2008年9月20日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Officials say gunmen kill cleric in southern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:27 AM CDT

U.S. soldiers buy their breakfast from a local bakery after a weapons search operation in southwestern Baghdad's Jihad district September 20, 2008. REUTERS/Ali Shati (IRAQ)AP - Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed a cleric loyal to U.S. foe Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra.


U.S. strike hit civilians, Iraqis say (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 10:00 AM CDT

US soldiers on patrol near Iskandariyah, just south of Baghdad, in April 2008.The US military has said it has arrested an American soldier serving in Iraq over the killing this week of two comrades.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — At least eight civilians, all from one family and including women, were killed in a U.S. raid and airstrike Friday near Tikrit, Iraqi police and witnesses said.


US: 7 Iraqis killed in raid north of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 06:33 AM CDT

A US soldier searches a house in the Shaab neighbourhood of northern Baghdad. With less than five months left in his term, President George W. Bush was to announce Tuesday he is ordering a modest US troop withdrawal from Iraq and ramping up force levels in Afghanistan(AFP/File/David Furst)AP - The U.S. military says seven Iraqis have been killed in a raid by American troops backed by attack aircraft targeting al-Qaida in Iraq.


S.Korea to withdraw all remaining troops from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 06:31 AM CDT

AP - South Korea will completely withdraw its remaining troops from Iraq by December, ending five years of military deployment aimed at helping to rebuild the war-torn country, an official said Friday.
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