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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US faces limits of air power in battle over Syria town

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, on October 3, 2014Washington (AFP) - The United States is facing the limits of air power in the Syria border town of Kobane, where Islamic State jihadists are steadily closing in on Kurdish fighters despite a series of US bombing raids.

Syrian border town still under siege by Islamic State despite allied air strikes

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 03:52 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 Ayla Jean Yackley and Sylvia Westall MURSITPINAR/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State forces shelled the Syrian border town of Kobani on Saturday and its Kurdish defenders said they were expecting a new assault to try to capture it. U.S.-led coalition warplanes had struck at Islamic State targets overnight to halt the insurgents' advance and Saturday's barrages were less intense than the previous day. "Clashes continue now, they are shelling on all three fronts. ...

Indiana aid worker's parents plead for his release

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 03:14 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A video purportedly produced by militants in Syria released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, shows Kassig, of Indianapolis, kneeling on the ground as a masked militant says he will be killed next. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of an Indiana man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him, saying in a video statement Saturday that their son has devoted his life to humanitarian work and aiding Syria's war refugees.

Pakistani Taliban vows to send fighters to help IS group

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 02:43 PM PDT

An Afghan security personnel retaliates against Taliban insurgents during an anti-Taliban operation in Dur Baba district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the eastern Nangarhar province on September 25, 2014The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday vowed to send fighters to help the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, adding the group should set aside its differences with other jihadist organisations in that region.

US aid worker's parents plead for his release

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 01:21 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A video purportedly produced by militants in Syria released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, shows Kassig, of Indianapolis, kneeling on the ground as a masked militant says he will be killed next. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of a U.S. man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him, saying in a video statement Saturday that their son has devoted his life to humanitarian work and aiding Syria's war refugees.

Parents of American held by Islamic State appeal for his release

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 12:54 PM PDT

Still image from video shows a masked man standing next to a kneeling man identified as U.S. citizen Peter Edward KassigBy Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants appealed for his release on Saturday, speaking in a statement and a video message that highlighted his aid work and mentioned his conversion to Islam. Ed and Paula Kassig, of Indianapolis, Indiana, urged the release of their son, Peter Kassig, 26. Kassig was threatened in a video issued on Friday by Islamic State militants that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, 47. ...

UK leader: British hostage's killers must be found

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 12:04 PM PDT

This undated family handout photo shows British man Alan Henning, who was held hostage by the Islamic State group. An Internet video released Friday purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning and threatening yet another American captive, the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist group now targeted in U.S.-led airstrikes. The video mirrored other beheading videos shot by the Islamic State group, which now holds territory along the border of Syria and Iraq. It ended with an Islamic State fighter threatening a man they identified as an American. (AP Photo/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVESCAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State extremists who have beheaded another Western hostage are deaf to reason and must be destroyed, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday as Muslims worldwide were urged to pray for the victim on one of Islam's holiest days.

Parents of U.S. hostage Peter Kassig release video pleading with son's captors

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 12:02 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A video purportedly produced by militants in Syria released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, shows Kassig, of Indianapolis, kneeling on the ground as a masked militant says he will be killed next. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family)The parents of an American hostage being held by Islamic State militants Saturday pleaded for their son's life, saying he had voluntarily embraced Islam and was dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the Syrian people.

Biden apologizes to Turkey president in phone call

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:50 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden bites his lip while speaking to students faculty and staff at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden apologized Saturday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was angry over comments in which Biden said Erdogan had admitted that Turkey had made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria.

Gaffe watch: Did Joe Biden just do it again?

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:38 AM PDT

Joe Biden may joke that his job as vice president is a , but there's a certain happy warrior* element to the sitting VP – frequently colored, positively and negatively, by rhetorical gifts to a political press forever on the lookout for "gaffes."

US: Militants use beheadings to make up for losses

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:24 AM PDT

Graphic shows timeline of Islamic State actions and beheadings; 3c x 5 inches; 146 mm x 127 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Islamic State militants rampaged across Syria and Iraq, seizing cities, taking hostages and terrorizing all who dared to confront them.

Embattled Syrian president makes rare appearance

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 11:14 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, second left, prays during Eid al-Adha prayer at a mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. Assad has made a rare public appearance by attending prayers at a mosque in the capital, marking the beginning of the important Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Saturday by attending prayers for a key Muslim holiday at a mosque in the capital, Damascus, hours after the U.S.-led coalition carried out new airstrikes against Islamic State group militants in Syria.

