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Yahoo! News: Iraq


IAVA Commander-In-Chief Forum Preview: 10 Things Media Should Know About the VA

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 04:35 PM PDT

The VA tops the private sector in quality and service. The VA outperforms the private sector by more than 30% in delivering mental health care, and veterans get appointments with their primary care doctors three times faster than patients outside the VA. Since 2014, the VA has hired nearly 14,000 additional health care workers and opened an additional 3.9 million square feet of clinical space – resulting in a 10% increase in direct patient care.

Iran vessel 'harasses,' sails close to U.S. Navy ship in Gulf: U.S. officials

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:40 PM PDT

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast-attack craft from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it in the central Gulf on Sunday, U.S. Defense Department officials said on Tuesday. U.S. officials are concerned that these actions by Iran could lead to mistakes. Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran in January after a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Kaine touts foreign policy background, hits Trump in speech

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:03 PM PDT

Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. speaks during a campaign rally in Wilmington, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — In a rare policy address by a vice presidential nominee, Democrat Tim Kaine showcased his own foreign policy expertise Tuesday and painted Donald Trump as clueless and dangerous when it comes to world affairs.


The Bombing of Laos: By the Numbers

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 01:55 PM PDT

The Bombing of Laos: By the NumbersPresident Obama announced today that the United States is doubling its funding to clear bombs dropped in Laos during the Vietnam War era. An additional $30 million per year will be given to Laos for three years to help clear undetonated cluster bombs that still pockmark the landscape. As the U.S. fought against communism in Vietnam, a civil war was also raging in Laos between the communist Pathet Lao party and the Royal Lao Government.


Cahill gives Australia win over UAE in World Cup qualifier

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 01:37 PM PDT

Nawaf Alabid of Saudi Arabia celebrates after scoring against Iraq in a penalty during their FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying soccer match in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Tim Cahill came off the bench to give Australia a 1-0 win over the United Arab Emirates in the third round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Tuesday.


Cahill the hero for Australia, China hold Iran in World Cup qualifying

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 12:35 PM PDT

Australia's Tim Cahill (R) celebrates after scoring a goal against the United Arab Emirates on September 6, 2016Tim Cahill came off the bench to score with only his second touch as Australia edged the United Arab Emirates 1-0 in 2018 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday. The 36-year-old, who replaced Tomi Juric in the 71st minute at the Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, took only four minutes to ensure Australia's second win in five days in Group B of Asian qualifying.


Cities, towns and territory retaken from IS

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 12:30 PM PDT

Turkish soldiers stand in a Turkish army tank driving back to Turkey from the Syrian-Turkish border town of JarabulusBeirut (AFP) - Islamic State jihadists have given up their last positions along the Turkish-Syrian border, depriving the group of important transit points for recruits and supplies.


France sees sharp fall in number of citizens joining Islamic State

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 12:25 PM PDT

The number of French citizens traveling to join Islamic State in 2016 has dropped drastically from last year, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday, putting the fall down to military reverses suffered by the militant group. With Europe's largest Muslim population, France has been a major center for recruitment of would-be jihadis joining Islamic State, with hundreds of people traveling to the region since the group took control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Speaking to security agents at the ministry, Cazeneuve said there had been a "fourfold decrease" with just 18 French people recorded traveling to the area in the first six months of the year compared with 69 in the corresponding period in 2015.

Soccer-Syrians stifle Korea, Japan back on track

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 12:19 PM PDT

* South Korea held by Syria * Japan beat Thailand * Australia win 1-0 to top Group B (Adds remaining Group A and Group B games) Sept 6 (Reuters) - South Korea were held to a surprise 0-0 draw by Syria in 2018 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday, while Japan got their campaign back on track with a 2-0 win over Thailand and Australia beat United Arab Emirates 1-0 to top their group. The Koreans, bidding for a ninth consecutive appearance at the World Cup finals, were lucky to hang on for a 3-2 win over China in their Group A opener last week and again failed to shine against Syria, ranked 57 places below them at No. 105.

Super-sub Cahill gives Australia win in UAE

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 12:16 PM PDT

Australia's Tim Cahill celebrates after scoring a goal during their World Cup 2018 Asia qualifying football match United Arab Emirates versus Australia on September 6, 2016 in Abu DhabiTim Cahill came off the bench to score with only his second touch as Australia edged the United Arab Emirates 1-0 in 2018 World Cup qualifying on Tuesday. The 36-year-old, who replaced Tomi Juric in the 71st minute at the Mohamed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, took only four minutes to ensure Australia's second win in five days in Group B of Asian qualifying. The goal came when a fine build-up saw Brad Smith freed on the left flank and the Bournemouth winger whipped an excellent ball into the area for Cahill to convert.


