2016年11月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Merkel's Bavarian allies tilt right ahead of national vote

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 02:02 PM PDT

Bavarian State Governor and Chairman of German Christian Social Union party, CSU, Horst Seehofer, waves after his speech at a party convention of the German Christian Social Union, CSU, in Munich, Germany, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)BERLIN (AP) — The Bavarian sister-party of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats is positioning itself firmly against the chancellor's open-door policy toward refugees in a bid to win voters angered by the influx of migrants.


A look at the fight for control of the Senate

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 01:48 PM PDT

Control of the Senate is on the ballot in November, with Republicans fighting to hold their majority while defending far more seats in Democratic-leaning states. A look at the Senate landscape:

Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State say nearing Mosul airport

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 12:31 PM PDT

A tank of Iraqi security forces is seen during a battle with Islamic State militants in Ali RashBy Babak Dehghanpisheh and Ahmed Rasheed NEAR HAMMAM AL-ALIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces drove Islamic State fighters from the center of a town just south of the militants' main stronghold of Mosul on Saturday and reached within a few km (miles) of an airport on the edge of the city, a senior commander said. Lieutenant-General Raed Shakir Jawdat said security forces were in control of the center of Hammam al-Alil, about 15 km (10 miles) south of Mosul, although he did not say whether the militants had been pushed out completely. The advance on the southern front comes days after Iraqi special forces fought their way into the eastern side of Mosul, taking control of six neighborhoods according to Iraqi officials and restoring a foothold in the city for the first time since the army retreated ignominiously two years ago.


Human shields, barricades slow Iraqi advance into Mosul

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 12:03 PM PDT

Men are held by Iraqi national security agents, to be interrogated at a checkpoint, as oil fields burn in Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. Islamic State fighters launch counterattacks in the thin strip of territory Iraqi special forces have recaptured in eastern Mosul, highlighting the challenges ahead as the battle moves into more densely populated neighborhoods where coalition air power must be used more selectively. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Islamic State fighters launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in eastern Mosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars and suicide car bombs in clashes that raged late into the night.


4 Albanians arrested for recruiting for Islamic State group

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 11:17 AM PDT

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian police say they have arrested four people for reportedly recruiting members for the Islamic State group and for funding rebel groups in Syria.

Mosul residents dodge bombs, air strikes to flee IS

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 10:37 AM PDT

Iraqis (L) greet their relatives who were displaced from Mosul as they come to visit them at a refugee camp in the Khazir region between Arbil and Mosul on November 5, 2016When he saw Iraqi forces approaching Mosul from afar, Abu Fahad yanked the white headscarf off his father's head, turned it into makeshift flag and decided to sneak out. The Iraqi managed to herd around 40 members of his extended family out of the neighbourhood of Samah "by advancing quietly, hiding under stairs, sidling along walls". Most are from Mosul's outskirts, but Abu Fahad and a few others were able to find a gap in the tight seal the Islamic State group had imposed on the city.


Clinton, Trump blitz Florida with three days to go

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 09:49 AM PDT

The prospect the November 8 vote will be close or that a once unlikely Donald Trump victory could presage instability and recession has rocked marketsHillary Clinton and Donald Trump embarked Saturday on a campaign blitz in the battleground state of Florida, a must-win if the Republican is to stop her becoming the first woman to win the White House. There are just three days to go in America's ugliest, most divisive presidential election campaign in living memory. The 69-year-old former secretary of state, looking to make history as the first US female commander-in-chief, is commanding A-list superpower in that quest, pulling in Beyonce and Jay-Z at a concert in Cleveland on Friday.


BATTLE FOR MOSUL

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 09:31 AM PDT

Map shows military advance into Mosul, Iraq.; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101 mm;

Election Day near, Americans weigh divide, look for healing

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 09:04 AM PDT

This combination of photos shows supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Tempe, Ariz., on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, and supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Baton Rouge, La., on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Voters' intense negative feelings about Trump and Clinton may say as much about the times as the candidates, says David Greenberg, a professor of history at Rutgers University and author of "Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency." "There's something about the polarized climate that we're in that leads us to feel these things more strongly, to regard the opposition with such hostility, to talk in terms of threats to the Republic, to say 'Lock her up,' in ways we wouldn't have 30 years ago." (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Gerald Herbert)The idea had never occurred to the Rev. Adam Hamilton at the conclusion of past presidential campaigns. But this Election Day, the megachurch he leads in the Kansas City suburbs will invite congregants, and anyone else who chooses, to stop in and pray for the nation to heal itself.


