Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• How Tillerson testimony injects doubt into Trump foreign policy
• Former Wyoming Marine falsely claimed combat wounds
• Suspected airport gunman's life unraveled over past year
• Timeline of years, months leading up to airport shooting
• Oil rises on supply cuts, record China demand forecast
• Warrior Care Network Helps Veterans Cope
• Rights report warns Trump-style populism threatens democracy
• In eastern Mosul, small signs of progress amid the fighting
• Defense secretary pick Mattis calls Russia top threat, says Iran deal will be enforced
• Why the Donald Trump Dossier Shouldn't Have Been Published
• OSCE head calls for boost to Ukraine observers
• Iraqi forces link up in north Mosul, make gains in southeast
• Officials: Iraqi forces from north, east converge in Mosul
• Saudis cut oil output to lowest in two years, pledge further reductions
• In Mosul areas retaken from Islamic State, loss and fear linger
• Life and business return to parts of Iraq's Mosul
• Belgium arrests man with charges related to Paris attacks
• Officials name 5th person killed in Florida airport shooting

How Tillerson testimony injects doubt into Trump foreign policy Posted: 12 Jan 2017 03:47 PM PST President-elect Donald Trump noted Wednesday that he'd been listening to the confirmation hearing of secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson – and he enthused about what he'd heard from his choice to lead America's relations with the world. Mr. Trump wants the US to build up its nuclear arsenal and has suggested Japan and South Korea should acquire their own nuclear weapons. Tillerson said he does not oppose the vast Asia-Pacific trade deal that Trump repeatedly has rejected during the campaign.

Former Wyoming Marine falsely claimed combat wounds Posted: 12 Jan 2017 03:40 PM PST LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine who accepted gifts and honors, including a letter from Gov. Matt Mead, after falsely claiming to have been wounded in combat has pleaded no contest to a charge of obtaining property by false pretense.

Suspected airport gunman's life unraveled over past year Posted: 12 Jan 2017 01:41 PM PST Esteban Santiago stood alone in the cold one day last month outside Mom & Pop's liquor store in Anchorage. He was waving his arms and having a terrible argument in the parking lot. "He'd just be talking ...

Timeline of years, months leading up to airport shooting Posted: 12 Jan 2017 01:12 PM PST The Alaska man accused of killing five people at an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was raised in Puerto Rico and served in the National Guard there and in Alaska. Over the last year, relatives and authorities say his behavior grew increasingly erratic. Here is a timeline of key events in 26-year-old Esteban Santiago's life.

Oil rises on supply cuts, record China demand forecast Posted: 12 Jan 2017 12:47 PM PST By David Gaffen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 1 percent on Thursday on news that key crude exporters, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, were cutting production to reduce a global crude glut, and on forecasts of record demand in China. U.S. crude futures settled up 76 cents to $53.01 a barrel, a gain of 1.5 percent. Brent crude oil settled up 91 cents, or 1.7 percent, at $56.01, off the session high of $56.43 a barrel.

Warrior Care Network Helps Veterans Cope Posted: 12 Jan 2017 11:50 AM PST JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) launched Warrior Care Network®  last year, the goal was to provide treatment and coping skills for today's generation of wounded veterans. Now, Warrior Care Network has proven results. Take Charles, a warrior who served deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq – and still serves our country today.

Rights report warns Trump-style populism threatens democracy Posted: 12 Jan 2017 11:45 AM PST In an annual report that typically focuses on abuses in less-developed countries, Human Rights Watch on Thursday issued a sharply worded warning that the rise of populist politicians in the United States and Europe threatened modern rights movements and potentially even Western democracy. The report said Trump's success reflected a dangerous and growing "infatuation with strongman rule" also evident in Russia, China, Venezuela and the Philippines. Roth was sharply critical of Trump's pick as secretary of state, former ExxonMobil head Rex Tillerson, saying that "this is a guy who made his career by cutting deals with dictators," and who, in a Senate hearing Wednesday, looked "for excuse after excuse" not to take a stand against documented rights abuses.

In eastern Mosul, small signs of progress amid the fighting Posted: 12 Jan 2017 11:40 AM PST Small stalls and carts have sprung up outside the bombed-out buildings in eastern Mosul, selling meat and vegetables, cigarettes and cellphones to the thousands of civilians still living in neighborhoods ...