15 years after Sept. 11: How the unity we forged broke apart

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 11:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 file photo, Joseph Esposito, left, chief of department of the New York Police Department, offers help as President George W. Bush steps off of a pile of rubble after speaking at ground zero of the World Trade Center site in New York. Esposito, then the NYPD's top uniformed officer, was struck by "the camaraderie, the unity" of those days. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)NEW YORK (AP) — For a time, it felt like the attack that shattered America had also brought it together.


IS loss of border area with Turkey sharply harms group

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 10:57 AM PDT

FILE -- In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, while riding in Raqqa, Syria. Expelling the Islamic State group from the last territory it held along the Turkey-Syria border has dealt a critical blow to the extremists, cutting their supply lines. That could affect their ability to protect their last bastions the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. (Militant website via AP, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Expelling the Islamic State group from the last territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border has effectively cut the militants' supply lines from the outside world. That could affect their ability to protect their last bastions — the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.


GOP woos veterans, but Trump has rubbed some vets wrong way

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 10:54 AM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 19, 2016, Iraq war veteran and Nevada Republican party staffer Jon Staab talks with Vicky Maltman, a Reno veterans rights activist, before going out to canvass veterans, in Reno, Nev. Two years ago, the Republican National Committee hatched a plan to bolster the turnout of one of the most conservative-leaning groups in the nation. The party calculated that 6.5 million veterans either didn't register to vote or didn't cast a ballot in the 2012 election. (AP Photo/Nicholas Riccardi)RENO, Nevada (AP) — It was more than a routine get-out-the-vote knock on the door when Iraq War veteran and Nevada Republican Party staffer Jon Staab asked Kenneth Olofson, a Vietnam veteran, if he'll be voting for Donald Trump. An instant bond was formed as the two swapped stories of service and those of relatives who fought in World War II.


Turkey says 2 of its soldiers killed in IS attack in Syria

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 10:27 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Aug. 31, 2016 and provided by the Turkish military on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, army commanders, from right to left, Air Forces Com. Gen. Abidin Unal, Land Forces Com. Gen. Salih Zeki Colak, Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and Navy Com. Adm. Bulent Bostanoglu monitor and direct military operations along the Syrian border, in Ankara, Turkey. Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists' self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey's prime minister and a Syrian opposition group reported. (Turkish Military, Pool photo via AP)ISTANBUL (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five were wounded in a missile attack Tuesday by the Islamic State group in northern Syria — the first Turkish casualties caused by the militants in Turkey's two-week-old incursion into Syria.


After setbacks, IS digs in with focus on deadly attacks

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 09:47 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands next to a wall with a red cross above a slogan of the Islamic State group in the city of Fallujah which was recaptured by IraqThe increasing pressure on IS, including Turkey's decision to launch an operation against it in northern Syria, has seen the organisation lose ground at an unprecedented pace. On Sunday, the Turkish operation reclaimed the last stretch of the Syria-Turkey border from the jihadist group, sealing off its self-styled "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq and forcing it to rely on smuggling networks instead. IS now controls just 20 percent of Iraq and 35 percent of Syria, according to Fabrice Balanche, an expert on the political geography of Syria.


Asia's crisis-hit top film festival to go ahead next month

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 09:09 AM PDT

Asia's crisis-hit top film festival to go ahead next monthAsia's top film festival will go ahead next month despite a threatened boycott by some local moviemakers seeking guarantees of artistic freedom, its head said Tuesday. Kim Dong-Ho, chairman of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), urged filmmakers to end their boycott and vowed to guarantee the festival's independence. The prestigious annual festival has been embroiled in a bitter row with the municipal government of the host city Busan since the screening in 2014 of a controversial documentary about the Sewol ferry disaster.


Turkey's government says under popular pressure to drop EU talks

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 08:28 AM PDT

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addresses the media in AnkaraBy Marja Novak BLED, Slovenia (Reuters) - Turkey's government is under "huge pressure" from its people to abandon its decades-old drive to join the European Union because they see it applying double standards toward their country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Speaking at a forum in the Slovene mountain resort of Bled, Cavusoglu also warned that Europe could be heading toward instability and could succumb to extremism due to the strains of its twin economic and migration crises. Cavusoglu also repeated his previous criticism of EU leaders for not showing sufficient solidarity with Turkey after a botched military coup in July in which President Tayyip Erdogan narrowly avoided capture and possible death.


