2009年3月27日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,262 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:22 PM PDT

The bridge over Euphrates river in Fallujah, Iraq, is seen Monday, March 23, 2009, through a building destroyed in an airstrike during the war. Iraqis have taken full control of Fallujah, the cradle of the insurgency, a major step in taking responsibility for their country. But war damage remains, a new $46 million hospital is barely functioning and officials are worried that militants being released from U.S. custody may come back to settle old scores. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - As of Friday, March 27, 2009, at least 4,262 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 to move Iranian opposition group: official (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:32 PM PDT

The bridge over Euphrates river in Fallujah, Iraq, is seen Monday, March 23, 2009, through a building destroyed in an airstrike during the war. Iraqis have taken full control of Fallujah, the cradle of the insurgency, a major step in taking responsibility for their country. But war damage remains, a new $46 million hospital is barely functioning and officials are worried that militants being released from U.S. custody may come back to settle old scores. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq plans to move members of an Iranian opposition group from a camp north of Baghdad to remote areas elsewhere in the country as it steps up efforts to rid itself of a major source of tension with Tehran, a top government official said Friday.

Fallujah is test case for post-US Iraq (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 12:32 PM PDT

A man stands in front of a new chicken restaurant 'King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant,' with two large images of Colonel Sanders in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, March 23, 2009. Iraqis have taken full control of Fallujah, the cradle of the insurgency, a major step in taking responsibility for their country. But war damage remains, a new $46 million hospital is barely functioning and officials are worried that militants being released from U.S. custody may come back to settle old scores. The restaurant is inspired by -- but not connected to -- the American-based KFC. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Americans are gone from Fallujah, but the "King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" is open for business in a bullet-pocked building.

Major dates in Fallujah's war (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 10:44 AM PDT

AP - Major dates in the war in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, once the center of the insurgency:

Maliki urges Iranian firms to invest in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 08:20 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here during a visit to Australia on March 12, has urged Iranian businesses to invest in Iraq and help with the reconstruction of his war-ravaged country.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday urged Iranian businesses to invest in Iraq and help with the reconstruction of his war-ravaged country.

Iraq kidnappers claim deal to free Britons: report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:37 AM PDT

British hostage Peter Moore -- who was kidnapped in May 2007 -- appears on a videotape broadcast by Al-Arabiya in February 2008. The group that kidnapped Moore and his four bodyguards claims a deal is in place to release the hostages in exchange for prisoners being held by US forces in Iraq.(AFP/Al-Arabiya/File)AFP - A group that kidnapped five British men in Baghdad nearly two years ago claims a deal is in place to release the hostages in exchange for prisoners being held by US forces in Iraq.

North Baghdad car bomb death toll rises to 20 (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:00 AM PDT

A US soldier stands guard at an Iraqi army station in the Shaab district of Baghdad, March 4. A car bomb has ripped through a crowd in Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, including women and children, a day after the US military said violence in Iraq was at its lowest in six years.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)Reuters - The death toll from a car bomb attack in a busy north Baghdad shopping district on Thursday has risen to 20, an Iraqi security official said, up from an earlier reported 16 killed.

US general: American forces may not leave key Iraqi cities (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 01:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The US withdrawal from Iraq is under way. Some troops are preparing to go home and others have pulled back from outposts to bases. But the planned pullback of American soldiers from all Iraqi cities by the end of June will probably not be fully met.

Iraq elections watchdog says January poll results final (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 12:27 AM PDT

Reuters - The results of Iraq's January provincial elections are final and complaints have been rejected, the country's election watchdog said.

Aid group gives maimed Iraqis hope in Jordan (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2009 11:39 PM PDT

Iraqi patient Baydaa Abdelnabbi at a hospital run by the non-governmental medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders in Amman. A team of Jordanian and Iraqi cosmetic surgeons work with MSF on treating victims of violence in Iraq at the hospital in Jordan.(AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)AFP - Iraqi teenage girl Baydaa Abdelnabbi lies propped up in a Jordanian hospital bed, her face covered in bandages, after undergoing 21 rounds of painful reconstructive surgery.

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