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Yahoo! News: Iraq


From SEALs to startups: Special ops drawn to Silicon Valley

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 05:06 PM PDT

From SEALs to startups: Special ops drawn to Silicon ValleyKeith David spent years flying around the globe on covert missions, making life-and-death decisions and overseeing multiple units unleashing airstrikes against insurgents. The former Navy SEAL now realizes ...


Kuwait foils three Islamic State attacks: state media

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 04:34 PM PDT

Kuwait foiled three planned Islamic State attacks on the country, including a plot to blow up a Shi'ite mosque, after launching raids that resulted in the arrest of militants, state news agency KUNA said on Monday. "Kuwait security agencies have carried out three pre-emptive operations in Kuwait and abroad that led to derailing a number of Islamic State (IS) plots targeting Kuwait and arresting several IS members," said an interior ministry statement on KUNA. The statement included pictures of a veiled, middle-aged woman and five young men, one of whom it said was a Kuwaiti national who had joined Islamic State and planned to bomb a mosque and an interior ministry building during Eid holidays.

Kuwait busts three IS cells plotting attacks: ministry

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 04:15 PM PDT

Five Kuwaiti nationals were arrested, including a policeman and a woman, who all confessed to plotting attacks against a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry target, the ministry said in a statementKuwaiti security authorities have broken up three Islamic State cells plotting "terror" attacks in the oil-rich Gulf state, the interior ministry said Monday. Five Kuwaiti nationals were arrested, including a policeman and a woman, who all confessed to plotting attacks against a Shiite mosque and an interior ministry target, the ministry said in a statement. All members of the three cells also confessed to being members of the Islamic State jihadist group.


Prayers, mourning after blast in Baghdad kills at least 126 people

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 02:21 PM PDT

Iraqis gathered in central Baghdad Saturday evening to watch the Euro Cup and break the Ramadan fast were targeted in the third mass slaughter carried out in ISIS's name in the past week. The deadliest attack in Iraq in the past year, the suicide bombing occurred just a little over a week after US-backed Iraqi forces liberated Fallujah from ISIS control. "These attacks only strengthen our resolve to support Iraqi security forces as they continue to take back territory from ISIL, just as we continue to intensify our efforts to root out ISIL's terrorist network and leaders," the White House said in a statement.

IS-claimed Baghdad blast kills at least 119

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 01:40 PM PDT

Iraqis, including firefighters, gather at the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on July 3, 2016 in Baghdad's central Karrada districtA suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through a busy Baghdad shopping district Sunday, killing at least 119 people in the deadliest attack this year in Iraq's capital. It came a week after Iraqi security forces recaptured Fallujah from IS, leaving Mosul as the only Iraqi city under the jihadist group's control. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered changes to Baghdad security measures in response to the bombing, which security officials said also wounded more than 180 people.


Islamic State car bomb in Iraqi capital kills 115

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 01:30 PM PDT

Iraqi women wait to hear about family members who went missing after a car bomb hit Karada, a busy shopping district in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 3, 2016. Dozens of people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide truck bomb in downtown Baghdad killed 115 people and wounded nearly 200 others who were out shopping and celebrating early Sunday ahead of the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, security and medical officials said.


Iraq PM orders security changes after blast kills 119

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 01:13 PM PDT

A member of the Iraqi security forces monitor a checkpoint using a fake explosive detecting device in the al-Jadriyah district of Baghdad on May 3, 2013Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Sunday ordered changes to Baghdad security measures, including withdrawing fake bomb detectors from use, after a bombing killed at least 119 people in the city. The suicide car bombing, which was claimed by the Islamic State group, ripped through a busy shopping in the early hours and also wounded more than 180 people, officials said. Abadi's orders highlight one of the longest-running and most grievous flaws in Baghdad security: the continued use of fake bomb detectors at checkpoints years after the man who sold them to Iraq was jailed in Britain for fraud.


Iraq PM Abadi orders police to stop using fake bomb detectors

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 01:09 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered security services on Sunday to stop using fake bomb detectors at checkpoints after a bombing killed at least 120 people in Baghdad in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Reacting after the deadliest attack so far this year, Abadi also ordered a new investigation at the interior ministry into "corrupt deals" to buy ADE 651 devices developed as lost golf balls finders and sold to Iraq and other nations as hand-held bomb detectors. A police officer earlier confirmed to Reuters that these devices, commonly known as the "magic wand", were still in use five years after the scandal about the sale to Iraq broke out.

Bangladesh gunmen made no demands, Islamic State not involved: minister

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 12:18 PM PDT

A man lights a candle at a makeshift memorial, to pay tribute to the victims of the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery and the O'Kitchen Restaurant, near the site of the attack in DhakaBy Aditya Kalra, Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Seven militants who killed 20 people at a Dhaka restaurant made no demands and a person taken alive by police was only a suspect admitted in hospital, Bangladesh's home minister said on Sunday, rejecting Islamic State's claims of responsibility. Three of the six gunmen killed were under 22 years of age and had been missing for six months, Asaduzzaman Khan told Reuters in an interview at his Dhaka home. Police and government officials have said the attackers were from well-off Bangladeshi families, a rarity and an indication that religious radicalization was widening its scope.


