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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Who are the 'terrorists' the world needs to fight?

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:49 PM PDT

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holds a position as smoke billows on the front line in Khazer near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak on September 16, 2014Beirut (AFP) - From Washington and Paris to Tehran and Damascus, it seems everyone agrees on the growing need to fight "terrorism". What exactly the word means is another matter entirely.


U.S. leaders call for 'war' on Ebola outbreak, pledge troops

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:43 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy Jeff Mason ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers called for a government-funded "war" to contain West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic before it threatens more countries, building on an American pledge to send 3,000 military engineers and medical personnel to combat the virus. Democratic and Republican lawmakers pledged increased support for efforts to contain the virus that has killed nearly 2,500 people out of almost 5,000 cases in West Africa. ...


Obama's Ebola response: Is it enough and in time?

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:33 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama traveled to the CDC, to address the Ebola crisis and announced that he is sending 3,000 American troops to West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola epidemic. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.


Citing security threat, Obama expands U.S. role fighting Ebola

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:28 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in AtlantaBy Jeff Mason and James Harding Giahyue ATLANTA/MONROVIA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday called West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region. "The reality is that this epidemic is going to get worse before it gets better," Obama said at the Atlanta headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "But, right now, the world still has an opportunity to save countless lives. ...


Top general: US ground troops possible in Iraq

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:25 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the first in a series of high-profile Capitol Hill hearings that will measure the president's ability to rally congressional support for President Barack Obama's strategy to combat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Obama last week outlined his military plan to destroy the extremists, authorizing U.S. airstrikes inside Syria, stepping up attacks in Iraq and deploying additional American troops, with more than 1,000 now advising and assisting Iraqi security forces to counter the terrorism threat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — American ground troops may be needed to battle Islamic State forces in the Middle East if President Barack Obama's current strategy fails, the nation's top military officer said Tuesday as Congress plunged into an election-year debate of Obama's plan to expand airstrikes and train Syrian rebels.


Charlie Rangel Calls For War Tax And The Draft If We Go To War With ISIS

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:16 PM PDT

Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel said if this country is willing to declare war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), then every citizen should have to pay a tangible price.

U.S. NSA chief says monitoring tech-savvy Islamic State

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:11 PM PDT

NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers speaks at a Reuters CyberSecurity Summit in WashingtonBy Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. military leaders outlined their strategy before Congress to fight Islamic State militants on the battlefield, the National Security Agency chief said on Tuesday he was watching the media-savvy group's cyber capabilities. Asked whether the Sunni Muslim group was planning cyber attacks on U.S. interests, Admiral Mike Rogers said he could not discuss specifics of the organization's technical capabilities. ...


U.S. general says cannot rule out larger ground role in Iraq

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 04:05 PM PDT

Photos of the day - September 16, 2014By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most senior U.S. military officer raised the possibility on Tuesday that American troops might need to take on a larger role in Iraq's ground war against Islamic State militants, but the White House stressed they would not deploy on a combat mission. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there was no intention now to place American military advisers on the ground in direct combat. U.S. assistance is taking other forms, including air strikes. ...


Senator to propose authorization to hit militants

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 03:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine has drawn up legislation to authorize U.S. military force against Islamic extremists that would strictly limit the engagement of American ground forces.

U.S. Congress pushes ahead with bid to arm Syrian rebels

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Rebel fighters make improvised mortar shells inside a weapons factory in IdlibBy Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Tuesday to authorize President Barack Obama's plan to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants, and lawmakers said the measure would likely pass Congress by the end of this week despite some members' reservations. ...


SMALL WARS CONTINUE TO DRAIN AMERICA OF ITS POWER

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 03:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- This week has the real possibility of going down as the strangest week in American military history. It opened with President Obama going right up ... to ... the ... edge of sending soldiers to Iraq, but more important were two other events that intellectually doomed any happy talk from the military. -- First was a most astonishing and brilliant documentary, "American War Generals," on the National Geographic Channel last Sunday, which featured 11 of our highest-ranking, most admired generals since World War II. ...

Ex-POW Jessica Lynch starring in Christian film

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2011 file photo, former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch is featured in the South Charleston, W.Va. Christmas Parade. Lynch has landed a lead role in a Christian film. Morgantown-based JC Films is producing "One Church," being shot this month in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, file)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch is enjoying her latest role, starring in a Christian movie currently in production.


Boehner: Congress should back Obama's 'sound' Syria plan

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 03:13 PM PDT

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holds a position as smoke billows on the front line in Khazer near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak on September 16, 2014Washington (AFP) - The top US Republican said Tuesday he backed President Barack Obama's "sound" plan to arm and train vetted Syrian rebels for battling extremists and called on Congress to authorize the action.


Jewish group brands Biden's Shylock comment 'offensive'

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:49 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden gestures during a speech to mark the 40th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation, on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Vice President Joe Biden drew fire from a prominent Jewish group on Tuesday after he described unscrupulous bankers who prey on servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas as "Shylocks" — a term frequently condemned as an anti-Semitic caricature.


