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• Gunmen storm Iraqi military barracks, killing 20
• Popular governor in a boiler suit: Iraqi PM in waiting?
• Ongoing fighting in Iraq's Anbar hits businesses
• Syria opens presidential campaign as war rages on
• Militants abduct, kill 20 soldiers in north Iraq: army
• Al Qaeda splinter group moves to take eastern Syrian city
• Schroeder says his Putin meeting helped free OSCE hostages
• Militants kill 20 troops in northern Iraq
• Authorities say insurgent attack on military barracks in northern Iraq kills 20 troops
• Militants kidnap, kill 20 Iraqi soldiers
• Outraged Over Benghazi, Silent on Iraq
• Today in History

Gunmen storm Iraqi military barracks, killing 20 Posted: 11 May 2014 01:37 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants in Iraq launched an audacious attack on a military barracks in a remote area in the country's north and killed 20 troops overnight, including some who had been bound and shot at close range, authorities said Sunday as other attacks killed 18.

Popular governor in a boiler suit: Iraqi PM in waiting? Posted: 11 May 2014 12:11 PM PDT Amara (Iraq) (AFP) - Ali Dawai is enormously popular on Facebook, with countless photos of the Iraqi provincial governor picking up rubbish or sipping tea with people while wearing his trademark blue boiler suit. As officials count the votes from April 30's general election, Dawai's Ahrar movement, linked to powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, is touting him for a much bigger role -- that of prime minister. Dawai is among several potential challengers to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his bid for a third term. In a country where many view their elected leaders as corrupt and distant, the 47-year-old has won plaudits in the southern province of Maysan for concentrating on providing basic services and meeting the people.

Ongoing fighting in Iraq's Anbar hits businesses Posted: 11 May 2014 11:40 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Fighting in Iraq's western Anbar province, now in its fifth month, appears to have bogged down, with government forces unable to drive out Islamic militants who took over one of the area's main cities. But the impact is being felt much further, with the repercussions rippling through the country's economy to hit consumers and businesses.

Syria opens presidential campaign as war rages on Posted: 11 May 2014 10:37 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — On billboards and in posters taped to car windows, new portraits of President Bashar Assad filled the streets of Damascus on Sunday as Syria officially opened its presidential campaign despite a crippling civil war that has devastated the country and left large chunks of territory outside of government control.

Militants abduct, kill 20 soldiers in north Iraq: army Posted: 11 May 2014 04:50 AM PDT Militants in northern Iraq ambushed an army convoy and abducted at least 20 soldiers before shooting them in the head, army officials said on Sunday, the deadliest yet in a growing series of execution-style attacks in the country. The ambush took place on Saturday near Ain al-Jahash in the northern province of Nineveh, one of the most unstable regions in Iraq and through which a long section of pipeline runs on its course from the Kirkuk oilfields to neighboring Turkey. Security officials said militants disguised as soldiers and driving army vehicles, presumably seized in previous attacks, had ambushed the convoy and abducted the conscripts, killing them en masse hours later. \"The soldiers were taken by surprise and realized too late that the humvees were driven by terrorists rather than their colleagues,\" said one army officer from the same brigade as the slain conscripts.

Al Qaeda splinter group moves to take eastern Syrian city Posted: 11 May 2014 04:44 AM PDT An al Qaeda splinter group has wrested control of key parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor from other rebel groups, activists said on Sunday, worsening infighting that has handicapped the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad. More than 100,000 civilians have fled the province following weeks of intense clashes between Islamist insurgents, the anti- Assad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Civilians in Deir al-Zor lived through more than two years of fighting between opposition fighters and the government. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - which started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq but has since been disowned - took neighborhoods of Deir al-Zor city from the Nusra Front, Syria's official al Qaeda affiliate, this weekend, according to the Observatory.

Schroeder says his Putin meeting helped free OSCE hostages Posted: 11 May 2014 04:43 AM PDT By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Sunday his controversial meeting with Vladimir Putin helped win the release of European military observers held in eastern Ukraine days later and he urged the West to stop focusing on sanctions on Russia. Criticized for media pictures that showed him warmly embracing the Russian president at an April 28 meeting in St. Petersburg, Schroeder said he appealed to Putin to do what he could to free the seven Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe observers. \"The Russian president is not a persona non grata,\" Schroeder told Welt am Sonntag newspaper when asked about whether it was appropriate to invite Putin to a party celebrating his 70th birthday. \"I was really pleased he was able to come because I knew there would be a chance to talk.\" Schroeder was attacked in German media for bear-hugging Putin at a time of high tension between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

Militants kill 20 troops in northern Iraq Posted: 11 May 2014 02:26 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants in Iraq launched an audacious attack on a military barracks in a remote area in the country's north and killed 20 troops overnight, including some who had been bound and shot at close range, authorities said Sunday.

Authorities say insurgent attack on military barracks in northern Iraq kills 20 troops Posted: 11 May 2014 02:00 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities say insurgent attack on military barracks in northern Iraq kills 20 troops.

Militants kidnap, kill 20 Iraqi soldiers Posted: 11 May 2014 01:56 AM PDT Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Militants attacked a military base in north Iraq, kidnapped 20 soldiers and later shot them dead, police and a morgue employee said on Sunday. The killings come as Iraq suffers a protracted surge in bloodshed, the worst to hit the country since the brutal sectarian fighting that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.

Outraged Over Benghazi, Silent on Iraq Posted: 10 May 2014 09:15 PM PDT The creation of a House committee to study the attack on Benghazi raises the troubling question of why Congress has never bothewred to scrutinize to the invasion of Iraq.

Today in History Posted: 10 May 2014 09:00 PM PDT Today is Sunday, May 11, the 131st day of 2014. There are 234 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.

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