2009年7月15日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


11 killed in Iraq bombings (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 12:20 PM PDT

Iraqi police and rescue workers secure the scene of a car bomb in the center of the western town of Ramadi. Two separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one by a suicide bomber on a police post, killed a total of 11 people and wounded at least 40 on Wednesday, police and medical officials said.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Two separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one by a suicide bomber on a police post, killed a total of 11 people and wounded at least 40 on Wednesday, police and medical officials said.


Bombs kill 11 in Iraq, highlight security fears (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 12:19 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, pictured in May 2009, is weighing a possible temporary expansion of the US army to ease the strain from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, his press secretary said on Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed six people, including an Iraqi policeman, in an attack on security forces in a former insurgent stronghold in Iraq's western Anbar province, police said. A Baghdad bombing killed five other people.


Bomb in Iraq's Sadr City kills 5, wounds 28 (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 11:26 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands guard in the mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Six people, including two traffic policemen, were killed in a car bombing in Ramadi, police and medical sources said.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)Reuters - A bomb killed five people and wounded 28 others Wednesday in Baghdad's Sadr City, a poor Shi'ite Muslim area of the Iraqi capital, police said.


Iraq launches bid to recover Saddam-era documents (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 09:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq wants the United States to help it recover millions of Saddam-era documents that were seized by U.S. troops or looted in the mayhem following the former leader's ouster in 2003, officials said on Wednesday.

Army: Soldiers in slayings faced intense combat (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT

Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army's surgeon general, speaks at a news conference about a report studying combat stress and its relation to crimes at home, outside of Fort Carson, Colo., Wednesday, July 15, 2009. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Carol Lawrence)AP - The psychological trauma of fierce combat in Iraq may have helped drive soldiers in a single battle-scarred Army unit to kill as many as 11 people after their return home, the military said Wednesday.


Obama, Iraqi prime minister to meet next week (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 08:38 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama will meet at the White House next week with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Obama to host Iraqi PM at White House (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 08:29 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama(L), seen here with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in April 2009, will host al-Maliki at the White House for talks on July 22, a spokesman said Wednesday.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)AFP - US President Barack Obama will host Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House for talks on July 22, a spokesman said Wednesday.


Iraq gears up for $30 billion housing projects (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 07:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq is lining up at least $30 billion in housing and commercial developments over the next decade as Baghdad looks for homes for a rising population. and hopes to revive a city shattered by war.

Six killed in Iraq car bombing (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 11:38 PM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands guard in the mainly Sunni Muslim city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Six people, including two traffic policemen, were killed in a car bombing in Ramadi, police and medical sources said.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Six people, including two traffic policemen, were killed in a car bombing in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, police and medical sources said.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,324 (AP)

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 07:39 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at least 4,324 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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