2009年7月12日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Four killed in attacks on Iraq churches (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 05:16 PM PDT

Iraqi National Guard secure the road outside the Mar Yussef (Saint Joseph) Chaldean church in central Baghdad following the detonation of two home made bombs in the grounds late last night in central Baghdad. At least four people were killed on Sunday and 32 were wounded in a wave of bomb attacks targeting churches in Baghdad, a security official said.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AFP - At least four people were killed on Sunday and 32 were wounded in a wave of bomb attacks targeting churches in Baghdad, a security official said.

Muslim Americans encouraged, hopeful after Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi Americans Wasan Alqaisi and Sumer Majid made a Fourth of July family picnic of kebab -- served on hamburger buns with slices of American cheese.

US ambassador to Iraq uninjured in explosion (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill was among a group of American personnel who were uninjured when an explosive device detonated near their convoy in southern Iraq.

Iraqi forces not seeking U.S. help in urban combat (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 11:49 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman comforts a comrade injured in a bomb attack during a patrol in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Bombs killed scores of people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)Reuters - Iraqi forces have not called for U.S. help in urban combat since June 30, when U.S. combat troops withdrew from city and town centers under a bilateral security agreement, a senior U.S. official said.

Iraq lashed by sandstorms and battling drought (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 11:10 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2009, Ashore Mohammed, 60, checks his land in Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers — something the Iraqis have blamed on dams in neighboring Turkey and Syria — have left Iraq bone-dry for a second straight year.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Below-average rainfall and insufficient water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have left Iraq bone dry for a second straight year, wrecking swaths of farm land, threatening drinking water supplies and intensifying fierce sandstorms that have coated the country in brown dust.

5 Iranian officials released by US return to Iran (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 07:25 AM PDT

This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press, shows Iranian diplomats Abbas Hatami Kasavand, center, and Mohsen Bagheri, right, welcomed by their relatives as they arrive at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, Iran, Sunday, July 12, 2009. Five Iranian officials who were held in Iraq for more than two years by U.S. forces on suspicion of aiding local Shiite militants returned to Iran Sunday, where their return was hailed as a victory for Iran. The five diplomats flew to Tehran from Iraq on Sunday and were met at the airport by a cheering crowd of onlookers who carried the men on their shoulders and put garlands of flowers around their necks. (AP Photo/Yalda Moayyeri) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Five Iranian officials held in Iraq for more than two years by U.S. forces returned home Sunday after the U.S. released them under pressure from the Iraqi government.

Five Iranians freed by US in Iraq return home (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 05:43 AM PDT

An image taken from Iran's Press TV station shows the five Iranian diplomats arriving at Tehran airport. The US military freed the five diplomats on July 9 after arresting them in the Iraqi city of Arbil in 2007. The diplomats arrived to a hero's welcome in Tehran.(AFP/Press TV)AFP - Five Iranian diplomats who were freed by the US military in Iraq last week after 30 months in detention arrived back home to a hero's welcome in Tehran on Sunday.

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