China hold Iran to earn first point in World Cup qualifying

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 08:19 AM PDT

China have only ever reached one World Cup, in 2002China held heavyweights Iran to a gritty 0-0 draw to lift their hopes of reaching just their second World Cup in Asian qualifying on Tuesday. China have only ever reached one World Cup, in 2002, but qualifying for Russia 2018 would be a significant statement for a country which aims to become a global football power. There were encouraging signs in last week's 3-2 defeat to South Korea, and Iran, Asia's top-ranked side, would have held few fears for Gao Hongbo's men in front of a partisan, red-shirted home crowd.


Kyrgyzstan blames Chinese embassy attack on Uighur jihadists

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 08:06 AM PDT

Police officers gather outside the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on August 30, 2016 following a suicide bombingAuthorities in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday blamed Uighur jihadists in Syria for masterminding a suicide attack against the Chinese embassy in the Central Asian country. A van exploded after ramming through a gate at China's diplomatic outpost in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on August 30, killing the driver and injuring three local embassy employees.


German hardline preacher's trial for helping Syria militants begins

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 08:04 AM PDT

Islamist preacher Lau delivers a speech during a pro-Islam demonstration in CologneA German man charged with supporting an Islamist militant group in Syria stayed silent on the first day of his trial in Duesseldorf on Tuesday, though his lawyer told the court that the prosecution was "flying blind" and its witnesses were unfit. Prosecutors said Sven Lau, 35, had served as an "extended arm" of the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, an insurgent group made up of around 1,500 Chechen, Uzbek and Tajik fighters, which last year pledged allegiance to the Nusra Front, then an al Qaeda affiliate. Lau supported the Mujajireen Brigades, which is listed as a terrorist organization in Germany, four times in 2013 by either collecting funds or recruiting fighters for the group, prosecutors say.


UK radical Choudary jailed for encouraging support for Islamic State

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 07:29 AM PDT

Leader of the dissolved militant group al-Muhajiroun, Anjem Choudary, arrives at Bow Street Magistrates Court in LondonBy Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Anjem Choudary, Britain's best-known Islamist preacher, was jailed on Tuesday for five years and six months for encouraging support for Islamic State, ending years of frustration for police who had struggled to pin charges on him. Choudary, 49, and close associate Mizanur Rahman, 33, who received the same sentence, had been convicted by a jury in July of using the Internet to urge followers to back the banned group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. "These men have stayed just within the law for many years and there has been frustration for both law enforcement agencies and communities as they spread hate," said Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at London's Metropolitan Police.


IS car bombing kills at least 12 civilians in Iraqi capital

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 07:03 AM PDT

Mourners carry the Iraqi flag-draped coffins of bomb victims during their funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. A car bombing in a bustling commercial area at Karradah neighborhood has killed and wounded civilians, late Monday, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group struck a bustling commercial area of central Baghdad overnight, killing at least 12 civilians, Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.


NATO chief to make post-coup bid visit to Turkey

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 06:57 AM PDT

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg (left) last visited Ankara in April 2016 for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganNATO head Jens Stoltenberg will travel to key ally Turkey this week to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the highest western officials to visit since a failed military coup in July, a statement said Tuesday. The alliance gave no further details of Stoltenberg's meeting Thursday and Friday with Erdogan, who has berated the West for what he sees as its lukewarm backing and criticism of his massive crackdown on coup suspects. Some 20,000 people have been arrested since the July 15 coup attempt and 70,000 civil servants have been fired as Erdogan purges all those he says have links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim preacher Ankara blames for the attempted putsch.


France deploys artillery, readies carrier ahead of Mosul offensive

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 06:35 AM PDT

A tank of the Iraqi army is seen in the town of QayyaraFrance said on Tuesday it was deploying artillery to Iraq and readying its aircraft carrier for deployment to reinforce foreign military support for the Iraqi army's expected push to recapture Mosul, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Iraq. The Iraqi army and its elite units have gradually taken up positions around the city 400 km (248 miles) north of Baghdad, with international coalition forces keen to capitalize on the militant group's loss of territory in both Iraq and Syria.