At haj, Saudi Arabia clerics step up anti-Islamic State drive

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 10:37 AM PDT

By Amena Bakr MINA Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Taking aim at Islamic State, Saudi Arabia has mounted a battle for hearts and minds at this year's haj, warning pilgrims that the hardline group is "evil" and seeking to recruit their children to fight in Iraq and Syria. As millions of pilgrims visited the holiest sites in Islam on the second day of the annual pilgrimage on Saturday, global leaders condemned the fourth beheading of a Westerner by Islamic State insurgents. ...

Who runs the militant group Islamic State?

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 10:28 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle East. The group, which U.S-led forces are bombing in Iraq and Syria, is made up of thousands of fighters from both countries as well as foreign recruits from around the world. Its leadership draws from militants with combat experience in Iraq. ...

British Muslims condemn beheading of aid worker Alan Henning

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street for the House of Commons, in central LondonBy Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - Muslim groups across Britain united on Saturday to join Prime Minister David Cameron in condemning the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State insurgents. Prayers for the 47-year-old taxi driver were said in mosques throughout Britain at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, as his family said they were numb with grief. Cameron called Henning a gentle, compassionate man who had simply tried to help others, and said Britain would do all it could to destroy his killers. ...

Police probe video of apparent British IS fighter

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:59 AM PDT

Islamic State (IS) have condemned Britain and the United States for launching air strikes on jihadists in iraq and SyriaLondon (AFP) - Police in Britain are "urgently investigating" a video apparently showing a British Islamic State (IS) group fighter railing against Prime Minister David Cameron over air strikes in Iraq, Downing Street said Saturday.

Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to Islamic State and global jihad

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:24 AM PDT

By Saud Mehsud and Maria Golovnina DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State on Saturday and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate. Islamic State, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making inroads into South Asia, which has traditionally been dominated by local Taliban insurgencies against both the Pakistan and Afghanistan governments. ...

A look at Islamic State beheadings, battle losses

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:23 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. For months, Islamic State militants rampaged across Syria and Iraq, seizing cities, taking hostages and terrorizing all who dared to confront them. The tide began to turn in mid-August, when U.S. airstrikes pushed them from key Iraqi battlegrounds. Then, on Aug. 19, the group released a video that showed the beheading of American freelance journalist James Foley. The pattern has continued. Within days of a military defeat, the group would release videos of more beheadings. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)As it has suffered battlefront losses in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has ramped up its propaganda campaign by beheading hostages.

Town falls to Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar province

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:22 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters stormed a town in Iraq's western Anbar province on Saturday, its latest conquest in the desert region where it has chalked up a string of victories, a military official and people fleeing the scene said. Islamic State seized the town of Kubaisa two days after the fall of the nearby town of Hit as the group sought to consolidate control in towns west of Anbar's capital Ramadi. ...

Muslims celebrate Eid as hajj pilgrimage nears end

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:17 AM PDT

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims make their way to throw stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj, in the Mina neighborhood of Mecca, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. The 10th day of the Islamic lunar month of Dhul-Hijja, during the hajj, is the beginning of Eid al-Adha, the most important Islamic holiday, to mark the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham to Christians and Jews, to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslims around the world celebrated the start of Islam's biggest holiday on Saturday as more than 2 million pilgrims took part in one of the final rites of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Several hundred march in London against Iraq air strikes

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 07:52 AM PDT

Supporters of the 'Stop the war' coalition march through central London, on October 4, 2014London (AFP) - Several hundred people marched in central London on Saturday to protest Britain's involvement in US-led air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Iraq.

A look at Zaydi Shiites and Houthi rebels in Yemen

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 07:37 AM PDT

Yemenis exchange greetings after Eid al-Adha prayers attended by supporters Houthis Shiite rebels in the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha Saturday to commemorate the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim - or Abraham as he is known in the Bible - to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. The major Muslim holiday coincides this year with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the first time this has happened since 1981. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Shiite rebels who seized Yemen's capital of Sanaa, known as the Houthis, are followers of the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam. Here is a look on who the Zaydis are:

Shiite rebels are Yemen's new masters

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 07:29 AM PDT

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The capital of Yemen, the Arab world's poorest and perhaps most chronically unstable nation, has new masters. Anti-American Shiite rebels man checkpoints and roam the streets in pickups mounted with anti-aircraft guns. The fighters control almost all state buildings, from the airport and the central bank to the Defense Ministry.

