2014年10月26日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Gunman in Canada attack prepared video of himself

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 04:47 PM PDT

This image provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shows and undated image of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, who shot a soldier to death at Canada's national war memorial Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 and was eventually gunned down inside Parliament by the sergeant-at-arms. (AP Photo/Vancouver Police via The Royal Canadian Mounted Police)TORONTO (AP) — A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada's national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by ideological and political motives, police said Sunday.


After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 01:54 PM PDT

Shi'ite fighters participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in Jurf al-SakharJURF AL-SAKHAR Iraq (Reuters) - After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi'ite militias decided it was time for payback. A Reuters witness saw the fighters in green camouflage uniforms scream and swear at members of the Islamist group as they kicked and struck them with rifle butts in Jurf al-Sakhar. As the angry crowd of militiamen around the unarmed militants swelled, shots rang out. The three men lay soaked in blood in the dirt with gunshot wounds to the head. "Those dogs are Chechens. ...


German police injured in clashes with far-right protesters

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 12:23 PM PDT

German police operate a water cannon in Cologne, Germany, during a rally of far-right hooligans against Islamic extremism on October 26, 2014Berlin (AFP) - At least 13 German riot police were injured Sunday in clashes with far-right hooligans rallying against Islamist extremism in the western city of Cologne, a police spokesman told SID agency, an AFP subsidiary.


Kurds thwart new IS bid to cut off Syria's Kobane

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 12:17 PM PDT

People watch as smokes rises from the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on October 26, 2014, at the Turkish border near the southeastern village of MursitpinarKurdish forces thwarted a new attempt Sunday by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy. The pre-dawn assault marked the fourth straight day the jihadists had attacked the Syrian side of the border crossing as the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head for Kobane, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Kurdish forces, backed by US-led air strikes, have been holding out for weeks against an IS offensive around Kobane, which has become a high-profile symbol of efforts to stop the jihadist advance. The US military said in its latest update that American warplanes carried out five air strikes near Kobane on Saturday and Sunday, destroying seven IS vehicles and an IS-held building.


No direct combat for Iraqi Kurds in Kobani, ISIS loses ground in Iraq

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:37 AM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters pose near a wall on which the black flag commonly used by Islamic State militants has been painted over, in Zumar, after taking the town from Islamic StateBy Isabel Coles and Ahmed Rasheed ARBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces will not engage in ground fighting in the Syrian town of Kobani but provide artillery support for fellow Kurds fending off Islamic State militants there, a Kurdish spokesman said on Sunday. Islamic State fighters have been trying to capture Kobani for over a month, pressing on despite U.S.-led air strikes on their positions and the deaths of hundreds of their fighters. ...


Women on front lines in Syria, Iraq against IS

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:12 AM PDT

In this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo, a member of an elite unit of women Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Among the Kurdish fighters defending the Syrian town of Kobani against the IS are thousands of women. In April, Kurdish fighters created all-female combat units that have grown to include more than 10,000 women who played a major role in battles against IS, said Nasser Haj Mansour, a defense official in Syria's Kurdish region. (AP Photo)SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Just over a year ago, Afshin Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish Syrian woman has traded the classroom for the front lines in the battle for Kobani, a town besieged by fighters from the Islamic State extremist group.


Gulf oil producers seen riding out price plunge

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 11:03 AM PDT

A flame from a Saudi Aramco oil installion known as "Pump 3" in the Khouris area, 160 km east of Riyadh, on June 23, 2008Energy kingpin Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states are set to resist pressure to tighten the taps significantly to shore up oil prices as the global economy stumbles, analysts say. Fortunately for the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -- which sit on 40 percent of the world's oil and a quarter of its natural gas -- they are flush with cash, analysts said. "The GCC states are in a strong position to remain steadfast for a few years" if there is a dispute over production, Kuwaiti oil analyst Mussa Maarafi said. "Saudi Arabia and most Gulf states will not be bothered a lot, at least in the short term" and "will be able to resist pressure to cut production and lose market share", Maarafi, a former member of Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council, told AFP.


Erdogan says Syrian Kurds 'don't want' peshmerga in Kobane

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 10:46 AM PDT

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Syrian Kurds do not want Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga fighters to help them fight Islamic State jihadists in KobaneTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the main Kurdish party in Syria of not wanting Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to help it fight Islamic State jihadists trying to overrun the town of Kobane, reports said Sunday. Erdogan said that the Syrian Kurdish party the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has been leading the defence of Kobane, fears losing its influence in northern Syria when the peshmerga arrive in the coming days.


More U.S. air strikes target Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military forces conducted five air strikes against Islamic State targets near the embattled Syrian city of Kobani and with the help of partner nations another 12 separate strikes in Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said on Sunday. "In Syria five air strikes near Kobani destroyed seven ISIL vehicles and an ISIL building," Central Command said in a statement, using another acronym for Islamic State. In Iraq nine air strikes were made around the strategic Mosul Dam and three air strikes southeast of Fallujah. ...

Family ties can be a candidate's blessing or curse

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 10:20 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 12, 2014, file photo shows former President Jimmy Carter with his grandson, Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Jason Carter at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. On the midterm election campaign trail, Jason Carter, who's challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, has the most high-profile relative, and has had to answer for several of his grandfather's comments and positions. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Ah, the family. They can be a candidate's sounding board, worthy surrogates and an attractive image for a television ad.


