Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• French PM says state of emergency likely to be extended
• Mass grave points to IS horrors to come in push for Mosul
• Trump relies on Washington insiders to build administration
• Syrian troops reverse rebel advance west of Aleppo
• How Do You Spot an 800-Pound Sea Cow? With a Drone
• 'Intense' fighting in Mosul as civilians flee
• Russia detains 10, says major IS-linked 'terror' plot foiled
• Islamic State victims suffer as evidence of chemical attacks grows
• Iraqi army says advances in Mosul, despite suicide bombers
• Heavy fighting as IS attacks Iraqi forces in Mosul
• Trump's transition team signals return to GOP establishment
• Fighting Terrorism in the Age of Trump
• Iraqi troops listen in on IS walkie-talkies in Mosul
• With shock reform, Egypt throws out rules it long lived by
• Bataclan Terror Attack Anniversary: Club Owners, Security Experts and Music Fans on How We Live Now

French PM says state of emergency likely to be extended Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:57 PM PST French 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 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 Donald 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 Dugongs—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 Elite 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 Russia'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 By 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 Iraqi 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 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 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 The 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 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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