Adam Driver shifts into hyper drive

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:37 PM PDT

In this Sept. 6, 2014 photo, actor Adam Driver poses for a portrait at the Shangri-La Hotel during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Driver has roles in two films, "This is Where I Leave You," and "Tracks," released in theaters this week. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)TORONTO (AP) — It comes as something of a shock to be talking with Adam Driver and hear so little cursing. Nothing is thrown. No explicit sexual act is performed.


U.S. airstrikes target Islamic militants in Iraq

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:36 PM PDT

PLAN TO STOP U.S. MILITANTSThe Defense Department says the U.S. military on Tuesday pressed its expanded campaign against Islamic State militants with five airstrikes across Iraq.


US airstrikes target Islamic militants in Iraq

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:29 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department says the U.S. military on Tuesday pressed its expanded campaign against Islamic State militants with five airstrikes across Iraq.

Saudi court sentences two to death, jails 13 over attack

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 02:17 PM PDT

DOHA (Reuters) - A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced two men to death and 13 others to long prison terms after they were accused of killing a policeman and three civilians and forming an al Qaeda cell in prison, the kingdom's state news agency (SPA) said on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has arrested thousands of suspected militants since al Qaeda supporters waged a wave of attacks on residential compounds for foreign workers and on Saudi government facilities starting in 2003, killing dozens. In 2006 and 2008 security forces foiled planned strikes against oil installations in its Eastern Province. ...

Iraqi official briefs Syria's Assad on efforts against Islamic State

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:39 PM PDT

U.S. Involvement in ISIS Fight Will Be LongBy Tom Perry and Sylvia Westall BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraq's national security adviser briefed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on efforts to counter Islamic State on Tuesday, in the first such meeting since the United States launched air strikes on the radical group in Iraq. The United States and other Western governments have dismissed the idea of cooperating with Syria in the fight against Islamic State, which has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria. Western governments see Assad as part of the problem and say he must leave power. ...


Egypt's military focus is at home, not on Islamic State: minister

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:31 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign minister has suggested his country might not provide military assistance to the United States for its battle against the Islamic State militant group, saying the army was focused on the home front. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said last week he had won the backing of 10 Arab states, including Egypt, for a "coordinated military campaign" against the Islamic State, which has grabbed territory in Syria and Iraq. However, Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri appeared to throw cold water on the possibility of active Egyptian participation. ...

Jindal: Obama hasn't done enough to harness energy

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:29 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has become "science deniers," failing to do enough to harness the nation's energy potential.

Minneapolis-St. Paul 1 site of anti-terror program

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:13 PM PDT

File-This March 23, 2008, file photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. McCain, a U.S. citizen, is believed to have been killed in Syria and was there to fight alongside a terrorist group. When young men from Minneapolis began traveling to Somalia seven years ago to join a terror group in the midst of a civil war, investigators trying to stop the recruiting went straight to the city's large Somali community to try to build trust and gain understanding. The nationwide effort to stop a new wave of Westerners being recruited, this time for Islamic State militant groups in Syria and Iraq, could take some cues from Minnesota. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office, File)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul will participate in a Department of Justice pilot program designed to detect American extremists who are looking to join terror organizations overseas, U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said Tuesday.


US general says 'advisors' could join Iraqi fight

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:13 PM PDT

The United States has already spent billions of dollars training and equipping Iraqi security forcesWashington (AFP) - The United States plans to strike the Islamic State group in its Syrian strongholds and could yet send military advisors into combat alongside Iraqi troops, American commanders said Tuesday.


Iraq parliament rejects PM's security nominees

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:09 PM PDT

New Iraqi premier Haidar al-Abadi speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, on August 25, 2014Baghdad (AFP) - The Iraqi parliament voted down Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's nominees for defence and interior minister Tuesday, leaving the key positions unfilled as the country battles to regain ground from militants.


Turkish reluctance hurts U.S. plans for coalition against Islamic State

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:09 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan talk at the beginning of a meeting in AnkaraBy Jonny Hogg and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - When Washington takes its bombing campaign against Islamic State fighters into Syria, the most it can probably hope for from one of its closest allies in the region will be grudging consent. Turkey, a NATO member with a big U.S. air base and long borders with both Iraq and Syria, has made clear that it is still unconvinced by U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to bomb Islamic State fighters in two of its neighbors. ...


Reality Check: We May Need U.S. Troops to Beat ISIS

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Reality Check: We May Need U.S. Troops to Beat ISISArmy Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday what many in the defense policy community suspected since the first airstrikes against ISIS were announced in June: This fight could inevitably end up with American boots fighting on the ground. When President Obama first announced in June that 300 military advisers would be sent to Baghdad to help in the fight against ISIS, it was clear that the mere presence of American advisers would not be enough to defeat ISIS. "We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq," Obama said in the White House briefing room in June. Fast-forward to mid-August, when Obama announced the arrival of American troops at Mt. Sinjar, where ISIS trapped a group of Yazidi Christians.


The Pentagon Is Also Arming School Districts

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:59 PM PDT

Last week, Congress was up in arms over a Pentagon program that distributes surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies—with many lawmakers questioning why police officers in a small Oklahoma town would need a mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle intended for the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now reports are surfacing that there is an even more surprising recipient of the Pentagon's leftovers--- local school districts.  San Diego Unified School District has one of the Defense Department's old MRAPs—the same heavily armed vehicle used to transport soldiers through warzones.  KPBS, a local TV station, said the district had been looking for a large vehicle to use in the case of an emergency—like a school shooting or natural disasters.

