2009年2月16日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 07:13 PM CST

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Uzbekistan Tuesday for top-level talks with the government in Tashkent, US and Uzbek officials said.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AP - As of Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Four Iraq teens killed as football blows up rocket (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 05:17 PM CST

Iraqi children train at a park transformed into a football playground in Baghdad in 2004. Four teenagers were killed and 11 wounded when their football struck and detonated an abandoned rocket in an empty lot of the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Monday, police said.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Four teenagers were killed and 11 wounded when their football struck and detonated an abandoned rocket in an empty lot of the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Monday, police said.

Roadside bombs kill 8 Iraqi Shiite pilgrims (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 12:41 PM CST

Shiite pilgrims mourn in the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Shiites are making their annual pilgrimage to Karbala to mark the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary of the seventh century death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Roadside bombs struck a pair of minibuses filled with Shiite pilgrims returning to Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, officials said, in the latest of a series of deadly attacks targeting the pilgrims.

Hundreds of thousands of Shiites in Iraq ceremony (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 09:57 AM CST

Shiite pilgrims beat their chests outside the Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala on February 16 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims mourned a revered imam under tight security in the Iraqi shrine city on Monday as eight people were killed in Baghdad bus bombings.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Hundreds of thousands of Shiites mourned a revered imam under tight security in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Monday as eight people including pilgrims were killed in Baghdad bus bombings.

US soldier court-martial begins Tuesday in Germany (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 09:55 AM CST

AP - A U.S. soldier will be court-martialed for his alleged involvement in killing four Iraqi prisoners, who were bound, blindfolded, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad canal in 2007.

8 civilians and a soldier killed in Iraq blasts (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 09:17 AM CST

US soldiers patrol Baghdad's Sadr City on February 16, 2009. Eight people including Shiite pilgrims returning to Baghdad were killed in two roadside bombings that ripped through minibuses in the Iraqi capital on Monday, medical and police sources said.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Eight people including Shiite pilgrims returning to Baghdad were killed in two roadside bombings that ripped through minibuses in the Iraqi capital on Monday, medical and police sources said.

Bomb blasts as Iraq Shi'ite rite ends with trek home (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 08:20 AM CST

Shi'ite pilgrims beat their chests in ritual mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, who died in a seventh century battle, as they mark Arbain at Imam Abbas shrine in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, February 16, 2009. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)Reuters - Roadside bombs killed eight Iraqis in Baghdad Monday as crowds of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims began an arduous trek home at the end of a major rite, some catching rides on army trucks because of a lack of buses.

Red tape curbs profits from Iraq religious tourism (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 06:50 AM CST

Reuters - Tourism is booming in Iraq -- religious tourism, at least -- but Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites are struggling to cope with the influx.

Iraq sheds US puppet image in region: FM (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 04:45 AM CST

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, seen here in January 2009, said on Monday that Iraq is regaining its place in the region and is no longer seen as a US puppet, especially as it slips down the priority list in Washington.(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - Iraq is regaining its place in the region and is no longer seen as a US puppet, especially as it slips down the priority list in Washington, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an interview on Monday.

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