<ul><li><keyword id="19908621" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="MediaTek" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="MediaTek" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="MediaTek">MediaTek</keyword> has announced that it has joined the <keyword id="21932111" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arm-Total-Design" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Arm Total Design" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Arm Total Design">Arm Total Design</keyword> ecosystem.</li><li>The chipmaker intends to use the <keyword id="21937910" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="arm-neoverse-css" source="keywords">Arm Neoverse CSS</keyword> to boost AI innovation.</li><li>This was announced at the ongoing <keyword id="21495252" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="COMPUTEX-2024" source="keywords">COMPUTEX 2024</keyword> conference in Taiwan.</li></ul> MediaTek announced on Tuesday that it has joined Arm Total Design, an ecosystem that aims to accelerate and simplify the development of products based on Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS).<br /><br />The announcement came at the ongoing COMPUTEX 2024. The Arm Neoverse CSS is designed to meet AI applications' performance and efficiency needs in the data centre, infrastructure systems, telecommunications, and beyond.<br /><br />“We will be working closely with Arm as we expand our footprint into data centres, utilising our expertise in hybrid computing, AI, SerDes and chipsets, and advance packaging technologies to accelerate AI innovation from the edge to the cloud,” said Vince Hu, Corporate Vice President, MediaTek.<br /><br />MediaTek intends to use Neoverse CSS with its SoC integration design capability to deliver differentiated solutions and expedite time to market. Neoverse CSS can be used to deliver optimized SoCs for specific application needs, addressing the complex computing requirements of AI.<br /><br />“AI is driving an insatiable need for more compute and greater power efficiency. By joining Arm Total Design, MediaTek is building on our longstanding partnership, which has delivered billions of high-performance, energy efficient devices, and will bring that world class expertise to infrastructure as we rapidly deliver sustainable, AI-powered cloud data centers on Arm Neoverse CSS,” said <keyword id="21937909" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mohamed-awad" source="keywords">Mohamed Awad</keyword>, senior VP and GM, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/may-auto-sales-tata-motors-and-hyundai-continue-to-fight-for-the-second-spot-as-car-sales-grow-by-4/articleshow/110649713.cms">May Auto Sales – Tata Motors and Hyundai continue to fight for the second spot as car sales grow by 4%</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/upcoming-cars-and-two-wheelers-launching-in-india-in-june-2024/slidelist/110591467.cms">Upcoming cars and two-wheelers launching in India in June 2024</a><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/huawei-beats-samsung-to-take-the-top-spot-in-global-foldable-smartphone-shipments/articleshow/110583786.cms"><strong>Huawei beats Samsung to take the top spot in global foldable smartphone shipments</strong></a><br />

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Emphasis on a holistic approach to climate action encompassing the principles of sustainable development will be a key area of focus at the upcoming UN <keyword id="6361617" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="climate-change" source="Orion">climate change</keyword> summit named <keyword id="12515304" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cop27" source="Orion">COP27</keyword> in <keyword id="6354912" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="egypt" source="Orion">Egypt</keyword>, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the <keyword id="60669" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="unfccc" source="Orion">UNFCCC</keyword>, <keyword id="5611880" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="mahmoud-mohieldin" source="Orion">Mahmoud Mohieldin</keyword>, said on Thursday.<br /><br />Interacting with researchers at the field station of The Energy and Resources Institute (<keyword id="6366057" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="teri" source="Orion">TERI</keyword>), Mohieldin underscored the need to place sustainable development as a core issue in climate action, particularly since it has been sidelined from the climate agenda.<br /><br />"The issue of sustainability has been, to some extent, hijacked in terms of priorities by some of the advanced economies. They reduced sustainability to mean only climate action, or they took it from a very narrow perspective to mean only decarbonisation and dealing with emissions," observed Mohieldin.<br /><br />While decarbonisation continues to be a pressing issue, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion said developing economies need to address climate action efforts through a more holistic approach.