2009年5月24日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Afghanistan's rebuilding looms as sequel to Iraq's (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview at the Pentagon, in this photo taken Thursday, March 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The job of rebuilding Afghanistan is shaping up as an ominous sequel to the massive, mistake-riddled U.S. effort to get Iraq back on its feet.


US military: Iraq attacks down nearly 60 percent (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:20 PM PDT

An Army carry team member stands next to the transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian Naseman , 36, of Bremen, Ohio, and U.S. Army Sgt. Paul F. Brooks, 34, of Joplin, Mo., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, May 24, 2009. According to the Department of Defense, Naseman died May 22 in Taji, Iraq of a non-combat related incident and Brooks was one of three soldiers killed May 21 near Baghdad from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - High-profile attacks in Iraq have fallen nearly 60 percent in the past year, the U.S. military said Sunday, though violence continues to plague the northern city of Mosul, where a suicide car bomber targeting an American convoy killed one Iraqi and wounded 45 others.


Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 11:35 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 22, 2009, nurse aide trainee Muzdalifa Hamza, 33, 3rd left, practices on her colleague Loma Fallah, 34, seated, as other colleagues watch on in a training center for women nurses aides in Saqlawiah, Anbar province, 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Anbar province suffers from a shortage of medical staff, especially women nurses and stereotypes against women in the medical profession. (AP Photo/Katarina Kratovac)AP - This part of Iraq, says Dr. Ayad al-Hadithy, is so conservative that a man would rather have his pregnant wife die in labor than be touched by a male nurse or doctor.


US withdrawal from Iraq 'on track' despite violence: Mullen (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:13 AM PDT

US soldiers walk past their vehicle in the town of Mahmudiyah, 30 kms south of Baghdad on May 21, 2009. The withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraqi cities by the end of June remains AFP - The withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraqi cities by the end of June remains "very much on track" despite a spike in violence there, the top US military officer said Sunday.


Turkey boosts Euphrates flow after Iraq complaints (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 07:40 AM PDT

Iraqis wade in the waters of the Euphrates River in Hindiya, 30km (20 miles) east of the southern city of Karbala. Turkey has increased the flow of water in the Euphrates river by opening sluices upstream after Iraq complained its farmers faced an imminent crisis, Iraq's water resources minister has said.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Turkey has increased the flow of water in the Euphrates river by opening sluices upstream after Iraq complained its farmers faced an imminent crisis, Iraq's water resources minister said on Sunday.


Former Iraqi insurgent contemplates returning to war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 May 2009 03:00 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Abu Fatma dresses in suits now. He cuts his hair short and talks like a politician.

Killings shattered dreams of rural Iraqi family (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2009 11:35 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the U.S. District Court and introduced by the prosecution as an exhibit in the trial of former Army Pfc. Steven Green in Paducah, Ky., shows Abeer Qassim al-Janabi as a young girl in Iraq. Green, convicted of raping and killing al-Janabi and murdering her family was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, May 21, 2009 in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. District Court via The Courier-Journal)AP - The beautiful, dark-haired girl in the photograph stands near a wall in pre-invasion Iraq. What is unseen and now lost, her family says, is her dream of moving to the big city and getting married.


How the Economy Could Crush Iraq's Hopes (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2009 09:05 PM PDT

Time.com - The Baghdad government's ability to pay its way toward stability is being heavily compromised by the collapse of oil prices
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