Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• CA-NEWS Summary
• As U.S. struggles with Syria policy, Senate panel backs arming rebels
• Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case
• Project VALOR: Employing Veterans - Saving Kids
• Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels
• Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges
• Attacks in Iraq kill over 40, sectarian tensions high
• Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
• Iran candidate list for presidential race
• Exclusive: Iran's frontrunner for president speaks of his life battling US power
• World Bank boosts funds for Syria refugees, Africa
• More attacks across Iraq kill 13 people
• Ahead of Memorial Day, Military Veterans, Service Members and Advocates Call for Equality; Release New Video Highlighting the Harms of DOMA
• WikiLeaks prosecutors accept GI's plea to 1 count
• Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country in Deadly Spiral
• Which Is More Corrupt: Afghanistan or America?
• Will Hillary Clinton's staff defections hurt her in 2016?
• More attacks across Iraq kill 7 people
• Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12
• Officials: More attacks in Iraq; 7 killed
• 10 things you need to know today: May 21, 2013
• FBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast
• Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sources
• 10 Things to Know for Tuesday
• Are tit-for-tat sectarian killings enough to tilt Iraq back to war?

CA-NEWS Summary Posted: 21 May 2013 04:29 PM PDT PM says growing expenses scandal a distraction OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday dismissed a mushrooming expenses scandal as a distraction, but also said he was "very upset" that members of his Conservative Party had apparently tapped the public purse for personal gain. Harper, facing the biggest crisis since he won power in early 2006 with promises to clean up government, urged legislators to focus on the economy, which the Conservatives see as their strongest suit. ...

As U.S. struggles with Syria policy, Senate panel backs arming rebels Posted: 21 May 2013 03:22 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to send weapons to rebels fighting Syria's government, but it was not clear who would get the arms even if the bill succeeds, as Washington struggles to deal with its response to the conflict. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 for legislation that would send arms to "vetted" moderate members of the Syrian opposition, the first time U.S. lawmakers have approved such military action in the two-year-old civil war. ...

Deal on bin Laden evidence in WikiLeaks case Posted: 21 May 2013 02:49 PM PDT FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a deal that may eliminate the need for testimony from a member of the military team that killed Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors also agreed to accept Pfc. Bradley Manning's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces.

Project VALOR: Employing Veterans - Saving Kids Posted: 21 May 2013 02:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The war on violence in America's communities just got a bit more winnable.  A brave group of American veteran leaders have banded together to join the campaign to save America's youth from tragic gun violence.  A battle they would rather not have to fight, but these veterans are perhaps the best suited force in America with the credibility, experience and commitment to win. ...

Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels Posted: 21 May 2013 02:24 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel voted on Tuesday to provide weapons to rebels battling the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the first time lawmakers have endorsed the aggressive U.S. military step of arming the opposition in the 2-year-old civil war.

Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges Posted: 21 May 2013 02:23 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation.

Attacks in Iraq kill over 40, sectarian tensions high Posted: 21 May 2013 02:21 PM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. Nearly 300 people have been killed in the past week as sectarian tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighboring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting. Ten years after the U.S. ...

Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq Posted: 21 May 2013 01:13 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a year ago.

Iran candidate list for presidential race Posted: 21 May 2013 12:35 PM PDT The eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits.

Exclusive: Iran's frontrunner for president speaks of his life battling US power Posted: 21 May 2013 12:24 PM PDT Iran's smiling but immovable top nuclear negotiator, a revolutionary and wounded war veteran with a decades-old suspicion of the United States, has become a frontrunner in Iran's presidential race.

World Bank boosts funds for Syria refugees, Africa Posted: 21 May 2013 11:47 AM PDT By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank plans substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in Syria, and hopes new funds for central Africa will cement a peace deal there, the bank's President Jim Yong Kim said on Tuesday. "There will be significant amounts of new funding going to Jordan in the very near future to deal with this crisis," he said in an interview, after a speech at the U.N. World Health Assembly in Geneva. ...

More attacks across Iraq kill 13 people Posted: 21 May 2013 11:30 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — New attacks in Iraq killed 13 people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, officials said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 100 lives across the country.

Ahead of Memorial Day, Military Veterans, Service Members and Advocates Call for Equality; Release New Video Highlighting the Harms of DOMA Posted: 21 May 2013 11:27 AM PDT Supreme Court Should Strike Down DOMA; Ensure Equal Treatment for All Service Members and their FamiliesWASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, May 22, in advance of Memorial Day, the Respect for Marriage Coalition will hold a conference call with Former Congressman, Army Captain and Iraq War Veteran Patrick Murphy, Outserve-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson, American Military Partner Association Director of Family Affairs Ashley Broadway and military widow Karen Morgan to highlight the harms of Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the nation's military. ...

WikiLeaks prosecutors accept GI's plea to 1 count Posted: 21 May 2013 10:48 AM PDT The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, ...

Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country in Deadly Spiral Posted: 21 May 2013 10:47 AM PDT In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians. While on a patrol on a highway 20 km south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting my platoon exploded a second too late–or perhaps a second too early–in front of my vehicle and behind my wingman, tearing instead into a tiny pickup truck traveling in the right hand lane. When I ran up to the truck, I found the driver dead, his head nearly decapitated.

Which Is More Corrupt: Afghanistan or America? Posted: 21 May 2013 08:15 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan — None of President Hamid Karzai's top advisers knew that he had been receiving tens of millions of dollars in secret cash from the CIA, Afghanistan's senior anticorruption official said, and he added that he did not believe the Afghan leader's claim that he had been giving the agency regular receipts for the money.

Will Hillary Clinton's staff defections hurt her in 2016? Posted: 21 May 2013 04:14 AM PDT At least four of the top staffers from the Democrat's last presidential campaign won't re-up in 2016

More attacks across Iraq kill 7 people Posted: 21 May 2013 03:17 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — New attacks in Iraq killed seven people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, officials said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 100 lives across the country.

Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12 Posted: 21 May 2013 03:10 AM PDT KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis. More than 200 people have been killed in the past week as Sunni-Shi'ite tensions, fuelled by the civil war in neighboring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into communal bloodletting. ...

Officials: More attacks in Iraq; 7 killed Posted: 21 May 2013 01:38 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say new attacks in Iraq have killed seven people and wounded dozens.

10 things you need to know today: May 21, 2013 Posted: 21 May 2013 01:25 AM PDT A two-mile-wide tornado kills dozens in Oklahoma, Senators say Apple avoided billions in taxes, and more

FBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast Posted: 20 May 2013 09:43 PM PDT NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night.

Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sources Posted: 20 May 2013 06:35 PM PDT By Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday. Obama has pledged more transparency on controversial counterterrorism programs, and giving the Pentagon the responsibility for part of the drone program could open it to greater congressional oversight. ...

10 Things to Know for Tuesday Posted: 20 May 2013 06:10 PM PDT Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

Are tit-for-tat sectarian killings enough to tilt Iraq back to war? Posted: 20 May 2013 02:15 PM PDT After the death of more than 60 people in a series of car bombs today targeting Iraq's majority Shiite community and weeks of escalating sectarian attacks, many are wondering if the country's simmering sectarian tensions will tumble once again into all-out civil war.

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