2017年1月21日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Trump visits CIA, blames media for tensions with intelligence community

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 01:31 PM PST

President Trump visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., on Saturday to offer words of assurance after sharply criticizing the outgoing head of the agency, as well as the broader intelligence community, for weeks. "There is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump," he declared a day after he was sworn in as president. Indeed, Trump suggested that he might give the CIA more support than it wants.

2 terrorist suspects blow themselves up in Saudi police raid

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 12:07 PM PST

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities say two men suspected of plotting terrorist attacks killed themselves using explosive belts during a police raid in the west of the kingdom.

Iraqi forces eye tougher fight in Mosul's west

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 11:58 AM PST

Civilians walk amid the rubble after a battle between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants in the eastern side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops announced on Wednesday they were in "full control" of eastern Mosul, after routing Islamic State militants from that part of the northern city almost exactly three months since the major operation started. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — A crowd of Iraqi officers looked out at the Tigris River Friday from a balcony of Mosul's Nineveh International hotel. Just over three months ago, the men were some 45 kilometers (28 miles) away in a cluster of desert villages on the edge of Nineveh plain.


Top French jihadist held after return from Syria

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 10:08 AM PST

High-profile French jihadist, Kevin Guiavarch, was charged with terrorist offences and held on January 21, 2017, after being transferred from Turkey to FranceA high-profile French jihadist was charged with terrorist offences and remanded in custody on Saturday, a day after being transferred to France from Turkey, where he had turned himself in to authorities. Kevin Guiavarch, a 24-year-old who converted to Islam 10 years ago, was one of the UN's most wanted jihadists and had been placed on a blacklist in 2014. Suspected as being one of the major Islamic State group recruiters attracting young French people to join the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq, Guiavarch rubbed shoulders with some of the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks while living in Raqa, IS's de facto capital.


A closer look at Turkey's proposed presidential system

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 06:25 AM PST

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan salutes his supporters in Istanbul, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Erdogan started campaigning for constitutional reforms that would greatly expand the powers of his office on Saturday, hours after a vote in parliament cleared the way for a national referendum on the issue.(Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via APISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's parliament has signed off on a contentious constitutional reform package that would concentrate even more powers in the office of the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and potentially extend his mandate till 2029. The reforms will come into effect if approved in a national referendum


Blast kills four in Syrian camp near Jordan: monitor

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 05:24 AM PST

A car bomb on Saturday killed at least four people and critically injured a number of others at the Rakban refugee camp in Syria near the border with Jordan, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring organisation. The camp is home to refugees and also to rebel groups, including the Jaish al-Ashair, which fight both President Bashar al-Assad and the jihadist Islamic State movement, and was targeted by bombings last year. Rakban is located in a desert area of the long border between Syria and Jordan, near to territory held by Islamic State, which regards the Syrian and Jordanian governments and other rebel groups as its enemies.

Russian police kills 2 suspected militants in North Caucasus

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 03:37 AM PST

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Security forces in a volatile province in Russia's North Caucasus have tracked down and killed two suspected militants.

Readers write: Environmental effects, believing reports

Posted: 21 Jan 2017 03:00 AM PST

Regarding the Dec. 8 online article "Trump nominates staunch EPA foe Scott Pruitt as agency head" (CSMonitor.com): Both Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt say they want the agency to concentrate on its mission of protecting the air and water. Of course the Environmental Protection Agency's job is to protect the air and water, and yes, this requires a pro-energy agenda – but a pro-green, not a pro-fossil one, and that is what the Clean Power Plan, fuel-efficiency standards, and other "troublesome" regulations are designed for.

Today in History

Posted: 20 Jan 2017 09:01 PM PST

Today in History

Who's who in the Syria conflict

Posted: 20 Jan 2017 07:43 PM PST

The government controls 34 percent of Syria's territory, including key cities such as Damascus and second city AleppoTalks aimed at ending Syria's nearly six-year war are set to open on Monday in the Kazakh capital, brokered by regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel backer Turkey. Key regime backer Russia began an air campaign in support of President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015 and has helped Damascus recapture several key areas, including Aleppo city. Iran has also provided major financial and military support to Assad.


Turkish assembly passes polemic bill to boost Erdogan powers

Posted: 20 Jan 2017 07:11 PM PST

Turkey's Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, centre, accompanied by some of his lawmakers cast their votes following Turkey's parliament debate proposing amendments to the country's constitution that would hand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's largely ceremonial presidency sweeping executive powers, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved a contentious constitutional reform package, paving the way for a referendum on a presidential system that would greatly expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office.


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