2008年10月15日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

140 Iraqi refugees in Syria head home (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 03:37 AM CDT

AP - Some 140 Iraqi refugees living in Syria headed home Wednesday on a free trip organized by the Iraqi government. Many cited improved security in Iraq and dwindling savings as reasons for their return.

Christian families fleeing Mosul number 1,390 (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

AP - An Iraqi official says the number of Christian families fleeing violence in the northern city of Mosul since last week has reached 1,390 — or more than 8,300 people.

Sources: US, Iraq take security pact to leaders (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 03:22 AM CDT

AP - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on a draft security pact that would govern the presence of American troops in Iraq after January, Bush administration officials say, but its final approval is far from certain.

US soldiers in Iraq can find stress deadlier than enemy (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 10:24 PM CDT

US marine smoking a cigarette at a military camp in Fallujah, 50 kms west of Baghdad. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have increased the number of US soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress disorder leading to higher rates of suicides and divorce, according to recent military reports.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - In the early hours of September 14, US sergeant Joseph Bozicevich allegedly drew his rifle, aimed and shot to death two of his superiors on a military base south of the Iraqi capital.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,183 (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 08:40 PM CDT

US marine mourns the loss of a comrade during a memorial service in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have increased the number of US soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress disorder leading to higher rates of suicides and divorce, according to recent military reports.(AFP/HO/File/Cpl. Brian Reimers)AP - As of Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, at least 4,183 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

U.S. brings Iraq prison camp out of legal black hole (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 07:11 PM CDT

U.S. soldiers play with a child waiting to visit his detained father at a playground in a U.S. military prison camp in Bucca October 12, 2008. (Peter Graff/Reuters)Reuters - In the visiting hall of the U.S. prison camp, Delal Hashem, 25, sat opposite her husband Abbas Daoud Salman with the children she had brought to see him for the first time since he was captured 14 months ago.

US soldier is killed by gunfire in western Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:12 PM CDT

An Iraqi soldier stands quard outside the old easter Church, in Dora district, Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. With the killing of at least 10 Christians this month alone, thousands have abandoned their homes in Mosul to seek refuge in churches and with relatives in neighboring villages or in relatively safe Kurdish-controlled areas nearby.Past estimates have shown that Christians comprise 3 percent of Iraq's population, but many have fled the country due to violence since the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed)AP - An American soldier was killed Tuesday by gunfire in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said, the first U.S. combat death in the capital in two weeks.

Iraqi PM and president discuss 'final' US pact (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 01:55 PM CDT

US marine mourns the loss of a comrade during a memorial service in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have increased the number of US soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress disorder leading to higher rates of suicides and divorce, according to recent military reports.(AFP/HO/File/Cpl. Brian Reimers)AP - Iraq's prime minister and president reviewed on Tuesday the "final draft" of the security pact with the United States — a first step in a process that could finally end in an agreement governing U.S. troops in Iraq.

Iraqi officials to probe attacks on Christians (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 12:15 PM CDT

An Iraqi man pushes his bicycle as U.S. soldiers patrol the town of Baquba in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad October 14, 2008. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq's government pledged on Tuesday to send senior officials to the north of the country to tackle violence against Christians which has led thousands to flee their homes fearing for their lives.

Baghdad housing prices soar under sectarian shadow (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 12:12 PM CDT

A young boy walks in front of a building with a 'for sale' banner, top center, in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Real estate prices have doubled in some areas of the Iraqi capital. A poster on the right is of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - An arrow in central Baghdad points down a side-street to a glass door with a sign that reads: "Ali's Office."

Pentagon confident of deal to keep troops in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 11:57 AM CDT

A U.S. soldier patrols the town of Baquba in the Diyala province, some 65km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad October 14, 2008. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)Reuters - The Pentagon on Tuesday said it was confident the U.S. and Iraqi governments would agree to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after December 31, but did not say a deal would necessarily fall under a formal long-term framework.

Iraq's Kurds, Turkish delegation meet in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 11:11 AM CDT

AP - Turkish officials on Tuesday pressed the president of Iraq's Kurdish enclave to crack down on the Kurdish separatists launching cross-border attacks from their Iraqi mountain sanctuaries.

Official: Afghanistan suffering from Iraqi gains (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 10:11 AM CDT

An Afghan policeman stands next to a destroyed vehicle after a fire fight overnight between the Taliban militants and Afghan and NATO-led forces, on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, October 12, 2008. (Abdul Qodus/Reuters)AP - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in Afghanistan, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.

Britain says critical to reach forces accord with Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 05:55 AM CDT

British soldiers fill up the entrenchment of an Iraqi army camp with soil in Karmat Ali, northeast of Basra, 550 km (342 miles) south of Baghdad April 13, 2008. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - It is critical for Iraq to reach an agreement in the next few weeks permitting British troops to stay in the country after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of this year, a British Foreign Office minister said Tuesday.

Security slows opening of Egypt's Baghdad embassy (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 05:24 AM CDT

An Iraqi police guards the entrance of the Egyptian embassy in Baghdad just after the abduction of the Egypt's ambassador-designate in 2005. Egypt will need more time to ensure security measures are in place before it goes ahead with its decision to open an embassy in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has told the state news agency MENA.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Egypt will need more time to ensure security measures are in place before it goes ahead with its decision to open an embassy in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

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