Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Far-reaching tribal solidarity displayed at pipeline protest
• KURDISH TERRITORIES
• WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election
• Relative of Charlie Hebdo killer held on terror-linked charges
• Police in Baltimore testing privately-funded 30 square mile continuous image surveillance
• Veterans help fill gaps in refugee school projects in Iraq
• Far-right anti-Islam activists protest atop Berlin monument
• Exclusive: Iraq plans to sell oil through Iran if talks with Kurds fail
• Mosul fight is already redrawing the map of northern Iraq

Far-reaching tribal solidarity displayed at pipeline protest Posted: 27 Aug 2016 04:26 PM PDT NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — Native Americans from reservations hundreds of miles away from North Dakota have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's growing protest against a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that they say could disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members and millions further downstream.

KURDISH TERRITORIES Posted: 27 Aug 2016 12:41 PM PDT Map details areas under Kurdish control in northern Iraq and Syria as the battle for Mosul, Iraq draws closer.; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;

WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election Posted: 27 Aug 2016 11:54 AM PDT A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: TRADE In this angry election year, many U.S. voters are skeptical about free trade — or hostile to it. ...

Relative of Charlie Hebdo killer held on terror-linked charges Posted: 27 Aug 2016 11:16 AM PDT The brother-in-law of one of the jihadists who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last year faced terrorism charges on Saturday for allegedly trying to join Islamic State fighters in Syria, a judicial source said. Twenty-year-old French student Mourad Hamyd was charged by an anti-terrorism judge in Paris with "associating with terrorists" and held in custody. Hamyd, whose sister Izzana was married to Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi, had been sent back to France on Friday from Bulgaria where he had tried to cross the border into Turkey in late July.

Police in Baltimore testing privately-funded 30 square mile continuous image surveillance Posted: 27 Aug 2016 10:22 AM PDT A privately-funded wide-angle continuous image surveillance system originally developed for the military monitors 30 square miles of Baltimore. Analysts on the ground can track pixel-sized people leaving crime scenes.

Veterans help fill gaps in refugee school projects in Iraq Posted: 27 Aug 2016 06:24 AM PDT CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A nonprofit group with New Hampshire roots is putting a new spin on back-to-school shopping by helping equip 10 classrooms for refugee children in Iraq.

Far-right anti-Islam activists protest atop Berlin monument Posted: 27 Aug 2016 05:22 AM PDT BERLIN (AP) — Anti-Islam activists have staged an hour-long demonstration atop Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

Exclusive: Iraq plans to sell oil through Iran if talks with Kurds fail Posted: 27 Aug 2016 04:33 AM PDT By Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government would consider selling crude through Iran should talks with the autonomous Kurdish region on an oil revenue-sharing agreement fail, a senior oil ministry official in Baghdad told Reuters. Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) plans to hold talks with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), possibly next week, about Iraqi oil exported through Turkey, Deputy Oil Minister Fayadh al-Nema said in an interview on Friday evening.

Mosul fight is already redrawing the map of northern Iraq Posted: 26 Aug 2016 11:08 PM PDT QARQASHAH, Iraq (AP) — In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region. The moves are further straining relations between the Kurds and the Baghdad government and Shiite militias, all ostensibly allies in the fight against the Islamic State group.

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