2009年7月5日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322 (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, July 5, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraqi PM Maliki to visit US from July 21 (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 03:57 PM PDT

US Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrive for a joined press conference following a meeting in Baghdad on July 3, 2009. Maliki is to visit the United States from July 21, one of his advisers told AFP on Sunday, in a trip aimed at bolstering non-military cooperation.(AFP/Pool/File/Khalid Mohammed)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to visit the United States from July 21, one of his advisers told AFP on Sunday, in a trip aimed at bolstering non-military cooperation.

Palestinian football team to play in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 12:44 PM PDT

Palestinians wave their national flag as they attend a football in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian national football team will travel to Iraq this week for a friendly, the first international match staged in the war-torn country since 2003, officials said on Sunday.(AFP/Abbas Momani)AFP - The Palestinian national football team will travel to Iraq this week for a friendly, the first international match staged in the war-torn country since 2003, officials said on Sunday.

Iraqi policeman killed in Mosul grenade attacks (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 12:43 PM PDT

An Iraqi police man inspects a destroyed vehicle following a road side bomb in the northeastern city of Baquba. An Iraqi policeman was killed and 15 others, including three police, were wounded in four separate grenade attacks in the same Mosul street on Sunday, a security official told AFP.(AFP)AFP - An Iraqi policeman was killed and 15 others, including three police, were wounded in four separate grenade attacks in the same Mosul street on Sunday, a security official told AFP.

Sandstorms plague Iraq and are getting worse (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen wear dust masks as they direct traffic during a sand storm in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 28, 2009. Sandstorms are a regular occurrence in Baghdad although it is shielded from the desert by a thin strip of arable land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Shamal.

Insurgent attacks in Iraq kill 2 in Mosul, Baqouba (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 11:11 AM PDT

An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Attackers targeted police patrols in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing a police officer with a grenade and injuring 14 people in a car bomb blast, authorities said.

Iraqi PM calls for long-delayed Kirkuk vote (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 06:48 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in April 2009, has called for long-delayed local elections to be held in the ethnically divided northern oil hub of Kirkuk.(AFP/File/Sergei Karpukhin)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Sunday for long-delayed local elections to be held in the ethnically divided northern oil hub of Kirkuk, a statement from his office said.

Iraqis skeptical about significance of US pullback (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 06:31 AM PDT

An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government.

Powell says Iraq surge should have come earlier (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 06:00 AM PDT

FILE -- In this July 1, 2008 file photo, former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks in Providence, R.I., (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)AP - Colin Powell says the U.S. took too long to strengthen its forces in Iraq after Baghdad fell early in the war.

Iraq not on 'bottom shelf': Biden (AFP)

Posted: 04 Jul 2009 09:32 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden poses for a photo with a US soldier at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad. Biden vowed the US will not put Iraq on the AFP - Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the United States will not put Iraq on the "bottom shelf," even as the US military ramps up operations in Afghanistan and crises rumble on in North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.

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