2009年8月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq suffers bloodiest day since US pullback (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Women grieve at the site of a double truck bombing which tore through a Shiite minority community near the northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. A series of blasts struck Baghdad Monday in a wave of predawn violence that killed at least 40 people, according to Iraqi officials. (AP Photo)AP - A double truck bombing Monday in Mosul and blasts in Baghdad brought the Iraqi death toll to more than 100 in three days, the worst spasm of violence the country has suffered since U.S. forces left the cities.

Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:10 PM PDT

AP - Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

Iran exile advocates urge to retake Iraq's Camp Ashraf (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Human rights lawyers on Monday urged the Pentagon to take control of an Iranian exile camp in eastern Iraq, accusing Iraqi security forces there of crimes and human rights violations against camp residents.

51 killed in wave of Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 12:24 PM PDT

Iraqis gather at the site of two truck bombs in the village of Khaznah, east of Mosul in northern Iraq. Two truck bombs targeting a tiny sect in a village in northern Iraq and a spate of bloody attacks across the country killed at least 51 people on Monday and wounded more than 250, officials said.(AFP/File/Mujahed Mohammed)AFP - Two truck bombs targeting a tiny sect in a village in northern Iraq and a spate of bloody attacks across the country killed at least 51 people on Monday and wounded more than 250, officials said.

Iraq bombs kill 42, fears of sectarian strife grow (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:47 AM PDT

An Iraqi soldier stands at the site of two truck bombs in the village of Khaznah, east of Mosul in northern Iraq. Two truck bombs targeting a tiny sect in a village in northern Iraq and a spate of bloody attacks across the country killed at least 51 people on Monday and wounded more than 250, officials said.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)Reuters - Bombs killed 42 people across Iraq on Monday, ripping through mostly Shi'ite areas and raising fears of a resurgence in sectarian violence just as politicians hope to reach out to old foes for January polls.

Supreme Court asked to block release of Iraq abuse photos (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:29 AM PDT

A view of the US Supreme Court building in May 2009 in Washington, DC. Lawyers for President Barack Obama's administration have asked the US Supreme Court to block the release of photos showing prisoner abuse by US soldiers in Iraq.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - Lawyers for President Barack Obama's administration have asked the US Supreme Court to block the release of photos showing prisoner abuse by US soldiers in Iraq.

Iran MP sees US hikers' fate taking time to resolve (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 07:39 AM PDT

The Azmar mountains north of the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Sulaimaniyah. The United States was still awaiting official confirmation Monday from Tehran on the arrest of three American hikers who entered Iranian territory from Iraq, a US State Department spokesman said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - A leading lawmaker said it may take time to resolve the fate of the three American hikers arrested after apparently straying into Iran, state-owned Arabic language TV Al-Alam reported on Monday.

Bombings kill dozens in Baghdad and northern Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 07:34 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Early morning bombings Monday in Baghdad and Mosul killed at least 49 people and wounded 231, the third large-scale attack on civilians in the past 10 days.

Kirkuk police chief wants US troops to stay (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:43 AM PDT

US soldiers arrive at the scene of a suicide blast in the northern city of Kirkuk in December 2008. American troops in the tense northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk should stay past a 2011 deadline for them to withdraw, the provincial police chief has told AFP.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - American troops in the tense northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk should stay past a 2011 deadline for them to withdraw, the provincial police chief has told AFP.

Refugees' plea to US forces in Iraq: protect us (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Human rights lawyers for a group of Iranian refugees living in Iraq who appear to have been brutally beaten by Iraqi security forces last month want the US military to intervene on their behalf.

Despite bombings, Iraq confident it can maintain security (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A series of bombings in Baghdad and Mosul on Monday killed at least 49 people and wounded more than 230 in the latest attack since the June 30 pullout of US combat troops from Iraqi cities.

US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 01:25 AM PDT

AP - Army Spc. Herberth A. Berrios-Campos

Bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq kill 41 (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:42 PM PDT

Residents are seen at the scene of a bomb attack in Mosul in this handout photo provided by police, August 8, 2009. A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said on Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims. Picture taken August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Iraqi police/Handout (IRAQ CONFLICT)Reuters - Vehicle bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed 41 people on Monday, police said, the latest of several major attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from towns and cities in June.

(AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:39 PM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials raise death toll in Baghdad bombings to at least 16.

Forty-one killed, 150 wounded in Iraq attacks: police (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:35 PM PDT

<p/>(afp.com)AFP - At least 41 people were killed and nearly 150 wounded in three attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police said.

In Iraq's Kurdistan, political pessimism clouds economic progress (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Aug 2009 10:12 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - IRBIL, Iraq — The regional capital of Kurdish northern Iraq has the feel of a massive business convention, imploring visitors on every street to invest in a safe gateway to the Iraqi economy where no American soldier has died since the first Gulf War in 1991.

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