<br /><br />"That holistic approach doesn't just mean getting the <keyword id="3087299" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="paris-agreement" source="Orion">Paris Agreement</keyword> operationalised, but to put it in terms of the sustainable development agenda, which means fighting poverty, getting investment in human capital properly, health and education. There is no use of climate action effort that would result in more poverty or more unemployment," he added.<br /><br />Addressing the issue of climate finance for developing countries and the promise of $100 billion for climate action from developed countries which continues to be unfulfilled, he said while the commitment is a moral issue, developing countries need to be innovative in their approach to climate finance.<br /><br />"We still insist on that ($100 billion) as it is very important as a token of trust," he added.<br /><br />Mohieldin lauded India's efforts in addressing the issue of climate finance through domestic mobilisation, partnerships with the private sector and encouraging foreign direct investment.<br /><br />Touching upon the issue of mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage, he added: "It is not fair for countries that have been victims to high emissions to be asked to borrow more for mitigation and adaptation."<br /><br />Mohieldin was accompanied by Wael Mohamed Awad Hamed, Ambassador, Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, during his visit to TERI Gram in <keyword id="11900977" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gurugram" source="Orion">Gurugram</keyword> where he interacted with distinguished fellows and researchers who briefed the Egyptian delegation about TERI's activities on climate change and those related to COP27, including the COP27 Compass under the Act4Earth initiative that was launched at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2022.<br /><br /><h2>Recommended stories:</h2>          <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="94580987" title="OPINION: Can trust-based philanthropy become the mainstream?" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"><payload><![CDATA[seealso]]></payload></div><br />          <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="94680731" title="98% of companies responsible for 80% of corporate greenhouse emissions refuse to disclose their climate-change impacts: Study" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"><payload><![CDATA[seealso]]></payload></div><br />

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5bbbd72a49aa85117c5f85c3-2000/jamal khashoggi.jpg" border="0" alt="Jamal Khashoggi" data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist, is missing." /><p class="source"><span>Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist is missing, presumed murdered.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>A petition to rename the street in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, to "Jamal Khashoggi Way" is quickly drawing support.</li><li>Jamal Khashoggi is the Saudi columnist who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2.</li><li>The authors of the petition say they want to send a message that harming a member of the press will not be tolerated.</li><li>The Saudi government has changed its narrative about what happened to Khashoggi several times, but finally admitted on October 25 that his killing was premeditated.</li></ul><p>An online <a href="https://www.change.org/p/mayor-muriel-bowser-rename-address-of-saudi-arabian-embassy-in-washington-into-jamal-khashoggi-street?recruiter=906668389&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=undefined&amp;utm_term=a4c5afcb23f747f285a7b3c1df253fe4">petition</a> is calling for the street in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, to be renamed "Jamal Khashoggi Way," in honor of the murdered dissident, according to The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/30/shame-prince-activists-want-rename-street-front-saudi-embassy-dc-jamal-khashoggi-way/?utm_term=.8c78348748e2">Washington Post</a>.</p><p>Khashoggi was the Saudi Arabian reporter who was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last month.</p><p>Khashoggi had been an outspoken opponent of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has repeatedly denied playing a part in Khashoggi's killing despite <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/middleeast/khashoggi-saudi-prince.html">having ties to the Saudi hit squad</a> that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia-hopes-world-will-forget-2018-10">allegedly strangled, then dismembered the writer.</a></p><p>The petition has collected over 1,500 signatures as of Wednesday evening and was created by DC residents who are hoping mayor Muriel Bowser will agree, so that Saudi officials won't easily forget that harming journalists is not tolerated in DC, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-jamal-khashoggi-way-20181031-story.html">New York Daily News</a> reported Wednesday.</p><p>Regulations in the district require that a person be deceased for at least two years before they can receive such an honor, but the petition is asking Bowser to make an exception.