Gulf Cup final

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:31 AM PST

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Ismail Al Hammadi struck the extra-time winner as United Arab Emirates beat Iraq 2-1 in the final to lift the Gulf Cup in Manama on Friday. Substitute Al Hammadi latched on to a through pass before slotting it home after regulation time had ended 1-1. UAE drew first blood just before the half-hour mark when Umar Abdul Rahman rounded four Iraqi defenders before unleashing a left-footer to put his team ahead. Iraq equalised through striker Younis Mahmoud with less than 10 minutes to go to force extra time but could not deny UAE their second Gulf Cup title. ...

Video appears to show Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiites fighting in Syria

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:25 AM PST

An unprecedented and slickly-produced video is being circulated around Shiite areas of Lebanon showing alleged Shiite combatants fighting in Syria. The video's production and open dissemination highlights how fighters outside Syria are jumping into the country's ongoing civil war – and growing less shy about hiding it.

News Summary: Genel ramps up in Iraqi Kurdish area

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:16 AM PST

EXPORTING FROM IRAQ: Genel Energy PLC, a company led by Tony Hayward, the former BP CEO, plans to increase the amount it exports from the enclave despite Baghdad's opposition.TOUCHY BUSINESS: The exports ...

Noam Chomsky urges Turkey to pursue Kurdish peace

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:48 AM PST

U.S. linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky pauses while addressing the audience at the National Autonomous University's Educational Investigation Institute (UNAM) in Mexico CityISTANBUL (Reuters) - The American left-wing philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky urged Turkey on Friday to end its "malignant" war with Kurdish rebels, saying recent peace efforts offered a real chance of a settlement. Chomsky, whose writings have in the past caused trouble for his Turkish publisher, said the growing independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and the possibility that Syria's Kurdish zone could break away if Syria's civil war worsens meant Turkey must confront its own Kurdish problem fast. ...

Hostage crisis: Energy needs ensnare Europe in the Sahara

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:32 AM PST

Still reeling from a deadly Algerian military attempt to free hostages held by Islamist militants at a natural gas installation, European governments, resource companies, and other investors are considering how large amounts of personnel on the ground in the region can be protected from future attacks.

Hagel pick test of Senate on presidential choices

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:21 AM PST

In this Jan. 7, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama and his choice for Defense Secretary, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, left, laugh as current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where the president announced his nomination of Hagel. In 1989, former President Richard Nixon said unless a nominee is clearly unqualified, the Senate should respect the right of a president to fill his Cabinet. Nixon's words came during the bitter fight over President George H.W. Bush's choice of John Tower for the Pentagon post. The Democratic-led Senate rejected him. Now, Obama's choice of Hagel to be defense secretary will be a test for Senate Republicans, including those who fought strenuously for Tower. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)WASHINGTON (AP) — In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to give the president his choice for the Pentagon job.

Iraq Sunnis rally against Shiite-led government

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 07:18 AM PST

Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags during a demonstration in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. Thousands of Sunnis are rallying in western and central Iraq against the Shiite-led government's policies they see as sidelining their minority group. Friday's protests come amid rising tensions among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups that are threatening to plunge the country into more instability. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Sunnis rallied Friday in western and central Iraq, denouncing the Shiite-led government's policies they claim sideline their sect and saying that recent concessions by the authorities are not enough.

Troops worry about defense, job cuts

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:35 AM PST

Troops worry about defense, job cutsThe soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team have gone to war five times since 9/11, and 84 have been killed — including 13 during their current deployment to Afghanistan.But when members of ...

Disabled Veterans National Foundation Applauds Wal-Mart Initiative to Hire Veterans

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:32 AM PST

DVNF applauds Wal-Mart for its commitment to hiring veterans as the company recently announced its initiative to hire over 100,000 veterans.Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (http://www.dvnf.org), a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom, applauds Wal-Mart for its commitment to hiring veterans. According to money.cnn.com, the company recently announced its initiative to hire over 100,000 veterans. ...

Oil firm to boost exports from Iraqi Kurdish area

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:42 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Genel Energy PLC, a company led by the former BP chief executive that recently started shipping oil from Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region, said Friday it plans to increase the amount it exports from the enclave despite Baghdad's opposition.

Iraq Sunnis decry Shiite-led government's policies

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 04:54 AM PST

A policeman stands guard at the scene after a car bomb attack outside a mosque in Dujail, Iraq, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Insurgents unleashed a string of bomb attacks mainly targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims across Iraq on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Sunnis are rallying in western and central Iraq against the Shiite-led government's policies they see as sidelining their minority group.

President Obama: National Day of Service offers a chance to 'change lives'

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:05 AM PST

FILE - This Jan. 20, 2009 file photo shows President Barack Obama delivering his inaugural address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four years after he was the fifth-youngest president to take the oath of office, Barack Obama now is 51, his hair more gray, his face more lined. The changes aren't all physical: As he enters Term Two, he is sounding more confident, vowing a harder line on negotiations, relying more on trusted allies, promising less, expressing more cynicism about the grip of partisanship on Washington. And perhaps most important, he seems more convinced of a need to keep the public with him, coming full circle to his people-driven 2008 campaign. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Each January as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we are called not just to pause and reflect, but to act.

USMilitary.com Editor Reports Nuclear Weapon Proliferation A Threat of Immeasurable Proportion

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:52 AM PST

Author Paul Evancoe claims that as rogue nations like Iran, Myanmar and North Korea proceed in their nuclear weapon development quest, the threat of terrorists acquiring and using a nuclear weapon against us increases exponentially.Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 Paul Evancoe, a former Navy Seal and a featured columnist for USMilitary.com, reports that the current world of nuclear weapon states fall into two categories – those who have declared their nuclear weapon capability and those who proliferate them without admitting it. ...

Who's a Coward?

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:00 AM PST

Who said this about a world leader: He's a "political coward — an essentially unchallenged leader who nevertheless is unwilling to lead or spend political capital to advance the cause of compromise"? Was it perhaps John Boehner describing Barack Obama? No, though the shoe would certainly fit. It was Barack Obama describing Binyamin Netanyahu.

4 Enlisted Troops Picked for Inaugural Ball Dance

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:01 PM PST

4 enlisted troops who served in wars picked to dance with Obamas and Bidens at inaugural ball

Today in History

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST

Today is Friday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2013. There are 347 days left in the year.

U.S. soldier charged in Afghan massacre had PTSD: lawyer

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 07:37 PM PST

Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance is seen in a courtroom sketch as he is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WashingtoTACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier charged with slaying 16 civilians, most of them women and children, near his Army post in Afghanistan was diagnosed before his deployment as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury, his lawyer said on Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is accused of gunning down the villagers in cold blood during two rampages through their family compounds in Kandahar province last March. ...

Colorado movie theater reopens in somber ceremony

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 06:51 PM PST

Workers with American Fence remove the fence from around the Century theater in Aurora, Colo., on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded dozens of others reopens Thursday with a private ceremony for victims, first responders and officials. Theater owner Cinemark plans to temporarily reopen the entire 16-screen complex in Aurora to the public on Friday, then permanently on Jan. 25. Aurora's mayor, Steve Hogan, has said residents overwhelmingly support reclaiming what he calls "an important venue for Aurora." (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AURORA, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado theater where 12 people were killed and dozens injured in a shooting rampage last year reopened Thursday with a somber remembrance ceremony and a screening of the latest "Hobbit" film for survivors — but the pain was too much, the idea too horrific, for many Aurora victims to attend.

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