2008年10月6日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Innkeeper's log chronicles ebb and flow of Iraq war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Johara Hotel was a backpacker's delight. Rooms were just $12 at the tiny, 10-room inn that was part youth hostel and part rooming house. European, Asian, and American tourists stayed there, even as embargoes tightened on Iraq ahead of the invasion.

Rising Iraqi Shiite leader calls for national unity (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 02:39 AM CDT

Rising Iraqi Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakim, seen here in July, has extended an olive branch to rival Sunni leaders and tribes during a whistlestop tour of Sunni enclaves ahead of key provincial elections.(AFP/File/Louai Beshara)AFP - Rising Iraqi Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakim has extended an olive branch to rival Sunni leaders and tribes during a whistlestop tour of Sunni enclaves ahead of key provincial elections.

Iraq hopes shrine rebuild can reconcile sects (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 07:23 PM CDT

Shi'ite flags flutter on the steel frame of a minaret of the Golden Mosque that is being rebuilt in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad in this September 24, 2008 file photo. A ring of scaffolding around charred bricks is all that now stands in place of the golden dome that adorned one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines. Now, with violence sharply down and Iraq's coffers swollen with oil revenues, officials hope the mosque can be restored to its former majestic glory in a few years. Picture taken September 24, 2008. (Erik de Castro/Files/Reuters)Reuters - A ring of scaffolding around charred bricks is all that now stands in place of the golden dome that adorned one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,177 (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 06:05 PM CDT

Turkish Nationalist protesters set fire to a dummy of the jailed PKK Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration in Istanbul on October 5. PKK rebels claim they are holding the bodies of two Turkish soldiers killed in a raid last week near the border with Iraq.(AFP/File/Lydia Mutschmann)AP - As of Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008, at least 4,177 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

11 Iraqis killed in U.S. raid in Mosul (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 01:46 PM CDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed Sunday during a U.S. raid in Mosul, including three women and three children, officials said.

Turkish warplanes bomb Kurd bases in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 11:55 AM CDT

A relative cries over the flag-draped coffin of Oktay Karakelle, one of 15 Turkish soldiers killed Friday by Kurdish rebels at Turkey-Iraq border, during his funeral Istanbul, Turkey, Ankara, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Tens of thousands of Turks in cities across Turkey attended the funerals of slain soldiers. Some mourners booed Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Armutlu and President Abdullah Gul in Eskisehir during the funerals.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said Sunday, two days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil.

Egyptian FM says time to boost Iraq ties (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:53 AM CDT

An Iraqi policeman stands in front of the closed gate of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Baghdad in 2005. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has made a surprise visit to Iraq in what is the first such trip since 1990, saying it was the right time to expand relations between the two nations.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday, the first such trip since 1990, saying it is the right time to expand relations between the two nations.

Bomber strikes during U.S. raid in Iraq, 11 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:29 AM CDT

A boy walks past Iraqi soldiers conducting a raid during a weapons search operation in southwestern Baghdad's Jihad district September 20, 2008. REUTERS/Ali Shati (IRAQ)Reuters - Eleven Iraqis were killed on Sunday during a U.S. raid on a home in northern Iraq in which a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among civilians inside, the U.S. military said.

Eleven killed during US raid in north Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 10:17 AM CDT

Members of the anti-Qaeda 'Sahwa' militia manage a checkpoint in Baghdad. Eleven people have been killed, including three women and three children, as a suicide bomber struck and a gunbattle broke out during a US raid on a house in northern Mosul, the US military has said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Eleven people were killed, including three women and three children, as a suicide bomber struck and a gunbattle broke out during a US raid on a house in northern Mosul on Sunday, the US military said.

Egyptian foreign minister visits Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 09:07 AM CDT

Reuters - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday and promised to reopen an embassy in Baghdad soon, the latest sign that fellow Arab nations are slowly restoring ties.

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