</p><p><em><strong>Read more</strong>: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-jamal-khashoggi-turkey-accuses-saudi-arabia-of-murdering-reporter-2018-10">Here's everything we know about the troubling disappearance and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi</a></em></p><p>Council on American-Islamic Relations director Hihad Awad applauded the idea, telling the Daily <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">News</keyword> that the thought of Saudi Embassy workers having to put "Jamal Khashoggi Way" on their business cards is powerful.</p><p>"Imagine if their mail had to be addressed to Khashoggi Way?" Awad told the publication.</p><p>The Saudi government has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-again-changes-its-story-on-jamal-khashoggis-killing-2018-10">changed its story</a> about Khashoggi's death several times, but appeared to admit on October 25 that his killing was premeditated.</p><p>Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2 after going there to collect marriage documents. He never returned.</p><p>It took the Saudi government <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-saudis-blame-fistfight-for-jamal-khashoggis-death-2018-10">more than two weeks</a> to acknowledge that he had indeed died there.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/megyn-kelly-santa-is-white-remark-fox-news-nbc-ignition-today-controversial-remarks-2017-11">Megyn Kelly in 2017: 'I regret a lot' of the controversial stuff I've said on live television</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/0jG96Zls-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

A petition to change the street name where the Saudi Embassy in Washington is located to 'Jamal Khashoggi Way' already has a heap of signatures

<p>In the days before Christmas, Iraqi ground forces entered what a US official called an "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-led-coalition-strike-on-isis-boat-near-mosul-iraq-2016-12" target="_blank">operational refit</a>," temporarily pausing their ground operations against ISIS' last Iraqi stronghold in Mosul.</p><p>But while Iraqi ground forces took a breather, the US-led coalition air campaign against the terror group continued. In a December 23 strike, coalition air forces knocked out an ISIS weapons cache near Mosul, which is Iraq's second-largest city.</p><p>Three airstrikes on December 23 <a href="http://www.inherentresolve.mil/Portals/1/20161224%20Strike%20Release%20Final.pdf?ver=2016-12-24-050943-450" target="_blank">targeted</a> ISIS tactical units, ISIS buildings, fighting positions, a vehicle and a vehicle-borne improvised-explosive-device factory, and weapons systems.</p><p>The offensive against Mosul was paused after a little more than two months of fighting - a period during which Iraqi forces, aided by Kurdish peshmerga and Shiite militias, had recaptured just one-quarter of the city.</p><p>The campaign was <a href="http://www.inherentresolve.mil/News/Article/1039360/iraqi-mosul-offensive-resumes/" target="_blank">renewed</a> on December 29, when Iraqi army, counterterrorism forces, and police moved forward on the north, east, and south of the city.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/58611967f10a9a6d008b5460-2400" alt="US soldiers gather near military vehicles at an army base in Karamless town, east of Mosul." data-mce-source="Ammar Awad/Reuters" data-mce-caption="US soldiers gather near military vehicles at an army base in Karamless town, east of Mosul." data-link="http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-MOSUL-RC14CA93B2F0.html"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-MOSUL-RC14CA93B2F0.html">Ammar Awad/Reuters</a></span></p><p class="caption">US soldiers gather near military vehicles at an army base in Karamless town, east of Mosul.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>Iraqi forces have since <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-general-sees-islamic-states-capability-waning-in-east-mosul-2017-1" target="_blank">retaken</a> several more neighborhoods in eastern Mosul.</p><p>The top commander of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service, which has spearheaded the fight against ISIS in Mosul, said Iraqi forces had retaken "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-iraq-forces-have-retaken-over-60-of-east-mosul-commander-2017-1" target="_blank">more than 60%</a>" of the eastern side of the city.</p><p>Iraqi forces have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-general-sees-islamic-states-capability-waning-in-east-mosul-2017-1" target="_blank">yet to enter</a> the western side of the city.</p><p>And, according to a US official, ISIS forces were beginning to show the strain of the fight.</p><p>"They've got a finite amount of resource that are on the eastern side and the fact that their capability is waning indicates that those resources are starting to dwindle," US Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Martin, head of ground forces for the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-general-sees-islamic-states-capability-waning-in-east-mosul-2017-1" target="_blank">told Reuters</a> on January 2, citing the decreased sophistication of ISIS suicide bombs and the lower yield of the group's improvised explosive devices as a sign "the enemy's capacity is diminishing over time."