2009年3月25日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,261 (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 05:14 PM PDT

A French Eurocopter helicopter is seen in 2006. France on Wednesday sealed a contract for the sale of 24 military helicopters to Iraq, its first arms deal with Baghdad since 1990.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AP - As of Wednesday, March 25, 2009, at least 4,261 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

US risks Iraq reconstruction mistakes (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Iraqis work at a new construction site in Baghdad in 2008. The United States risks repeating the same mistakes in Afghanistan that have led to billions of dollars being squandered in Iraq on its reconstruction, US auditors warned Wednesday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - The United States risks repeating the same mistakes in Afghanistan that have led to billions of dollars being squandered in Iraq on its reconstruction, US auditors warned Wednesday.

France sells 24 military helicopters to Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 03:26 PM PDT

A French Eurocopter helicopter is seen in 2006. France on Wednesday sealed a contract for the sale of 24 military helicopters to Iraq, its first arms deal with Baghdad since 1990.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)AFP - France on Wednesday sealed a contract for the sale of 24 military helicopters to Iraq, its first arms deal with Baghdad since 1990.

U.S. watchdog says billions of U.S. aid wasted in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PDT

Reuters - About $3 billion to $5 billion in U.S. aid for rebuilding Iraq has been wasted since 2003, and similar problems will likely haunt development in Afghanistan, a top U.S. watchdog said on Wednesday.

Obama's envoy pick: Iran is real problem for Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 02:39 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Baghdad, veteran diplomat and North Korea expert Christopher Hill testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, DC. Hill, told lawmakers Wednesday that Iran remains AFP - US President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Baghdad, Christopher Hill, said Wednesday that Iran posed a "real problem" for Iraq and that a US troop drawdown will test stunning but fragile security gains.

Baghdad envoy nominee wary of Iraqi security (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 02:22 PM PDT

Christopher Hill, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next ambassador to Iraq, left, talks with Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, prior to testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Like a baseball relief pitcher hoping to preserve a late comeback, veteran diplomat Christopher Hill has one overriding fear as he contemplates being the next ambassador to Iraq.

Iran official on Iraq visit downplays US overture (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 12:11 PM PDT

AP - Iran's influential parliament speaker on a visit to Iraq is downplaying U.S. President Barack Obama's recent videotaped overture to Iran.

Iraq hails improved Syrian efforts on security (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 11:57 AM PDT

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem smiles during a meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad. Iraq said on Wednesday that security at its border with Syria had improved due to increased efforts by its neighbour to prevent foreign fighters infiltrating the country.(AFP/Ali Abbas)AFP - Iraq said on Wednesday that security at its border with Syria had improved due to increased efforts by its neighbour to prevent foreign fighters infiltrating the country.

US: Attacks rise south of Baghdad, fall nationwide (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 11:50 AM PDT

Hassan Hasem, center right, celebrates his release from a U.S. military jail with his brother in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, March 25, 2009. The man was one of 36 prisoners released from U.S. custody at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Attacks on Iraqi security forces have increased in an area south of Baghdad where the Iraqis are in control, even as violence nationwide has fallen to levels of the first months of the war, U.S. officers said Wednesday.

AP IMPACT: It's fear that keeps Baghdad's peace (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 10:56 AM PDT

Iraqi kids sit outside their home in Hurriyah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Eighteen months after the tide turned in Baghdad, only a small number of Iraqis who had been displaced by the sectarian violence of 2006 and 2007 are coming back to their homes. That they are not returning in significant numbers, nearly 50,000 of an estimated 300,000 families, according to figures provided by the U.S. military.(AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - The streets are calmer now. The fighting between Shiites and Sunnis has largely ceased. But this is not a sign of normalcy in the Iraqi capital. It's fear that keeps the peace.

US says Iraq attacks at lowest since 2003 (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 09:31 AM PDT

Coalition Forces spokesman Major General David Perkins of the US army listens to a question during a press conference in Baghdad on March 8, 2009. Perkins on Wednesday said the number of attacks countrywide had dropped to the lowest level since the months which followed the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - A US military spokesman in Iraq on Wednesday said the number of attacks countrywide had dropped to the lowest level since the months which followed the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

UK foreign secretary: Iraq inquiry to be held soon (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 09:17 AM PDT

AP - An official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath will begin soon after the bulk of British troops leave the country this summer, the foreign secretary said Wednesday.

Kerry, Lugar Push for Confirmation of Iraq Ambassador (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 08:25 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee strongly warned their colleagues Wednesday against delaying the nomination of Christopher Hill to be ambassador to Iraq.

U.S. death toll in Iraq hits post-invasion low (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 08:23 AM PDT

Reuters - The number of U.S. troops killed in combat in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since they invaded in 2003, the spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq said on Wednesday.

US tries new tack against insurgents in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 07:27 AM PDT

US soldiers secure the area during a handover ceremony of one of Baghdad's government buildings in the al-Yarmouk district of the Iraqi capital on March 16, 2009. In Iraq's northwestern desert, the US military is trying a new approach to counter-insurgency in an area long regarded as a key smuggling route -- tackling local problems directly rather than simply throwing money at them.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - In Iraq's northwestern desert, the US military is trying a new approach to counter-insurgency in an area long regarded as a key smuggling route -- tackling local problems directly rather than simply throwing money at them.

US Senator: Send Hill to Baghdad now (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 07:11 AM PDT

Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, seen here on March 5, 2009, participates in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Kerry warned his colleagues against delaying a vote to confirm North Korea nuclear diplomacy point person Chris Hill as the new US ambassador to Baghdad.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - A top US Senator warned his colleagues Wednesday against delaying a vote to confirm North Korea nuclear diplomacy point person Chris Hill as the new US ambassador to Baghdad.

Cool welcome for Iraq's returning academics (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 04:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi academics who fled abroad from violence and oppression are trickling back home in response to pleas from their government -- but they are finding jobs few and the welcome far from warm.

Iraq Kurd leader backs call for rebels to disarm (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 04:28 AM PDT

PKK rebels shoot with their rifle during a training session in the Amedia area in northern Iraq, 2007. The premier of Iraq's Kurdish regional government backed a call by the country's president for Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in the region to lay down their arms.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - The premier of Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Wednesday backed a call by the country's president for Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in the region to lay down their arms.

Iraq says Turkey to double water supply (AFP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 02:03 AM PDT

The Euphrates River flows close to the town of Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad in 2008. Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said that Turkish President Abdullah Gul has promised to double the amount of water allocated to Iraq from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Turkish President Abdullah Gul has promised to double the amount of water allocated to Iraq from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Wednesday.

Iraq pick Hill faces Senate grilling (AFP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 09:46 PM PDT

Veteran US diplomat and North Korea point person Christopher Hill faces a Senate grilling Wednesday on his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq, as opposition to him taking the post seemed to wane.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Veteran US diplomat and North Korea point person Christopher Hill faces a Senate grilling Wednesday on his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq, as opposition to him taking the post seemed to wane.

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