2016年10月9日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


World is failing former Yazidi sex slaves: Amnesty International

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 05:07 PM PDT

By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Yazidi women and girls who survived being held as sex slaves by Islamic State urgently need better care and support to recover from the horrific abuse they suffered in captivity, which has led some to attempt suicide, Amnesty International said on Monday. Islamic State (IS) militants, who control a swathe of Iraq and Syria, have killed or enslaved thousands of Yazidis since overrunning the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq in August 2014.

Obama describes Trump as insecure

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:38 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, left, is welcomed on stage by Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, to speak at the Stony Island Arts Bank during a fundraiser for Duckworth's Senate campaign in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. Obama spent the weekend in Chicago where he voted, played golf and attended a fundraiser. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday that he's having a hard time believing some of the rhetoric coming from the top of the Republican presidential ticket, saying that nominee Donald Trump has demeaned women, minorities and immigrants, mocked the disabled and insulted veterans.


US forces increasing Iraq footprint ahead of Mosul operation

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 03:19 PM PDT

In this Sept. 8, 2016 photo, a U.S. Army soldier guards a position at Camp Swift, northern Iraq. U.S. troops will be engaged more closely than ever in fighting against Islamic State group militants as they back Iraqi forces in the long-anticipated assault on Mosul. The assault caps an increasing American role in Iraq over the past two years, with nearly 6,000 US troops on the ground, including special forces in combat on the front-lines. (AP Photo/Susannah George)CAMP SWIFT, Iraq (AP) — Thirteen years ago, Chase Snow's father was among the American troops who moved into the Iraqi city of Mosul during the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Now Snow, a U.S. Army specialist, is deployed in Iraq to help in the fight to retake the city from the Islamic State group.


Suicide bomber kills at least 10 in town north of Baghdad

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 11:32 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least ten people, including four policemen, were killed by a suicide bomber in a car that targeted a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, police and medical sources said. The attack happened in Udhaim, a Sunni town 90 km (56 miles) north of Baghdad that U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces and Iran-backed Shi'ite militias took back from Islamic State last year. The ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents still control vast areas in northern and western Iraq, including the city of Mosul, captured in 2014. ...

Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in southeast Turkey

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 08:14 AM PDT

Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-tonne truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a military outpost in the country's southeast, the prime minister said. The mountainous Hakkari province, where the attack occurred, lies near the border with Iraq and Iran and is one of the main flashpoint areas in a conflict that has pitted Turkey's army against the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for 32 years. A bomb in the vehicle was detonated, which Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters contained some five tonnes of explosives.

US troops rammed in Kuwait pulled attacker from truck

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 07:51 AM PDT

In this Saturday Oct. 8, 2016 photo released by Kuwait Ministry of Interiors, a damaged garbage truck after it rammed into another truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait. An Egyptian driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and Islamic State papers rammed into a truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait on Saturday, injuring only himself in the attack, authorities said. (Kuwait Ministry of Interiors via AP)KUWAIT CITY (AP) — American troops deployed in Kuwait who were intentionally rammed by an Egyptian man over the weekend pulled their attacker from his burning vehicle after it caught fire, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday.


With Friends Like Trump, Senate Republicans Don’t Need Enemies

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 06:00 AM PDT

With Friends Like Trump, Senate Republicans Don't Need EnemiesAs the Republican Party tries desperately to retain its grip on the Senate, Donald Trump is biting its fingers like Sonny Corleone when he's beating up his brother-in-law in The Godfather. At a town hall in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump said that one reason Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois is losing his re-election race is that he has disavowed the GOP presidential nominee.


Nine Turkish soldiers killed in car bombing

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:56 AM PDT

The attack took place in Hakkari province close to the border with Iraq and Iran, the official news agency Anadolu reportedNine Turkish soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded on Sunday in a car bomb attack in the restive southeast which was blamed on Kurdish militants, state media reported. The attack took place in Hakkari province close to the border with Iraq and Iran, the official news agency Anadolu reported. Dogan news agency said militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were responsible for the attack which hit a security post in Semdinli district.


3 bomb attacks in Iraqi capital kill 10 people, wound 37

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:56 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say three bomb attacks have killed 10 people and wounded at least 37 across the Iraqi capital.

Fewer Russian strikes targeting IS: analyst

Posted: 09 Oct 2016 04:28 AM PDT

In the first quarter of 2016, 26 percent of Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted IS, according to the IHS Conflict MonitorThe proportion of Russian airstrikes in Syria targeting the Islamic State group is falling, suggesting Moscow's priority is to help the Assad regime rather than to combat terrorism, according to analysis published Sunday. In the first quarter of 2016, 26 percent of Russian airstrikes in Syria targeted IS, according to the IHS Conflict Monitor. "Last September, President (Vladimir) Putin said it was Russia's mission to fight international terrorism and specifically the Islamic State," said Alex Kokcharov, principal Russia analyst at IHS Country Risk.


IS-claimed bombing kills five in Baghdad

Posted: 08 Oct 2016 05:01 PM PDT

The remains from an explosion attack, which targeted an Ashura procession commemorating the death of Imam Hussain are seen on the ground in Baghdad on October 9, 2016A bombing targeting Shiites in Baghdad killed at least five people and wounded 21 others on Sunday, Iraqi officials said, an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. The attack struck the Baghdad Jadida area near a tent where Shiite Muslims provide refreshments to passersby as part of annual commemorations of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite Islam. IS, which frequently targets Shiite Muslims, whom it considers heretics, issued a statement claiming the attack and said it was carried out by a suicide bomber -- an account confirmed by two interior ministry officials.


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