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Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait Aim for $60 a Barrel Oil Price – Wall Street Journal (subscription)

Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait Aim for $60 a Barrel Oil Price
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Some of OPEC's biggest oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, are now targeting $60 a barrel as the level where they want to push crude prices, OPEC officials said, signaling they will support additional production cuts next month. Saudi Arabia, Iraq ...

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Counter-ISIS Strikes Hit Terrorists in Syria, Iraq – Department of Defense

SOUTHWEST ASIA, April 13, 2017 U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, conducting 24 strikes consisting of 100 engagements against ISIS targets yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.

Officials reported details of the latest strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.

Strikes in Syria

In Syria, coalition military forces conducted seven strikes consisting of 21 engagements against ISIS targets:

-- Near Raqqa, seven strikes engaged three ISIS tactical units and destroyed a vehicle and a fighting position.

Additionally, officials reported, eight strikes were conducted near Raqqa from April 11 into yesterday that engaged an ISIS staging area, a weapons storage cache and a command-and-control node.

Strikes in Iraq

In Iraq, coalition military forces conducted nine strikes consisting of 79 engagements against ISIS targets, coordinated with and in support of Iraqs government:

-- Near Beiji, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed an ISIS fuel truck, a mortar system and a weapons cache.

-- Near Mosul, six strikes engaged five ISIS tactical units and destroyed 11 fighting positions, five vehicles, two vehicle bombs, two vehicle-bomb factories, a medium machine gun, a rocket-propelled-grenade system and a mortar system; damaged 15 ISIS supply routes and a fighting position; and suppressed 10 mortar systems, six fighting positions, two artillery systems and a rocket system.

-- Near Rawah, a strike destroyed six ISIS-held buildings and a vehicle bomb factory.

-- Near Tal Afar, a strike engaged an ISIS tactical unit and destroyed a fighting position, a weapons cache and an ISIS fuel truck.

Part of Operation Inherent Resolve

These strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The destruction of ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria also further limits the group's ability to project terror and conduct external operations throughout the region and the rest of the world, task force officials said.

The list above contains all strikes conducted by fighter, attack, bomber, rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft; rocket-propelled artillery; and some ground-based tactical artillery when fired on planned targets, officials noted.

Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike, they added. A strike, as defined by the coalition, refers to one or more kinetic engagements that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single or cumulative effect. For example, task force officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIS vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against a group of ISIS-held buildings and weapon systems in a compound, having the cumulative effect of making that facility harder or impossible to use. Strike assessments are based on initial reports and may be refined, officials said.

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Can Iraq’s Christians ever recover from Isis? – Spectator.co.uk (blog)

Since June 2014,when Islamic State attacked northern Iraq,the desks at Mar Ephrem seminary in Hamdaniya, a city 18 milessoutheast of Mosul, have stood empty. Today, they are dusty and rooms once teeming with priests and nuns in training are dark; student ID cards, with titles such asSyrian Catholic: Parish of Bashiqa, Iraq,litter the floor anda statue of the Virgin Mary lies smashed. Now, Isis are gone. But in their wake an eerie quiet remainsand the path of destruction is a visible reminder of their legacy, with thousands ofhouses destroyedin the fierce battle to retake the city lastOctober. And for the Christians who live in Hamdaniya, the question remains: will they ever be able to return to theplace they have called home for thousands of years?

Before Isis came, Hamdaniya (also known asQaraqosh and Bakhdida, the Turkish and Assyrian names for the same place, by locals) was the largest Christian city in Iraq. It formed part of a mosaic of communities stretching across the Nineveh plains to Mount Sinjar near the Syrian border. Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis and Christians, and members of smaller local sects such as the Kakai, also lived there. Isis systematically sought to exterminate and cleanse these groups, and when its fighters arrived, the Islamists expelled Christians from Mosul. Those who left were among the lucky ones: in Sinjar, thirty mass graves of Yazidi men and women executed in August 2014 have been found by Kurdish Peshmerga who liberated the areas.Thousands of womensold into slavery by Isis are still missingand around450,000 Yazidisare living in internally displaced persons camps. Yet with Isis gone, the prospect of returning home for many of those forced to flee remains distant.The areas they used to live in Sinjar often lack electricity, schools and hospitals; much-needed international aid is nowhere to be seen. While for many, the continued conflict with Isis on the borders of their region makes life insecure.

Having travelledto Iraq half a dozen times in the last two years, Ive seen how communities are desperatelytrying to reconstruct and move on. The current reality is not reassuring. Across Nineveh plains, the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga have liberated communities but the Isis zealots left behind them a swath of destruction. They tunnelled under houses and through walls during two years of occupation. They blew up holy shrines, and built bomb factories in church buildings, hoping it would hide them from coalition airstrikes. They burned businesses and planted IEDs to kill civilians who return.

For local Christians, the damage is particularly devastating.Near Karemlesh, two ancient holy graves have been left ransacked during the war.In March 2015, Isis blewup a 10thcenturymonastery in Mosul and the 4thcentury MarBahnam monasterysouth of the city.Isis alsodestroyed the 3,300year old ancient city of Nimrud, which was once capital of the Assyrian empire. Their reign in this region was brief, but the damage the Islamists inflicted on precious artefacts of history is permanent.Austen Henry Layard, the 19thBritish century traveller and archaeologist who explored Nimrud in the 1840s wrote that the site was so large there is enough to fill twenty museums. He shipped some artefacts back which form the basis of exhibits at the British Museum. But now, many of the artefacts that were left in place are gone:the archaeology from Nimrud preserved in world museums serves as a reminder of what has been lost forever.

