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Yahoo! News: Iraq


U.S. releases video it says shows Iranian rockets near American warships

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 04:38 PM PST

U.S. Navy handout photo of the USS Harry S. Truman during sea trialsBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy released black-and-white video on Saturday it said was taken by an American helicopter showing an Iranian Revolutionary Guards vessel firing unguided rockets on Dec. 26 near warships including the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran on Dec. 31 denied that its Revolutionary Guards vessels had launched the rockets as the United States claimed, with a Revolutionary Guards spokesman saying the "false" accusation was "akin to psychological warfare." The U.S. Navy said the infrared radar footage showed an Iranian "fast inshore attack craft" launching several rockets on Dec. 26 "in close proximity" to the Truman, the guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley, the French naval frigate FS Provence and commercial ships in the busy waterway.


Top Asian News 12:36 a.m. GMT

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 04:36 PM PST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's leader has taken a victory tour of military headquarters to celebrate the country's widely disputed claim of a hydrogen bomb test. Kim Jong Un called the nuclear test "a self-defensive step for reliably defending the peace on the Korean Peninsula and the regional security from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists," according to a dispatch Sunday from state-run Korean Central News Agency. "It is the legitimate right of a sovereign state and a fair action that nobody can criticize," Kim was reported as saying during his tour of the People's Armed Forces Ministry.

US Navy releases video of 'provocative' Iran rocket fire

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 01:52 PM PST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy on Saturday released footage it said showed Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels firing rockets near warships and commercial traffic in the strategic Strait of Hormuz late last month, a move raising tensions between the two nations despite the recent nuclear deal.

N. Korea defiance challenges moral authority of nuclear club

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 11:33 AM PST

North Koreans clap hands together in a rally, after North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. As world leaders debated ways to penalize North Korea's claim of a fourth nuclear test, South Korea voiced its displeasure with broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — When North Korea claimed triumphantly that it had tested its first hydrogen bomb, it was roundly and predictably condemned by the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and India, countries estimated to possess a combined total of more than 15,000 nuclear warheads.


Turkish forces kill 18 Kurdish rebels: army

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 08:50 AM PST

Turkish special forces in Sirnak on December 22, 2015 during security operations against Kurdish rebels in the southeastern Turkey cities of Cizre and SilopiTurkish security forces killed 18 militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as they battled the rebels in curfew-hit towns in the country's troubled southeast, the army said Saturday. Sixteen were killed in the Cizre district of Sirnak province near the Iraqi border on Friday, while another two died in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, the army said in a statement. Also in Sur, one soldier was wounded in a gun attack on Saturday while three other soldiers and a civil servant were also wounded when a remote-controlled bomb laid by militants was detonated, security sources said.


Iraqi refugee's brother shocked by terrorism arrest

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 08:30 AM PST

Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, left, is escorted by U.S. Marshals from the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, in Houston. Al Hardan made his initial appearance in federal court in Houston Friday morning after he was indicted Wednesday on three charges related to accusations he tried to provide material support to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Bob Levey)HOUSTON (AP) — The brother of an Iraqi refugee who had settled in Texas said he is in shock after learning that his sibling — who had come to the U.S. to escape the violence in their homeland — is now facing charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group.


Refugee program decried after Iraqis' terror-related arrests

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:58 AM PST

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, center, flanked by Rep. Buddy Carter R-Ga., left, and Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, about the arrest of two Iraqi-born men who came to the U.S. as refugees and were indicted on terrorism-related charges by federal authorities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. refugee program came under fresh criticism after federal authorities revealed that two Iraqi-born men arrested on terrorism-related charges had come to America as refugees.


Few Russian strikes in Syria are against Islamic State, U.S. official says

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 04:35 AM PST

Produce are covered in dust as people inspect a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force on a busy market place in the town of Ariha, in Idlib province, SyriaBy Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Only a third of Russia's air strikes in Syria are targeting Islamic State and its imprecise attacks are forcing the population to flee, fuelling Europe's refugee crisis, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. Of the 5,000 air strikes carried out by Russia since it began its air offensive in Syria on Sept. 30, about 70 percent hit rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, rather than supporting the efforts of the U.S-led coalition, the official told reporters in Brussels. Rescue workers and rights groups say Russia's bombing in Syria has killed scores of civilians at busy market places and in residential areas.


Top General Warns of New ISIS Threat on US Southern Border

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 03:30 AM PST

Top General Warns of New ISIS Threat on US Southern BorderAmerica is vulnerable to attack by Islamic extremists from a southern flank, and it's not the U.S./Mexico border, a top general says. The number of ISIS devotees living in or coming from the Caribbean is on the rise, according to U.S. Southern Command chief Gen. John Kelly, who oversees security throughout South America. "It seems like the Islamic extremists and terrorists have shifted a lot of their message, and that is, 'Hey, rather than come to Syria, why don't you stay at home and do San Bernardino, or do Boston, or do Fort Hood?'" Kelly said Friday at a Pentagon press briefing.


