2009年3月4日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,255 (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 04:08 PM PST

US soldiers race out of a Stryker fighting vehicle during a patrol in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, in 2008. A series of attacks on Iraqi police, soldiers and a pro-US militia leader on Wednesday left at least 11 people dead and 33 wounded, police said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AP - As of Wednesday, March 4, 2009, at least 4,255 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq attacks kill 11 (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 11:25 AM PST

US soldiers race out of a Stryker fighting vehicle during a patrol in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, in 2008. A series of attacks on Iraqi police, soldiers and a pro-US militia leader on Wednesday left at least 11 people dead and 33 wounded, police said.(AFP/File/David Furst)AFP - A series of attacks on Iraqi police, soldiers and a pro-US militia leader on Wednesday left at least 11 people dead and 33 wounded, police said.

Suicide bomber kills 3 in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 10:59 AM PST

Iraqi police officers sit on a police truck during a patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A suicide bomber stalked members of a police intelligence unit, waiting for their night shifts to end, then attacked them outside a Baghdad restaurant Wednesday, killing three.

Turkey may allow US to use bases for Iraq pullout: minister (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 09:48 AM PST

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, seen here on February 20, 2009, and his Lithuanian counterpart Vygaudas Usackas (unseen) give a press conference in Vilnius. Turkey's government is open to the United States using its military bases during Washington's planned withdrawal of troops from neighbouring Iraq, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Petras Malukas)AFP - Turkey's government is open to the United States using its military bases during Washington's planned withdrawal of troops from neighbouring Iraq, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Wednesday.

Germany opens door to new wave of Iraqi refugees (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 08:26 AM PST

An Iraqi woman casts her ballot in a polling station in Cologne, 2005. Four hundred Iraqi refugees from camps in Syria and Jordan will arrive in Germany this month at the start of a European resettlement programme, human rights groups has said.(DDP/AFP/File/Henning Kaiser)AFP - Four hundred Iraqi refugees from camps in Syria and Jordan will arrive in Germany this month at the start of a European resettlement programme, human rights groups said Wednesday.

Iraqis protest visit of ex-Iran president (AFP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:36 AM PST

Iraqis holding posters of a local politician protest in the western city of Ramadi, 100kms from Baghdad, February 2009. Hundreds of Iraqis have demonstrated in Ramadi, capital of the Sunni Arab province of Anbar, to condemn former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's official visit to Iraq.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated in Ramadi, capital of the Sunni Arab province of Anbar, on Wednesday to condemn former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's official visit to Iraq.

Iraq's urban sprawl, not looting, threatens Ninevah antiquities (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Nine-year-old Younis struggles to open the large iron padlock to the gates of Ninevah.

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