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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Islamic State using birth control to keep supply of sex slaves: NY Times

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 02:53 PM PST

The Islamic State is using several forms of contraception to maintain its supply of sex slaves, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing interviews with more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the militant group. The New York Times reported that Islamic State used "oral and injectable contraception, and sometimes both" to ensure that the women did not become pregnant and could be passed among the fighters. Islamic State militants consider the Yazidis to be devil-worshippers.

Despite border closures, Syrians determined to reach Europe

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 02:23 PM PST

A migrant woman crosses a mud puddle at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Friday, March 11, 2016. After nearly three days of rain, conditions in the refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian where about 14,000 people are stranded have deteriorated significantly, with many of its residents struggling to re-pitch their small camping tents in slightly drier patches. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) — Clutching an English phrase book, Mohammed Sawadi is preparing to head north.


15-year-old pilot from England wins Dubai's World Drone Prix

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 12:01 PM PST

Fill Freybott, pilot of Freybott team of Germany, left, controls their team drone during the final day of the first World Drone Prix in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A team led by a 15-year-old pilot from England took first place Saturday in the World Drone Prix, a new contest hoping to take flight both in this Mideast country fascinated by the technology and with sports fans worldwide.


U.S., allies conduct 17 strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 11:47 AM PST

The United States and its allies on Friday targeted Islamic State militants in Iraq with nine strikes and eight in Syria, the U.S. military said on Saturday. Five of the strikes in Iraq were near Ramadi, hitting three separate Islamic State tactical units and an Islamic State fighting position. In Syria, four of the strikes were near Mar'a, hitting 10 Islamic State fighting positions and two weapons caches.

IRAQ ISLAMIC STATE

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 09:53 AM PST

Map locates Taza in Iraq; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;

Kerry nearing decision on whether IS atrocities are genocide

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 09:01 AM PST

FIL - In this March 9, 2016, file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to reporters at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration is nearing a decision on whether to formally declare that Islamic State group atrocities against religious minorities, including Christians, constitute "genocide." Kerry is leaning toward making the determination and could do so as early as next week, when a congressional deadline for action has been set, according to several administration officials. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on whether to formally declare that Islamic State group atrocities against religious minorities, including Christians, constitute "genocide."


Iraq PM vows retaliation after IS chemical attack

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 08:36 AM PST

Iraqis carry the coffin of a young girl who was killed following a chemical attack on Taza, a town on the outskirts of Kirkuk, on March 11, 2016Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State group after it launched a chemical attack on a town near Kirkuk. The suspected mustard gas attack on Taza that left a three-year-old girl dead "will not go unpunished", the premier said in a statement. A large number of rockets were fired at Taza on Wednesday from the nearby village of Bashir, which is held by the jihadists.


Iraqi cleric Sadr calls sit-in, urges action against corruption

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 05:11 AM PST

Supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr display a huge Iraqi flag during a protest against government corruption at Tahrir Square in BaghdadIraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a sit-at the gates of Baghdad's heavily fortified government district, stepping up pressure on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to deliver on promised anti-corruption reforms. The protest, that Sadr said would start on Friday, threatened to escalate tensions over a long-awaited economic overhaul in the strife-torn oil producer. Graft is eating away at Baghdad's resources even as it struggles with falling revenue due to rock-bottom oil prices and high spending due to the costs of the war against Islamic State militants."I address this historic call to every reform-loving Iraqi ... so that he rises up to begin a new phase," read the statement posted online on Saturday from Sadr, heir to a Shi'ite clerical dynasty persecuted under Saddam Hussein.


The Slipperiest Slope of Them All

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 04:54 AM PST

President Obama came into office promising to turn the page on a chapter of American history defined by two wars in the greater Middle East. His consistency in delivering on that promise is admirable, as is the focus with which he has learned from and sought to avoid his predecessor's mistakes regarding the use of American force abroad.

Report: Turkish airstrikes in Iraq kill 67 PKK militants

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 04:28 AM PST

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says the military has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq, killing at least 67 militants.

Turkish air strikes kill 67 Kurdish militants in north Iraq: army

Posted: 12 Mar 2016 03:46 AM PST

Turkey's army said on Saturday it killed 67 Kurdish militants in air strikes on camps and ammunition storage sites in neighboring northern Iraq on Wednesday. Jets targeted sites at Qandil, Metina, Avasin, Haftanin and Basyan used by Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said. Separately, a bomb blast blamed on PKK militants hit an armored police vehicle near Turkey's border with Iraq on Friday, Turkish officials said.

A look at key events in Syria since March 2011

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 10:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday March 21, 2011 file photo, Syrian policemen stand in front of a court building that was set on fire by Syrian anti-government protesters, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)As Syrians mark the fifth anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, here are some of the key events in the conflict:


A look at the cost of 5 years of conflict in Syria

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 09:59 PM PST

FILE - This image made from an AP video posted on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 shows a volunteer adjusting a students gas mask and protective suit during a session on reacting to a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo via AP video, File)As the war in Syria enters its sixth year with no clear end in sight, here is a glance on what has been the cost of the war:


Europe needs to plug data gaps to track militants: German police head

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 08:16 PM PST

Chief Commissioner of Germany's BKA Federal Crime Office Muench addresses news conference in BerlinEurope should set up a transnational data network to keep better track of Islamist militants who may have returned from Iraq and Syria, the head of German police said on Saturday. Holger Muench, president of the BKA federal police, told Redaktionsnetzwerk (RND) Deutschland, that Europe's IT security architecture was insufficient. Only around half of the European Union's 28 member states automatically compare finger prints or DNA profiles, he said.


Britain sends more troops to train Iraqis fighting IS

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 06:07 PM PST

British jets have been striking IS targets in Iraq and SyriaBritain said Saturday it was sending more troops to Iraq to bolster its mission training up the armed forces taking on the Islamic State jihadist group. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said a further 30 troops would be deployed to provide training in logistics and bridge-building, as well as specialist medical staff. The move would take the total number of British personnel on training missions inside Iraq to 300.


Iraq cleric Sadr calls for Baghdad protest camp

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 04:30 PM PST

Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr returned to Iraq in 2011, after a self-imposed exile in IranIraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Saturday urged his followers to ramp up pro-reform rallies by setting up tents in front of Baghdad's 'Green Zone' and camping out until their demands are met. "I make a historical call to every honest, reform-loving Iraqi to rise up and start a new phase in the peaceful popular protests," the statement said. Sadr urged protesters to stay there for the 10 remaining days of an ultimatum he gave the government last month.


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