2009年9月27日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Four Iraqi policemen killed in suicide attack (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 12:01 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad, January 2009. A suicide car bomber on Sunday killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded four others near the predominantly Sunni Arab western city of Ramadi, a police official said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A suicide car bomber on Sunday killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded four others near the predominantly Sunni Arab western city of Ramadi, a police official said.


Suspect arrested in Iraqi taekwondo team murders (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 11:42 AM PDT

FILE-- in this May 19, 2006 file photograph, Maha Sa'ayd holds photos of her father Sa'ayd Al-Sayidi, who was a member of the team of 15 Iraqi taekwondo athletes who were kidnapped in western Iraq while driving to a training camp in Jordan , as she attends a meeting for families of those kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq.  The U.S. military said Sunday Sept. 27, 2009 that a suspect has been arrested for the 2006 kidnapping and murder of the Iraq National Taekwondo team in western Iraq.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)AP - Iraqi commandos and U.S. forces have arrested a suspect in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi taekwondo team whose highway ambush became one of the symbols of Iraq's lawlessness during its worse years of sectarian violence.


Iraq frees detainees linked to British hostages (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 11:01 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq released dozens of jailed militants at the weekend, including many from a group believed to be behind the 2007 kidnapping of five Britons in a move that may be linked to efforts to free the two remaining hostages.

Kidnapped Christian doctor released in northern Iraq: police (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 10:32 AM PDT

A US army patrol stops to talk to members of an Iraqi Christian family outside their home in the northern restive city of Mosul, 2008. A Christian doctor abducted by an armed gang overnight from her home near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was released on Sunday evening, police said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A Christian doctor abducted by an armed gang overnight from her home near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was released on Sunday evening, police said.


Iraqis make most of violence lull to wed in style (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 08:14 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq has seen a surge in lavish weddings during what has been the country's most festive and peaceful Muslim holiday in years, with party goers shrugging off security worries and dancing late into the night.

Can Former Iraqi Baathists in Syria Ever Go Home? (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 07:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Former Iraqi Baathists who fled to Syria after the war broke out say theyare ready to make amends with the Iraqi government and return home. There'sjust one problem: Iraq doesn't seem to want them

Over 100 from Iraqi group who killed Britons freed (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 06:13 AM PDT

An image grab taken from a videotape broadcast in February 2008 by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news network shows a British hostage Peter Moore. More than 100 Iraqi Shiite insurgents whose organisation kidnapped five Britons and killed at least three of them have been released from prison in the past week, the group said(AFP/AL-ARABIYA/File)AFP - More than 100 Iraqi Shiite insurgents whose organisation kidnapped five Britons and killed at least three of them have been released from prison in the past week, the group said on Sunday.


Turkey wants to extend Iraq bombing mandate: report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2009 02:31 AM PDT

Turkish army tanks and aircrafts take part in a parade marking the 87th anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, August 2009. The Turkish government will ask parliament to extend a mandate for military strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring Iraq, a report quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying.(AFP/File/Adem Altan)AFP - The Turkish government will ask parliament to extend a mandate for military strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring Iraq, a report quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying Sunday.


US drone crashes into Iraqi party offices: military (AFP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2009 11:42 PM PDT

File picture shows US soldiers watching a drone being launched from a base in Iraq. An American aerial surveillance drone crashed into the offices of an Iraqi political party in the northern city of Mosul, the US military said on Sunday(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - An American aerial surveillance drone crashed into the offices of an Iraqi political party in the northern city of Mosul, the US military said on Sunday.


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