2014年10月14日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Obama, European leaders to discuss Ebola epidemic on Wednesday

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:52 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks at a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense chiefs to discuss the coalition efforts in the ongoing campaign against ISIL at Joint Base Andrews in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will hold a video conference on Wednesday with British, French, German, and Italian leaders to discuss the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and other pressing international issues, the White House said. Also on the agenda will be the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, and efforts to encourage Russia to implement the Minsk ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, the White House said. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Sandra Maler)


Obama, foreign military chiefs coordinate Islamic State plans

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:39 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossingBy Steve Holland and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday told military leaders from more than 20 countries working with Washington to defeat Islamic State that he was deeply concerned about the radical group's advances at the north Syrian town of Kobani and in western Iraq. But Obama did not hint any changes to what he saw as long-term strategy that would see ups and downs in the months ahead, even as pressure builds for the coalition to stop the Islamic State from taking control of more territory. ...


Bomb wounds 12 in central Cairo

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:34 PM PDT

A general view of Cairo's skyline is seen at sunset on July 13, 2013Cairo (AFP) - A bomb exploded in the centre of the Egyptian capital Cairo late Tuesday wounding 12 people, security and medical officials said.


Blast in downtown Cairo wounds 12

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:07 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A homemade bomb exploded near the Supreme Court in downtown Cairo on Tuesday night, injuring 12 people while also destroying a car and damaging some shop fronts, the interior ministry and security sources said. It was not clear if a particular individual was targeted in the attack, the second in the Egyptian capital in less than a month. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Last month, a bomb blast near the Egyptian foreign ministry killed three policemen in the worst attack in central Cairo for months. Islamist militant group Ajnad Misr claimed that attack. ...

Obama, allies plot anti-ISIS strategy

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leaves the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, to board the Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn, en route to a meeting at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. where he is expected to discuss coalition efforts against ISIL. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and military chiefs from more than 20 nations gathered Tuesday in a show of strength against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. But the alliance faced a fresh test as Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish rebels inside its borders, defying pleas from the U.S. to instead focus on the IS.


Obama rallies coalition commanders against IS jihadists

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Kobane on October 14, 2014Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama attempted to rally allied commanders around his emerging strategy to defeat Islamic State jihadists on Tuesday, as the US-led air armada stepped up its raids in Syria.


US worker killed by ex-colleague in Saudi Arabia

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:49 PM PDT

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi-American dual national who was recently fired from a U.S. defense contractor shot two American ex-colleagues in Saudi Arabia's capital, killing one and wounding the other in what appeared to be a settling of scores, security and diplomatic officials said.

U.S.-led air strikes intensify as Syria conflict destabilizes Turkey

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:42 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of SurucBy Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler MURSITPINAR Turkey/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey. The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the militants near the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani over Monday and Tuesday and appeared to have slowed Islamic State advances there, the U.S. military said, but cautioned the situation remained fluid. U.S. ...


Turkish strikes on Kurds complicate anti-IS fight

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:40 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense ministers on the ongoing operations against the Islamic State group, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Obama and military chiefs in a show of strength against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh test for U.S. coalition-building efforts, Turkey is launching airstrikes against Kurdish rebels inside its borders this week despite pleas from the Obama administration to instead focus on an international campaign to destroy Islamic State militants wreaking havoc in the region.


US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:36 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talk as they walk together on the grounds of the Chief of Mission Residence in Paris, France, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The top U.S. and Russian diplomats are hoping to find a way to begin reversing a yearlong spike in tensions stemming from Ukraine's revolution and civil war. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)PARIS (AP) — The United States and Russia vowed Tuesday to renew cooperation on a broad array of global security matters, including intelligence sharing on Islamic State militants, even as the two powers remained deeply at odds over the crisis in Ukraine.


U.S., Russia agree to share intelligence on common enemy: Islamic State militants

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:23 PM PDT

By Matt Spetalnick PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to increase intelligence sharing between Moscow and Washington on Islamic State militants, focusing on a common enemy even as deep divisions remained over the crisis in Ukraine. ...

What has life been like for the Islamic State 'poster girls'?

