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                                                                                                                    Friday 28 August 2015

 Yemen says no                    IS bombing kills 2 Iraqi army generals in Anbar 
talks with rebels
until Houthis lay                 QASSIM ZAHRA                   spokesman said on state          bar, and Brig. Gen. Sefeen       and armed with two heavy
 down arms: AP                    Associated Press               television that 10 other sol-    Abdul-Maguid, command-           machine-guns carried out
                                  BAGHDAD (AP) — An Islam-       diers were wounded. The          er of the 10th Army Division.    the attack.
CAIRO (AP) — The Yemeni           ic State suicide bomber        officials spoke on condi-        The two were later given a       Tens of soldiers were killed,
government is not negotiat-       killed two Iraqi army gen-     tion of anonymity because        military funeral at the De-      including the two generals,
ing with Shiite Houthi rebels     erals on Thursday as they      they were not authorized         fense Ministry in Baghdad        it said without giving pre-
who control the capital and       led forces against IS posi-    to speak to the media.           with Prime Minister Haider       cise figures. The operation
much of the north, and de-        tions in the turbulent Anbar   The IS group captured Ra-        al-Abadi and Defense Min-        was designed to avenge
mands that they lay down          province west of Baghdad,      madi in May and also con-        ister Khaled al-Obeidi lead-     the killing of a local com-
their arms, Foreign Minister                                                                                                       mander in Anbar it identi-
Riad Yassin said Thursday.        Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, center, Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, center right, and     fied as Abu Radi al-Ansari.
“The Houthis and (former                                                                                                           The Associated Press could
President Ali Abdullah)           government officials and parliament members attend the funeral procession of Maj. Gen.           not immediately verify the
Saleh’s militias must imple-                                                                                                       authenticity of the state-
ment the U.N. resolution          Abdul-Rahman Abu-Regheef, deputy chief of operations in Anbar and Brig. Gen. Sefeen Abdul-       ment, but its language and
and surrender their weap-                                                                                                          phrasing is consistent with
ons, and only then the            Maguid, commander of the 10th Army Division who was killed in Ramadi during fighting with        past IS claims of responsi-
dialogue and political pro-                                                                                                        bility.
cess can begin, with the          Islamic State militants, at the headquarters of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq,  In neighboring Syria, mean-
participation of all Yemeni                                                                                                        while, IS militants seized five
parties,” Yassin told report-     Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. 								                               (AP Photo)                       villages from rebel groups
ers in Cairo after meeting                                                                                                         in the north as part of an
with Arab League Secretary        military officials said.       trols the nearby city of Fal-    ing mourners.                    advance toward the stra-
General Nabil Elaraby.            They said the bomber           lujah.                           An IS statement posted           tegic town of Marea near
Referring to reports of meet-     drove his explosives-laden     A military statement read        on Twitter accounts run by       the Turkish border. The Syr-
ings in the Gulf nation of        vehicle into the advanc-       on Iraqi state television        supporters claimed respon-       ian Observatory for Human
Oman, Yassin described            ing troops north of Anbar’s    identified the two generals      sibility for the attack, but     Rights and other activist
them as mere “consulta-           provincial capital, Ramadi,    as Maj. Gen. Abdul-Rah-          gave a different account,        groups said the IS carried
tions” between U.N. envoy         killing the two generals and   man Abu-Regheef, deputy          saying six fighters in four      out a suicide bombing on
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed          three soldiers. A military     chief of operations in An-       explosives-laden vehicles        the outskirts of Marea amid
and the Houthis, aimed at                                                                                                          fierce fighting in the area.
convincing them to imple-                                                                                                          The Turkish Dogan news
ment a U.N. resolution from                                                                                                        agency also reported re-
April.                                                                                                                             newed fighting between IS
That resolution requested                                                                                                          and rebels across the bor-
that the Houthis withdraw                                                                                                          der from Kilis and said the
from areas they seized and                                                                                                         U.S.-led coalition bombed
surrender weapons they                                                                                                             IS targets in the region.
took from military and state                                                                                                       Dogan video footage
institutions.                                                                                                                      showed a large plume of
“That is the only solution                                                                                                         smoke rising from across
that is on the table; there                                                                                                        the border.q
is nothing else,” said Yassin,
who along with the rest of        US strikes southern Afghan district seized by Taliban 
Yemen’s internationally rec-
ognized government is in          KABUL,  Afghanistan            providing further details.       more than a dozen U.S. air-      ghan security forces.
exile in Saudi Arabia.                                           Afghan Army Brig. Gen.           strikes hit targets in Musa      The United States ended
Yemen’s conflict pits the         (AP) —  U.S. forces have       Mohammad Rasool Zaizai           Qala over the past three         offensive combat opera-
Iran-supported Houthi reb-                                       said Afghan and allied           days. The official was not       tions in Afghanistan at the
els and troops loyal to Saleh     launched multiple airstrikes   warplanes struck army and        authorized to publicly dis-      end of 2014 but retains the
against an array of forces                                       police headquarters in the       cuss details and so spoke        option to strike against ter-
including southern separat-       on a district in southern Af-  Musa Qala district in north-     on condition of anonymity.       rorist targets and in situa-
ists, local and tribal militias,                                 ern Helmand province             Taliban spokesman Qari           tions where the Taliban are
Sunni Islamic militants as        ghanistan seized by the Tal-   Thursday, likely killing fight-  Yousef says 30 civilians and     deemed to pose a threat
well as troops loyal to Presi-                                   ers and civilians.               10 fighters were killed, but     to Afghan or allied forces.
dent Abed Rabbo Mansour           iban the day before,  U.S.     He said it was not possible      the Taliban often provide        The U.S. recently launched
Hadi.                                                            to confirm casualty figures      unreliable figures. Taliban      airstrikes at leaders of the
The conflict escalated in         officials said Thursday.       because insurgents control       insurgents overran Musa          Islamic State’s Afghan
March when a Saudi-led                                           the area.                        Qala on Wednesday after          affiliate in northeastern
coalition started launch-         “U.S. forces conducted         A U.S. defense official said     a weeklong assault on Af-        Afghanistan.q
ing airstrikes against the
Houthis.q                         airstrikes in Musa Qala

                                  today against individu-

                                  als threatening coalition

                                  and Afghan forces,” Col.

                                  Brian Tribus, a spokesman

                                  for U.S. and allied forces in

                                  Afghanistan, said without
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