2009年5月26日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,301 (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at least 4,301 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2007, file photo, Gen. George Casey, then the U.S. commander in Iraq, who is currently Army chief of staff, answers a question in Baghdad. On May 26, 2009, during a invitation-only briefing to a dozen journalists and policy analysts from Washington based think-tanks, Casey said the Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, Pool )AP - The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.


Roadside blast kills 3 Americans in western Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 01:26 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo released Tuesday, May 26, 2009, by the Illinois Commerce Commission shows Terence Barnich.  Barnich, the deputy director of the State Department's Iraq Transition Assistance Office in Baghdad and former Illinois Commerce Commission chairman, was one of three Americans killed when a roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy in western Iraq, U.S. officials said Tuesday.	(AP Photo/Illinois Commerce Commission, File)AP - A roadside bomb blasted a U.S. convoy west of Baghdad, killing three Americans, including a top reconstruction official who once headed the Illinois Commerce Commission, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.


Bomb attack on U.S. convoy in Iraq kills 3 (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2009 10:27 AM PDT

Reuters - A bomb struck a convoy of U.S. officials and civilian contractors on a visit to a construction site in western Iraq, killing a soldier and two U.S. government employees, officials said Tuesday.

US soldier among three dead in attack in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 06:35 AM PDT

A US soldier on patrol in Baghdad in 2005. Three people, including at least one American soldier, were killed in a roadside bomb attack on a US convoy near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, the military said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Three people, including at least one American soldier, were killed in a roadside bomb attack on a US convoy near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, the military said on Tuesday.


Iraq oil minister under fire over output (AFP)

Posted: 26 May 2009 05:23 AM PDT

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani (R) tours a new oil refinery at Dura in Baghdad on January 26, 2009. Shahristani is expected to be summoned before parliament soon to face a grilling for failing to boost crude exports from the oil-rich nation, MPs said on Tuesday(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani is expected to be summoned before parliament soon to face a grilling for failing to boost crude exports from the oil-rich nation, MPs said on Tuesday.


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