Fighting shakes Lebanon's north as army battles Islamists for third day

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 10:02 AM PDT

Lebanese army soldiers carry their weapons during clashes with Islamist militants in TripoliBy Nazih Siddiq TRIPOLI Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers battled Islamist gunmen across northern Lebanon for a third day on Sunday in the worst fighting linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria since militants briefly seized a border town in the summer. Four soldiers died in Sunday's clashes, bringing the total killed to 10 since militants began fighting the army on Friday following an army raid on a militant cell in northern Lebanon. Seven civilians and about 12 militants have also been killed, security sources say, and dozens wounded. ...


Iraqi Kurds to offer artillery support, not direct combat, in Kobani

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:56 AM PDT

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces will not engage in direct combat in the Syrian town of Kobani but are to provide artillery support for fellow Kurds fending off Islamic State militants there, the regional government's spokesman told Reuters on Sunday. Islamic State fighters have been trying to capture Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, for over a month, pressing their assault despite U.S.-led air strikes on their positions and the deaths of hundreds of their fighters. ...

Iraq PM seeks more Jordan help to battle IS

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 09:31 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (L) is welcomed by Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur on October 26, 2014 at the royal palace in the capital AmmanIraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi called for greater cooperation with Jordan in the battle against the Islamic State jihadist group, as he held talks Sunday in Amman, state media reported. Jordan, which borders Iraq's Anbar province, much of which has been overrun by IS, is one of several countries taking part in US-led air strikes against the jihadist group that began in Iraq but has since been expanded to Syria. Abadi met separately with King Abdullah II and Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur. He briefed Nsur on what he called "security and terrorist challenges facing Iraq, particularly ones from Daesh which is destroying Iraqi civilisation," Jordan's state news agency Petra said.


Iraqi troops retake control of Sunni town

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 07:52 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014 photo, Shiite militiamen patrol Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi soldiers backed by Shiite militiamen retook control Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 of a Sunni town seized previously by Islamic militants, said an Iraqi official and state-run TV, a rare victory for Iraqi security forces that have been battling to regain areas lost to the militants. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi soldiers backed by Shiite militiamen retook control Sunday of a Sunni town seized previously by Islamic militants, said an Iraqi official and state-run TV, a rare victory for Iraqi security forces that have been battling to regain areas lost to the militants.


In Turkey, Syrian women and girls increasingly vulnerable to exploitation

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT

In the refugee camps and crowded Turkish towns on the border with Syria, impoverished Syrian women and girls are falling prey to criminal rings that are forcing them into sexually exploitative situations ranging from illicit marriages to outright prostitution.The phenomenon has grown over the past year, corrupting Syrian traditions and drawing a class of Turkish "customers" who are taking advantage of the refugees' desperate circumstances.The Syrian women who fall into the trap of these arrangements are often young widows or divorcées who have no strong social or family networks. ...

Jihadists flock to Libya's remote south to train

Posted: 26 Oct 2014 03:11 AM PDT

Fighters of Libya's Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) hold a position their group took from a rival militia, south of the town of Wershfana on October 13, 2014, some 30 kilometres west of the Libyan capital TripoliLibya's remote desert south has become a haven for north African jihadists who have set up training camps in what has traditionally been a hotbed of arms smuggling, experts say. Oil-rich Libya slid into chaos after veteran dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled and killed in a NATO-backed uprising three years ago. Weapons looted from his arsenal have made their way to the so-called "Salvador Triangle", a no-man's land formed by the porous borders of Libya, Algeria and Niger, experts say. On October 10, France said its forces had destroyed a convoy belonging to Al-Qaeda's north African branch in Niger that was carrying arms from Libya to Mali.


US struggles to turn the tide in war against IS

Posted: 25 Oct 2014 10:19 PM PDT

Members of the Iraqi Navy take part in tactical training on October 21, 2014, in the mainly Shiite southern city of BasraAfter more than two months of air strikes, a US-led coalition has prevented the fall of a northern Syrian town to Islamic State jihadists but is still struggling to halt the group's advances on other fronts, experts say. Since the air war on the IS militants began on August 8, the United States and its allies have few concrete successes to point to as the IS group has continued to roll ahead in western Iraq and tighten its grip elsewhere. "We're in the first couple of minutes of the ball game," said one senior officer at US Central Command, which oversees the air campaign. Senior US administration officials and military commanders acknowledged in recent days the Iraqi army is months away from any sustained counter-offensive that could roll back the IS from its strongholds in Iraq's western and northern provinces.


Canadians flock to Parliament Hill, site of attack on soldier

Posted: 25 Oct 2014 07:36 PM PDT

A man writes in books of condolences to fallen Canadian soldiers, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Corporal Nathan Cirillo, during a vigil in MontrealBy Richard Valdmanis OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians returned to the reopened grounds of their parliament building on Saturday, three days after a homegrown radical rushed in armed with a rifle after killing a soldier in the second domestic attack in a week on the country's military. The grounds of the hilltop gothic building, whose clock tower is a centerpiece of Ottawa's skyline, attracted scores of visitors, many still stunned by Wednesday's attack, which took place as Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with lawmakers. ...


Egypt's Sinai in lockdown after bomb kills 30 troops

Posted: 25 Oct 2014 11:26 AM PDT

A picture released on October 25, 2014 by the Egyptian Presidency shows President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C), surrounded by top military generals, addressing journalists in CairoEgypt imposed a state of emergency Saturday across parts of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as the military pounded suspected jihadists after a suicide car bombing killed 30 soldiers. Friday's bombing was the deadliest attack on security forces since the army deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year, to the fury of his supporters. The state of emergency in the north and centre of the Sinai will remain in place for three months, the president's office said. Egypt also announced it would close the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, the only entry to the Palestinian territory not controlled by Israel.


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