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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Syria Kurds rout jihadists on Iraq border

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 11:12 AM PDT

A Kurdish fighter mans a trench on October 19, 2013 in the Kurdish town of Derik in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey and IraqDamascus (AFP) - Syrian Kurds drove jihadists from an Iraq border crossing in fierce clashes Saturday, activists said, as the UN-Arab League envoy took his regional peace mission to regime ally Iran.

Syrian Kurds capture border crossing with Iraq

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 10:35 AM PDT

In this image taken from Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, two men treat a civilian young man rescued from the wreckage of a building after it was struck by government forces in the suburb of Jobar, Damscus, Syria. The Syrian conflict, which began as a largely peaceful uprising against Assad in March 2011, has triggered a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale, killing more than 100,000 people, driving nearly 7 million more from their homes and devastating the nation's cities and towns. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish gunmen on Saturday seized a major border crossing with Iraq from al-Qaida-linked groups following intense infighting between rebel groups that raised concerns of a spillover, activists and an Iraqi official said.

Militants say ex-army major carried out Cairo suicide attack

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT

By Hadeel Al Shalchi CAIRO (Reuters) - A Sinai-based Islamist militant group that claimed a September assassination attempt on Egypt's interior minister released a video on Saturday saying a former major in the army carried out the suicide bombing. The video, which Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis released on militant websites, runs to 30 minutes and identifies former major Waleed Badr as being responsible for the attack, but does not say if he was a member of the group. ...

UN-Arab League envoy: Iran 'necessary' at Syria talks

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 09:18 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R) sits with International Peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a joint press conference in Tehran on October 26, 2013Tehran (AFP) - The UN-Arab League envoy to war-torn Syria said Saturday in Tehran that Iran's participation in international peace talks on the conflict was "necessary," Mehr news agency reported.

Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 07:33 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes with an al Qaeda-linked group which had held the crossing since March. The armed Kurdish group YPG told Reuters fighting carried on through the day and a senior security official on the Iraqi side of the crossing said he could hear gunshots, mortar fire and shelling. ...

Activists: Syrian Kurds capture border post

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 07:04 AM PDT

In this image taken from Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, two men treat a civilian young man rescued from the wreckage of a building after it was struck by government forces in the suburb of Jobar, Damscus, Syria. The Syrian conflict, which began as a largely peaceful uprising against Assad in March 2011, has triggered a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale, killing more than 100,000 people, driving nearly 7 million more from their homes and devastating the nation's cities and towns. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish fighters on Saturday captured the sole border post held by al-Qaida-linked groups on the border with Iraq, a major source of the militants' support, activists and an Iraqi official said.

Group: Egyptian ex-army officer was suicide bomber

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 06:39 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — An ex-Egyptian army officer carried out the suicide bombing last month that unsuccessfully targeted the country's interior minister, a video posted online Saturday by al-Qaida-inspired militants claims.

Ten killed in Iraq violence

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 04:41 AM PDT

File picture shows Iraqi policemen standing guard on a main highway in the Dura neighbourhood of southern Baghdad linking the city to the central shrine city of Karbala on on January 6, 2012Baghdad (AFP) - Attacks in Iraq killed 10 people on Saturday, seven of them from the same family, security and medical officials said.

Gunmen kill 2 Sunni fighters, 5 relatives in Iraq

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 04:03 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say gunmen broke into the home of two anti-al-Qaida militiamen in Baghdad and killed them and their entire household, a total of seven people.

The Sunni-Shiite war

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 04:00 AM PDT

There are now up to 4,000 skilled Hezbollah fighters, trained by Iran, battling rebel groups in Syria.Why is Syria so pivotal?The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 as a pro-democracy movement, like other Arab Spring uprisings. But as foreign fighters have poured in on both sides, the rebellion has morphed into a sectarian civil war that other Islamic nations see as pivotal for the entire region. Syria is the only Middle Eastern country that has a majority Sunni population but is ruled by a Shiite minority. The Assads, who took power in 1970, are Alawites, a subsect of Shia Islam that broke away in the 9th century. ...

Gunfight pits Afghan against foreign soldiers - one dead

Posted: 26 Oct 2013 03:38 AM PDT

Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch near the site of a gunfight on the outskirts of KabulKABUL (Reuters) - A gunfight broke out between Afghan and foreign soldiers on the outskirts of the capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least one Afghan serviceman and injuring a number of other soldiers, according to Afghan and NATO officials. So-called "insider attacks" are severely straining ties between the NATO-led alliance and the Kabul authorities and further undermine waning support for the war in the West. They have become one of the Taliban insurgents' most effective weapons against the coalition. "There was an argument between an Afghan and foreign soldier inside a military base... ...

What It Takes to Get Fired From the Obama Administration

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 06:19 PM PDT

What It Takes to Get Fired From the Obama AdministrationIt's harder than you think to get the axe from the Obama administration

Analysis: Obama's aversion to Mideast conflicts fuels backlash from allies

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 06:17 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama walks out with two bags of cheesecake from Junior's Restaurant next to Democratic Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in BrooklynBy Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From Saudi Arabia to Israel, traditional U.S. allies in the Middle East are beginning to ask: Is America turning its back on us? President Barack Obama's diplomatic overtures to old foe Iran and his last-minute refusal to attack Syria have officials in Israel, the Gulf countries and Turkey wondering if Washington is deliberately neglecting them to avoid being dragged into a Middle East facing deeper sectarian strife and concerns that Tehran may be seeking a nuclear bomb. Media reports that the U.S. ...

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