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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Kristen Stewart Joining Ang Lee's 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 04:06 PM PDT

Newcomer Joe Alwyn is starring in the project with Garrett Hedlund.

Rebels seize Syria-Jordan border as IS storms Damascus

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 03:21 PM PDT

A fighter from the Al-Qaeda group Al-Nusra Front next to the flag in a destroyed building in Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on September 22, 2014Rebels backed by Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate seized control Wednesday of the last border crossing with Jordan that had been under regime control, dealing a major blow to President Bashar al-Assad. "Armed groups, joined today by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, took over the Nasib border point from regime soldiers" on the Syrian side of the frontier, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A coalition of rebel groups had launched the offensive Tuesday, and Al-Nusra joined them late Wednesday.


Tikrit victory boosts Iraq fight to defeat IS

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 02:49 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces celebrate on a street in Tikrit, on April 1, 2015Iraq vowed Wednesday to reclaim the entire country from jihadists after retaking Tikrit from the Islamic State group, as its forces fought to consolidate control of the city. Speaking from a newly-recaptured area of central Tikrit after a month-long operation that was Baghdad's biggest success yet against IS, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the government was "determined to liberate every inch of Iraqi land". Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghaban told journalists in Tikrit that there were "a few pockets (of IS fighters) remaining in some of the neighbourhoods".


UN report: More than 25,000 foreigners fight with terrorists

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 02:23 PM PDT

An image grab taken from a video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's al-Furqan Media allegedly shows ISIL fighters raising their weapons with the Jihadist flag at an undisclosed locationUNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says more than 25,000 foreign fighters from over 100 countries have traveled to join with al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and other splinter groups in countries from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan, Libya and the Philippines.


IRAQ TIKRIT

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:32 PM PDT

Map shows details of the Tikrit offensive.; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;

Iraq minister says Tikrit massacre burial sites found

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:30 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces and Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilisation units drive down a road surrounded by damaged houses, in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on March 31, 2015Iraqi forces which retook Tikrit from the Islamic State group found burial sites Wednesday believed to hold victims of a June massacre in which hundreds of army cadets were executed. Interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghaban told AFP that a burial site had been discovered in a freshly retaken palace complex on the banks of the Tigris river. He was speaking at a concrete waterfront post of Tikrit's water police building, where the wall was stained by blood that had run down into the river. We will bring security and peace to all of Iraq," he said.


KBR Inc. to pay $130K penalty over whistleblowers dispute

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 01:25 PM PDT

A global technology and engineering firm has agreed to pay a $130,000 penalty in the first action taken for an alleged violation of a whistleblower protection rule enacted in response to the recent financial ...

Looting in Iraq's Tikrit after city retaken

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 12:50 PM PDT

A Shiite fighter from the Popular Mobilisation units walks past a building inside the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, on March 31, 2015Pro-government militiamen were seen looting shops in the centre of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday after its recapture from the Islamic State jihadist group in a month-long battle. The militiamen took items including clothing, shampoo and shaving cream from two shops in central Tikrit before driving away. Two trucks were also seen leaving Tikrit loaded with new tyres, a generator and a mirror that fell out and shattered on the highway. Baghdad turned to Shiite militias to bolster its flagging forces after Islamic State group (IS) jihadists led a sweeping offensive that overran large areas north and west of Baghdad last year.


Iraq hails victory over Islamic State extremists in Tikrit

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 12:13 PM PDT

In this image posted on the official Facebook account of Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi shows the premier carrying the national flag as he walks with Iraqi security forces in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Iraqi security forces battled the last remaining pockets of Islamic State militants in Tikrit on Wednesday before the defense minister declared a 'magnificent victory' over the Islamic State group in Tikrit. (AP Photo/Iraq Prime Minister's office)TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — The government declared victory in Tikrit on Wednesday over extremists of the Islamic State group, and it warned the militants holding other Iraqi provinces that they would be the next to fall.


