Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists
• Experts: Unlikely US helped NZ spy on reporter
• Along with Miss America, parade returns to NJ
• Iran nominee seen as olive branch to United States
• Verdict to be read on Tuesday for Bradley Manning WikiLeaks case
• Verdict likely Tuesday in WikiLeaks court-martial
• Syrian troops capture key Homs neighborhood
• Readers Write: US must not arm Syria's rebels
• Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 58
• Yoohoo! Another investigation turns up taxpayer waste in Afghanistan.
• Along with Miss America, parade returns to AC
• New Region, Old Ritual: Back to Peace Talks
• Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 55
• Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 60
• Surging violence in Iraq
• Car bombings in Iraq wound Maliki's government
• Syrian TV: Troops capture key Homs neighborhood
• More Bombings in Baghadad as Iraq Continues to Soar
• Kurds could help shift course of war in Syria
• Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 51
• Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 47
• Wave of car bombings in and near Baghdad kills 36

Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:41 PM PDT By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped father Paolo Dall'Oglio while he was walking in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters. ...

Experts: Unlikely US helped NZ spy on reporter Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:08 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official said Monday that the National Security Agency did not monitor phone conversations between a New Zealand journalist and his Afghan sources, and other officials and experts said any surveillance was more likely to have been done under standard military intelligence monitoring of enemy communications in war zones.

Along with Miss America, parade returns to NJ Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:38 PM PDT The Miss America parade is getting a television-friendly makeover as the tradition returns to Atlantic City in September for the first time in nine years.

Iran nominee seen as olive branch to United States Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT By Marcus George and Paul Taylor DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - If Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani wanted to signal his determination to rebuild relations with the United States and strike a "grand bargain," he could hardly do better than pick Mohammad Javad Zarif as his foreign minister. Iranian news agencies reported on Monday that Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Tehran's leading connoisseur of the U.S. political elite, is set to be in the cabinet Rouhani will announce after taking office on Sunday. ...

Verdict to be read on Tuesday for Bradley Manning WikiLeaks case Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:09 PM PDT By Medina Roshan (Reuters) - The verdict will be read on Tuesday at the court-martial of the soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, the judge said, with the biggest question whether he will be convicted of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy, carrying a life sentence. ...

Verdict likely Tuesday in WikiLeaks court-martial Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:22 PM PDT Pfc. Bradley Manning could learn as early as Tuesday afternoon whether he will be convicted of aiding the enemy — punishable by life in prison without parole — for sending more than 700,000 government ...

Syrian troops capture key Homs neighborhood Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:19 PM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's beleaguered opposition forces suffered another blow Monday when government troops captured a key district in the embattled city of Homs that has been a rebel stronghold since the beginning of the country's uprising.

Readers Write: US must not arm Syria's rebels Posted: 29 Jul 2013 11:24 AM PDT Kurt Shillinger's argument for arming the Syrian rebels to back Bashar al-Assad "into a corner from which the negotiating table provides his only safe escape" is a terrible idea (June 26 commentary "US military aid to Syrian rebels: help or hindrance?"). True, the Assad regime is supported by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah. It is also supported by the majority of Syria's Christians, who have always tended to form alliances with the Alawites and Shiites in opposition to the majority Sunnis.

Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 58 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 11:02 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — More than a dozen explosions, mainly from car bombs, ripped through marketplaces, parking lots, a cafe and rush-hour crowds in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 58 people and pushing the country's death toll for the month of July toward the 700 mark, officials said.

Yoohoo! Another investigation turns up taxpayer waste in Afghanistan. Posted: 29 Jul 2013 10:56 AM PDT Today, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reports that a $47 million US government stability program failed to bring any stability.

Along with Miss America, parade returns to AC Posted: 29 Jul 2013 10:32 AM PDT The Miss America parade is getting a television friendly makeover as the tradition returns to Atlantic City in September for the first time in nine years.

New Region, Old Ritual: Back to Peace Talks Posted: 29 Jul 2013 10:18 AM PDT And so the Obama administration induced Israelis and Palestinians to reenter peace talks Monday, after three years of suspension that followed many more years of paralysis. This latest effort to get two hostile peoples to divide up the same dot on the map somehow recalls the line from Julius Caesar: "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown?"

Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 55 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 09:31 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — More than a dozen car bombs ripped through marketplaces, parking lots and rush-hour crowds in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 55 people and pushing the country's death toll for the month of July toward the 700 mark, officials said.

Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 60 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 06:44 AM PDT By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs ripped through busy streets and markets in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents stepped up attacks this year. The 17 blasts, which appeared to be coordinated, were concentrated on towns and cities in Iraq's mainly Shi'ite south, and districts of the capital where Shi'ites live. ...

Surging violence in Iraq Posted: 29 Jul 2013 06:41 AM PDT In the early morning hours of July 22, Al Qaeda in Iraq won its greatest victory in years with simultaneous attacks on the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Taji, freeing some 500 prisoners and killing more than 50 people. The attacks' precision and targets – heavily militarized facilities on the outskirts of Baghdad – show that Iraq's toughest insurgent group is still very much in the fight.

Car bombings in Iraq wound Maliki's government Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:25 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Syrian TV: Troops capture key Homs neighborhood Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:13 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Government troops captured a neighborhood Monday in the embattled city of Homs that has been a rebel stronghold since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, dealing another blow to beleaguered opposition forces in the center of the country, according to the state media.

More Bombings in Baghadad as Iraq Continues to Soar Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:11 AM PDT A wave of coordinated car bombings killed more than 50 people across Iraq on Monday, as a sharp rise in sectarian violence threatens to tear the nation apart. There were ten bombings in Baghdad alone, with targets including a hospital and several markets. Bombings also killed and wounded dozens of others in Basra, Tikrit, and Kut.

Kurds could help shift course of war in Syria Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:02 AM PDT By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The head of Turkey's main Kurdish party has welcomed contacts between the Ankara government and Syria's Kurds, saying it could step up pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and help change the course of the civil war, Turkish intelligence officers met in Istanbul last week with Saleh Muslim, head of Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish group whose militias have been fighting for control of parts of Syria's north near the Turkish border. ...

Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 51 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing at least 51 people in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government.

Wave of car bombings in Iraq kills at least 47 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:47 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of over a dozen car bombings hit central and southern Iraq during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing at least 47 people in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government.

Wave of car bombings in and near Baghdad kills 36 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:31 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of a dozen car bombings hit in and around the Iraqi capital during morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, killing at least 36 people in the latest coordinated attack by insurgents determined to undermine the government.

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