2016年11月12日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


French PM says state of emergency likely to be extended

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:57 PM PST

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls arrives at the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, on November 11, 2016 for the Armistice Day commemorations marking the end of World War IFrench Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that the country's state of emergency, imposed after last year's Paris attacks, will likely be extended as France gears up for presidential elections. "It is difficult today to end the state of emergency," Valls told BBC television as France marked exactly one year since the November 13, 2015 jihadist attacks that left 130 people dead.


Mass grave points to IS horrors to come in push for Mosul

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 12:30 PM PST

An Iraqi Federal Police officer examines human remains at a site of a mass grave of victims of Islamic State militants in Hamam al-Alil, some 10 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. Iraqi troops inched ahead in their battle to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group on Friday, as the U.N. revealed fresh evidence that the extremists have used chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)HAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq (AP) — For months, Islamic State group fighters drove thousands of civilians on forced marches across the Nineveh desert into the small town of Hamam al-Alil. Retreating ahead of methodical Iraqi advances on Mosul's southern approach, IS fighters converged here, rounding up men, women and children for use as human shields and killing dozens of others.


Trump relies on Washington insiders to build administration

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 10:35 AM PST

Trump relies on Washington insiders to build administrationDonald Trump elicited wild cheers on the campaign trail by pledging to "drain the swamp" in Washington, but the president-elect's transition team is populated largely with creatures of the capital, ...


Syrian troops reverse rebel advance west of Aleppo

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 09:37 AM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces regained control Saturday of areas they lost over the past two weeks to a rebel offensive on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo, ending a major attempt by insurgents to break the siege on eastern parts of the city, an activist group and pro-government media said.

How Do You Spot an 800-Pound Sea Cow? With a Drone

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 09:26 AM PST

Despite Climate Agreements and Court Decisions, Indonesia Keeps Betting Big on CoalDugongs—Australia's version of the lovably chubby manatees of Florida—are hard to keep track of. Despite growing up to 10 feet in length and weighing 800 pounds, dugongs are just needles in a haystack when it comes to locating individuals in the open ocean. For scientists trying to monitor the endangered species, that's a problem.


'Intense' fighting in Mosul as civilians flee

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 09:25 AM PST

Soldiers from the Iraqi Special Forces' 2nd division point out incoming fire to comrades in a building across the road during fighting with Islamic State group jihadists in the Arbagiah neighbourhood of Mosul on November 12, 2016Elite Iraqi forces engaged in "intense" fighting with jihadists in eastern Mosul Saturday, an officer said, as civilians who had been trapped by the fighting sought to flee the city. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country's second city from the Islamic State group on October 17, and the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) special forces have pushed the jihadists back from some Mosul neighbourhoods. In neighbouring Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they were making progress towards Raqa, the other remaining city in the cross-border "caliphate" that IS declared two years before.


Russia detains 10, says major IS-linked 'terror' plot foiled

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 08:58 AM PST

Russian Special forces soldiers stand guard as colleagues raid an apartment building in Saint Petersburg in an operation targeting North Caucasus militants on August 17, 2016Russia's security service said on Saturday it had detained 10 people with alleged links to the Islamic State group on suspicion of plotting armed attacks in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, said it had detained 10 people originating from Central Asia who were "planning to commit a series of high-profile acts of sabotage and terror in Moscow and Saint Petersburg".


Islamic State victims suffer as evidence of chemical attacks grows

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 08:53 AM PST

Children reacts to the cameras while their hands are covered by a layer of grime from an oil facility that Islamic State torched in QayyaraBy John Davison QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) - The skin on five-year-old Doaa's legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack. Doaa was playing in the courtyard when a rocket fired by Islamic State landed and exploded in the neighbor's garden, emitting a toxic gas, her father Abdallah Sultan and other residents said. Part of the rocket, which the families avoid touching, is left on the ground.


Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 08:41 AM PST

An Iraqi special forces policeman carries a RPG in Karamah, south of MosulIraqi special forces backed by U.S. and Iraqi air power took control of two districts of eastern Mosul on Saturday after heavy fighting in which they destroyed at least 10 cars deployed by Islamic State as suicide bombs, the military said. Iraqi troops have been fighting for 10 days inside eastern Mosul, trying to expand their small foothold in the city which Islamic State has controlled since mid-2014, when its leader declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. The nearly four-week campaign to drive Islamic State out of the biggest city under its control in either country has brought together an alliance of 100,000 Iraqi fighters, also backed by thousands of Western personnel on the ground.


Heavy fighting as IS attacks Iraqi forces in Mosul

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 05:52 AM PST

Ali Hussein, right, and his son walk to check on the family's used car business, which was looted by Islamic State fighters and destroyed in fighting to oust them in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. Iraqi troops inched ahead in their battle to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group on Friday, as the U.N. revealed fresh evidence that the extremists have used chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber from the Islamic State group attacked Iraqi special forces in Mosul on Saturday, setting off heavy fighting in the northern city.


Trump's transition team signals return to GOP establishment

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2014 file photo, then-Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., questions witnesses during a full committee hearing on the threat posed by Islamic extremists, on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is rich with lobbyists, a climate change-denier and an ex-federal prosecutor involved in the mass firings of U.S. attorneys. Rogers is taking the lead on crafting Trump's national security team. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is rich with lobbyists and includes a climate change-denier and an ex-federal prosecutor involved in the mass firings of U.S. attorneys.


Fighting Terrorism in the Age of Trump

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 01:50 AM PST

In February, Donald Trump vowed to make "enhanced interrogation techniques"—like sleep deprivation, waterboarding, and "a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding"—part of his then-hypothetical administration's approach to fighting terrorism. He also promised to target the families of suspected terrorists. His pledges, sometimes reversed, then reinforced, all seemed like instances of his fiery, base-riling campaign rhetoric.

Iraqi troops listen in on IS walkie-talkies in Mosul

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 12:43 AM PST

Smoke billows from Islamic State positions in the eastern Samah area of Mosul, northern Iraq, on November 11, 2016 as a convoy from the Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division move into position during fightingThe small walkie-talkie that Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service seized from an Islamic State jihadist group member in Mosul last week has proven priceless in their drive for Iraq's second city. All day, members of the CTS's Mosul and Najaf regiments take turns clutching the device up to their ears to intercept communications between jihadists in the city, the last one IS holds in Iraq.


With shock reform, Egypt throws out rules it long lived by

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 10:06 PM PST

In this Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 picture, Egyptians eat fava beans, a cheap and filling breakfast staple, at an open-air restaurant in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's shock therapy reforms are rewriting the social contract that long ruled the country _ CAIRO (AP) — From as early as the 1950s, Egypt's rulers have had an unspoken social contract with Egyptians: Forfeit genuine democracy and freedoms and, in return, you get to live on the cheap with heavy state subsidies keeping down prices of basic items and services — bread, sugar, rice, fuel, water and electricity.


Bataclan Terror Attack Anniversary: Club Owners, Security Experts and Music Fans on How We Live Now

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 09:00 PM PST

"We had to make some immediate changes and we made a statement," club owner Joe Shanahan says of the full frisk and more intensive backpack check that goes on at every Metro show now.

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