2014年12月20日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


French police kill 'Allahu Akbar' attacker

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 03:28 PM PST

A police car is parked outside the station in Joue les-Tours on December 20, 2014Joué-lès-Tours (France) (AFP) - French police on Saturday shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked three officers in a police station while shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great"). The man wounded one officer's face at the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central city of Tours and injured two others before he was killed. The attacker "shouted 'Allahu Akbar' from the moment he entered until his last breath," the source said. "It looked like the sort of act called for by Islamic State," the source said.


Kurds advance against IS group in Syria, Iraq

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 01:07 PM PST

Iraqi Kurdish forces gather on the roof of their makeshift base, as they look upon areas held by Islamic State militants outside of Mosul, less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the newly liberated village of Kasr Reej, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. Sporadic clashes between Iraqi Kurdish fighters and Islamic State extremists, as well as other logistics problems, are delaying the evacuation of the last Yazidis still trapped on Sinjar mountain, an Iraqi lawmaker said Friday. (AP Photo/Zana Ahmed)BEIRUT (AP) — Kurdish fighters advanced on the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, pushing into the contested, refugee-packed Sinjar mountains and gaining ground in the embattled Syrian border town of Kobani after heavy clashes, Kurdish officials and an activist group said.


Yazidis cheer Kurds on Iraqi mountain for breaking Islamic State siege

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 01:06 PM PST

By Isabel Coles SINJAR MOUNTAIN, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish fighters flashed victory signs as they swept across the northern side of Sinjar mountain on Saturday, two days after breaking through to free hundreds of Yazidis trapped there for months by Islamic State fighters. A Reuters correspondent, who arrived on the mountain late Saturday, witnessed Kurdish and Yazidi fighters celebrating their gains after launching their offensive on Wednesday with heavy U.S. air support. The Iraqi Kurdish flag fluttered, with its yellow sun, and celebratory gunfire rang out. ...

Egypt's Sisi meets Qatari envoy as ties thaw

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:20 PM PST

A picture released on November 3, 2014 by the Egyptian Presidency shows President Abdel Fattah al-SisiEgypt said Saturday it aims to end differences with Qatar as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who ousted his Doha-backed Islamist predecessor met with an envoy from the Gulf emirate. Ties between Cairo and Doha deteriorated after then army chief Sisi ousted Mohamed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood movement was backed by Qatar. Since Morsi's ouster in July last year, a crackdown overseen by Sisi against the Brotherhood has left hundreds dead. Qatar repeatedly denounced Sisi's ouster of Morsi and it still provides shelter for some Brotherhood leaders who fled Egypt.


AP PHOTOS: A look at 2014 in the business world

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 file photo, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen listens during a meeting at the Federal Reserve in Washington. Yellen replaced Ben Bernanke in early 2014. Amid signs that the U.S. economy was growing strongly and unemployment was falling, she and her colleagues brought the Fed's bond-buying program to an end. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)LONDON (AP) — No one said the recovery from the global financial crisis would be easy and 2014 provided that in spades.


Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2014

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:01 PM PST

FILE- In this Aug. 11, 2014, file photo, flowers are placed in memory of actor/comedian Robin Williams' Walk of Fame star in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Aug. 11, 2014, in an apparent suicide at his San Francisco Bay area home. He was 63. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)They each turned a moment of violence into a call to action. For James Brady, that moment was when he was shot and wounded by a would-be presidential assassin. For Chung Eun-yong, it was the killings of his two children during a Korean War massacre.


Politics, shotgun marriage in government, war loom in 2015

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 11:52 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2014 file-pool photo, Defense Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks to U.S. troops at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. It may be only 2015 but the year ahead is likely to be filled with 2016 presidential politics. Plus, fights between Congress and President Barack Obama. Plus, a further ramp-up in wars that were supposed to be winding down. A look ahead at what's in store from Washington in the year ahead. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, File-Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — Tumultuous 2014 is not even in the books, and already the shape of 2015 looms. The new year promises more war, when the plan was for less. It brings a new order in government, with an institutionally weakened president and strengthened opposition.


Top news of 2014 left public grasping for answers

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 11:34 AM PST

FILE - In this April 20, 2014, file photo, relatives of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol sit near the sea at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. Over 300 people were killed in the accident, many of them students. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)Twenty-thousand feet down the answers may be waiting, hidden in some underwater canyon far off Australia's coast. But more than nine months after searchers began scouring the seas for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that vanished with 239 people aboard, the catastrophe defies resolution.


