2016年8月14日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Neymar back in charge of Brazil ahead of Olympic semifinals

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 03:10 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar celebrates at the end of a quarter-final match of the men's Olympic football tournament against Colombia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday Aug. 13, 2016. Brazil won 2-0 and qualified for the semi-finals.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)SAO PAULO (AP) — It might be time to put Neymar's name back on the Brazilian jersey.


Kurdish forces launch fresh thrust to retake Mosul from Islamic State

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 01:43 PM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga forces fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants on the southeast of MosulBy Saif Hameed WARDAK, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) forces early on Sunday as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants' de facto capital in Iraq, Kurdish officials said. The advance began after heavy shelling and air strikes by a United States-led coalition against IS forces, a Reuters correspondent reported from Wardak, 30 km (19 miles) southeast of Mosul. The militants fought back, firing mortars at the advancing troops and detonating at least two car bombs.


Dozens dead as warplanes pound rebel-held north Syria

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 01:01 PM PDT

Fighting for Aleppo has intensified this summer after Syrian troops seized control of the last supply route into rebel-held areasSyrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a rebel alliance battling to take control of second city Aleppo. The air strikes, which began Saturday and continued Sunday, killed 45 civilians in and around Aleppo and 22 in neighbouring Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The raids came as the Islamist Faylaq al-Sham Islamist faction, part of the rebel alliance, said it had begun a new offensive "to liberate" the regime-held area of Zahra on Aleppo's western outskirts.


Islamic State faces uphill 'branding war' in Afghanistan, Pakistan

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 12:39 PM PDT

A picture illustration of an Islamic State flagBy Kay Johnson and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The U.S. drone strike that killed Islamic State's commander for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the latest blow to the Middle East-led movement's ambitions to expand into a region where the long-established Taliban remain the dominant Islamist force. Islamic State has enticed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of jihadist fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan to switch loyalty and has held a small swathe of territory in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, where leader Hafiz Saeed Khan was killed on July 26 by a U.S. drone, Washington confirmed late Friday. Anxiety over Islamic State - also known as ISIS or "Daesh" - in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been building since the al Qaeda breakaway movement seized portions of territory in Iraq and Syria in 2014 and began promoting itself worldwide.


Reeling from a Week in Hell, Trump Forces Try to Push Back

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 10:44 AM PDT

Reeling from a Week in Hell, Trump Forces Try to Push BackAfter a week from hell in which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suffered major GOP defections and saw his standing in the polls plummet as he wildly lashed out against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and President Obama, Trump forces engaged in damage control on Sunday to try to staunch the hemorrhaging. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence and Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort disputed reports that the campaign was in disarray and, like Trump in a tweet this morning, blamed the news media for distorting Trump's statements last week.


Kurdish journalist killed in northern Iraq fighting

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 09:46 AM PDT

During a military operation launched by the Kurdish peshmerga forces near Mosul, Iraq's second city and the Islamic State group's de facto capital in the country, one Iraqi Kurdish reporter was killed and another woundedAn Iraqi Kurdish reporter was killed and another wounded on Sunday during a military operation against the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, officials said. The journalists, working together for Kurdistan TV, were following peshmerga forces involved in the assault which began early Sunday. The Kurdistan Democratic Party, which owns the channel, announced the death in a statement.


US-backed Syria forces say next IS target is Al-Bab

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 09:39 AM PDT

A Syrian woman shelters in a damaged building as civil defence workers sift through debris looking for survivors following reported air strikes on July 14, 2016 in Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhood of Tariq al-BabUS-backed Syrian forces said Sunday they have established a military council to push Islamic State group fighters out of their northern bastion of Al-Bab after ousting the jihadists from Manbij. "We announce... the creation of the Al-Bab Military Council" tasked with driving IS from the town in Aleppo province, said the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in a statement, two days after driving the last jihadists from Manbij. The last remaining IS fighters abandoned the city of Manbij near the Turkish border on Friday after a rout that the Pentagon said showed the extremists were "on the ropes".


Afghan officials: IS expands presence in restive south

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 08:11 AM PDT

FILE - in this Monday, Aug. 1, 2016 photo, Afghan police pose for a photograph with an Islamic State flag after an operation in the Kot district of Jalalabad province east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Islamic State group, which has been building a presence in Afghanistan for more than a year, has established a recruitment and training camp in a restive southern province bordering Pakistan. (AP Photo/Melad Hamedi, file)KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group, which has been building a presence in Afghanistan for more than a year, has established a recruitment and training camp in a restive southern province bordering Pakistan, Afghan officials said.


