2009年9月23日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi minority refugees in jeopardy, report says (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Refugees from Iraq's minorities face insecurity and risk losing their religious and cultural identity as they seek refuge in neighboring countries and Western Europe, a minority rights group said on Thursday.

Web forums help Iraqi refugees adapt to America (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:27 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — "Mozart" is the screen name of a 44-year-old guitar-playing Iraqi refugee who was resettled in the United States recently.

Bombs kill 11 in Iraq's capital, northern city (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 12:15 PM PDT

Army General David Petraeus, head of the of U.S. Central Command, listens before speaking at the Marine Corps University's conference on AP - A bomb exploded Wednesday outside a home in southwestern Baghdad, killing a woman and her two children, as other bombings killed at least seven Iraqi security personnel and a local politician in the capital and a volatile northern area.


Father: Iraqi perhaps slain in UK revenge attack (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 08:32 AM PDT

Army General David Petraeus, head of the of U.S. Central Command, listens before speaking at the Marine Corps University's conference on AP - British soldiers laughed as they beat an Iraqi hotel receptionist to death, the man's father alleged Wednesday as he gave evidence to an inquiry into the slaying.


Iraqi father says British troops targeted son (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 07:37 AM PDT

Iraqi security officers march during their graduation parade at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq in the city of Basra some 550 kms from the capital Baghdad, May 2009. The father of an Iraqi man who died in British military custody in 2003 told an inquiry in London his son may have been singled out for bad treatment because he had accused troops of stealing.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - The father of an Iraqi man who died in British military custody in 2003 told an inquiry in London Wednesday his son may have been singled out for bad treatment because he had accused troops of stealing.


Iraq policeman, soldier killed in north (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 04:52 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman inspects bullet holes on the windshield of a taxi. An Iraqi policeman and a soldier were killed in attacks that left three other security force members wounded in and around the main northern city of Mosul, a police official said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - An Iraqi policeman and a soldier were killed on Wednesday in attacks that left three other security force members wounded in and around the main northern city of Mosul, a police official said.


US soldier charged with murder of contractor in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:30 AM PDT

A US soldier sits with an Iraqi Army soldier in Tallil, Iraq, July 2009. A US soldier has been charged with the murder earlier this month of a civilian contractor in Iraq, the US military said in a statement.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - A US soldier has been charged with the murder earlier this month of a civilian contractor in Iraq, the US military said in a statement on Wednesday.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,346 (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 07:05 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, at least 4,346 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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