Iran complains to U.N. about Saudi 'provocations'

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 02:01 AM PST

Protester holds a picture of Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed in Saudi Arabia, as others chant slogans during a rally after Friday prayers in TehranIran's foreign minister has complained to the United Nations about Saudi Arabia's "provocations" toward Tehran, as a diplomatic crisis between the region's two major powers entered its second week. In a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published by Iranian news agencies on Saturday, Mohammad Javad Zarif said "some people" in Riyadh seemed bent on dragging the whole region into crisis. The two powers, both major oil exporters, have been locked in a diplomatic battle since Saudi Arabia executed Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr on Jan. 2.


Iraqi air force conducting 60 percent of sorties, PM Abadi says

Posted: 09 Jan 2016 01:25 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister al-Abadi walks to a meeting with the Senate leadership at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonMore than 60 percent of sorties against Islamic State in Iraq are carried out by the nation's air forces and about 40 percent by the U.S.-led coalition, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday. Iraq's army last month scored its first success against Islamic State when it recaptured, with air support from the coalition, the city center of Ramadi. Speaking at a ceremony in Baghdad broadcast live on state TV, Abadi said Iraq still needed foreign assistance for air cover, training and armament, but not for ground operations.


Debate over women in combat continues to roil Marine Corps

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 11:59 PM PST

U.S. Southern Command Commander Gen. John Kelly speaks to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Marine general predicts that the Defense Department's vows to maintain the same standards for women and men in combat jobs won't last, saying the military will eventually be pressured to lower the qualifications so more women can serve in jobs like the Marine infantry.


As Iraq fights Islamic State, violence rises in Shiite south

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 11:57 PM PST

In this Dec. 19, 2015 photo Ahmed Hilal grieves by his nephew's poster Ali Hussein was shot dead by thieves in broad daylight to steal his car, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Local officials blame the lack of security forces, many of them have been dispatched to front lines, for the soaring thefts, armed robberies, kidnapping for ransom, bloody tribal disputes and drug trafficking. Residents complain that political infighting over government posts and growing influence of Shiite militias have exacerbated the situation and weakened the role of the remaining security forces in the province. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — As the sun sets over Iraq's southern city of Basra, Ahmed Hilal rushes to lock his door. At night, every knock sends his heart beating faster. In the morning, the father of three or someone he trusts walks his children to school, barely five minutes away.


N. Korea cites Kadhafi's 'destruction' in nuke test defence

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 10:12 PM PST

North Korea says its fourth nuclear test was a "great event" with a deterrent powerful enough to secure its borders against all hostile forcesNorth Korea has defended its latest nuclear test, citing the fate of two toppled Middle East leaders, while flexing its military muscle by showing TV footage of a submarine-launched missile test. A commentary published by the official KCNA news agency late Friday said the fate of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moamer Kadhafi in Libya showed what happened when countries forsake their nuclear weapon ambitions. It also warned South Korea, which resumed high-decibel propaganda broadcasts across the inter-Korean border in response to Wednesday's test, that its actions were driving the divided peninsula to "the brink of war".


Top Asian News 4:38 a.m. GMT

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 08:38 PM PST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea warned of war as South Korea on Saturday continued blasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals' tense border in retaliation for the North's purported fourth nuclear test. North Korean propaganda is filled with threats of violence, but the country is also extremely sensitive to criticism of its authoritarian leadership, which Seoul resumed in its cross-border broadcasts on Friday for the first time in nearly five months. Pyongyang says the broadcasts are tantamount to an act of war. When South Korea briefly resumed propaganda broadcasts in August after an 11-year break, Seoul says the two Koreas exchanged artillery fire.

Security experts fear 'European 9/11' in the coming year

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 08:17 PM PST

Faced with an enemy that is happy to die and maximise civilian casualties, the challenge for France's security forces is to massively speed up response timesJust a week into the year, France has already been rattled by an attempted attack on a police station, but counter-terrorism officials have far graver fears for Europe in 2016. November's attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed by Islamic State group jihadists, showed the trauma that could be caused by a group of men with Kalashnikov rifles, but experts fear it could be just the start. "Unfortunately, I think 2015 was nothing," a counter-terrorism official told AFP on condition of anonymity.


Consumer Electronics Show awash with altered realities

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 01:27 PM PST

People watch the virtual reality presentation of the SyFi network show, "The Expanse."Altered realities abounded at the Consumer Electronics Show gadget-fest, touching everything from sex and sports to sales and space exploration. Virtual reality (VR) headsets immersed people in fictional worlds, while augmented reality (AR) eyewear overlaid digital data on the scenes around them. "Virtual reality takes you to another place, while augmented reality brings another place to you," said Ari Grobman of Lumus, an Israeli company that specializes in optics technology for augmented reality.


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