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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi Kurdish oil nears Texas port for likely offloading

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 02:32 PM PDT

A member of the Kurdish security forces takes up position with his weapon as he guards a section of an oil refinery, which is being brought on a truck to Kalak refinery in the outskirts of ArbilBy Terry Wade and Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan is hours away from the Port of Galveston in Texas, according to Reuters ship tracking data and the U.S. Coast Guard, its arrival imminent despite Washington's concerns about independent oil sales from the autonomous region. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker United Kalavrvta, which left the Turkish port of Ceyhan in June carrying oil from a new Kurdish pipeline, is slated to approach the Texas port of Galveston on Saturday evening and has issued a notice of pre-arrival to ship traffic managers.


Jihadists seize Syria army base, behead soldiers

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 12:30 PM PDT

An image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Raqa on July 25, 2014, shows allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) militant group firing at positions of pro-regime Syrian soldiers in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of RaqaIslamic State fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them, a monitoring group said Saturday. The jihadist takeover of the base of Division 17 came as the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said IS fighters accused of atrocities would be added to a list of war crimes indictees. In the two-day assault on the base in Raqa province, an IS bastion, the jihadists killed at least 85 soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.


Man Says Police Wouldn’t Let Him Help His Dog After They Shot It

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 11:34 AM PDT

A Georgia man says that he was threatened with jail time if he tried to treat his dog after a police officer shot the animal in the throat. I heard a cop go, 'Holy [expletive],'" Theall told NBC Atlanta. Doctor had apparently caught a DeKalb County police officer off guard as he was investigating a false house alarm call. "The dog was still alive, clearly bleeding like crazy and the police officer blocked my exit," Theall continued.

Gunmen in army uniforms seize, later release Sunni official in Baghdad

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 11:01 AM PDT

By Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing army uniforms who seized a senior local official and prominent member of a Sunni Islamist party from his Baghdad home on Friday night have released him, an official said late on Saturday. The armed men in SUVs had shown up at the home of Riyadh al-Adhdah, who heads Baghdad's Provincial Council and belongs to the Sunni Islamist Iraqi Islamic Party, and taken him away. Ghalib al-Zamili, a member of the council, told Reuters Adhdah was released on Saturday evening. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's military spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the incident.

Syria regime forces retake gas field from jihadists: NGO

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 10:51 AM PDT

Soldiers of the Syrian government forces patrol on a tank in a devastated street on July 31, 2013 in Syrian city of HomsSyrian government troops Saturday recaptured the Shaar gas field in Homs province from the Islamic State, a week after the jihadists seized it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The army has succeeded in ejecting the jihadists, and it now controls the site and surrounding hills," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. The powerful jihadist group, which operates in Syria and Iraq, killed around 300 members of the Syrian security forces in the battle for the key facility.


Congressman: ‘Genocide’ Against Christians Going On In Iraq And White House Saying Nothing

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 09:46 AM PDT

Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf says there is a genocide being perpetrated against the Christians of Iraq and the White House hasn't said a word about it, much less acted to stop it. The terrorist group the Islamic State, an al Qaida off shoot that has taken over large swaths of Iraq in recent months, told Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul they had to convert to Islam by July 18 or they would be killed, according to the Economist. The only other option they were given was to leave Mosul, a city which has had a Christian presence for nearly two millennia. "The definition of genocide was put together by the UN by a guy named Raphael Lemkin.

National Guard Won’t Allow Its Own Troops To Be Honored At Vacation Bible School

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 09:34 AM PDT

Citing federal regulations, the Missouri National Guard has refused to show up for an hour-long meet-and-greet with kids at a small Baptist church in the rural southwest corner of the state. The kerfuffle went down during this summer's vacation Bible school at Bible Baptist Church in Carthage, Mo., reports Fox News. Vacation Bible school is sort of a rite of passage in the region — as common locally in the summertime as fireworks on the Fourth of July and sticky, sunny days. For this year's version, part of the Bible Baptist Church's theme was "God's Rescue Squad." So, on Monday, some paramedics stopped by.