</p><p>"We see that as a positive indicator," he <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-general-sees-islamic-states-capability-waning-in-east-mosul-2017-1" target="_blank">added</a>.</p><p>The suffering faced by the 900,000 or so Iraqis stuck in and around the city is unlikely to diminish as long as there is fighting going on, however. Many residents of the city have elected to shelter in their homes, staying indoors for days at a time.</p><p>Others have the arduous trip out of the city, dodging running battles between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants punctuated by artillery fire and ongoing airstrikes.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/58418698e02ba75f658b6253-2000" alt="iraqi civilians mosul" data-mce-source="Reuters/Mohammed Salem" data-mce-caption="Iraqi people flee the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul in al-Samah neighborhood, Iraq December 2, 2016."><p class="source"><span>Reuters/Mohammed Salem</span></p><p class="caption">Iraqi people flee the ISIS stronghold of Mosul in al-Samah neighborhood, Iraq, December 2, 2016.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p>On January 1, US-led strikes against ISIS targeted an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-led-coalition-hit-islamic-state-mortar-position-in-mosul-pentagon-2017-1" target="_blank">ISIS mortar position</a> next to two empty school buildings. Though&#xa0;the coalition said no civilians were in the area during that strike, two days prior a van carrying ISIS fighters was hit by a coalition strike while in the parking lot of a hospital compound. The coalition said it was investigating possible civilian casualties.</p><p>Iraqis in the western half of Mosul have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-smuggled-by-boat-or-scaling-wrecked-bridges-residents-escape-mosuls-besieged-west-2017-1" target="_blank">started to flee</a> across the Tigris River, which bisects the city. The two halves of the city were once connected by five bridges, but those spans have all been destroyed, and Iraqis now wait until nightfall to cross by boat or to scale the remains of the bridges with rope.</p><p>"Only the lucky ones get out," Jamal, who crossed the remnants of one bridge using a rope and is now at a camp for civilians displaced from Mosul with his wife and three children, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-smuggled-by-boat-or-scaling-wrecked-bridges-residents-escape-mosuls-besieged-west-2017-1" target="_blank">told</a> Reuters. "If they opened a route for a quarter of an hour, not a single person would remain on the western side."</p><p>While thousands of ISIS fighters remained hunkered down in Mosul in northern Iraq, the terror group has been able to strike farther south.</p><p>At least <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-is-claimed-attack-in-southern-iraq-kills-at-least-seven-2017-1" target="_blank">seven people were killed</a> by an ISIS attack on a police checkpoint on Sunday, and a suicide car-bomb attack in Baghdad - parts of which are regularly targeted by ISIS - killed <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-baghdad-suicide-car-bomb-blast-kills-17-2017-1" target="_blank">at least 17 people</a> on Monday.</p><div><iframe src="//giphy.com/embed/l0MYFRnF65MEQjeDK" width="840" height="526" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iraqi-forces-discover-underground-isis-tunnels-mosul-2016-10">Footage reveals ISIS' secret underground tunnels near Mosul</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="liMGUyNzE6kBaBBNFH9wFDDc8iSmn5fp" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'liMGUyNzE6kBaBBNFH9wFDDc8iSmn5fp',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

Watch a US-led coalition airstrike wipe out a weapons cache amid the fight for ISIS' last Iraqi stronghold

<p>This week, the <keyword id="30350" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Middle-East">Middle East</keyword> became a winter wonderland. It <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cairo-snow-2013-12">snowed in Egypt today for the first time in over a 100 years</a>, and earlier this week parts of Israel got blanketed in a winter storm, the likes of which it hadn't seen in at least 50 years, <a href="http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/jerusalem-snow-photos-december-2013-20131212">according to The Weather Channel</a>.   </p>
<p>In Jerusalem, schools and offices were closed and public transportation was briefly suspended after heavy snowfall on Thursday, while a<span> storm named Alexa continues sweeping across <span>Syria and Lebanon, bringing with it high winds and freezing temperatures.</span> </span> </p>
<p>These Reuters <keyword id="6359897" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Photos">photos</keyword> how people in the Middle East reacted to the unexpected <keyword id="10265" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Snow">snow</keyword>.</p>
