2009年7月23日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq's Maliki: We may still need help after 2011 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 03:41 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A day after President Barack Obama said that the U.S. was on track to pull its troops out of Iraq by 2011, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Thursday that that timeline could change "if the Iraqi forces required further training and support."

Iraqi premier leaves door open to longer US stay (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 02:09 PM PDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Iraq's prime minister left the door open Thursday to the continued presence of U.S. forces in Iraq beyond the date both countries have set as a firm deadline for the last American soldiers to leave.

Iraq's Kurds set for vote amid tensions with Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 12:55 PM PDT

A Kurdish solider in the Iraqi National Army votes in a polling booth set-up at a school in central Baghdad. Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a president and a parliament amid a simmering land dispute with Baghdad and rising tensions over oil exports that could lead to armed conflict.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a president and a parliament amid a simmering land dispute with Baghdad and tensions over oil exports that could lead to armed conflict.

Angelina Jolie visits displaced Iraqis (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 12:40 PM PDT

In this photo released by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie speaks with internally displaced people at a makeshift camp northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, July 23, 2009. Jolie was on a day trip in Iraq to bring attention to the plight of displaced people within the country (around 3 million) and outside of Iraq (around 1.5 million). (AP Photo/Boris Heger)AP - Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited a settlement for displaced Iraqis in northwest Baghdad in her role as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR.

Voting begins in key Kurdish elections (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 12:36 PM PDT

A prisoner shields her face as she casts her ballot in special early voting for the Kurd-run region in northern Iraq, at a polling site at a prison in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Thursday, July 23, 2009. Police, soldiers, prison inmates and sick people in hospitals are among those allowed to cast their votes Thursday for the 111-member Kurdish parliament in three provinces run by Kurds. A coalition of two parties that have long controlled the relatively secure region face a challenge from new opposition alliances that seek to capitalize on complaints about corruption.(AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - Soldiers, prisoners and hospital patients voted Thursday ahead of weekend elections in Iraq's Kurdish region, which is locked in a dispute with the central government over oil-rich land. For Kurds, the election tests a political establishment that has kept their region relatively safe but faces allegations of corruption.

Film megastar Jolie visits Iraq refugees (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 10:02 AM PDT

This picture released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shows UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie speaking with a displaced Iraqi boy at a makeshift camp, at an undisclosed location northwest of Baghdad. Jolie called for more aid for Iraq's internally-displaced people.(AFP/UNHCR/Boris Heger)AFP - Hollywood megastar and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited a refugee camp in Baghdad for Iraqis displaced by the war, the UN refugee agency said.

Poll details: Majority in US oppose both wars (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 08:20 AM PDT

AP - A majority of Americans oppose both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, though the war in Afghanistan is a little more popular. Here are details:

U.S. military says kills two Iraqi gunmen (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 04:32 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. soldiers killed two Iraqi gunmen when their convoy was attacked in Abu Ghraib in Baghdad's western outskirts, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Obama presses Iraq troop withdrawal, promises help (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 12:31 AM PDT

A US soldier greets Iraqi children in Baghdad. President Barack Obama pressed plans to remove US troops from Iraq in 2011 in talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and promised to help Iraq lift the burden of longstanding UN sanctions(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - President Barack Obama pressed plans to remove US troops from Iraq in 2011 in talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and promised to help Iraq lift the burden of longstanding UN sanctions.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,328 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 06:10 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at least 4,328 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Obama presses Iraqi leader on reconciliation (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 05:52 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walk from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, to make joint statements in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - President Barack Obama said he pressed Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday to make room in his government and security forces for all ethnic and religious groups to prevent a resurgence of the violence and turmoil that took the country to the verge of civil war.

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