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• Russia boosts military, global arms spending fall
• The big test facing Iraq
• Suicide bomber kills 11 in Iraq
• Bombings kill at least 16 people in northern Iraq
• Iraqis in resort town face return to Anbar unrest
• Warily, Lebanon tackles violent spillover from Syria
• Report: Iran's border guards start limited drill
• Iraq: Bombings kill at least 16 people in north
• Wealthy Qatar, a backer of Syria's armed rebels, makes room for child refugees
• Iraq car bomb kills at least 10 people in north
• America’s Ugly Win in Afghanistan
• Iraq police say suicide bomber kills 6 in north
• This Pol Hates Neanderthals
• Today in History

Russia boosts military, global arms spending fall Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:02 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) — For the first time in 10 years, Russia last year spent a bigger share of its overall economy on arms investments than the U.S. as it seeks to bolster its military capability, a Swedish arms watchdog said Monday.

The big test facing Iraq Posted: 13 Apr 2014 09:54 AM PDT Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, looks out the cockpit window of a military helicopter at the thin blue waterway below – the site of one of the fiercest battles in modern history. The Russian-made chopper, part of Iraq's tiny Air Force, winds its way along the Shatt al-Arab waterway, on the border with Iran, which has shaped the two countries' tumultuous past. They are rusting relics from a devastating eight-year war three decades ago that began over access to the shallow ribbon of water – Iraq's only lane to the deep-sea waters of the Gulf. "When you see it on the ground, you see how sensitive these issues are ... and how stupid decisions destroyed this country," says Mr. Zebari, a onetime Kurdish guerrilla who fought Saddam Hussein's regime from the mountains and has been foreign minister throughout the life of postwar Iraq.

Suicide bomber kills 11 in Iraq Posted: 13 Apr 2014 09:17 AM PDT Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint in Iraq on Sunday, killing 11 people, after which an angry crowd burned a courthouse and several homes, officials said. The latest violence comes amid a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed that has claimed more than 2,550 lives so far this year and sparked fears of Iraq slipping back into the all-out sectarian killings of 2006 and 2007. The unrest has been driven principally by widespread anger among the Sunni Arab minority over claims of mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government and security forces, as well as by the civil war in neighbouring Syria. The suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Dibs in northern Iraq, killing seven police and four civilians, and wounding 18 people, among them security forces members.

Bombings kill at least 16 people in northern Iraq Posted: 13 Apr 2014 07:56 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings targeting security forces in northern Iraq killed at least 16 people Sunday, authorities said, as the country prepares for a crucial election later this month.

Iraqis in resort town face return to Anbar unrest Posted: 13 Apr 2014 07:55 AM PDT Shaqlawa (Iraq) (AFP) - When fighting erupted in Iraq's Anbar province in December, Abu Mohammed fled with his family to a virtually empty summer resort far to the north to take advantage of its off-season rates and wait out the conflict. But high season is about to begin in Shaqlawa, nestled beneath the Safin Mountains nearly 1,000 metres (3,280 feet) up, a place where Iraqis seek to escape scorching summer temperatures. But with no end in sight to the unrest back home, Anbaris like Abu Mohammed are running out of cash and face the unpleasant prospect of being forced to go back to it all. But they illustrate the broad effect the violence has had, with some 10,000 families having made their way to Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region, where Shaqlawa is located, according to the migration and displacement ministry.

Warily, Lebanon tackles violent spillover from Syria Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:54 AM PDT By Alexander Dziadosz TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - For two weeks now, the rifles have been silent along Syria Street in Lebanon's Tripoli, an area shot up so often that even memorial posters of men killed just a few months ago are speckled with bullet holes. Soldiers patrol quiet streets where gunmen used to fight day and night - part of the Lebanese authorities' most serious effort yet to contain spillover from Syria's civil war since the three-year-old conflict began in its much larger neighbor. "Traffic is returning, the area is coming back to life," said Ahmed Qashour, 57, raising his voice as armored vehicles rumbled past the tahini sesame-paste shop where he works on Syria Street, in the north of the Mediterranean port city. "But what we want, what we're asking of the government, is that this security plan continues - that it doesn't stop." Syria's civil war has divided Lebanon's politicians, while gunbattles, car bombs and rocket attacks linked to Syria have killed scores of Lebanese and revived memories of the country's own 15-year civil war that formally ended in 1990.

Report: Iran's border guards start limited drill Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:47 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television is reporting that a four-day, limited drill for border guards has begun in five provinces near the Islamic Republic's border with Iraq.

Iraq: Bombings kill at least 16 people in north Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:38 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb went off in a commercial area of a restive northern Iraqi city on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, while a separate bombing killed 6 people, officials said.

Wealthy Qatar, a backer of Syria's armed rebels, makes room for child refugees Posted: 13 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT While Qatar has embraced the effort to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it is less keen to take in Syrian refugees. Far fewer have made it to wealthy Gulf states like Qatar, Kuwait, or Saudi Arabia.  Mr. Khatib, an engineer, is the brother of a prominent imam in Damascus who opposes Assad's regime. Last October, the Syrian School of Qatar opened its doors to children grades 1 to 11 using an adapted Syrian curriculum in the hope that students can eventually return home and continue their schooling.

Iraq car bomb kills at least 10 people in north Posted: 13 Apr 2014 04:31 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bombing in northern Iraq has killed at least 10 people and wounded 12 others.

America’s Ugly Win in Afghanistan Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:15 AM PDT America is creaking towards an ugly win in Afghanistan.  With the growth of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) program and the currently successful presidential elections, we're finally creating something that looks more like historical Afghanistan and less like the imagined Geneva-on-the-Helmand of 2001.  Historical Afghanistan might be ugly; In terms of the endgame, Afghanistan was always a riskier war than Iraq.

Iraq police say suicide bomber kills 6 in north Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:27 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi police officer says a suicide bomber has killed at least six people in the country's north.

This Pol Hates Neanderthals Posted: 12 Apr 2014 10:22 PM PDT One House candidate's reason for running is personal. Steve King thinks DREAMers who want to join the military should be deported. And a Missouri Rep.says getting an abortion is a huge decision—like buying a car, or getting new carpeting.

Today in History Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:01 PM PDT Today is Palm Sunday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2014. There are 262 days left in the year.

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