Ireland checking if Irish Islamic State supporter in Mosul suicide attack

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 08:44 AM PDT

By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's foreign ministry is investigating reports that an Irish citizen died in a suicide attack near the Iraqi city of Mosul, a spokesman said on Saturday. The Islamic State's (IS) al-Jazeerah Province in northern Iraq on Friday said Abu Usama al-Irelandi detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, killing and wounding dozens, the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. company that monitors Islamist websites, reported. Abu Usama is a pseudonym used by Irish Islamic State sympathizer Terence Kelly.

Iraqi forces in new Mosul push as displacement rises

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 08:36 AM PDT

Iraqi forces launched the offensive to retake Mosul on October 17Iraqi special forces threw themselves back into battle Saturday after a first foray into Mosul was blunted by stiffer than expected resistance from jihadists defending the birthplace of their "caliphate". While the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) fought the Islamic State group in the streets of Mosul, the army and federal police attacked one of the last sizeable towns on the more distant southern front. The mass exodus feared by aid groups of some of the million-plus civilians still trapped in Mosul has yet to materialise, but the number of people displaced by the battle has grown sharply in recent days.


The battle for Mosul: What we know

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 07:20 AM PDT

Iraqi special forces leave the village of Gogjali for the front line on the eastern entrance of Mosul, on November 4, 2016Elite Iraqi forces are facing tough resistance as they battle the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul. Where are the Iraqi forces? Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service pushed into the Al-Karama area of eastern Mosul but faced heavy resistance and pulled some units back on Friday.


The Latest: Bombings kill 10 in Iraqi capital

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 06:41 AM PDT

A man raises a white flag as he flees from a zone of conflict between the Iraqi military and Islamic State militants in Gogjali, on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. Iraqi special forces cleared buildings on Saturday in neighborhoods they entered in Eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing on Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The Latest on the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local):


Italy links people trafficking to militants in detention of Syrian

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 06:02 AM PDT

Italy's tax police said they had found a clear link between people trafficking and militants after detaining a Syrian man who entered Italy on a migrant boat who they allege to be a member of the al-Nusra group. A series of deadly attacks carried out by militants across Europe over the past year have fueled a debate about how to handle the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants propelled by civil war in Syria, Iraq and Libya. "Today's operation is one of the few investigations which establishes a direct link between people who plan trafficking of migrants and Islamic terrorist organizations," the police said in a statement on Saturday.

Bombs hit convoy of displaced people in Iraq, kills 18: police

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 04:44 AM PDT

Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an Islamic State-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said. The bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Islamic State's stronghold in Mosul, as they were being taken to the town of Al Alam, next to the Tigris river. Seventeen of the dead were from the displaced families, regional police Colonel Nemaa al-Jabouri told Reuters.

AP FACT CHECK: Greatest hits of a fact-challenged campaign

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 04:35 AM PDT

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 photos. At times it has seemed as though this presidential campaign was occurring in some alternate universe. Up is down, no means yes, day is night. Trump's tweets, speeches, interviews, debate statements, news conferences and off-the-cuff remarks _ that is, pretty much every utterance made during his waking hours _ have been a source of hyperbole at hyper-speed. His misstatements have been so ubiquitous that Clinton's slippery words often slithered right on by unnoticed. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — At times it has seemed as though this presidential campaign was occurring in some alternate universe. Up is down, no means yes, day is night.


Results of battles, Wells Fargo consequences, movie controversy, ready for tourism?, drone regulation needed

Posted: 05 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PDT

"There is an important question...: Are these two battles, in Mosul and Aleppo, going to change the situation in Iraq and Syria respectively?" writes Abdulrahman Al-Rashed. "Will the battle in Mosul end the Iraqi war against Daesh? Should we brace for an end to the five-year Syrian civil war?

Memorable_ and cringe-worthy_ moments from the 2016 Campaign

Posted: 04 Nov 2016 11:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gives her thumbs up as she appears on stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Every presidential race has its big moments. This one, more than most. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)WASHINGTON (AP) — Every presidential race has its big moments. This one, more than most.


Australia's far-right groups protest Syrian refugee housing

Posted: 04 Nov 2016 11:29 PM PDT

Political debate around Australia's hardline policy toward asylum seekers has been heated recently, with the conservative government last week announcing plans to permanently ban asylum seekers who attempted to reach Australia by boat from permanently entering under any visa category.

Chelsea Manning makes second suicide attempt in US prison

Posted: 04 Nov 2016 10:17 PM PDT

Chelsea Manning (C) was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to WikileaksImprisoned transgender US soldier Chelsea Manning tried to commit suicide last month while serving time in solitary confinement for a first attempt in July, her representatives said Friday. Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst sentenced to 35 years in prison for handing classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, tried to kill herself on October 4, according to a statement she dictated to supporters by phone 11 days later and released by The New York Times. American Civil Liberties Union rights group attorney Chase Strangio confirmed the attempt on Twitter.


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