Defense secretary pick Mattis calls Russia top threat, says Iran deal will be enforced Posted: 12 Jan 2017 10:53 AM PST Defense secretary nominee James Mattis on Thursday ranked Russia and the national debt as top threats to U.S. national security and said that President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran was "imperfect" but must be enforced. "It's not a deal I would have signed," the retired Marine general said in a wide-ranging Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focused on his virtually certain confirmation. During a three-hour appearance before lawmakers who rarely challenged him, Mattis repeatedly criticized Russia, promised that President-elect Donald Trump would enforce NATO's automatic mutual-defense agreement, and said he had no plans to roll back the role of women or LGBTQ Americans in the military.

Why the Donald Trump Dossier Shouldn't Have Been Published Posted: 12 Jan 2017 07:43 AM PST If I receive a press release from Downing Street telling me that the prime minister has resigned, I do not need verification to put that story out (as long as I am sure of the provenance of the release). If, on the other hand, a junior backbencher with whom I have had no previous contact had sidled up to me and whispered the same information into my ear, then I sure as hell would have wanted verification.

OSCE head calls for boost to Ukraine observers Posted: 12 Jan 2017 07:27 AM PST The OSCE's observer mission in eastern Ukraine needs to be strengthened by better equipment and the ability to patrol at night, the security body's new rotating chair Austria said on Thursday. "The observer mission's current problem is that it doesn't have the necessary access, and that the security situation is so bad that it can't do its work properly," Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said. "If they can have better access and be enabled to patrol at night (and) have better technical equipment, then we can make progress and come closer to a functioning ceasefire," Kurz told the Kurier daily.

Iraqi forces link up in north Mosul, make gains in southeast Posted: 12 Jan 2017 07:17 AM PST By John Davison and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces joined flanks in northern Mosul and drove back Islamic State militants in the southeast on Thursday in a renewed push that has brought them closer to controlling the eastern half of the city. Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) took control of 7th Nissan and Sadeeq districts, linking up with army troops that had pushed through al-Hadba neighbourhood, CTS spokesman Sabah al-Numan told Reuters. "The enemy is now located only in front of the troops, not at their sides." Numan said more than 85 percent of eastern Mosul was now under control of pro-government forces, up from nearly 75 percent a week ago.

Officials: Iraqi forces from north, east converge in Mosul Posted: 12 Jan 2017 06:58 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi and coalition officials say forces advancing from the north and east have converged in Mosul, where they have been waging a three-month-old offensive against the Islamic State group.

Saudis cut oil output to lowest in two years, pledge further reductions Posted: 12 Jan 2017 06:54 AM PST Saudi Arabia has cut oil output to its lowest in almost two years, its energy minister said on Thursday, as the world's largest oil exporter leads OPEC's drive to eradicate a global glut and prop up prices. Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said output had fallen below 10 million barrels per day - more than it had promised as part of a global output cut deal between OPEC and non-OPEC producers. Such low levels were last seen in February 2015, when Riyadh began to steeply raise production to deal a blow to U.S. shale oil producers, effectively becoming the architect of a prolonged oil price crash.

In Mosul areas retaken from Islamic State, loss and fear linger Posted: 12 Jan 2017 05:38 AM PST By Stephen Kalin MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers kicked in the gate of a home in eastern Mosul and emerged moments later with two young men whose hands they bound with plastic ties and dragged off toward black Humvees. The men, at least one suspected of belonging to Islamic State, denied ties to the militants who had been pushed out of the neighborhood a few days earlier. Moments earlier and just a few doors down, a middle-aged widower with a wrinkled face had pleaded with the soldiers' commander to avenge Islamic State's alleged murder of his brother, wife and son.

Life and business return to parts of Iraq's Mosul Posted: 12 Jan 2017 02:39 AM PST Explosions can be heard a few blocks away but butcher Haj Fawzi is wielding his cleaver again as he greets customers at a reopened market in liberated east Mosul. "What we would still need is to be able to come and go freely to get our supplies," said Haj Ramzi, who runs another butcher's shop facing his brother's. The entire area around the city is a military area, where tens of thousands of Iraqi forces are closing in on die-hard jihadists from the Islamic State group defending their last major Iraqi bastion.

Belgium arrests man with charges related to Paris attacks Posted: 12 Jan 2017 01:06 AM PST BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have arrested a suspect and filed terror-related charges linked to the November 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.

Officials name 5th person killed in Florida airport shooting Posted: 11 Jan 2017 06:06 PM PST FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman from Ohio as the fifth person killed in last week's shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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