2008年9月26日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Kurdish rebels say Turkish airstrikes hit N. Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 04:04 AM CDT

AP - Turkish warplanes bombarded Kurdish rebel territory in northern Iraq, damaging a school and wounding three people, a rebel spokesman said Friday.

Iraq election law marks progress, opens political season (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Now that Iraq's parliament passed a provincial elections law Wednesday, overcoming months of political gridlock, many politicians and Iraqis are looking ahead to what the elections early next year will mean for Iraq.

Military: Roadside bomb kills US soldier in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 02:17 AM CDT

AP - The U.S. military says a roadside bomb has killed an American soldier south of Baghdad.

US general says Afghan challenges unlike Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:41 PM CDT

Pakistani soldiers stand guard in Swat valley, in February. Pakistani troops have killed more than 1,000 Al-Qaeda and Taliban rebels, including five top commanders, in a month-long offensive near the Afghan border.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)AP - U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said Thursday that a comprehensive approach is needed to quell the war in Afghanistan, including reconciliation within the population and "absolute engagement" with neighboring Pakistan.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,173 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:29 PM CDT

Turkish soldiers walk along a road as they patrol a rugged area in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, February 28, 2008. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters)AP - As of Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, at least 4,173 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Interrogator details pre-Abu Ghraib abuses (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:13 PM CDT

An Iraqi army soldier looks at the cells of the Abu Ghraib prison, after taking charge from U.S. soldiers, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq,in this Saturday Sept.2, 2006 file photo. The Iraqi government is planning to open a museum inside the notorious prison to document the crimes committed there during Saddam Hussein's regime.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress on Thursday that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Sons of Iraq get a new boss (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 12:00 PM CDT

Awakening council members wait to register in an US military combat outpost in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. Iraq faces a key test next month when the government begins to assume authority over the Sunni fighters, many of whom are former insurgents and suspect their new masters want retaliation rather than reconciliation. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - The quarrel didn't last long.

Bush, Brown, to meet Friday: White House (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:57 AM CDT

US President George W. Bush (R) talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown prior to the working session of the G8 summit in the lakeside resort of Toyako on Hokkaido island in July 2008. US President George W. Bush will welcome British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday for talks on the economic crisis, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the White House said Thursday.(AFP/Pool/File/Shizuo Kambayashi)AFP - US President George W. Bush will welcome British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday for talks on the economic crisis, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the White House said Thursday.

EU ready to take up to 10,000 more Iraqi refugees (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:04 AM CDT

AP - European Union countries responding to appeals from the United Nations are ready to take up to 10,000 more Iraqi refugees and will send a mission to the Middle East to identify the most vulnerable people, EU ministers said Thursday.

Economy tops Americans' worry list (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:35 AM CDT

The economy, including Wall Street's current troubles, overtook the war in Iraq as Americans' top concern, six weeks ahead of the US presidential election, a Harris Interactive poll showed Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AFP - The economy, including Wall Street's current troubles, overtook the war in Iraq as Americans' top concern, six weeks ahead of the US presidential election, a Harris Interactive poll showed Wednesday.

Troops bound for Afghanistan, Iraq train together (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 10:28 AM CDT

AP - At a training field in southern Germany, a group of New Zealand soldiers are practicing breaking into buildings and then making instant decisions on whether the occupants are friendly or hostile.

Iraqi PM aims to improve military standards (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:08 AM CDT

Iraqi soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad, April 2008. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has promised to improve Iraqi armed forces to the level that they no longer need support from US-led troops.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has promised to improve Iraqi armed forces to the level that they no longer need support from US-led troops, his office said on Thursday.

Iraqis plan dig at possible Sumerian site (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 08:01 AM CDT

Iraqis excavate a temple in a newly-discovered ancient Sumerian site in Umm al-Aqareb, 2001. Archaeologists will soon begin a dig at a site in the southern Iraqi province of Muthanna that may date back to the Sumerian period.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Archaeologists will soon begin a dig at a site in the southern Iraqi province of Muthanna that may date back to the Sumerian period, local heritage chief Tawfiq Mohammed said on Thursday.

Iraqi police raise death toll in ambush to 35 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:34 AM CDT

Turkish soldiers walk along a road as they patrol a rugged area in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, February 28, 2008. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters)AP - Iraqi police on Thursday raised the death toll in an ambush against Iraqi forces raiding a Sunni village northeast of Baghdad to 35, most of them commandos sent to the area as part of a U.S.-backed military crackdown.

WHO says Iraq cholera cases down sharply (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:01 AM CDT

Iraqi children gather around a cistern delivering fresh drinking water to the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad. The World Health Organisation has said that cholera cases in Iraq appear to have fallen sharply this year, though it warned against complacency and demanded accurate reporting to prevent any further spread of the disease.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that cholera cases in Iraq appear to have fallen sharply this year, though it warned against complacency and demanded accurate reporting to prevent any further spread of the disease.

Religion, politics make Najaf focus of Iraqi power (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:40 AM CDT

Residents smoke shisha after breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in a coffee shop in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, September 13, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - The holy Shi'ite city of Najaf has come to wield immense influence on Iraqi politics and whoever can harness that power could dominate upcoming local elections and set the tone for Iraq's nascent democracy.

Iraq hunts for Qaeda gunmen after 35 killed in ambush (AFP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 05:40 AM CDT

A relative grieves over a body at the morgue in Baquba. Iraqi forces launched a major hunt for Al-Qaeda gunmen in the restive province of Diyala as the death toll rose to 35 from an ambush of police in an orchard.(AFP/Str)AFP - Iraqi forces launched a major hunt for Al-Qaeda gunmen in the restive province of Diyala on Thursday after 35 people were killed in an ambush of a police convoy.

Iraq cholera cases on the rise (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:48 AM CDT

AP - Iraq's Health Ministry is reporting a total of 327 confirmed cholera cases in central and southern Iraq since an outbreak of the disease last month.

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