Al-Qaida's heirs thrive in Mideast, Africa chaos

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:45 PM PDT

In this Sept. 15, 2014, photo, Kurdish citizens who live in Lebanon shout slogans and hold a photograph during a demonstration against militants who refer to themselves as the Islamic State, in front of the UN building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida dispersed, yet the horrors keep coming. Journalists beheaded on camera. School girls abducted by gunmen in the night. Families fleeing their homes in fear they might be executed because of their religion. The news from much of the Middle East and Africa is relentlessly brutal. The Islamic State group's rampage through Iraq and Syria has shocked the United States into launching expanded air strikes at a time when Americans were expecting to pull back from the Middle East after more than a decade of war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida dispersed, yet the horrors keep coming.


White House Blows Up General's Hypothetical ISIS Ground Force

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:45 PM PDT

The Growing List of Everyone the NFL Angered in the Last WeekIt didn't take long for the White House to bat down the suggestion from President Obama's top military adviser that should the president's plan for airstrikes fail, the United States should deploy ground forces to fight the Islamic State.


Effort aims to help soldiers land civilian jobs

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:41 PM PDT

Soldiers being discharged from the military — particularly Fort Knox in central Kentucky — will get a sales pitch on the jobs available and benefits of staying in the area from a program started up Tuesday ...

Canada sent 69 soldiers to Iraq: Harper

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 12:09 PM PDT

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses media in Ottawa on June 9, 2014Ottawa (AFP) - Canada has sent 69 soldiers to northern Iraq to advise security forces fighting Islamist militants in the northern part of the country, the prime minister said Tuesday.


Netherlands ups defence spending in wake of downed MH17

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:59 AM PDT

Dutch King Willem-Alexander addresses the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives from the throne in the Hall of Knights next to Queen Maxima, on September 16, 2014 in The Hague, the NetherlandsThe Hague (AFP) - The Netherlands is to increase defence spending after being hard hit by global conflicts including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, King Willem-Alexander said on Tuesday.


Iraq parliament rejects interior, defense nominees

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 file photo, Iraqi lawmakers attend a session to approve the new government in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's parliament rejected defense and interior nominees on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, leaving the crucial ministerial posts unfilled as a U.S.-led coalition intensifies its air campaign against Islamic extremists who have seized a third of the country. The two powerful security portfolios have long been a source of tension among Iraq's feuding political factions, and the failure to agree on the nominees marked the latest in a series of delays in forming a unified government that can confront the Islamic State extremist group. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's nominees Tuesday to lead the defense and interior ministries, leaving the crucial Cabinet posts unfilled as an emerging U.S.-led coalition intensifies its air campaign against Islamic State extremists who have seized a third of the country.


Qaeda branches urge unity against US-led 'war on Islam'

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:48 AM PDT

Islamic fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra FrontDubai (AFP) - Powerful Al-Qaeda branches in Yemen and North Africa issued an unprecedented joint statement Tuesday calling for jihadists in Iraq and Syria to unite against the common threat from a US-led coalition.


Damascus, opposition must 'compromise' to beat jihadists: UN

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:39 AM PDT

Rebels stand on the back of a pick-up truck driving through the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor on March 10, 2014Geneva (AFP) - The Syrian government and mainstream opposition must seek a compromise to end three and half years of bloody civil war and block the rise of murderous jihadists, UN investigators said Tuesday.


'Lone wolves in America' encouraged to attack Times Square, Las Vegas: report

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:21 AM PDT

Federal Judge Rules NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Practice Violates RightsInstructions for 'how to make a bomb in your kitchen, to create scenes of horror in tourist spots and other targets' pops up on message board, Vocativ reports.


Bernie Sanders Could Undercut Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Run

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the irascible Independent socialist from Vermont, is strongly hinting that he will challenge former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. No one, of course, thinks that Sanders could deny Clinton the 2016 Democratic nomination if she decides to go for it.

Suicide car bomber kills three foreign troops in Afghan capital

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT

By Mirwais Harooni and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. troops and a Polish soldier in an attack on a convoy near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, the NATO-led coalition said, one of the worst attacks on international forces in the Afghan capital in months. The attack near the heavily fortified embassy wounded 13 Afghan civilians nearby. It came amid a months-long political stalemate and an emboldened insurgency, with a presidential election still unresolved as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave by the end of the year. ...

US Troops Could Fight ISIS in Iraq, General Tells Senate

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:19 AM PDT

US Troops Could Fight ISIS in Iraq, General Tells SenateGen. Dempsey and Secretary Hagel Testify Before Senate


Iraqi bishop laments 'too late' response to IS threat

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 11:15 AM PDT

Displaced Iraqi Christian women and children cook in the Mar Yousef church in the Christian village of Ankawa on September 11, 2014Vatican City (AFP) - A Roman Catholic bishop based in Iraq on Tuesday said international mobilisation against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq had come "too late".


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