2009年10月2日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqis lead crackdown in insurgent stronghold (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:45 PM PDT

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie interacts with an Iraqi refugee family living in Jaramana, a suburb in southern Damascus October 2, 2009.    REUTERS/S.Malkawi/UNHCR/Handout    (SYRIA ENTERTAINMENT CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP - Iraqi forces in Mosul have detained more than 150 suspected Sunni insurgents during an offensive in the country's last major extremist stronghold, a senior security official said Friday.


Jolie urges world not to forget Iraqi refugees (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:34 PM PDT

Angelina Jolie, center, goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, meets with Iraqi refugees in Damascus, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. It was the Academy Award-winning actress' second visit to Syria in two years. The actress has worked with UNHCR since early 2001.  (AP Photo/UNHCR)AP - Angelina Jolie met with Iraqi refugees in Syria on Friday and urged the world not to forget the plight of those among them who cannot return home because of the trauma they suffered and the country's instability.


In Iraq, Maliki Banks on a New 'Unity' Coalition (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Time.com - The Prime Minister without a coalition forms one of his own to try to win four more years of power in the war-ravaged country

Iraq's Mosul hopes for end to stubborn insurgency (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:33 AM PDT

Residents stand as they look at the site of a bomb attack near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, September 10, 2009. REUTERS/Khalid al-MousulyReuters - For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years.


Iraqi forces foil suicide bomber's prison break bid (AFP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 04:31 AM PDT

Map of Iraq showing the location of Hilla, south of Baghdad, where a would-be suicidde bomber's plot to detonate a device outside a prison was foiled after a tip-off, security forces said on Friday.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - A would-be Al-Qaeda suicide car bomber who planned to detonate his payload to help comrades escape from an Iraqi prison was foiled after a tip-off about the attack, security forces said on Friday.


US soldier dies in mortar attack in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:25 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in a mortar attack at Baghdad's Camp Liberty.
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