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:18 PM PDT

Two teenage girls who fled their Austrian homes to join the Islamic State, described as 'poster girls' for the caliphate, are now desperate to return after apparently becoming disillusioned with their jihadi lifestyle.

U.S. national shot dead in Saudi capital Riyadh

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:04 PM PDT

By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - A gunman killed a U.S. national and wounded another in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, officials said, heightening Western concerns over security in the world's top oil exporter as regional unrest rises. Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said a statement from the police, carried by state media. The apprehended man worked at the same company as the two victims and had recently been dismissed from his job, Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington said in a statement. ...

Car bomb kills 25, including lawmaker, in Shi'ite neighborhood of Baghdad

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:03 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing on Tuesday killed a parliament member and 24 others in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad, according to police and medical officials, as Islamic State attacked towns in western Anbar province. The third straight day of bombings in Shi'ite parts of Baghdad and an offensive in Anbar province that saw strategic towns threatened by Islamic State pointed to the dire security situation in Iraq. ...

Syrian Kurds feel abandoned as Kobani battle rages

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:52 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Rabia Ali, right, accompanied by her son Ali Mehmud, mourn at the grave of her son Seydo Mehmud 'Curo' , a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Kneeling over his brother's fresh grave, Ali Mehmud gathered clumps of dirt in his hands, raised them to his lips to kiss them, then softly placed them back on the small mound.


Islamic State hostage found his calling in Mideast

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by his family, Peter Kassig stands in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. The Indianapolis, Indiana, aid worker being held by the Islamic State group told family and teachers that he'd found his calling in 2012 when he decided to stay in the Middle East instead of returning to college, according to an email released Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 by his family. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A U.S. aid worker being held by the Islamic State group told family and teachers that he'd found his calling in 2012 when he decided to stay in the Middle East instead of returning to college, according to an email released Tuesday by his family.


Ex-colleague shoots dead American in Saudi capital

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:19 PM PDT

The Riyadh shooting is the first deadly attack on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since several were killed in a wave of Al-Qaeda violence between 2003 and 2006Riyadh (AFP) - A former employee of a US defence contractor shot dead one American colleague and wounded another in the Saudi capital Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on Westerners in the kingdom.


'No discrepancy' over Turkey's role in fight against Islamic State: Kerry

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:13 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday there was no discrepancy between the United States and Turkey with regard to what Ankara "will or won't do" in the fight against Islamic State insurgents. Speaking at a news conference in Paris after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Kerry insisted that Turkey was a "valued member" of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, which has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria, and said Ankara would define its role "on its own timetable. ...

Pentagon backlash: Why are top military leaders attacking Obama’s foreign policy?

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:58 PM PDT

On Tuesday, Gen. Ray Odierno, the US Army Chief of Staff, publicly questioned President Obama's plan to reduce the size of America's ground-combat forces, joining a growing chorus of current and former administration officials speaking out against Obama's foreign policy.

One Muslim state's peaceful power transfer

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:45 PM PDT

With four Muslim countries now splintered in armed conflict (Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen), the world can be grateful that the largest Muslim country will achieve a peaceful milestone Oct. 20. For the first time in its history, Indonesia will see a transfer of power from one popularly elected president to another: A humble former furniture maker, Joko Widodo, will take over from a former Army general, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

IS jihadists close in on town west of Baghdad

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:22 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces and gunmen inspect the wreckage of cars following a suicide bomb attack on September 17, 2014, in Ramadi, the capital of the western province of AnbarBaghdad (AFP) - Islamic State fighters closed in Tuesday on the Iraqi town of Amriyat al-Fallujah, one of the last still controlled by the government in the troubled western province of Anbar, its police chief said.


Democratic Strategist Robert Weiner: "The Silence Is Deafening" With No National Democratic Ads On Success On Unemployment, Jobs, Economy

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:21 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Democratic strategist Robert Weiner, who was a Clinton White House spokesman and senior staff for Congressmen Conyers, Rangel, Pepper, and Koch, has been on a mission this week asking, "Where are national Democratic ads on successes including unemployment, jobs, and the economy? In radio interviews on WGUF Florida (The Dave Elliott Show), Labor Radio Pennsylvania (The Rick Smith Show), and an address to Democrats Abroad France, the world's largest Democrats Abroad group, Weiner asserted, "The silence is deafening. ...

