2009年6月22日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,316 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 05:12 PM PDT

AP - As of Monday, June 22, 2009, at least 4,316 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, Iraq renovating looted Baghdad amusement park (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Baghdad Island, built in the 1980s and based on a design by Frank Lloyd Wright in is seen in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 22, 2009. U.S. and Iraqi officials have begun renovating an amusement park on an island north of Baghdad. It's the latest effort to restore a sense of normalcy amid security gains and reflects a U.S. focus on civil affairs projects ahead of next week's deadline for combat troops to withdraw from cities. The 150-acre Tigris River complex was a popular site for weddings and other celebrations before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. But it was devastated by looting in the aftermath. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)AP - American and Iraqi officials began the renovation of a popular amusement park Monday on an island north of Baghdad that was looted after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

At least 24 Iraqis killed, 78 wounded in countrywide attacks (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 01:57 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — At least 24 Iraqis were killed and 78 were wounded Monday in the latest wave of violence sweeping the country, Iraqi police said.

Bombings and shootings kill more than 30 in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 12:49 PM PDT

Bystanders are seen through the broken windshield of a minibus damaged in a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 22, 2009. The blast hit the bus, carrying Iraqi high school students on their way to their final exams on Monday, police said, the deadliest in a series of blasts that killed several people in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Bombings and shootings killed more than 30 people across Iraq on Monday, including high school students on their way to final exams, part of a new round of violence ahead of next week's deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from urban areas.

Bombings kill at least 27 in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:52 AM PDT

Reuters - A bomb devastated a minibus carrying students to their final exams in Baghdad on Monday, one of a string of blasts across Iraq that killed 27 people just two days after the deadliest attack in more than a year.

31 killed in Iraq attacks as US pullback looms (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 10:32 AM PDT

Blood drips from a minibus hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City. Thirty-one people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Thirty-one people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.

Unrest could hinder Tehran's regional goals (AP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 09:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo taken Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, Lebanese Hezbollah scouts carry a poster of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a march to mark Ashoura day in Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, Lebanon. Iran has had an impressive run for the past decade — expanding its regional muscle through proxy militias, its expanding missile capabilities and its big brother role with Iraq's Shiites after the toppling of arch-foe Saddam Hussein. But the fallout from the post-election unrest will most likely bring tougher times for Iran's ambitions beyond its borders. Beside Iraq, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah would be the group affected the most by who wins Iran's ongoing confrontation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - Iran has had an impressive run for the past decade — expanding its regional muscle through proxy militias, its expanding missile capabilities and its big brother role with Iraq's Shiites after the toppling of arch-foe Saddam Hussein.

Brown urges Iraq hostage takers to release Britons (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 07:12 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown holds a news conference on the second day of an EU heads of state summit in Brussels June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Sebastien PirletReuters - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged those holding three British hostages captive in Iraq to release them immediately after the bodies of two other hostages were handed over by their kidnappers.

Seven killed in car bombing near Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 06:05 AM PDT

Blood drips from a minibus hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City. Thirty-one people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Seven people were killed and 13 injured in a car bombing on Monday in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad, security officials told AFP.

Iraq pullout: Some US soldiers likely to stay behind in Mosul (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman surveys the damage from a truck bomb that exploded the day before in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Residents of the town hit by Iraq's bloodiest attack in 16 months were searched for their loved ones after a massive truck bombing killed 72 people and destroyed dozens of houses.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)The Christian Science Monitor - American soldiers who had been expected to withdraw from their bases within Mosul by the June 30 deadline might be allowed to stay under an agreement being finalized with the Iraqi government, United States officials say.

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