2016年12月31日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


World parties to ring in New Year despite terror jitters

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 03:12 PM PST

Around 1.5 million people packed Australia's biggest city to watch as the midnight fireworks erupted from Sydney Harbour BridgeMillions of people around the world shrugged off terror jitters to ring in 2017 in style, as Sydney kicked off the party with a spectacular fireworks display that lit up its iconic harbour. Getting the festivities started was Sydney, where around 1.5 million people thronged Australia's biggest city to watch midnight fireworks erupting from the Harbour Bridge. Celebrations swung into Europe with the night sky over Moscow's Red Square literally painted red by the fireworks.


No big New Year's celebrations for Iraq's displaced

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 01:54 PM PST

Displaced Iraqis, who fled fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, waiting at the gathering point to be taken for a camp for internally displaced people, in Bartella, around 19 miles (kilometers), from Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Dec 31, 2016. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) — There were no big New Year's celebrations for the Iraqi men, women and children who narrowly escaped the fighting in Mosul, only to wait for hours under armed guard while the fighting-age males among them were cleared of links to the Islamic State.


Hollande to visit French troops in Iraq Monday

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 12:26 PM PST

French President Francois Hollande said in the last New Year message of his presidency that the fight against the "scourge" of terrorism is not overPresident Francois Hollande said he would on Monday visit French troops fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, as he warned that the terrorist threat within France was still live. France has around 500 troops fighting alongside coalition forces in Iraq, backed by Rafale fighter jets. In the last New Year message of his presidency, Hollande paid tribute to those killed in terror attacks in France this year, including the 86 mown down in the Bastille Day attack in Nice and smaller-scale attacks on a priest and two police officers.


France's Hollande says to visit Iraq Monday

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 11:24 AM PST

French President Francois Hollande listens during his visit to the French elevators company ETNA France in TavernyPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande on Saturday said he would visit Iraq on Monday to salute troops which are taking part in a U.S.-led military coalition against the Islamic State. "We're not done with the plight of terrorism. We have to keep on fighting it," Hollande said in a New Year address to the nation that was broadcast on French television. "This is the reason for our military operations abroad, in Mali, in Syria, in Iraq -- Iraq where I'll be going the day after tomorrow to salute our troops. ...


Egypt releases remains of Paris flight crew

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 08:28 AM PST

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Forensics Authority says it has released the remains of ten crew members of the EgyptAir Paris flight that crashed in May, killing all 66 passengers on board.

Elite Iraq units link up for Mosul assault: officers

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 08:14 AM PST

Iraqi forces launch a rocket in Mosul's eastern Al-Intisar neighbourhood on December 30, 2016, during an ongoing military operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadistsTwo elite Iraqi units linked up in Mosul on Saturday and will form a joint front to advance westward against the Islamic State group, officers said. The Rapid Response Division reached the northern edge of Al-Intisar neighbourhood, while the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) advanced to the southern side of the adjoining Al-Quds area. The two neighbourhoods are located on the eastern side of Mosul, where security forces have retaken multiple areas from IS, but the city's west is still completely in jihadist hands.


Texas judge takes specialized court for veterans on the road

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 08:06 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 photo, U.S. Army Veteran Richard Ress, right, speaks during a bible group meeting at his rural church in Grayson County, Texas. Ress participates in a traveling veterans court with Judge John Roach Jr. The traveling court serves veterans in five counties near Dallas who don't have transportation. Veterans say the opportunity is life-changing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)ANNA, Texas (AP) — In the Army, Richard Ress survived duty in some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, but on a July day in 2009, he seemed ready for his life to end in the back of a Texas police car facing his third drunken-driving arrest in less than a year.


Baghdad blasts kill 29 as Mosul fighting intensifies

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 07:32 AM PST

Iraqi security forces gather at the site of a bomb attack at a market in central BaghdadBy Kareem Raheem and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Three bombs killed 29 people in Baghdad on Saturday as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul, where Iraqi government forces are trying to rout Islamic State militants from their last major stronghold in the country. A pro-Islamic State news agency said the target was Shi'ite Muslims, whom the militants regard as apostates. Islamic State has continued to launch attacks in the heavily fortified capital, even after losing most of the northern and western territory it seized in 2014.


