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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Suicide attack kills at least 47 south of Iraqi capital

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 03:31 PM PST

Civilians and security forces gather at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 6, 2016. A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest episode in an uptick in violence in the war-ravaged country. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)HILLAH, Iraq (AP) — A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding dozens, officials said.


U.S. builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria: Kurdish report

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 02:04 PM PST

The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the construction of a second base for dual military and civilian use, a Kurdish website said on Sunday. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said, however, the United States was not taking control of any airfields in Syria. The Erbil-based news website BasNews, quoting a military source in the Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), said most of the work on a runway in the oil town of Rmeilan in Hasaka was complete while a new air base southeast of Kobani, straddling the Turkish border, was being constructed.

25 migrants drown off Turkey, few allowed into Macedonia

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 12:55 PM PST

A migrant carries tree branches for fire near the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Sunday, March 6, 2016. Greek police officials say Macedonian authorities have imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the border, saying only those from cities they consider to be at war can enter as up to 14,000 people are trapped in Idomeni, while another 6,000-7,000 are being housed in refugee camps around the region.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — At least 25 people drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece on Sunday, while Macedonian authorities imposed further restrictions on refugees trying to cross the Greek border.


Iraq PM Abadi secures Shi'ite support for cabinet change plan: state TV

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:57 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during the Iraqi Police Day at a police academy in BaghdadIraq's main Shi'ite groups on Sunday voiced support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's plan to overhaul the government and combat corruption, state TV said. The broadcaster cited a statement issued by the National Alliance, a loose gathering of Shi'ite groups that controls the majority of seats in parliament, after a meeting with Abadi in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala, south of Baghdad. Abadi, 19 months into his four-year term, said in February that he wanted to replace politically-appointed ministers with technocrats in a bid to weaken the current system which distributes positions along ethnic and sectarian lines, creating patronage networks blamed for breeding corruption.


Boat sinks off Turkish coast, at least 18 migrants drown

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 11:22 AM PST

At least 18 people attempting to reach Greece drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast on Sunday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, on the eve of a European meeting aimed at tackling the number of migrants. The Turkish Coast Guard, using speedboats and a helicopter, rescued 15 people and recovered 18 bodies in the Aegean Sea near the town of Didim, Anadolu said. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will be in Brussels for Monday's emergency summit with European Union leaders seeking to reduce illegal migration to member states, much of which occurs through Turkey.

The Latest: Death toll in migrant boat sinking rises to 25

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 10:54 AM PST

Medics take care of a rescued migrant at a local hospital in the Aegean resort of Didim, Turkey, Sunday, March 6, 2016. Turkey's state-run news agency says 18 migrants have drowned off the Turkish coast while trying to reach Greece. Anadolu Agency says the coast guard rescued 15 other migrants off the Aegean Sea resort of Didim. The coast guard has launched a search-and-rescue mission for other migrants believed to be missing from the accident Sunday.(AP Photo/Huseyin Caliskan)IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the influx of refugees and other migrants into Europe (all times local):


The power of Trump’s call to free America from political correctness

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 09:48 AM PST

Ron Herndon needs more than 10 fingers to count the ways Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rubs him the wrong way, not least the billionaire's quest for personal aggrandizement via the White House. "America is at the point where she needs someone who speaks the truth, to say what we all think but won't say around strangers," says Mr. Herndon. Recommended: What do you know about Donald Trump?

Islamic State truck bomb kills at least 60 people south of Baghdad

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 09:21 AM PST

Residents gather at the site of a bomb attack at a checkpoint in the city of HillaA truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint south of Baghdad killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 70 on Sunday, medical and security officials said, and Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blast. The suicide attack, involving an explosive-laden fuel tanker, is the second deadliest this year after one on Feb. 28 that killed 78 people in Sadr City, a Shi'ite district of Baghdad. This was also claimed by the ultra-hardline Sunni group that controls vast swathes of territory in Iraq and in Syria.