Arson likely in deadly Iraq maternity ward fire, govt says

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 04:05 AM PDT

Burnt incubators stand outside Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after a fire tore through the maternity ward, killing 12 infantsA fire that killed 13 children in an Iraqi maternity ward was apparently started intentionally, the health ministry's spokesman said on Sunday. Ahmed al-Rudeini had previously said the Wednesday fire at Yarmuk Hospital, one of the main such facilities in Baghdad, had been started by an electrical fault. Many of Baghdad's public hospitals are poorly maintained and offer sub-standard healthcare, forcing a number of Iraqis to seek private treatment or travel abroad.


Jordan instability fears as growth slows, unemployment rises

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 01:11 AM PDT

In this July 18, 2016 photo, Sabri Mashaaleh, 29, stands in the center of the small, remote farming town of Dhiban, Jordan, where he and other unemployed young men had pitched a protest tent over the summer, staging daily protests and demanding jobs before troops dispersed them by force. Rising unemployment, particularly among the young, has become Jordan's No. 1 problem, raising fears of radicalization in the pro-Western kingdom amid a deepening economic slump. (AP Photo/Karin Laub)DHIBAN, Jordan (AP) — Sabri Mashaaleh feels misled and angry: The 29-year-old studied counseling expecting to find a civil service job, in line with what used to be a typical life path for college-educated Jordanians.


Neymar comes alive as Brazil edge Colombia at Rio Olympics

Posted: 13 Aug 2016 10:08 PM PDT

Brazil's Luan (R) celebrates with teammate Neymar after scoring a goal against Colombia during their Rio 2016 Olympic Games quarter-final match, at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, on August 13Neymar led Brazil into the semi-finals of the Olympics with his first goal of the competition to edge the third of a trilogy of grudge matches with Colombia in three years 2-0. The Barcelona star curled home an inch-perfect free-kick after just 12 minutes of Saturday's game, but was lucky to escape with a yellow card for chopping down Andres Roa and provoking a brawl between the two teams just before half-time. Brazil will face Honduras in Wednesday's semi-final in Rio after the Central Americans stunned South Korea 1-0 thanks to Alberth Elis's winner in Belo Horizonte.


Porsche training is prize for lucky few refugees

Posted: 13 Aug 2016 09:54 PM PDT

Ammar Alkhouli, 19-year-old refugee from Syria, works on a Porsche 911 Carrera S at the training center of Porsche AG in Stuttgart, south-western GermanyAmmar Alkhouli "dreamed of owning a Porsche" when he lived in Syria, but he never imagined that he would one day get training from the German automobile giant to help build its luxury cars. Aged just 19, Ammar was one of 13 asylum seekers to be offered a place on a refugee integration scheme launched by the Stuttgart-based company in March this year, in response to the massive influx of refugees to Germany in 2015. Porsche wanted to "show the welcoming German culture and allow people to establish themselves as well and as quickly as possible," technical training director Norbert Goeggerle explains.


Neymar leads Brazil into men's soccer semifinals

Posted: 13 Aug 2016 09:42 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar celebrates after scoring his team's first goal with a free kick during a quarter-final match of the men's Olympic football tournament between Brazil and Colombia in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday Aug. 13, 2016.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)SAO PAULO (AP) — Neymar scored his first goal of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Saturday, giving Brazil a 2-0 win over Colombia and a spot in the semifinals of the men's soccer tournament.


Victories against IS leave Iraq's Sunni heartland shattered

Posted: 13 Aug 2016 08:57 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Saturday, June 25, 2016, Internally displaced civilians, who fled their homes during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State group, to a camp at Amariyah Fallujah, Iraq. As Iraqi political and military attention shifts north in the fight against the Islamic State group, the military victories that have put Iraqi forces on Mosul's doorstep have left behind shattered cities, towns and communities in Iraq's Sunni heartland. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)AMIRIYAH AL-FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) — As Iraqi political and military attention shifts north in the fight against the Islamic State group, the military victories that have put Iraqi forces on Mosul's doorstep have left behind shattered cities, towns and communities in Iraq's Sunni heartland.


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