2009年7月21日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Baghdad bombs kill 16, vehicle ban in Anbar region (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:49 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier inspects a destroyed market after a bomb attack in Sadr city in Baghdad July 21, 2009. REUTERS/Kahtan al-MesiaryReuters - Bombs exploded across Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 16 people and wounding dozens, two of the blasts striking the crowded Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, security officials said.


18 dead in Iraq attacks (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT

Men pick through debris after a double bombing in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Police and hospital officials say two bombs exploded a few seconds apart on Tuesday morning near a group of day laborers. They say one bomb was hidden in a food stall and the other was concealed in a nearby pile of trash.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Iraq on Tuesday in a sign that insurgents, though weakened, remain intent on destabilizing a country that is struggling to consolidate U.S.-backed security gains.


Iraq bomb attacks kill 21 (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:35 AM PDT

Iraqi police inspect the remains of a car bomb following a twin explosion outside a popular kebab breakfast restaurant in the western town of Ramadi, 100kms from Baghdad. Twenty-one people were killed in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, one of the deadliest days of violence in the country since US troops left its cities three weeks ago.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Twenty-one people were killed in a spate of bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, one of the deadliest days of violence in the country since US troops left its cities three weeks ago.


Slovakia temporarily takes in Palestinian refugees: UNHCR (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 10:54 AM PDT

A Palestinian woman buys oranges in the Palestinian neighborhood of al-Baladiyat, in Baghdad, in 2006. Slovakia will temporarily take in 98 Palestinian refugees who have spent six years stuck in an Iraqi camp near the Syrian border, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Slovakia will temporarily take in 98 Palestinian refugees who have spent six years stuck in an Iraqi camp near the Syrian border, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.


Trial set for Army sergeant in 2 soldier slayings (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:45 AM PDT

FILE - This Monday, April 13, 2009 file photo taken at Fort Stewart, Ga. and provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich.  Bozicevich  was arraigned on charges of premeditated murder Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at Fort Stewart, Ga. Bozicevich, 39, of Minneapolis is charged with killing a fellow team leader in his unit, Sgt. Wesley Durbin, and their squad leader, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson on Sept. 14 at a small U.S. patrol base south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)AP - A military judge Tuesday set a March trial date for an Army sergeant charged with slaying his superior and another U.S. soldier last year at a patrol base in Iraq.


UN suspends medical aid to Iraqi families in Jordan (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 07:28 AM PDT

Refugees walk through a narrow street in the the eastern Jordanian capital of Amman, 2008. The United Nations said a budget shortfall has forced it to suspend medical aid to hundreds of chronically ill Iraqi refugees in Jordan.(AFP/File/Awad Awad)AFP - The United Nations said on Tuesday a budget shortfall has forced it to suspend medical aid to hundreds of chronically ill Iraqi refugees in Jordan.


Iraq vets' caregivers seek training, compensation (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 07:04 AM PDT

Bob Briggs works on his computer as he gets help from his wife Michelle in their home, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, in Hillsboro, Iowa. On good days, Michelle Briggs has to remind her 40-year-old husband to shower and eat. On bad days, she lifts him out of bed and picks him up when he falls. Briggs, a former Army sergeant, was severely injured in Iraq and needs constant monitoring because of traumatic brain injury, blindness in one eye and paralysis on one side. He walks with the help of a service dog. Briggs gave up her job as a veterinarian technician to care for him and their two kids. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - On good days, Michelle Briggs has to remind her 40-year-old husband to shower and eat. On bad days, she lifts him out of bed and picks him up when he falls.


Emergency declared in Iraq's Ramadi after bombings (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:25 AM PDT

A resident stands at the site of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, west of Baghdad July 21, 2009. REUTERS/Ali al-MashhdaniReuters - Iraq's western city of Ramadi has declared a state of emergency and imposed a vehicle ban after two bomb attacks on Tuesday, police said, a day after an explosion in the usually quiet city killed two policemen.


2 killed in Baghdad bombing (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 08:44 PM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials say bombs have killed two people and wounded at least 30 others in Baghdad's Sadr City area.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,328 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 05:34 PM PDT

AP - As of Monday, July 20, 2009, at least 4,328 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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