Central Baghdad market blasts kill at least 27

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 06:44 AM PST

Two suicide bombers attacked Baghdad's central Al-Sinek neighbourhood killing at least 27 people and wounding 53, a police colonel saidTwin bomb blasts ripped through a busy market area in central Baghdad Saturday, police said, shattering a relative lull in attacks in the capital and marring preparations for New Year celebrations. Two suicide bombers attacked the Al-Sinek area, killing at least 27 people and wounding 53, a police colonel said. "Many of the victims were people from the spare parts shops in the area, they were gathered near a cart selling breakfast when the explosions went off," said Ibrahim Mohammed Ali, who owns a nearby shop.


Turning Iraq history to rubble, leaving the mess to looters

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 05:39 AM PST

Iraq archaeologist Layla Salih, left, confers with UNESCO's representative in Iraq Louse Haxthausen, right, at the ancient site of Nimrud, Iraq, in this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 photo. Days after Iraqi forces drove the Islamic State group from Nimrud in November, Salih arrived to survey the damage they wreaked on the nearly 3,000-year-old site. She confirmed that, as international forces closed in this fall, IS bulldozed a 140-foot tall ziggurat, or step pyramid, that archaeologists had never had to chance to explore. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) — The giant winged bulls that once stood sentry at the nearly 3,000-year-old palace at Nimrud have been hacked to pieces. The fantastical human-headed creatures were believed to guard the king from evil, but now their stone remains are piled in the dirt, victims of the Islamic State group's fervor to erase history.


Despite political clout, Russian seniors find later life options limited

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 05:31 AM PST

The "Third Age" home for the elderly is a clean, modern, privately-run facility for about 50 people in this hilly satellite town just outside Moscow. Unlike their Western counterparts, however, most Russians have never had the opportunity to accumulate the property and savings that might enable them to finance a comfortable retirement for themselves.

Agatha Christie had little-known role in ancient Nimrud

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 04:12 AM PST

This 1949 photo taken by British mystery author Agatha Christie shows a statue of a lamassu, a winged bull from Assyrian mythology who guarded the royal court from evil, at the ancient site of Nimrud, near modern day Mosul, Iraq. Christie had a little-known link to Nimrud: She accompanied her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he excavated the onetime capital of the Assyrian Empire, and she assisted by piecing together some artifacts and chronicling the dig in photos and film. (Agatha Christie via AP)NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) — Her diligence and face cream cleaned Nimrud's most famous ivory. She captured the archaeological dig on celluloid and Kodak film, developing the prints in water painstakingly filtered from the nearby Tigris River.


3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 04:10 AM PST

A fragment of an Assyrian-era relief shows the image of a genie holding a pine cone at the ancient site of Nimrud that was destroyed by Islamic State group militants near Mosul, Iraq. in this Nov. 28, 2016 photo. In the 9th and 8th centuries BC, Nimrud was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which burst out of Northern Mesopotamia to conquer much of the Mideast. The remains of its palaces, reliefs and temples were methodically blown up and torn to pieces by the Islamic State group in early 2015 in its campaign to erase history. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) — The chilly December wind whipped rain across the strewn wreckage of a city that, nearly 3,000 years ago, ruled almost the entire Middle East. Rivulets of water ran through the dirt, washing away chunks of ancient stone.


Yazidi woman escapes Islamic State in Mosul as Iraqi forces advance

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 01:38 AM PST

A Yazidi woman held captive by Islamic State militants for more than two years managed to escape when Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul and provided information that helped them retake a neighbourhood of the city, Iraqi commanders said. The 42-year old woman, who asked to remain unnamed, was kidnapped by the militants from her hometown of Sinjar in the summer of 2014 when they overran northern Iraq and purged its Yazidi minority. Since then, some have escaped or have been bought back from the militants, but as many as 3,500 remain in Islamic State captivity, according to a recent estimate provided by the office that handles kidnappings in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

Caution marks Iraqi army advance against Islamic State north of Mosul

Posted: 31 Dec 2016 12:54 AM PST

Iraqi soldiers carry weapons during a battle with Islamic State, north of MosulBy Stephen Kalin SADA, Iraq (Reuters) - The earth shook three times with the impact of air strikes targeting Islamic State positions north of Mosul. Only then did the Iraqi troops assembled on the edge of the small farming village advance. The second phase of the operation to retake Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, began on Thursday after several weeks of deadlock in the most complex operation in the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.


Today in History

Posted: 30 Dec 2016 09:01 PM PST

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