<p><strong>Men built a snowman in front of the Dome of the Rock, a sacred spot in Jerusalem's Old City.</strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52ab541eecad048a2a3a73c3-1200-858/rtx16fc0.jpg?maxX=800" border="0" alt="snowman jerusalem dome of the rock" width="800" style="color: #000000;" /><p class="source">Ammar Awad/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Orthodox Jewish men roll a snowball at a park in Jerusalem.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a40eab8eadc483a73c3-1200-800/snowman%20middle%20east.jpg" border="0" alt="Snowman Middle East" width="800" /><p class="source">Amir Cohen/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>An Orthodox Jewish man builds a snowman in Jerusalem.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a3f6da811704b3a73c9-1200-800/orthodox%20snowman.jpg" border="0" alt="Orthodox Snowman" width="800" /><p class="source">Amir Cohen/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>Public transport was briefly suspended in Jerusalem and parts of the occupied West Bank after heavy snowfall on Dec. 12, 2013.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a4169beddaf530aafca-1200-800/suitcase%20snow.jpg" border="0" alt="Suitcase Snow" width="800" /><p class="source">Amir Cohen/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>People improvised cold-weather gear in Jerusalem's Old City.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a3f69bedd35560aafbd-1200-858/snow%20jerusalem.jpg" border="0" alt="Snow Jerusalem" width="800" /><p class="source">Darren Whiteside/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>Schools and offices in Jerusalem and parts of the occupied West Bank were closed after heavy snowfall on Dec. 12, 2013.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a40eab8ead6483a73c3-1200-858/old%20city%20jerusalem%20snow.jpg" border="0" alt="Old City Jerusalem Snow" width="800" /><p class="source">Darren Whiteside/Reuters</p><p class="caption">Near Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City.</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>For some, the snow was a welcome surprise.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a416bb3f7601a0aafbe-1200-800/jerusalem%20paddle%20ball.jpg" border="0" alt="Jerusalem paddle ball" width="800" /><p class="source">Amir Cohen/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Free Syrian Army fighters play with snow in Raqqa, eastern Syria.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a41ecad04e7353a73c5-1200-800/two%20syrians%20in%20snow.jpg" border="0" alt="Two Syrians in Snow" width="800" /><p class="source">Nour Fourat/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>Free Syrian Army fighters throw snow in Khan Tuman, Aleppo.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a416bb3f7ee150aafbf-1200-800/syria%20snow%202.jpg" border="0" alt="Syria Snow 2" width="800" /><p class="source">Ammar Abdullah/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>Syrian refugees play with snow in a tented settlement a few kilometers from the border in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a426da811e2483a73d1-1200-800/syrian%20refugees%20in%20snow.jpg" border="0" alt="Syrian Refugees in Snow" width="800" /><p class="source">Mohamed Azakir/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>
<p><strong>Khalid bin al Walid Mosque in Homs, Syria.</strong><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52ab5a41ecad047a333a73c6-1200-924/mosque%20in%20snow.jpg" border="0" alt="Mosque in Snow" width="800" /><p class="source">Yazan Homsy/Reuters</p></div><p></p></div></strong></p>

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<p><div class="image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/52aaef5eeab8ea3a663a73c7-1200-924/rtx12h45-1.jpg" border="0" alt="RTX12H45" /><p class="source">REUTERS</p><p class="caption">People gather at the site of a drone strike on the road between Yafe and Radfan districts of the southern Yemeni province of Lahj August 11, 2013.</p></div></div></div>SANAA (Reuters) - On January 23, science teacher Ali Nasser al-Qawli had finished supervising school exams in the Yemeni village of Khawlan and was enjoying an afternoon with friends when he encountered the strangers.</p>
<p>They wanted a lift in a taxi Qawli and his nephew were in. A while later, locals say, an American aircraft fired missiles at the vehicle.</p>
<p>"All of us in the village heard a large explosion," said Qawli's brother, Mohamed, who rushed to the scene. "We picked up the burned body parts. They were all over. We picked them up and put them in plastic bags, and took them to the hospital so we could bury them the next day," he said. "My brother was completely charred. We identified him by his teeth. It's as if they killed animals."</p>
<p>A copy of the Khalid bin al-Walid school attendance register shows Qawli's signature for the first four days of that week. Under Thursday it says: "Martyred on January 23, 2013."</p>
<p>At the time local sources told Reuters the strike killed at least six suspected al Qaeda militants.</p>
<p>The Yemeni government now says Qawli, who had three children, and his nephew were not militants but innocent civilians. In a statement, it concluded: "We can confirm the following: Ali al-Qawli ... did not know or communicate with the individuals who rented the mentioned car and their death was a matter of fate."</p>
