2009年5月2日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,284 (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - As of Saturday, May 2, 2009, at least 4,284 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Anatomy of an `inside' ambush in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi Army soldier and a U.S. Army soldiers from Delta Co., 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment stand guard during a joint patrol in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The Feb. 24, 2009 shooting, which killed a U.S. solider and an interpreter and wounded five others, was an alarming inside job that reinforced what many fear: insurgents and sympathizers possibly infiltrating the ranks of Iraq's security forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, file)AP - U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police had just sat down for lunch inside a police building in Mosul. Flak vests and other protective gear were removed.

Two American soldiers shot dead by uniformed Iraqi: US (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 11:04 AM PDT

A US soldier walks during a joint traffic checkpoint with US Marines and Iraqi soldiers on the road linking Syrian border with Muslim Sunni northern restive city of Mosul, in 2005. Two American soldiers were shot dead and three more were wounded on Saturday when an Iraqi wearing army uniform opened fire on them south of the northern town of Mosul, the US military said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - Two American soldiers were shot dead and three more were wounded on Saturday when an Iraqi wearing army uniform opened fire on them south of the northern town of Mosul, the US military said.

Reclusive Iraqi cleric al-Sadr visits Turkey (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is followed by an advisor as he leaves his hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, May 2, 2009. Al-Sadr held talks with Turkey's president Abdullah Gul and prime minister Tayyip Erdogan Friday. No statement was made after the separate talks but a government official said earlier that al-Sadr was scheduled to hold 'consultations on the political process in Iraq.' (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - An Iraqi cleric who led bloody rebellions against U.S. troops but stayed out of public view in the last two years has made an unusually visible appearance in Turkey, which is raising its own profile as a mediator in the region.

Iraq culls three wild pigs at Baghdad zoo (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 10:38 AM PDT

A family walks towards the empty enclosure which until last night housed three wild boars at the Baghdad Zoo. Three wild pigs at Baghdad zoo were slaughtered on Saturday amid concerns that swine flu could spread to Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Ali Yussef)AFP - Three wild pigs at Baghdad zoo were slaughtered on Saturday amid concerns that swine flu could spread to Iraq, officials said.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in northern Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 09:40 AM PDT

Reuters - An attacker wearing an Iraqi army uniform shot and killed two U.S. soldiers outside the volatile northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

(AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 09:27 AM PDT

AP - US military: 2 US soldiers killed when man in Iraqi army uniform opens fire near Mosul.

Iraq radical cleric meets fellow Shiites (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 07:29 AM PDT

Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr, seen here on May 02, on Saturday met with some 70 co-religionists in Istanbul, including members of the Iraqi parliament, Anatolia news agency quoted an aide as saying.(AFP/Bulent Kilic)AFP - Iraq's Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday met with some 70 co-religionists in Istanbul, including members of the Iraqi parliament, Anatolia news agency quoted an aide as saying.

CORRECTED: Two Iraqis killed after U.S. forces are attacked (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 07:05 AM PDT

Reuters - (Corrects BAGHDAD story moved on April 28 deleting comments by police officials that two people killed in incident were civilians. It also corrects date to April 29 from April 28)

Iran shells Kurdish rebel positions in north Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:52 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran shelled Kurdish rebel positions in a remote area of northern Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region Saturday, a spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga border guards said.

US-allied Iraqi militia strikes over late pay (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 06:39 AM PDT

Iraqi army special forces patrol Baghdad's al-Fadel district on March 30, 2009. Some 120 members of a US-backed Sunni Arab militia abandoned their posts at dozens of checkpoints south of Baghdad on Saturday, saying they had not been paid their monthly salaries.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Some 120 members of a US-backed Sunni Arab militia abandoned their posts at dozens of checkpoints south of Baghdad on Saturday, saying they had not been paid their monthly salaries.

Iraq says mosque attacker close to Qaeda boss (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:53 AM PDT

An Iraqi man holds down a suicide bomber after he was apprehended trying to blow himself up at the Shiite Al-Zahra mosque in the northern city of Kirkuk on May 01, 2009. The would-be bomber has been identified as a Syrian close to the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, police said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A would-be suicide bomber who tried to blow himself up near a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk has been identified as a Syrian close to the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, police said on Saturday.

Iran helicopters strike Iraq Kurd villages (AFP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 04:20 AM PDT

Tents of Iraqi Kurds forced from their villages in Qandil in northern Iraq in April 2008. Iranian helicopters attacked three Iraqi Kurdish villages in a pre-dawn raid on Saturday, a senior border guard official said, in the first reported such strike against Kurdish rebels.(AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - Iranian helicopters attacked three Iraqi Kurdish villages in a cross-border raid on Saturday, a border guard official said, the first time Iran has used aircraft against Kurdish rebels.

New candidate emerges among Iraq's Kurds (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2009 12:44 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, April 20, 2009, Nosherwan Mustafa speaks in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Time for 'Change' for Iraq's Kurds? A new, independent candidate is taking up the mantra to woo Iraqi Kurds disenchanted over the two-party political divide in their oil-rich semiautonomous region in northern Iraq. Nosherwan Mustafa, a former deputy leader and co-founder of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, says he plans to head a political group of independents called 'Change' in the region's upcoming parliamentary elections.(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - Time for "Change" for Iraq's Kurds? A new, independent candidate is taking up the slogan to woo Iraqi Kurds disenchanted over the two-party political divide in their oil-rich semiautonomous region in northern Iraq.

Former US soldiers describe rape of Iraqi girl, killings (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2009 09:41 PM PDT

This 2005 photo obtained from the US Army shows then Pfc. Steven Green, preparing to blast a lock off the gate of an abandoned home during a search operation in Mullah Fayed, Iraq. One of the five US soldiers who helped rape an Iraqi girl and kill her family told jurors Friday that he regrets what happened that day in March 2006.(AFP/US ARMY/File/Spc. George Welcome)AFP - One of the five US soldiers who helped rape an Iraqi girl and kill her family told jurors that he regrets what happened that day in March 2006.

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