Iraq Kurds deliver aid to Mt Sinjar, expand operation

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 10:05 AM PST

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter stands behind sandbags at a checkpoint in Zummar city in the northern Iraqi governorate of Nineveh, on December 18, 2014Kurdish peshmerga forces delivered aid on Mount Sinjar and expanded a major offensive against jihadist-held areas in northwestern Iraq on Saturday after breaking a months-old siege. The peshmerga closed in on Sinjar town south of the mountain and Tal Afar to its east. If successful, the move would significantly alter the map of the Islamic State (IS) group's self-declared cross-border "caliphate" and isolate its Mosul hub. The autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region's peshmerga troops reached the flanks of Mount Sinjar with food and other aid three days after launching a vast operation in the region backed by US-led coalition air strikes.


Egypt receives 10 Apache helicopters from U.S.: sources

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 09:46 AM PST

A U.S. Army Apache flies past the moon in the Zharay district of Kandahar provinceCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt received 10 Apache helicopters from the United States in the past week, security sources said on Saturday, a sign of easing tensions between the long-time allies confronting Islamist extremism across the region. The United States originally announced in April that it had decided to lift its hold on the delivery of the attack helicopters, imposed last year after the military toppled elected president Mohamed Mursi and cracked down hard on his Muslim Brotherhood supporters. ...


Bombings kill 12 in Iraq

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 07:54 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs targeting commercial streets and an army patrol killed 12 people in and around Baghdad Saturday, Iraqi authorities said.

2 car bombs rock southern Sweden's city of Malmo

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 07:36 AM PST

The remains of a car which was damaged in an explosion early Saturday morning Dec. 20, 2014 in Malmo Sweden. Another minor bomb wrecked an entrance to a house in the same neighborhood of Rosengard, Malmo. No one was injured by the explosions. (AP photo/TT News Agency, Stig-Ake Jonsson) SWEDEN OUTCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say two car bombs have shattered dozens of windows in a multiethnic district of Malmo, Sweden's third largest city.


Exclusive: Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price drop

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 07:06 AM PST

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with French magazine Paris Match,in DamascusBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian businessmen and trade officials say they are worried the economic lifeline provided by Iran is under strain from plunging oil prices, despite public messages of support from Syria's strongest regional ally. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has relied on oil-producing Iran to help him fight insurgents in a nearly four-year-old civil war and also prop up a currency under pressure. "If it had not been for Iranian support we could not have survived the crisis," a senior Syrian trade official said from Damascus, requesting anonymity. ...


Kurds press Sinjar operation in north Iraq

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 05:36 AM PST

A day after a months-old siege on Mount Sinjar was broken, Kurdish peshmerga forces launched another offensive from Rabia, on the Syria border, to further clear the areaIraqi Kurdish and allied forces on Saturday pressed on with a vast operation to wrest back swathes of land from the Islamic State jihadist group. A day after a months-old siege on Mount Sinjar was broken, Kurdish peshmerga forces launched another offensive from Rabia, on the Syria border, to further clear the area. "Peshmerga forces launched a new offensive south of Rabia to Mount Sinjar" at 8:00 am (0500 GMT), the Kurdistan Regional Security Council (KRSC) said in a statement. The KRSC is headed by Masrour Barzani, who is the autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region's intelligence chief and also the son of Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani.


Iraq's Shiite fighters desert over shortages

Posted: 20 Dec 2014 04:55 AM PST

In this Monday, Aug 18, 2014 file photo, Iraqi Shiite fighters make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. The Shiite fighters are credited for curbing the Sunni militants advance on Baghdad and the surrounding areas and for achieving significant progress on the ground, including breaking the extremists' siege on the northern Shiite-majority town of Amerli in August and later, in operations to liberate Jurf al-Sakher, a town south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — Abu Murtada al-Moussawi answered the call last summer from Iraq's top Shiite cleric to help save the country from the Islamic State group, but after less than three months on the front lines he and several friends returned home because they had run out of food.


See Bradley Cooper Play a Reluctant Hero in New 'American Sniper' Clip (Exclusive)

Posted: 19 Dec 2014 09:50 PM PST

In Clint Eastwood's war film, which will open on Christmas Day, Cooper's Chris Kyle, a heroic serviceman in Iraq, is approached by a comrade while back stateside

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