<p>It was just one instance in which <keyword id="44789" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Yemen">Yemen</keyword>i civilians have perished in U.S. drone strikes, which are Washington's favored method of combating al Qaeda in Yemen.</p>
<p>On Thursday, 15 people on their way to a wedding were killed when an air strike missed its intended target of suspected militants, Yemeni officials said. It was not clear whether a drone or a Yemeni aircraft was responsible for the attack.</p>
<p>The United States says its drone program has been successful in eliminating members of al Qaeda in various countries. Some Yemenis say had it not been for such strikes, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) could have seized more territory across Yemen.</p>
<p>Yemeni foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told Reuters in September that the drone strikes were a "necessary evil" and a "very limited affair" that happens in coordination with the Yemeni government.</p>
<p>Other Yemenis, and some U.S. politicians, say the strikes and civilian casualties are increasing sympathy for AQAP and resentment against America. AQAP, which has scattered across the country, is now targeting local police and security officials, who have only tenuous control in Yemen.</p>
<p>There are near daily suicide attacks on Yemeni police and security forces, which Yemeni officials blame on suspected AQAP militants. On December 5 more than 50 people died when an estimated 12 militants attacked the Yemeni defense ministry compound in Sanaa.</p>
<p>The threat is more than local: Yemen borders oil producer Saudi Arabia and is next to major shipping routes.</p>
<p>Mohamed, brother of the dead Qawli, told Reuters: "These (drone) strikes create more terrorism. In our area there was never anyone linked to al Qaeda. After the strike, everyone in the area started listening to al Qaeda types, exchanging videos on mobile phones."</p>
<p>He said that many houses in his area now fly a black flag carrying an Islamic expression of faith - a symbol al Qaeda often uses.</p>
<p>U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson, a Democrat representative in Florida, told Reuters that according to one U.S. official who served in Yemen, "every drone death yields 50 to 60 new recruits for Al Qaeda." Grayson, who recently participated in a Congressional briefing that included relatives of victims of drone strikes, described the drone policy as "ineffective."</p>
<p>The Yemeni government, struggling to assert control over vast swathes of territory where rebels and secessionists sometimes hold sway, tolerates the attacks and does not usually comment on the U.S. role in specific incidents. But Rajeh Badi, the media advisor to Yemen's prime minister, told Reuters: "The strikes have caused, in some instances, the joining of some individuals with AQAP with the motive of revenge, especially when the strikes target innocents."</p>
<p>Asked about the drone program and civilian casualties, a U.S. State Department official referred to President Barack Obama's comments in May in which Obama said that before any strike is made "there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured."</p>
<p>The official added: "Yemen and the United States are robust partners in the fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. We support the efforts of the Yemeni government and its security forces in combating AQAP."</p>
<p>SPREAD OF AQAP</p>
<p>Formed in 2009, AQAP has a reputation as one of al Qaeda's most formidable regional wings, conducting suicide attacks on tourists and diplomats, and operations against neighboring Saudi Arabia and U.S. targets abroad.</p>
<p>In 2011 al Qaeda militants charged into the south Yemen towns of Zinjibar, Jaar and Shuqra in Abyan province and set up Islamic "emirates" when the country was in the midst of an uprising that eventually ousted veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh. To broaden their appeal, the militants renamed themselves Ansar al-Sharia(Partisans of Islamic Law), appointed spokesmen to deal with the media and put up signposts and flags.</p>
<p>Abyan's governor, Jamal al-Aqel, faced a big challenge to drive out the militants, who enjoyed some local support, when he took up his post in April 2012. "We were running the province and running the fighting from nine square kilometers," Aqel, who wears a small pistol on his belt, told Reuters. "Al Qaeda does not move except within the confines of an environment that helps it to move. I consider that the environment that used to help is now missing."</p>
<p>Yemeni security forces managed to drive the militants out in June 2012 after more than a year of political turmoil that had taken Yemen to the brink of civil war.</p>
<p>U.S. officials credit the drone strategy for the fact that AQAP is no longer able to control territory in Yemen as it did in 2011. Drone attacks killed several suspected AQAP figures, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamist militant who orchestrated plots to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 and U.S. cargo planes in 2010. Awlaki was killed in September 2011.</p>
<p>BACKLASH</p>