Yemen FM calls for coalition to send ground troops

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 11:55 AM PDT

Yemen Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talks to reporters in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on April 1, 2015Yemen's foreign minister called Wednesday for a Saudi-led military coalition targeting Shiite rebels in his country to send ground troops. "Yes I'm calling for this (ground forces) because I think at some stage air strikes will be ineffective," Riyadh Yassin told AFP during an interview in the Saudi capital, where he has taken refuge along with President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. His appeal coincided with warnings from aid groups about a brewing humanitarian crisis and civilian casualties in Yemen, where the coalition began air strikes a week ago. Yassin said ground forces would cause "less civilian casualties" but added the main reason he proposes a land operation is to enable aid deliveries.


US-Iran thaw spurred Saudi action on Yemen: experts

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 09:21 AM PDT

Yemenis gather near the rubble of houses near Sanaa airport which were destroyed by an air strike as Saudi-led warplanes on March 31, 2015Wary of a rapprochement between Washington and arch-rival Iran, Saudi Arabia has taken matters into its own hands by leading an air war against Shiite rebels in Yemen, experts say. The Huthi rebels, who Tehran denies arming, were close to seizing most of Yemen when Saudi Arabia sent warplanes into its southern neighbour, with which it shares a 1,800 kilometre (1,100 mile) border. "America's indifference to Saudi concerns and -- the other side of that coin, America's increasing interest in co-opting Iran," are among the motives behind Riyadh's action, said Professor Anoush Ehteshami, Iran and Gulf expert at Britain's Durham University.


Report: Egypt, Nigeria led world in death sentences in 2014

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 08:41 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2013, file photo, an Egyptian soccer fan of Al-Ahly club displays scales to fans celebrating a court verdict that returned 21 death penalties in the previous year's soccer violence against their supporters in Port Said, inside the club premises in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced in 2014, Amnesty International says in its latest annual report of executions and countries' use of the death penalty, released on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan, File)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world's total, Amnesty International says in its latest annual report on the death penalty.


More than 30 jihadist groups 'support IS'

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 08:11 AM PDT

An image grab taken from a video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's al-Furqan Media allegedly shows ISIL fighters raising their weapons with the Jihadist flag at an undisclosed locationMore than 20 jihadist groups have pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State movement and 10 others have voiced their support for the extremist organisation, according to US monitoring body IntelCenter. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of IS which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, proclaimed the establishment of an "Islamic caliphate" at the end of June last year after his fighters captured the Iraqi city of Mosul, asking all Muslims around the world to swear allegiance to him. A jihadist group in Algeria, another in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, and one in Lebanon immediately pledged their allegiance to the new chief, followed over the next weeks and months by 18 other movements including Boko Haram in Nigeria -- taking the total so far to 21. Ten other groups have voiced their support for IS, without pledging formal allegiance, IntelCenter said.


A history of the Islamic State group as Iraq retakes Tikrit

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 07:21 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister announced security forces had reached the city's center. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)CAIRO (AP) — The extremist Islamic State group, which controls a third of both Iraq and Syria in its self-declared caliphate, found itself driven out of the city of Tikrit on Wednesday by an allied Iraqi force backed by U.S.-led airstrikes.


Tikrit: Sunni bastion on road to Islamic State-held Mosul

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 07:01 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces deploy in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Iraqi security forces battled the last remaining pockets of Islamic State militants in Tikrit on Wednesday and were expected to gain full control of the city "within the coming hours," said Iraqi Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)Iraq's Tikrit, the largest city yet to be pried away from the Islamic State group, is a Sunni bastion in a part of the country where distrust of the Shiite-led government in Baghdad runs deep, and securing it likely will prove a challenge for the Iraqi forces and Shiite militias that drove out the extremists.


10 Things to Know for Today

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 06:44 AM PDT

Joni Mitchell waves to the crowd during her 70th birthday tribute concert as part of the Luminato Festival at Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday June 18, 2013. Mitchell's website and Twitter account reported Tuesday night March 31, 2015 that she was in the hospital, but gave no details on her condition. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Aaron Vincent Elkaim)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:


AP names Adam Schreck as news director for the Gulf region

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 05:20 AM PDT

In this Sunday, March 22, 2015 photo, Associated Press Dubai Bureau chief Adam Schreck poses for a photograph, at the Marina district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Schreck, who has covered terrorism, armed conflict and upheaval in the Middle East, as well as sweeping economic changes reshaping the region, has been named as Gulf news director for The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)CAIRO (AP) — Adam Schreck, who has covered conflict and upheaval in the Middle East as well as sweeping economic changes reshaping the region, has been named Gulf News Director for The Associated Press.


