2008年11月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq, U.S. sign pact on troops withdrawal deadline (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 03:56 AM CST

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari (R) and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker exchange documents after signing the pact that will let U.S. troops stay in Iraq until 2011 after it was approved by Iraq's cabinet at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad November 17, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari and U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker signed a long-awaited accord on Monday requiring Washington to withdraw its forces within three years.

Iraqi cabinet votes to keep US troops (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq's cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact on Sunday that will enable a continued American military presence in Iraq for up to three more years, overcoming protests from hard-line Shiite nationalists and pressure from Iran to block the deal. It is expected to go before the parliament for final approval by the end of this month.

Hip, new Baghdad hangout is a byproduct of war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - A group of four teenage boys sharing two mopeds buzz up and down Baghdad's trendy Akkad Street and covertly gawk at passing women.

Hardline Iraqi cleric bids to kill US pact in parliament (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 01:59 AM CST

Members of the Sadr Movement protest the US presence in Iraq during a demonstration in Baghdad last month. Followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were to make a bid Monday to kill a controversial Iraq-US military pact passed by the Iraqi cabinet by trying to block it in parliament.(AFP/Filew/Ali Yussef)AFP - Followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were to make a bid Monday to kill a controversial Iraq-US military pact passed by the Iraqi cabinet by trying to block it in parliament.

Obama vows to exit Iraq and rebuild US 'moral stature' (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 12:10 AM CST

US president-elect Barack Obama speaks to personal assistant Reggie Love on a plane from Chicago to Washington. Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - US President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush.

Iraq's government approves security pact with US (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 09:45 PM CST

U.S Army Spc Robert Cyncar from Mountain View, CA, of Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, stands outside a house yard during a routine patrol, in al Harmat neighborhood, northwestern Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Iraq's Cabinet on Sunday approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - Iraq's Cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security pact with the United States on Sunday, ending prolonged negotiations to allow American forces to remain for three more years in the country they first occupied in 2003.

A Step Toward Keeping U.S. Troops in Iraq (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 08:45 PM CST

Time.com - But the Status of Forces Agreement now faces contentious debate in the country's parliament even as the governing coalition seeks consensus

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200 (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 06:47 PM CST

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari (R) and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker exchange documents after signing the pact that will let U.S. troops stay in Iraq until 2011 after it was approved by Iraq's cabinet at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in Baghdad November 17, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)AP - As of Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi cabinet Okays U.S. troop withdraw, Parliament could scuttle (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 01:47 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iraq's cabinet on Sunday approved a security pact that sets a timetable for the nearly complete withdrawal of American forces within three years, but the agreement faces an uncertain outlook in Iraq's parliament.

Iraqi government starts paying Sunni fighters (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 09:42 AM CST

AP - Iraq's Shiite-dominated government is making good on promises to pay thousands of U.S.-backed Sunni fighters in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday, despite some government unease over the alliance.

Suicide car bomb kills 15 in Iraq: police (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 06:40 AM CST

An Iraqi family sits in the courtyard of their farm as US soldiers search the premises for weapons in Mullah Eid village just south of Baquba. A suicide car bomb has exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq's volatile Diyala province, killing at least 15 people, including seven policemen, a security official has said.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq's volatile Diyala province Sunday, killing at least 15 people, including seven policemen, a security official said.

Iraqi cabinet approves US military pact (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 03:44 AM CST

A humvee filled with US Marines on a combat patrol through the desert near Al Asad in 2006. Iraq's cabinet has defied fiery opposition from Shiite hardliners and approved a wide-ranging military pact that includes a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by the end of 2011.(AFP/File/Lance Cpl. James B. Hoke)AFP - Iraq's cabinet approved a wide-ranging military pact on Sunday that will govern the presence of more than 150,000 US troops stationed in the country, a source in parliament said.

Iraqi cabinet expected to approve US military pact (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 01:57 AM CST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki talks to the press in Najaf in early October. Iraq's cabinet is expected to defy fiery opposition from Shiite hardliners and approve a wide-ranging military pact that includes a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by the end of 2011.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - Iraq's cabinet met Sunday and was expected to approve a wide-ranging and controversial military pact that includes a timetable for the withdrawal of all US troops by the end of 2011.

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