Obama says deeply concerned about Islamic State threat to Syria's Kobani

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told defense chiefs from some 20 countries on Tuesday that he is deeply concerned about the Islamic State assault on the Syrian town of Kobani and that the United States would keep launching air strikes in the area. Obama, addressing the defense chiefs in a conference room at the Joint Base Andrews military air base outside Washington also said he is concerned about the Islamic State push in Iraq's Anbar province. He predicted a "long-term campaign" against the militant group and declared the U.S. ...

Strikes pound jihadists as US-led coalition meets

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:05 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Kobane after a strike from the US-led coalition, as seen from the Turkish border village of Mursitpinar, October 14, 2014Mursitpinar (Turkey) (AFP) - American-led warplanes hammered Islamic State militants on Monday and Tuesday with 21 raids near Kobane, a strategic Syrian town on the border with Turkey, the US military said, as top brass from 22 countries met to discuss a strategy for combatting them at an air force base outside Washington.


Six months after girls abducted, Nigerians protest near president's house

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT

Members of Abuja "Bring Back Our Girls" protest group sit during a protest march, organized by the group to the Presidential Villa, in AbujaBy Tim Cocks ABUJA (Reuters) - Protesters demanding the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago by Islamist militants, demonstrated infront of the president's home on Tuesday, urging the government to do more to free them. Around 60 people in red T-shirts that read "Bring Back Our Girls" marched to the residence of President Goodluck Jonathan in a leafy part of the Nigerian capital, which was guarded by more than 150 armed police. Scores of other protesters were prevented from joining the rally by other police lines at the top of the street. ...


Rights group: Iraq Shiite militias killing Sunnis

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 12:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014, file photo, a Shiite militiaman stands guard in Amirli, where 15,000 Shiite Turkmens were stranded in the farming community surrounded by militants since mid-July, 105 miles (170 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite militias have abducted and killed "scores" of Sunni civilians in retaliation for the onslaught by the Sunni militant Islamic State group, Amnesty International said Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, claiming that the attacks are supported by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. The Shiite militiamen number in the tens of thousands and wear military uniforms but operate outside any legal framework and without any official oversight, Amnesty said. (AP Photo, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians with the tacit support of the government in retaliation for Islamic State group attacks, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as a suicide car bombing claimed by the Sunni extremists killed 23 people, including a Shiite lawmaker.


The Islamic State, gardening metaphors, and misinformation

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 12:27 PM PDT

Thomas Friedman yesterday likened the so-called Islamic State to an "invasive species" ("IS," get it?). Comparing the ideology of Islamic State to an invasive, noxious weed that needs tearing up by the roots is attractive for the purposes of writing a column. But Mr. Friedman, a New York Times columnist, is on shaky ground here, and his representation of IS is both wrong and analytically useless.

US, Russia to step up intel sharing on IS militants: Kerry

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 12:26 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting at the Chief of Mission Residence in Paris on October 14, 2014Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have agreed to step up intelligence sharing over the Islamic State (IS) group.


On Islamic State's western front, Lebanon girds for pre-winter attacks

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT

As the first rains of the approaching winter lash the rugged mountains along Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, Lebanese officials fret that militants belonging to the self-described Islamic State and allied factions could be preparing to break out of their isolated mountain strongholds, threatening populated areas.

German government slashes growth forecast

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:55 AM PDT

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble talks with the media prior to the Eurogroup finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Monday Oct. 13, 2014. Finance ministers from the nations sharing the euro currency meet ahead of Tuesday's EU finance ministers council. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe got more bad news about its dominant economy Tuesday when the German government slashed its growth estimate for this year to 1.2 percent from 1.8 percent.


Anger as wounded Kurdish fighters die stranded at Turkish border

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:55 AM PDT

By Ayla Jean Yackley SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - With medical supplies depleted in the war-ravaged north Syrian town of Kobani, Kurdish activist Blesa Omar rushed three comrades wounded in battle against Islamic State fighters straight to the border to dispatch them to a Turkish hospital. He said he spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he thinks were treatable shrapnel wounds as Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier. "To me it is clear they died because they waited so long. ...