IRAQ BOMBING

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 08:28 AM PST

Map locates Hillah, Iraq, site of a suicide bombing; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;

U.S. leads 19 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria: U.S. military

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:34 AM PST

Smoke rises above a building during an air strike in the city of RamadiWASHINGTON(Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 19 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released early Sunday, the Combined Joint Task Force said six strikes focused near Al Hasakah and Manbij in Syria destroyed a heavy machine gun, a building, vehicles and other weapons. In Iraq, 13 strikes near nine cities hit a weapons factory and storage facility and destroyed bulldozers, an explosive device and a fighting position, among other targets, the statement said. ...


IS suicide truck bomb kills 47 south of Baghdad

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 07:21 AM PST

Iraqi emergency responders clear debris from the site of a truck bomb that exploded at a crowded checkpoint, in the Iraqi city of Hilla, south of Baghdad on March 6, 2016A suicide truck bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group killed 47 people at a crowded checkpoint south of Baghdad Sunday, the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year. The massive blast completely destroyed the checkpoint manned by security forces guarding the northern entrance to Hilla, an area that had recently been spared such attacks.


Gunmen ambush ambulance in Egypt's Sinai, killing 3

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 06:44 AM PST

Egyptian police have detained or killed scores of suspected militants in Cairo and the delta, although the security forces continue to face frequent attack in the Sinai, stronghold of jihadists loyal to the Islamic Strate groupGunmen on Sunday shot dead two wounded members of Egypt's security forces in an ambulance after they had been injured by a bombing in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said. A medic in the ambulance was also killed in the ambush in the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, where the jihadist Islamic State group is spearheading an insurgency. Inside the ambulance were three security personnel who had been wounded just minutes previously in a blast targeting their armoured vehicle, a senior security officer in El-Arish told AFP.


Egypt arrests six Muslim Brotherhood members over killing of prosecutor

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 06:24 AM PST

Policemen investigate the site of a car bomb attack on the convoy of Egyptian public prosecutor Hisham Barakat near his house at Heliopolis district in CairoEgypt has arrested six alleged Muslim Brotherhood members in connection with the killing of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year and ordered their detention for 15 days, a judicial source and the state news agency said on Sunday. Barakat, 64, was killed in a car bomb attack in Cairo in June 2015. "The prosecution has accused the suspects of several crimes including premeditated murder of the late public prosecutor to carry out an act of terrorism, possessing and using explosives, and joining a terrorist group," MENA reported.


As army rebuilds, Iraqi assault to retake Mosul months away

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 05:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 2015, file photo, U.S. soldiers, left, participate in a training mission with Iraqi army soldiers outside Baghdad, Iraq. It will take many more months to prepare Iraq's still struggling military for a long-anticipated assault on the Islamic State group's biggest stronghold in the country, the city of Mosul, U.S. and Iraqi officials say _ and it may not even be possible to retake it this year, despite repeated vows by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — It will take many more months to prepare Iraq's still struggling military for a long-anticipated assault on the Islamic State group's biggest stronghold in the country, the city of Mosul, U.S. and Iraqi officials say — and it may not even be possible to retake it this year, despite repeated vows by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.


The Latest: Iraq bombing death toll rises to 47

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 04:43 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on the violence in Iraq, where a string of deadly bombings has killed more than 100 in recent days (all times local):

Little to show in Boko Haram-IS partnership: analysts

Posted: 06 Mar 2016 12:06 AM PST

Soldiers looks at burnt houses in the village of Dalori, some 12 kilometres from Borno state capital Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, after an attack by Boko Haram insurgents left at least 85 deadWhen Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria last year, there were fears the deadly insurgency in northeast Nigeria would take on an international dimension. If anything, Boko Haram appears a considerably weaker force and apparently in disarray after a year-long military counter-offensive. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has only been heard from twice since his audio message published on March 7, 2015 pledging an oath to his IS counterpart Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.


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