2016年12月24日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Santa Claus is coming to Tehran

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 02:59 PM PST

Iranians walk past Christmas decoration at a shop in the capital Tehran on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2016Tehran might not seem like the most obvious pitstop for Santa Claus, but Iranians love the chintzy side of Christmas and it is also one of the safest places in the Middle East for Christians. "It's really interesting and attractive for us," said Niloufar, a Muslim women in her thirties who was out shopping with her husband on Christmas Eve.


A&E scraps KKK series after learning of cash payments

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 01:53 PM PST

A&E scraps KKK series after learning of cash paymentsA&E is scrapping plans for an eight-part documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan after finding out that some participants of the hate group were paid for their work on it. The network said Saturday it ...


Pilgrims in Bethlehem, fears in Europe on Christmas Eve

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 12:39 PM PST

People take part in the Christmas Eve celebrations on December 24, 2016 outside the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical West Bank town of BethlehemPilgrims on Saturday thronged Bethlehem for Christmas Eve as Europeans worked up some holiday spirit despite tight security in the shadow of the Berlin market attack. Crowds of Palestinians and tourists flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square near the Church of the Nativity, ahead of midnight mass at the site where Christians believe Jesus was born. Some snapped selfies near a giant Christmas tree and watched the annual Scouts parade in the city, a short drive from Jerusalem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.


Tunisians protest against return of jihadists

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 11:54 AM PST

Tunisian women shout slogans during a demonstration outside parliament against allowing Tunisians who joined the ranks of jihadist groups to return to the country, in the capital Tunis on December 24, 2016Hundreds of people gathered outside Tunisia's parliament on Saturday to protest against letting jihadists who fought overseas to return to the country. "No to freedom for terrorist groups!" protestors chanted. It was held on the same day authorities said they had arrested three alleged jihadists connected to the suspected Berlin Christmas market attacker, Tunisian Anis Amri.


Tunisians protest against the return of jihadis like Amri

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 11:44 AM PST

People demonstrate outside the Tunisian parliament, in Tunis, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016. About 200 people have protested in the Tunisian capital against the return of Tunisian jihadis who have fought abroad.The gathering was prompted by the deadly truck attack in a Berlin Christmas market by Tunisian Anis Amri, who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and was killed Friday in a police shootout. Amri, 24, was slated to be deported home from Germany. (AP Photo)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — About 200 people have protested in the Tunisian capital against the return of Tunisian jihadis who have fought abroad.


Displaced Iraqi Christians head home for 'wartime' Christmas

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 10:34 AM PST

Priests lead a Christmas Eve's Mass in the Assyrian Orthodox church of Mart Shmoni, in Bartella, Iraq, Saturday, December 24, 2016. For the 300 Christians who braved rain and wind to attend the mass in their hometown, the ceremony provided them with as much holiday cheer as grim reminders of the war still raging on around their northern Iraqi town and the distant prospect of moving back home. Displaced when the Islamic State seized their town in 2014, they were bused into the town from Irbil, capital of the self-ruled Kurdish region, where they have lived for more than two years. (AP Photo/Cengiz Yar)BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) — For the 300 Christians who braved rain and wind to attend Christmas's Eve Mass in their hometown, the ceremony evoked both holiday cheer and grim reminders of the war raging around their northern Iraqi town, and the distant prospect of moving back home.


Iraqis mark Christmas Eve in town recaptured from IS

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 08:52 AM PST

An Iraqi general attends a Christmas Eve service for Iraqi Christians at the Mar Shimoni church in the town of Bartalla near Mosul, on December 24, 2016Iraqi Christians filled the pews of the fire-scarred Mar Shimoni church in a town east of Mosul on Christmas Eve for the first service since its recapture from jihadists. The Islamic State group destroyed crosses at the church in the town of Bartalla and set it alight, but volunteers worked for days to ready it for the service, the first held here in two and a half years. For some of the displaced Christians of Bartalla, it was a deeply emotional experience.


Iraq patriarch urges protection for displaced Christians

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 08:45 AM PST

Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, leads a mass at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on October 25, 2016The patriarch of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church has appealed for international protection to help Iraqi Christians displaced by war return to their homes. Tens of thousands of Christians fled northern Iraqi towns in 2014 as the Islamic State group seized second city Mosul and swathes of the surrounding Nineveh province. "There was great joy among Christians at the start of the liberation of Nineveh," Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako told AFP on Saturday.


Iraqis celebrate first Christmas near Mosul after Islamic State pushed out

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 06:28 AM PST

A security member holds a candle as he attends a mass on Christmas Eve at the Mar Shemoni church in the town of Bartella east of MosulBy Maher Chmaytelli BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church. Once home to thousands of Assyrian Christians, Bartella emptied in August 2014 when it fell to Islamic State's blitz across large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. The church was badly damaged during Islamic State's time in control of the town, with crosses taken down, statues of saints defaced and the chancel burnt.


For Iraq's Christians, Christmas cheer tinged with despair

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 03:44 AM PST

COMBO- this combination of eight portraits shows residents of a camp where Christians displaced by Islamic State militants are living, in Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Iraq's Christians are marking the holiday in his camp for displaced people with a sense of worry and despair, unable to return to their towns they were forced to flee two years ago by the Islamic State group's onslaught. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Nativity scene and Christmas tree are in place on the corner of the street. Some of the children proudly wear red Santa Claus hats or show off new toys, mostly plastic guns for small boys. Windows and balconies are festooned with colorful balloons.


U.S. forces embedding more to help Iraqis retake Mosul: commander

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 03:08 AM PST

U.S. army forces participate in combat training in the northern Iraqi city of ErbilBy Stephen Kalin MAKHMOUR, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces assisting Iraqi troops to retake Mosul from Islamic State are embedding more extensively, a senior commander said on Friday, a move that could accelerate a two month-old campaign which has slackened after quick initial advances. More than 5,000 American service members are currently deployed in Iraq as part of an international coalition that is advising local forces in a bid to recapture the third of the country the jihadists seized in 2014 when Iraq's army and police dropped their weapons and fled. Now, as Iraqi forces controlling around a quarter of Mosul - Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq - proceed deeper into the northern city and encounter fierce counter-attacks that render progress slow and punishing, U.S. troops are stepping up their involvement.


What was the Berlin attack suspect doing in Milan?

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 03:05 AM PST

Tunisian Anis Amri, 24, is believed to have hijacked a truck and used it to mow down holiday revellers at a Berlin Christmas marketNobody comes to Sesto San Giovanni by chance, say the residents of this dreary working-class Milan suburb where police caught up with Berlin market attack suspect Anis Amri. Sesto San Giovanni, with its 80,000 inhabitants, is where Amri caught the officers' attention in the small hours. It's a hub for transport, the last stop on a metro line, and has a busy bus terminal where buses leave for Spain, Morocco, Albania and southern Italy.


Fears over Germany's growing jihadist scene

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 01:54 AM PST

Armed police patrol at the Christmas market in Oberhausen, western Germany on December 23, 2016Berlin's Christmas market truck rampage was the deadly jihadist attack Germany had long feared, as security services have warned of the growth of a shadowy Islamist scene. Germany's domestic security chief, Hans-Georg Maassen, has likened the rise in IS followers to a dangerous "youth subculture". It is a profile that fits 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri, the Berlin attack suspect shot dead Friday by an Italian police officer in Milan.


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