Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Al-Qaeda claims attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital
• Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission
• Suicide bombers target Shiites in Iraq, killing 24
• Iraq suicide blasts kill 33, many of them children
• Iraq bomb against pilgrims kills 5
• Few Tunisian women waging Syria 'sex jihad'
• Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi'ite pilgrims, kill 29
• Orthodox Christians mark 1,700th anniversary of edict of tolerance
• Iraq suicide blasts kill 27, many of them children
• Iraq: New blast hits Shiite pilgrims, killing 12
• Iraq: 15 dead as blasts hit school, police post
• Consortium boosts production at Iraq oil field
• Iraq: 13 dead as blasts hit school, police post
• The chemical weapons trail: Inside the mission to destroy Syria's arsenal
• Iraq offers lessons on destroying Syria's chemical weapons
• 4 US soldiers killed in south Afghanistan
• Obama: Iran 'year or more' from getting bomb

Al-Qaeda claims attack in Iraqi Kurdish capital Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:24 PM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front group said it carried out an attack on security forces in Iraq's usually-quiet autonomous Kurdish region, in a statement posted on the Honein jihadist forum on Sunday.

Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission Posted: 06 Oct 2013 01:49 PM PDT By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob President Bashar al-Assad of his most feared weapon. The process is being conducted amid a civil war in which 120,000 people have been killed, fragmenting Syria along sectarian and ethnic lines and drawing in Iran and Hezbollah on the side of Assad and his Alawite minority and Arab Sunni powers on the side of the mostly Sunni Muslim rebels. ...

Suicide bombers target Shiites in Iraq, killing 24 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 11:21 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - Suicide bombers attacked Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and a primary school and police station in a Shiite village in north Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, officials said.

Iraq suicide blasts kill 33, many of them children Posted: 06 Oct 2013 10:55 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Deadly attacks in Iraq killed at least 33 people on Sunday, including a dozen children slain when a suicide bomber detonated the explosives-laden car he was driving near their elementary school in the north of the country, officials said.

Iraq bomb against pilgrims kills 5 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 08:06 AM PDT Baghdad (AFP) - A suicide bomber attacked Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding at least 17, officials said.

Few Tunisian women waging Syria 'sex jihad' Posted: 06 Oct 2013 07:56 AM PDT Tunis (AFP) - The number of Tunisian women travelling to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamists fighting the regime is very low, a senior interior ministry official told AFP on Sunday.

Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi'ite pilgrims, kill 29 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 06:45 AM PDT By Ziad al-Sinjary MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said. Another suicide bomber attacked a group of Shi'ite pilgrims on their way to visit a shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 30, some of them critically, police said. ...

Orthodox Christians mark 1,700th anniversary of edict of tolerance Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:51 AM PDT By Fedja Grulovic NIS, Serbia (Reuters) - Eight Orthodox Christian leaders, dignitaries from other faiths, politicians and thousands of others on Sunday celebrated the anniversary of the Edict of Milan, which established toleration for Christianity in the Roman Empire 1,700 years ago. Roman Catholic Pope Francis was not present at the liturgy in the Serbian city of Nis, his absence reflecting centuries-old divisions between the two main Christian denominations, despite moves by both towards reconciliation and dialogue. ...

Iraq suicide blasts kill 27, many of them children Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:46 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday while another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children, officials said.

Iraq: New blast hits Shiite pilgrims, killing 12 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has struck Shiite pilgrims passing through a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad, pushing the day's death toll from attacks in Iraq to 27.

Iraq: 15 dead as blasts hit school, police post Posted: 06 Oct 2013 05:04 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide attackers blew up explosives-laden vehicles next to an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday, killing at least 15 people of whom many were children, officials said.

Consortium boosts production at Iraq oil field Posted: 06 Oct 2013 04:41 AM PDT An Iraqi official says a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell has boosted production at a prized oil field in the country's south to 175,000 barrels a day, speaking at a ceremony formally inaugurating commercial ...

Iraq: 13 dead as blasts hit school, police post Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:21 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide attackers blew up explosives-laden vehicles next to an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday, killing at least 13 people, many of them children.

The chemical weapons trail: Inside the mission to destroy Syria's arsenal Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:00 AM PDT For more than 15 years, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has quietly and methodically destroyed hundreds of tons of unwanted chemical munitions left over from the cold war or surrendered by states seeking international goodwill.

Iraq offers lessons on destroying Syria's chemical weapons Posted: 06 Oct 2013 03:00 AM PDT When Syria's application to the Chemical Weapons Convention comes into effect Oct. 14, the country will become the 190th member state of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

4 US soldiers killed in south Afghanistan Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:06 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, American and Afghan officials said. They were the latest casualties in a 12-year conflict that shows no signs of slowing down despite a drawdown in foreign forces.

Obama: Iran 'year or more' from getting bomb Posted: 06 Oct 2013 02:05 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iran is still "a year or more" away from producing a nuclear weapon, an assessment he acknowledged was at odds with Israel.

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