AP names Karin Laub as Jordan bureau chief

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 05:15 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 photo, Karin Laub poses for a photograph in Gaza. The Associated Press has named Laub, a veteran Middle East correspondent, as its chief of bureau for Jordan. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Associated Press has named Karin Laub, a veteran Middle East correspondent, as its chief of bureau for Jordan.


African envoy expresses concern over EU migrant center plans

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 05:06 AM PDT

In this picture taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015 and made available Saturday, March 28, 2015, a migrant uses a push scooter, right, at the "Umberto I" migrant holding center in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy. The U.N. refugee agency reported that the number of asylum requests rose 148 percent in 2014 over the previous year, far surpassing its previous all-time high in 2011 some 40,000 people sought refugee status in Italy during the Arab Spring. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)BRUSSELS (AP) — Africa's envoy to the European Union warned Wednesday that EU plans to process migrants in the countries they leave or transit on their way to Europe are "a dangerous approach."


Morocco: Militant cell recruiting IS fighters is dismantled

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 04:47 AM PDT

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's Interior Ministry has announced the dismantling of a cell that recruited young Moroccans to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Morocco dismantles IS recruitment cell

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 04:27 AM PDT

Moroccan policemen stand guard in front of parliament in RabatMoroccan authorities said Wednesday they dismantled a cell in the city of Fez that was recruiting fighters for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The interior ministry said the head of the cell maintained strong ties with IS leadership and sent Moroccans to training camps in the two countries, where they received intensive training in weapons handling.


Amnesty warns against Egypt, Nigeria death sentences

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 03:33 AM PDT

Posters show Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak in a noose on August 3, 2011 outside a hearing in his trial in the Cairo Police AcademyEgypt and Nigeria accounted for an "alarming rise" in the number of death sentences handed out around the world in 2014, often on the back of security concerns, Amnesty International said Wednesday. "It's a very worrying development in 2014 that there has been this increase in death sentences," Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty's director of global issues, told AFP at the launch of a report on capital punishment. "The death penalty isn't justice," she said. Titled "Alarming rise in death sentences as governments resorted to capital punishment to combat crime and terrorism", the report recorded 2,466 death sentences during last year -- a 28-percent increase from 2013.


A Naïve Deal with Iran Tops Obama’s Bungled Mideast Policy

Posted: 01 Apr 2015 02:30 AM PDT

Obama has a War on Reality. Obama has doggedly pursued negotiations aimed at restricting Iran's access to a nuclear weapon even though the mullahs in Tehran have done nothing to prove their peaceful intentions. They have continued and even expanded their proxy wars throughout the Middle East, while also refusing to answer questions about their presumed development of advanced weapons. Certain of these demands were considered non-negotiable, and critical to refusing Iran a nuclear weapon.

Syria slashes imports to save dwindling foreign reserves

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:53 PM PDT

Syrian women sit on a bench as they eat with a young boy in the city of Damascus on March 4, 2015Syria's government, presiding over an economy ravaged by war and facing dwindling foreign currency reserves, is taking new measures to slash imports and prop up exports. Importers require government licences that allow them to request a favourable exchange rate at the Syrian central bank. "A month ago, I got a text message from the economy finance ministry telling me that because of the shrinking foreign currency reserves, I would no longer get the preferential dollar rate at the central bank," one importer of consumer goods told AFP. An official at Syria's economy ministry, quoted by the Al-Watan daily, said two-thirds of import licences granted in the last quarter of 2014 went to industries considered essential, including fuel, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.


Starz to Debut OTT Service in Middle East

Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:00 PM PDT

The direct-to-consumer SVOD venture, entitled Starz Play Arabia, will launch on April 2 in 17 countries.

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