Late Saudi penalties catch Iraq napping in World Cup qualifier

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 06:31 AM PDT

Omar Ibrahim Othman of Saudi Arabia (right) battles for the ball with Mohanad Abdulraheem Karrar of Iraq during a World Cup qualifier in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on September 6, 2016Nawaf Al Abed buried two penalties in the last nine minutes as Saudi Arabia came from a goal down to beat regional rivals Iraq 2-1 in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday. War-torn Iraq, playing their home fixture in Malaysia's Shah Alam, struck early through Mohannad Abdul-Raheem and looked headed for victory as the clock ticked down.


Saudi Arabia's top cleric says Iran's leaders 'not Muslims'

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 05:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 24, 2009 file photo, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Saudi grand mufti listens to a speech of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the Consultative Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's top cleric has said that Iranians are "not Muslims," adding fuel to a spat between the two regional powers a day after Iran's supreme leader accused the kingdom of mistreating pilgrims injured during last year's Hajj stampede. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's top cleric is revving up the kingdom's rhetoric against Iran, saying in comments published on Tuesday that Tehran's leaders are "not Muslims," in response to rancorous remarks from Iran's supreme leader.


ISIS puts new twist on terror recruiting: big money

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 05:15 AM PDT

For Mohammed Bel Jayyed, the path to a martyr's death under the flag of the Islamic State began with dreams of a Tunisian patisserie and the girl next door. Countries facing the stiffest economic challenges – such as Tunisia, Jordan, and Egypt – have become the Islamic State's most fertile recruiting grounds, Mr. Abu Haniyeh adds.

First UN food aid in two years reaches over 30,000 Iraqis

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 03:54 AM PDT

Iraqi forces pushed the Islamic State group out of Qayyarah, considered strategic for a planned offensive against the jihadists' last Iraqi stronghold of MosulThe UN said Tuesday it has delivered food supplies to more than 30,000 residents of Qayyarah for the first time in two years after Iraqi forces expelled jihadists from the northern town. Government forces on August 25 pushed the Islamic State group out of Qayyarah, considered strategic for a planned offensive against the jihadists' last Iraqi stronghold of Mosul further north. Qayyarah had been "inaccessible for over two years", the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement.


Tajikistan investigates threats by Islamic State

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 03:50 AM PDT

A picture illustration of an Islamic State flagTajikistan's security services are investigating unspecified threats of action this month purportedly made by a former commander of the Central Asian nation's elite police force who has defected to Islamic State, security sources said on Tuesday. Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who has gone through special forces training in Russia and the United States, joined the militant group last May. Last week, Washington offered a reward of up to $3 million for information leading to the location, arrest, and conviction of Khalimov, describing him as "a key leader" of the Syria- and Iraq-based group. Two security sources told Reuters that this week servicemen in Tajkikistan, a country bordering Afghanistan and seen by the West and Russia as a possible conduit both for militant Islamists and drug runners, started receiving text messages on their mobile phones in Khalimov's name.


EU lawmakers seek help to preserve Syria, Iraq mass graves

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 02:37 AM PDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers want help to preserve 72 mass graves in Syria and Iraq documented by The Associated Press so the evidence can be used to bring Islamic State group members to trial.

How Nations Around the World Teach Their Most Difficult History

Posted: 06 Sep 2016 01:00 AM PDT

How Nations Around the World Teach Their Most Difficult HistoryOZY's global correspondents reveal what children are learning about deeply politicized homegrown tragedies.


Iraq puts out more oil fires at northern field, some still burning

Posted: 05 Sep 2016 11:20 PM PDT

Fire rises from oil wells, set ablaze by Islamic State militants before fleeing the oil-producing region of QayyaraIraq has put out fires at six more oil wells in the Qayyara region, which Iraqi forces recaptured from Islamic State late last month, but at least three fires are still blazing, the oil ministry said on Tuesday. The militants sabotaged much of Qayyara's oil infrastructure before fleeing ahead of the government advance, sending black smoke into the sky for days and oil pouring into main thoroughfares. "The firefighting consisted of removing explosives from these wells, putting out the fires and preventing crude oil from leaking into the river to prevent pollution," ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said.


Turkish air strikes hit 12 targets in north Iraq: military

Posted: 05 Sep 2016 09:59 PM PDT

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based. The military statement said the sites hit were in the Metina and Hakurk regions of northern Iraq, but did not give further details. In the past, such strikes have been aimed at targets Turkey says are linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The PKK has been fighting a three-decades-old insurgency against Ankara to demand autonomy in Turkey's southeast region. ...

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