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Yahoo! News: Iraq

U.S. agency ends Nevada cattle roundup, releases herd after stand-off

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 04:39 PM PDT

Protesters gather at the Bureau of Land Management's base camp near Bunkerville, NevadaBy Jennifer Dobner BUNKERVILLE, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. officials ended a stand-off with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada desert on Saturday, calling off the government's roundup of cattle it said were illegally grazing on federal land and giving about 300 animals back to the rancher who owned them. The dispute less than 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped paying fees for grazing his cattle on the government land and officials said he had ignored court orders. The bureau had called in a team of armed rangers to Nevada to seize the 1,000 head of cattle on Saturday but backed down in the interests of safety.

Former U.S. Marine's family asks Iran to reconsider prison term

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 02:17 PM PDT

New Hope for American Arrested as CIA 'Spy' in Iran?By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of an Iranian-American former U.S. Marine held in Iran since 2011 called on Saturday for senior Iranian officials to review his conviction and 10-year prison sentence on charges of collaborating with the U.S. government and to free him. The family of Amir Hekmati, whose previous espionage conviction and death sentence in Iran were overturned in 2012, said he was retried in secret, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge of "practical collaboration with the American government." The family said he was innocent of the charges. Iran has not commented on any developments in the case. "The Hekmati family respectfully asks senior Iranian officials to review Amir's conviction, and to resolve this grave misunderstanding by granting Amir his freedom and a safe return home," the family, living in Flint, Michigan, said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

Lawyer: Ex-Marine gets 10-year sentence in Iran

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by his family via FreeAmir.org shows Amir Hekmati. Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine being held in Iran over the past two years on accusations of spying for the CIA. The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported Saturday, April 12, 2014 that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Iran charged Hekmati with receiving special training and serving at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged mission. Hekmati's father, a professor at a community college in Flint, Michigan, has said his son is not a CIA spy. (AP Photo/Hekmati family via FreeAmir.org, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian appeals court has overturned a death sentence of a former U.S. Marine convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison, his lawyer said Saturday.

Iraq: Official disputes assassination allegation

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:35 AM PDT

Iraqi civilians inspect debris left in the aftermath of a car bombing on a commercial street in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, Iraq, Friday, April 11, 2014. Two car bombs exploded in Shiite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital Thursday night, killing and wounding scores of people, as violence roars on before a crucial election later this month, authorities said. Last year, Iraq weathered its deadliest bout of violence since it pulled back from the brink of civil war in 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the military command in Iraq's Anbar province on Saturday disputed claims by supporters of the country's deputy prime minister that he faced an assassination attempt a day earlier while traveling west of Baghdad.

Funeral in Missouri for soldier killed at Fort Hood

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:35 AM PDT

Army Sergeant Timothy Owens, of Illinois, who served as a heavy vehicle driver and had been deployed to Iraq and Kuwait, is pictured in this undated handout photoMourners gathered in Rolla, Missouri, on Saturday for the funeral of one of three U.S. soldiers killed in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base earlier this month. Friends and family of Iraq war veteran Timothy Owens, 37, a native of Effingham, Illinois, attended a private service at First Baptist Church. Veteran Frank Reinhart said the mission of the Patriot Guard Riders was to ensure dignity at memorial services for fallen military, something his generation missed after returning from the Vietnam War. "You go through little towns and see people with their hands over their hearts, it's very moving," Reinhart said, adding that the group aims "to see that the family gets support and a little bit of honor." Two other soldiers died in the attack this month - Daniel Ferguson, 39, of Mulberry, Florida, and Carlos Lazaney Rodriguez, 38, of Puerto Rico.

AP photographer captured humanity amid chaos

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:38 AM PDT

A photograph of Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus is displayed inside Corvey Abbey during her funeral in Hoexter, Germany, Saturday, April 12, 2014. Niedringhaus was killed by an Afghan policeman in an attack on April 4, 2014 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, pool)HOEXTER, Germany (AP) — Hundreds of mourners packed a church in central Germany on Saturday to remember Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed on assignment in Afghanistan last week after a life spent between the chaos of war and the serenity of her rural birthplace.

Report: Ex-Marine gets 10-year sentence in Iran

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:48 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released by his family via FreeAmir.org shows Amir Hekmati. Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine being held in Iran over the past two years on accusations of spying for the CIA. The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported Saturday, April 12, 2014 that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Iran charged Hekmati with receiving special training and serving at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged mission. Hekmati's father, a professor at a community college in Flint, Michigan, has said his son is not a CIA spy. (AP Photo/Hekmati family via FreeAmir.org, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency is reporting that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, instead sentencing him to 10 years in prison.

Overcoming looting and years of war, Iraq Museum moves to reopen

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Lamia al-Gailani pulls a folder of crumbling letters from a battered metal cabinet – part of what she considers the secret treasures of the Iraq Museum. The cabinets hold archives from the beginnings of the venerable institution, established after World War I by Gertrude Bell, the famed British administrator, writer, and explorer. Hundreds of thousands of documents and photographs, neglected until now, hold the untold story of an emerging nation whose borders "Miss Bell" helped to draw. She pulls out photographs of the Iraq pavilion at the 1938 Paris Expo and a yellowing, typewritten letter from 1921 confirming the appointment of Bell as honorary museum director.

Senate report: Interrogation methods 'far worse' than CIA acknowledged

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 07:20 AM PDT

"Enhanced interrogation" – the euphemism for the partial drowning known as water-boarding, sleep deprivation for days at a time, stress positions, and other harsh techniques that many people consider to be torture – undoubtedly will be a signature phrase in histories written about the US-led invasion of Iraq and the ten years of war and occupation that followed. The US Senate and the Central Intelligence Agency have been wrangling over a 6,300-page report on the CIA's interrogation program put together by the Senate Intelligence Committee, specifically what can and should be made public. "We believe that public release is the best way to ensure that this program of secret detention and coercive interrogation never happens again," committee chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former chair Sen. Jay Rockefeller wrote in the Washington Post this week.

'86 dead' as Syria's Qaeda, allies repel jihadists

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:49 AM PDT

A rebel fighter checks a launcher near the village of Kasab and the border crossing with Turkey, in the northwestern province of Latakia, on March 24, 2014Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate and its allies have repulsed an assault by jihadist rivals on a town on the Iraqi border in fighting that killed 86 people, a monitoring group said Friday. Sixty of the dead were fighters of Al-Nusra Front or its Islamist allies killed pushing back their Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rivals from districts of Albu Kamal they had captured early Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP the rebels regained full control of Albu Kamal after reinforcements poured in.

He Left Nirvana for Iraq

Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:00 PM PDT

He Left Nirvana for IraqOn a night when his former Nirvana band mates were being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jason Everman just wanted to drink in a quiet bar.

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