<p>Despite the toll taken on militants, residents in various parts of Yemen told Reuters they worry that the drone program is counter-productive. In the capital Sanaa, Abdulrazzaq al-Jamal, a journalist who has interviewed several members of AQAP, acknowledged the group has taken some hits from the drones, but said the strikes have also brought it followers.</p>
<p>"The drones have limited their movements but it makes their ideology more attractive to people. When a Yemeni is killed, it doesn't matter whether or not he's al Qaeda," said Jamal, who was wearing the dagger common among Yemeni men.</p>
<p>He said some Salafists - followers of a strict form of Sunni Islam - are angry the strikes are hitting Sunnis, who form the majority in Yemen, rather than Shi'ite Houthi rebels, who have been fighting the government for years.</p>
<p>"Going after al Qaeda has made a lot of Salafists closer to them. Why don't those drones go after armed Shi'ites who call for 'Death to America, Death to Israel'," said Jamal, referring to the refrain many hardline Shi'ites use in Yemen and elsewhere.</p>
<p>"Hundreds of families are seeking revenge from the U.S. so they deal with that by joining al Qaeda."</p>
<p>In Jaar, a decrepit village in Abyan province where the smell of fresh fish at the outdoor market hangs in the air, sympathy for the militants was still evident.</p>
<p>Jaar has seen several attacks, though it is unclear whether by U.S. drones or by the Yemeni airforce. Burned shells of cars destroyed in a strike two years ago still sit near mounds of rubble where one-storey brick homes once stood.</p>
<p>Villagers' accounts differ on whether some of the victims were members of al Qaeda, but all those Reuters spoke to said some of the victims had been civilians.</p>
<p>Just off a poorly paved road where motorbikes and donkey carts vied for space, Hozam, a butcher who stood outside his home, described a strike that destroyed the house near him where six men had moved in.</p>
<p>"I grabbed the children and took them away as we breathed in gunpowder and smoke. I saw people bring out severed heads and torn body parts," he said of the strike which took place in mid-2012.</p>
<p>His wife, Umm Abdallah, said that when militants had controlled the area, people had had more access to electricity and water. Yemeni officials say such views are misguided and exaggerated.</p>
<p>Tribal leaders, who have a lot of influence within Yemen's complex social structure, warn of rising sympathy for al Qaeda. Awad Ahmed Mohsen from Majallah, a southern village hit by a drone strike that killed dozens in 2009, told Reuters that America had brought hatred with its drones.</p>
<p>Asked if more people joined al Qaeda in the wake of attacks that killed civilians, Mohsen said: "Definitely. And even those who don't join, now sympathize with al Qaeda because of these strikes, these violations. Any American they see, they exact revenge, even if it's a civilian."</p>
<h3>NO SILVER BULLET</h3>
<p>The strikes have forced the militants to travel in smaller numbers to avoid detection; but in some ways that makes it harder for Yemen's security forces to target them.</p>
<p>"What you've got now is a more dispersed AQAP that focuses on guerrilla tactics and asymmetrical attacks against Yemeni forces," said Barbara Leaf, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Arabian Peninsula, at a Congressional sub-committee hearing in November. "I wish there were a silver bullet approach to this. There isn't, we know it, the Yemenis know it."</p>
<p>At the same hearing Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican representative in Florida, said: "Al Qaeda has not been decimated, it is not on the run, it is resurgent throughout the region and Yemen is no different."</p>
<p>Several drone strikes were launched against suspected militants in August after authorities detected a plot against U.S. embassies, but the pace has slowed since then.</p>
<p>Leaf said that continued U.S. support for Yemen's security was "critical" and acknowledged that while the Yemeni government had the will to counter AQAP, "it does not have the capacity at this time to extend security throughout all parts of this country."</p>
<p>Facing a backlash from international rights groups, and an American public wary of getting involved in more regional conflicts, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved a plan to provide greater oversight of drone strikes, including an annual public accounting of casualties. But in late November, the House of Representatives voted against such a move.</p>
<p>Others believe the only long-term answer to militants in the region is diplomacy. Hamoud Hitar, a former religious endowments minister in Yemen who headed a rehabilitation program for jailed militants in the early 2000s, said the way to deal with militants was through changing their ideology.</p>
<p>Dressed in a crisp white thawb and trim turban at his home in Sanaa, Hitar said: "Using force only reinforces the ideology of force. We have to work on (changing) the ideological roots, otherwise terrorism will continue."</p>
<p>(Additional reporting by Mohamed Ghobari in Sanaa; Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Richard Woods and Simon Robinson)</p>

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