Despite the damage, locals are keen to return but those that do remain in the minority.Some Christians joined a local militia during the war named the Nineveh Plains Protection Units which guards the Christian towns. Maybe 15-20 per cent will come back, most are waiting for immigration, there is no water of electricity here, Anis Khader, a member of the militia told me. In the churches that were burned and ransacked by Isis, the Christians have put up new posters of Jesus, but the desecrations remain and cant be easily disguised. In one church, a wooden cutout of the Virgin Mary has been beheaded. A monument for St. George also had its head cut off, whilecrosses have been prised from the walls.

Matti Rafo, a local Christian born in 1957, says the area has witnessed the worst destruction since the Persian invasion of 1743. At the church of St. George he bent to enter an old mud and brick shrine, uncovering ancient markings of a rare sanctuary that Isis had left untouched. The timelessbuilding had seen assaults in the past and people had returned and rebuilt it. Can todays Iraqis do the same? Or will the churches of Nineveh now fade into history?

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Can Iraq's Christians ever recover from Isis? - Spectator.co.uk (blog)

Man arrested after Borussia Dortmund attack ‘led Isis unit in Iraq’ – The Guardian

German prosecutors have said a man arrested after a bomb attack on a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team is a member of Islamic State but there is so far no evidence he was involved in the incident.

The man, a 26-year-old Iraqi identified only as Abdul Beset al-O, arrived in Germany last year via Turkey, according to a statement from the prosecutors office.

The Borussia Dortmund (BVB) bus was hit by three explosions from pipe bombs as it drove from the teams hotel to their home stadium in Dortmund on Tuesday night. Spanish defender Marc Bartra was injured by shrapnel, as was a police officer.

The Champions League match the team was due to play against AS Monaco was rescheduled and took place last night.

Abdul Beset al-O, who is believed to live in the western German city of Wuppertal, is due to appear before a judge on Friday morning as prosecutors seek to hold him for longer than 24 hours.

The investigations have yet to result in any evidence that the suspect took part in the attack, the prosecutors office said.

The statement said the man had been identified as an Isis member in Iraq, where he had led a 10-strong commando unit of fighters that had taken part in kidnappings, smuggling, killings and extortion. After his arrival in Germany, he is said to have maintained close contact with Isis members.

According to Spiegel, the mans telephone was tapped by German intelligence, who just days ago monitored a conversation he had with an unknown person, who told him: The explosive device is ready.

Investigators are also focusing on another man, a 28-year-old German identified as Abdullah Al Z, from Frndenberg, 26 miles (42km) east of Dortmund. According to Spiegel, police reportedly entered his house on Wednesday when he was sleeping with his child. The man was said to be in possession of a BVB umbrella from the team hotel.

The pipe bombs used in the attack were set off by military detonators that had been detonated remotely, probably via a mobile phone, according to some media reports on Thursday.

Three identical letters printed on single sheets in German, found near the scene of the attack, point to an Islamist motive, but investigators have said they are not typical of Isis writings, not least because they make concrete demands.

The letter demands the withdrawal of German Tornado surveillance planes from Syria, where they are involved in the military operation against Isis, as well as the closure of Ramstein, the US military air base in Germany. It also states that, with immediate effect, all unbelieving actors, singers, athletes and all prominent personalities in Germany and other crusader nations are on an Islamic State death list.

Two other claims of responsibility have been made, by a group of radical leftists as well as a far-right sympathiser. Investigators have said they are keeping an open mind.

But as pressure mounts on them to answer the question of who was behind the attack, which has deeply shocked Germany and led to a renewed debate about security in and around sporting and other events, criticism is growing over the decision to reschedule the Champions League match for less than 24 hours after the attack. Monaco won the game 3-2.

The strongest criticism for Uefas decision came from Thomas Tuchel, BVBs head coach, who said the team had been informed via text message that they would play on Wednesday night, but no one had consulted him or the players beforehand.

We had the feeling we were treated as if a beer can had hit our bus, he said, adding he was made to feel impotent because he was not allowed to have any say in the matter.

It was as if Uefa in their offices in Switzerland had come to the decision on their own, he said. I would have liked a few more days for the team.

The European football body rejected the accusations, arguing the decision had been made jointly by BVB and AS Monaco on Tuesday evening.

Reinhard Rauball, the president of BVB, was also criticised for saying the team would deal with the trauma before he had apparently even spoken to them. They are professionals, he said. Im of the view that they can get over it.

Marcel Schmelzer, the captain of BVB, said that rather than spending the few hours before the match in the teams hotel, he had been with his family, and had ignored their advice not to watch a press conference given by the federal prosecutors spokeswoman on Wednesday afternoon. You just want to know what happened, he said.

I believe it would make it a tiny bit easier to deal with if we knew who was behind it, Schmelzer added. He said that, on hearing from prosecutors that shrapnel from one of the bombs had penetrated the headrest of one of the bus seats, it had became clear to him just how extraordinarily lucky we were. Were all aware of that.

He added that the team would have much preferred to have dealt with their trauma away from the pitch. We would have been very, very, very happy, had [the match] been able to take place on another day, he said. Regardless of the importance of this competition, were only humans.

Sokratis, a centre back for BVB, welled up as he thanked fans for their support after the game. He said later: We were treated like animals, not like people.

Another player, Nuri ahin, told Norwegian television: I dont know whether people will understand or not, but until I went on to the pitch in the second half, I was not thinking of football. ahin was brought on after half-time.

I know that football is important and I know that we earn a lot of money and have a privileged life. But we are also only people, and there is more to football in this world. Thats what we got to feel the night before last.

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America and Iran are jostling for influence over Iraq – The Economist

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America and Iran are jostling for influence over Iraq - The Economist