Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Rare bomb attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital kills six
• Assad says Syria will comply with UN arms resolution
• Chemical experts say no reason to doubt Damascus
• Wave of attacks across Iraq kills dozens
• Syria air strike kills 16 in high school
• Suicide bomber kills 40 at Iraq mosque
• Militants kill six in capital of Iraqi Kurdish region
• Suicide bomber kills 27 at Iraq Shiite mosque
• About sports and entertainment owner Mark Cuban
• America's new isolationism
• Suicide bomber hits mosque in Iraq, killing 18
• Rare suicide attack in Iraq's north kills 6 people
• Rare suicide attack in Iraq's north kills 4 people
• Terrorists used new tactic to spare some Muslims
• University of Kentucky Surgeon Balances Civilian, Military Careers
• Pentagon chief urges lawmakers to avert government shutdown

Rare bomb attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital kills six Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:25 PM PDT By Isabel Coles ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Militants launched a coordinated suicide and car bomb attack on the headquarters of the security services in the capital of Iraq's usually peaceful Kurdistan region on Sunday, killing six people in the first major assault there since 2007. Kurdistan has largely managed to insulate itself from the violent instability that afflicts the rest of Iraq, where insurgent groups including the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda have been regaining momentum this year and striking on a near daily basis. ...

Assad says Syria will comply with UN arms resolution Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:23 PM PDT Damascus (AFP) - Syria will comply with a UN resolution to destroy its chemical arsenal, President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday, as weapons experts prepared to head for Damascus to begin the task.

Chemical experts say no reason to doubt Damascus Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:20 PM PDT The Hague (AFP) - International experts charged with destroying Syria's chemical arsenal will meet regime officials in Damascus on Tuesday and have no reason to doubt the inventory supplied so far, they said.

Wave of attacks across Iraq kills dozens Posted: 29 Sep 2013 12:01 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombings tore through a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad and the relatively safe Kurdish area in the north Sunday as a wave of attacks killed at least 46 people across Iraq, officials said.

Syria air strike kills 16 in high school Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:32 AM PDT Beirut (AFP) - An air strike on a high school killed 16 people, most of them students and teachers, in a rebel-held city in northern Syria on Sunday, a monitoring group said.

Suicide bomber kills 40 at Iraq mosque Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:49 AM PDT By Ali al-Rubaie HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi-ite Muslim funeral in a southern Iraqi town on Sunday. The blast brought down the ceiling of the mosque in Mussayab, 60km (40 miles) south of the capital Baghdad. Police said some bodies were still trapped beneath the debris. At least 50 people were wounded. Those inside had been mourning the death of a man killed a day earlier by militants. "Until now, we are trying to retrieve bodies from under the debris. Most of the bodies were torn to pieces. ...

Militants kill six in capital of Iraqi Kurdish region Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:44 AM PDT Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Militants killed six people in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Sunday in a rare attack on an area usually spared the violence plaguing other parts of the country.

Suicide bomber kills 27 at Iraq Shiite mosque Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:42 AM PDT Hilla (Iraq) (AFP) - A suicide bomber targeted mourners at a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad Sunday, killing 27 people, police and a doctor said, the latest in a series of attacks on funerals.

About sports and entertainment owner Mark Cuban Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:39 AM PDT NAME: Mark Cuban AGE: 55 HOMETOWN: Born in Pittsburgh, lives in Dallas. CURRENT TITLES: Owner, Dallas Mavericks basketball team. Chairman, CEO and president of the AXS TV cable channel. EDUCATION: Attended ...

America's new isolationism Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:33 AM PDT As President Obama pressed earlier this month for congressional authorization to use force against Syria over a gruesome chemical weapons attack, one reader's comment on a Politico story assessing the president's prospects captured the mood of a fatigued and inward-looking America.

Suicide bomber hits mosque in Iraq, killing 18 Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:13 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives belt inside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing 18 in the latest episode of violence to hit the troubled country.

Rare suicide attack in Iraq's north kills 6 people Posted: 29 Sep 2013 07:08 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A twin suicide car bombing and ensuing firefight in the capital of Iraq's largely peaceful self-ruled northern Kurdish region killed at least six members of the security forces and wounded 30 others on Sunday, officials said.

Rare suicide attack in Iraq's north kills 4 people Posted: 29 Sep 2013 05:35 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a double suicide car bomb attack in the capital of Iraq's self-ruled northern Kurdish region has killed at least four members of the security forces.

Terrorists used new tactic to spare some Muslims Posted: 29 Sep 2013 04:34 AM PDT The turbaned gunmen who infiltrated Nairobi's Westgate mall arrived with a set of religious trivia questions: As terrified civilians hid in toilet stalls, behind mannequins, in ventilation shafts and underneath food court tables, the assailants began a high-stakes game of 20 Questions to separate Muslims from those they consider infidels.

University of Kentucky Surgeon Balances Civilian, Military Careers Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:00 AM PDT FORT KNOX, Ky., Sept. 29, 2913 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Balancing a demanding career as University of Kentucky's chief of general thoracic surgery with an Army obligation hasn't always been easy. But Dr. Timothy Mullett has been successful on both fronts. Mullett, a cardiothoracic surgeon and a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, recently returned to Lexington after being deployed to Afghanistan. The military deployment was his second during the Global War on Terror, with his first to Iraq in 2004. ...

Pentagon chief urges lawmakers to avert government shutdown Posted: 28 Sep 2013 07:26 PM PDT By David Alexander ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appealed on Saturday for lawmakers to take action to avert a government shutdown next week, saying it was "astoundingly irresponsible" to try to influence policymaking by triggering a funding crisis. Hagel, speaking to reporters en route to Seoul to mark the 60th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea defense alliance, said he had spent much of the week working on future spending cuts while planning for a shutdown next week that could force 400,000 civilian defense workers to take unpaid leave. ...

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