Islamic State video shows second British hostage beheaded

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 06:46 AM PDT

An undated family handout photo of British aid worker Alan Henning taken at a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syria borderBy Mark Hosenball and Sylvia Westall WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning in a video posted on Friday, triggering swift condemnation by the British and U.S. governments. The footage on YouTube, highlighted on pro-Islamic State Twitter feeds, showed a middle-aged man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling next to a black-clad militant in arid scrubland, similar to past Islamic State beheading videos of two American journalists and a British aid worker. As in previous videos, Henning appears to read from a script before he is killed. ...

Vatican seeks Mideast Christians' right of return

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 06:36 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is demanding that Christians and other religious minorities have the right to return to their homes in Iraq and Syria that have been emptied by Islamic militants.

Cameron, British Muslims condemn beheading of aid worker Alan Henning

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 05:26 AM PDT

By Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - Muslim groups across Britain united on Saturday to join Prime Minister David Cameron in condemning the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State insurgents, with one leading cleric calling it a "despicable and offensive act". Prayers for the 47-year-old taxi driver from Salford in northern England were said in mosques throughout the country at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival. Cameron called Henning a gentle, compassionate man who had simply tried to help others. Britain would do all it could to destroy his killers, he said. ...

9 killed in attacks targeting Iraq's military

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 04:29 AM PDT

In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 photo, an Iraqi Shiite militiamen takes cover after clashes with militants from the Islamic State group, near Qara Tappa, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad in Iraq's Diyala province. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq say two attacks targeting the country's military have killed nine people.

Horror over beheading of British hostage Alan Henning

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 04:25 AM PDT

A handout image received from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2014 shows British aid worker, Alan Henning holding a child in a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian borderLondon (AFP) - Britain reacted with horror on Saturday to the beheading of hostage Alan Henning, who many had dared to hope might be spared after a cross-community appeal for his release.

Giving asylum to Syrian refugees, following Rwanda's example of great leadership, the feeling of isolation among Europe's Muslim youth, Korea's struggling start-up culture, Turkey must help fight Islamic State

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 04:00 AM PDT

The Star / TorontoGiving asylum to Syrian refugees

Can America Still Win Wars?

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 03:45 AM PDT

Can America Still Win Wars?Public skepticism about war is healthy. But civic cynicism is not, and it means we can never be the unified country we were in World War II.

Turkey's Erdogan attacks Biden claims it funded extremists

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 03:03 AM PDT

President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 September 23, 2014 at the United Nations in New YorkAnkara (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted angrily on Saturday to comments by US Vice President Joe Biden that Turkey and others in the region had financed and armed jihadist organisations in Syria.

U.S. strikes on al Qaeda group in Syria did not inflict decisive blow -sources

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 02:11 AM PDT

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer supersonic bomber flies over northern Iraq after conducting air strikes in SyriaBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airstrikes in Syria in September that were aimed at a faction of al Qaeda militants said to be plotting attacks against the West failed to deliver a decisive blow against them, U.S. officials familiar with the operation said late this week. While U.S. intelligence agencies are still assessing the results of the Tomahawk cruise missile strikes, three U.S. ...

Syria's 'Free Police' outgunned by all its foes

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:06 PM PDT

By Tom Perry ADANA Turkey (Reuters) - In rebel-held areas of Aleppo, lightly armed policemen face thieves equipped with anti-aircraft guns on the ground and Syrian air force bombardment from the sky. General Adib al-Shallaf, the head of the Western-backed police force, says the Syrian government has tried to kill him several times in air strikes including a barrel bombing in which two of his colleagues died. ...

In close US mid-terms, GOP targets a tarnished Obama

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 09:13 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner stands behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30, 2014Washington (AFP) - One month before Americans elect their representatives in Congress and state offices, Republicans have a clear if narrow edge as they pick away at President Barack Obama's tarnished record.

UN condemns beheading as 'heinous and cowardly'

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:52 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council late Friday sharply condemned a new video that purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning, calling the killing a "heinous and cowardly murder."

Obama 'strongly condemns' killing of British citizen by Islamic State militants

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:26 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama strongly condemned on Friday the killing of British citizen Alan Henning by Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria and said the United States would seek to bring his killers to justice. "The United States strongly condemns the brutal murder of United Kingdom citizen Alan Henning" by the Islamic State group, Obama said in a statement. ...

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