IRAQ BOMBINGS

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 11:36 AM PDT

Map locates two bombings in Baghdad, Iraq; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;

Iraq's Shi'ite militiamen stir unease in Sunni Falluja

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 11:34 AM PDT

A view of a street is seen in Falluja, Iraq, after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militantsBy Stephen Kalin FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A highway overpass in central Falluja, from which Islamic State militants hanged a captured Iraqi soldier last year, bears the marks of the city's latest victors, including a slogan scrawled in green spray paint: "The state of (Imam) Hussein remains." The overtly Shi'ite Muslim phrase, which appears to mimic Islamic State's own "Remain and Extend" motto, was left a week ago by one of the Shi'ite militiamen who helped drive Islamic State from the Sunni city it captured in January 2014. With combat over, the militias are staying on, brushing up against army, police and counter-terrorism forces which have each staked out positions across Falluja, heavily damaged by the fighting and now almost completely empty.


Syria's new US-backed force stumbles in first test

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 11:23 AM PDT

This file photo released Tuesday June 23, 2016 by the New Syrian Army, an anti-government rebel group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows U.S.-backed Syrian rebels of the New Syrian Army gathering in an unknown place in Syria. A humiliating defeat came Wednesday, June 29, 2016 for the New Syrian Army's offensive to capture Boukamal, a prize possession of the Islamic State group and their last border crossing between Iraq and Syria. The quick unraveling of the budding offensive reflects the difficulties in U.S. efforts to create an effective Syrian force against IS. (The New Syrian Army via AP, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The call came around noon, about four hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters announced they had taken over an air base outside a town held by the Islamic State group near the Iraqi border. "We are trapped. Pray for us," a commander called into the operation room.


White House says Baghdad attacks strengthen U.S. resolve in Iraq

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 11:18 AM PDT

The White House on Sunday condemned bombings in Baghdad that killed nearly 120 people and wounded 200, saying the attack only strengthened the United States' resolve to confront Islamic State militants. "We remain united with the Iraqi people and government in our combined efforts to destroy ISIL," the White House statement said, using an acronym for the self-declared Islamic State. A refrigerator truck packed with explosives blew up in Baghdad's central district of Karrada, killing 115 people and injuring at least 200.

Nearly 120 killed in overnight Baghdad bombings claimed by Islamic State

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 10:53 AM PDT

A woman lights a candle at the site after a suicide bombing in the Karrada shopping area, in Baghdad, IraqBy Ahmed Rasheed and Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nearly 120 people were killed and 200 wounded in two bombings overnight in Baghdad, most of them in a busy shopping area as residents celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said on Sunday. The attack on the shopping area of Karrada is the deadliest since U.S.-backed Iraqi forces last month scored a major victory when it dislodged Islamic State from their stronghold of Falluja, an hour's drive west of the capital. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had ordered the offensive after a series of bombings in Baghdad, saying Falluja served as a launchpad for such attacks on the capital.


Public threat assessments politicized in campaign year

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 10:33 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you want a straightforward answer on the terror threat Americans face this holiday weekend, don't ask a politician in a campaign year.

The Latest: Italian chef describes escape from Dhaka siege

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 06:17 AM PDT

Members of an Indian family offer flowers and light candles as they pay tribute to those killed outside the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, July 3, 2016. The assault on the restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone by militants who took dozens of people hostage marks an escalation in militant violence in the Muslim-majority nation. (AP Photo)DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Latest on the attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital (all times local):


France eyes prospects to pressure Britain over migrants

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 04:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan.18 2016 file photo, a migrant stands in the Calais migrants camp after it was partially cleared, in Calais, northern France. Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart shares the dream of thousands of migrants massed in her city on the English Channel _ she wants them to leave for Britain. But undoing a French-British treaty that keeps them trapped on the French side of the border is a pipe dream. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)PARIS (AP) — Concern about immigration and a wish for stricter border controls were important factors in Britain's vote to leave the European Union last week.


Extremely Proud to Be an American? Fewer People Say They Are

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 04:15 AM PDT

Nick Church, of England, wears an American flag themed bow tie before taking his Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony Friday, July 1, 2016, in Atlanta.Strong feelings of patriotism that peaked in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been on the wane for more than a decade, as many Americans grappled with prolonged warfare in the Middle East, the worst recession in decades, and bitter political controversies over domestic and foreign policies.


Iran won't coordinate with US on Syria: Khamenei

Posted: 03 Jul 2016 12:35 AM PDT

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, repeated demands for the US to stop interfering in the regionIran will never coordinate with the United States in Syria and other regional conflicts, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in remarks published on his website Sunday. "We don't want such a coordination as their main objective is to stop Iran's presence in the region," Khamenei said in a transcript from a speech to university students. Iran and Russia support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's fight against armed rebels and jihadists, including those of the Islamic State (IS) group.


Muslim women campaign to end instant divorce in India

Posted: 02 Jul 2016 07:20 PM PDT

In this June 29, 2016 photo, Indian Muslim woman Shagufta Sayyd prays at the office of Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, or the Indian Muslim Women's Movement, in Mumbai, India. Shagufta is among the Indian Muslim women who are campaigning against an Islamic legal practice that allows men to divorce their wives by simply saying "I divorce you" three times. The so-called instant divorce has already been banned in more than 20 Muslim countries, including neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh. But in India, it is allowed under rules that protect communities following religious law. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Just hours after Shagufta Sayyd was married, her new husband told her he was having a relationship with another woman.


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