Sunni politician seized in Iraq released by gunmen

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 09:27 AM PDT

ADDS NAME OF SPEAKER AT PODIUM - Falah al-Qaisi, directly at microphones, and other Baghdad provincial council members, speak to the media in Baghdad, Saturday, July 26, 2014. Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized Riyadh al-Adhdah, the head of the Baghdad Provincial Council and a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad on Saturday, police officers said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen in Iraq seized and later released a prominent Sunni politician, officials said Saturday, as confusion remained over who abducted the lawmaker.


Obama, senior EU officials barred from Chechnya

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 09:19 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media, while meeting with El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina, and Honduran President Juan Hernandez, to discuss Central American immigration and the border crisis in the Cabinet Room of the White House Friday, July 25, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo)MOSCOW (AP) — Although Russia has not responded to U.S. sanctions by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, there's one part of the country he's blocked from: Chechnya.


Seized Sunni politician in Iraq released

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

ADDS NAME OF SPEAKER AT PODIUM - Falah al-Qaisi, directly at microphones, and other Baghdad provincial council members, speak to the media in Baghdad, Saturday, July 26, 2014. Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized Riyadh al-Adhdah, the head of the Baghdad Provincial Council and a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad on Saturday, police officers said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — An official says a prominent Sunni politician earlier seized by gunmen in Iraq's capital has been released.


Iraq jihadists dynamite Shiite shrine in Mosul

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 08:17 AM PDT

Iraqis get out of a vehicle in front of a checkpoint held by Islamic State militants on June 16, 2014 in MosulSunni militants from the Islamic State group that controls large parts of Iraq have blown up a Shiite shrine in the city of Mosul, an official and witnesses said Saturday. Jihadists destroyed the Nabi Shiyt (Prophet Seth) shrine in Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed last month by Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.


Sunni official taken by gunmen in Baghdad

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 04:40 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad, police officers said Saturday.

Iraqi police: Baghdad official taken by gunmen

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 02:48 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen traveling in 10 black SUVs seized a senior Sunni politician who had previously been jailed on terrorism charges from his home in Baghdad on Saturday, police officers said.

Top Sunni official held in Baghdad

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 02:43 AM PDT

A damaged car is removed from the site of a car bomb attack against the convoy of Riyadh al-Adhadh, the chief of the provincial council, on September 15, 2013 in BaghdadArmed men in military uniform raided the home of a senior Baghdad Sunni politician overnight and whisked him and several of his guards away, police said Saturday. "Armed men came last night and detained the head of Baghdad provincial council Riyadh al-Adhadh and four of his guards from his house in Adhamiyah," a police colonel told AFP. It was not immediately clear whether the Sunni politician had been officially arrested by the authorities but the armed men who took him came in 10 large SUVs and wore military uniforms. Months of mounting sectarian tension followed by a jihadist onslaught that has plunged Iraq into its worst crisis in years and threatened to redraw its borders have further poisoned difficult relations between Sunni and religious Shiite politicians.


Veterans' response to senator's PTSD remarks mixed

Posted: 26 Jul 2014 12:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., right, and his son Michael leave the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, after a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden. Walsh's thesis written for the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages that appear to be taken word-for-word from previously published papers. The Democrat is running to keep the seat he was appointed to in February. Walsh faces Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Daines on Nov. 4. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder.


Holy month of Ramadan is a big boon for retailers

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 11:22 PM PDT

In this July 12, 2014 photo, Lebanese shoppers are seen reflected, at left, by a shop window that is decorated with the Islamic crescent symbol representing the season of Ramadan, with the words, "Happy Ramadan," bottom, at the Beirut Mall, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, is a boon for retailers in the Middle East, South Asia and beyond. And while some Muslims welcome it as a positive sign, others see it as commercialization of a sacred time of year, threatening to subvert its very nature. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Glitzy billboards in the Middle East and postage stamps in the U.S. Advertisements for lingerie and sales on modest skirts. Lavish buffets and cellphone apps.


Today in History

Posted: 25 Jul 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Today is Saturday, July 26, the 207th day of 2014. There are 158 days left in the year.

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