The forgotten journalist executed by Islamic State

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:37 AM PDT

Of these three, which is the odd man out: Steven Sotloff, James Foley, Muhanad Akidi?

Report sees flaws in case against vanishing Marine

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2014, file photo, defense attorneys 1st Lt. Brittaney Bennett, left, and Haytham Faraj, right, escort Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, center, to his Article 32 hearing at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Prosecutors could have a difficult time proving the desertion case against Hassounm a U.S. Marine who vanished from his unit in Iraq a decade ago, according to a military report. Hassoun's attorney cites the difficulty in producing witnesses in his request this week for another chance to dissuade the Marines from taking the case to trial. (AP Photo/The Jacksonville Daily News, John Althouse)RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — Prosecutors could have a difficult time proving the desertion case against a Lebanese-born U.S. Marine who vanished from his unit in Iraq a decade ago, according to a military report.


Iraqi MP killed in suicide bombing claimed by IS

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:23 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman walks past a damaged building on September 19, 2014, a day after a suicide car bombing and shelling struck the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiyah in BaghdadBaghdad (AFP) - An Iraqi MP and prominent militia leader was one of at least 21 people killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing immediately claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.


US Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS in Kobani

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 11:17 AM PDT

US Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS in KobaniU.S. warplanes have ramped up the number of airstrikes against ISIS fighters in the besieged city of Kobani launching 21 airstrikes since Monday.  It is the highest number of strikes since the start of the air campaign in Syria and is an indicator of how...


Facing new oil glut, Saudis avoid 1980s mistakes to halt price slide

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:40 AM PDT

A view of the Khurais oilfieldBy Rania El Gamal DUBAI (Reuters) - Still haunted by its failed attempt to prevent a steep drop in oil prices by slashing production by almost three quarters in the 1980s, the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is determined not to make the same mistake again. The oil glut of the 1980s, the early days of the modern crude market and a distant memory for most traders, has resurfaced recently in conversations with Saudi officials and veteran analysts who see it as the defining moment behind the kingdom's new strategy to protect medium-term market share. ...


Militias rule the day in strife-torn Middle East

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 file photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter walks through a street in Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. The chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring has led to the rise of powerful militias -- including many Islamic extremist groups -- across a Middle East where many central governments have been exposed as weak. Some of the groups are allied with such governments, others are fighting to topple them and some -- like the Kurdish peshmerga in northern Iraq -- are seen as vital Western allies. All could prove to be major obstacles to bringing peace or stability to the troubled region. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo, FIle)Embattled governments in Iraq and Syria have come to rely on Shiite militias as their armies have crumbled in the face of mostly Sunni insurgents and rebels. In Libya, various armed groups loosely allied with two rival governments have fought over bullet-riddled airports. Shiite rebels in Yemen have swept down from the north, capturing the capital and, on Tuesday, a key port city.


US-led coalition steps up strikes in Syria

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:33 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says 21 airstrikes against Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Kobani overnight Monday marked the largest number there in a 24-hour period since the air campaign in Syria began last month.

U.S.-led forces conduct 21 airstrikes near Kobani, Syria: U.S. military

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:33 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American-led forces conducted 21 airstrikes focused on halting Islamic State advances at Kobani, Syria, in the last two days, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, warning the situation on the ground is fluid as militants try to gain territory. The strikes Monday and Tuesday, which also included Saudi Arabian fighter planes, destroyed two militant staging areas, destroyed or damaged three Islamic State buildings and damaged three other compounds, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. It was an unusually large number of airstrikes reported since U.S. ...

The US remains focused on IS in Syria and Iraq. Local 'allies?' Not so much.

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 10:31 AM PDT

An American acquaintance of mine who lives and works in Kabul calls Afghanistan "the graveyard of common sense." But the welter of priorities, contradictions, and claims emanating from the anti-Islamic State coalition the US is trying to lead is already giving the Hindu Khush conflict a run for its money when it comes to head-scratchers.

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