Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• After mass turnout, can protests turn into political impact?
• Iraq forces take two more areas in east Mosul
• Three suspected al Qaeda members killed in drone strikes in Yemen: officials
• Oil producers say output cut on track
• The Latest: Trump changes course after denouncing protesters
• Jack Huston: Hollywood aristocrat with real noble blood
• Turkey's president eager to hear Trump's policies on Mideast
• In Mosul battle, Iraq forces face fewer IS-planted bombs
• Iraqi general's tour suggests tough fight ahead in west Mosul

After mass turnout, can protests turn into political impact? Posted: 22 Jan 2017 02:10 PM PST DENVER (AP) — Deb Szeman, a self-described "homebody," had never participated in a demonstration before hopping on an overnight bus from her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend the women's march on Washington.

Iraq forces take two more areas in east Mosul Posted: 22 Jan 2017 12:20 PM PST Iraqi forces on Sunday retook two areas from the Islamic State group in Mosul, sealing their control of the east bank three months into an offensive to reclaim the city. It also said that federal forces had retaken control of the road linking Mosul, Iraq's second city, to Dohuk, a provincial capital in the west of the autonomous region of Kurdistan. The latest progress effectively seals the Iraqi forces' control over the east bank, with only the neighbourhood of Rashidiyah, on Mosul's northern edge, left to retake.

Three suspected al Qaeda members killed in drone strikes in Yemen: officials Posted: 22 Jan 2017 08:57 AM PST Three suspected members of al Qaeda's Yemen branch were killed on Sunday by what local officials said they believed were two separate U.S. drone strikes. If confirmed, they would be the first such attacks since U.S. President Donald Trump assumed office on Friday. In the first strike two men were killed when a missile hit the vehicle in which they were travelling in the al-Soumaa district of southern al-Bayda province, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Oil producers say output cut on track Posted: 22 Jan 2017 06:55 AM PST Oil producers said Sunday that their landmark December deal to slash output by almost two million barrels per day was on track, as they met to review progress. "Compliance is great, it's been really fantastic," Khaled al-Falih, energy minister of oil behemoth Saudi Arabia, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying. The December 10 accord, valid from January 1 for six months, obliges 24 countries inside and outside the OPEC group to cut production by 1.8 million bpd between them.

The Latest: Trump changes course after denouncing protesters Posted: 22 Jan 2017 06:50 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):

Jack Huston: Hollywood aristocrat with real noble blood Posted: 22 Jan 2017 02:03 AM PST British actor Jack Huston's grandfather, the legendary filmmaker John Huston, once had a movie about psychological trauma among soldiers banned because of its anti-war message. The actor nevertheless finds himself this year as one of the stars alongside Jennifer Aniston and Alden Ehrenreich in "The Yellow Birds," a movie about the terrors of fighting in Iraq.

Turkey's president eager to hear Trump's policies on Mideast Posted: 22 Jan 2017 12:57 AM PST ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president says he is interested in hearing U.S. President Donald Trump's policies on the Middle East.

In Mosul battle, Iraq forces face fewer IS-planted bombs Posted: 22 Jan 2017 12:05 AM PST Iraqi forces used to facing deserted, explosives-rigged streets and booby-trapped buildings have not encountered as many bombs planted by jihadists in Mosul as they did in earlier battles against them. The Islamic State group has no qualms about killing civilians, but the presence of a large number of residents in Iraq's second city discouraged the jihadists from extensively sowing it with explosives, officers say. While previous urban battlefields in Iraq's war against IS were largely depopulated by the time the country's forces moved in, Mosul still sheltered a million-plus people when the offensive to retake it was launched three months ago.

Iraqi general's tour suggests tough fight ahead in west Mosul Posted: 21 Jan 2017 10:16 PM PST By Michael Georgy MOSUL (Reuters) - Residents of east Mosul held up their children and took selfies with Iraqi counter-terrorism commander Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi after his men cleared Islamic State fighters from their neighbourhoods. Flanked by bodyguards in the Mohandiseen neighbourhood, Saadi got a firsthand view of Islamic State's meticulous planning and reign of terror as he moved from house to house, greeted by locals as a hero. The battle for Mosul, involving 100,000 Iraqi troops, members of the Kurdish security forces and Shi'ite militiamen, is the biggest ground operation in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

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