2009年10月6日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:50 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Amy, Army Spc. Ross E. Vogel III , of Red Lion, Pa. in seen. According to the Department of Defense, Vogel died while serving in Iraq. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the U.S. Army)AP - Army Spc. Michael S. Cote


Security walls at Samarra shrine now create divide (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, the mostly deserted market is backdropped by the gold-domed mosque in Samarra, Iraq, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. Reconstruction continues on the mosque that was destroyed in 2006. About 240 mostly Sunni-owned shops have been shuttered, blocked off by more than a half mile of concrete blast walls that create a protected walkway for Shiite pilgrims heading to the shrine. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The U.S. military on Tuesday handed over the last of its bases outside Samarra, a city billed as a reconciliation success story. Worries linger though that wartime remedies like barriers and checkpoints will encourage divisions and undermine hard-won security gains.


Iraqi police: market blast kills 8 in Fallujah (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:49 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Monday Oct. 5, 2009, Pfc. Kyle Hudgins kisses 4 week-old son John Michael Hudgins as the Delta Company 3rd of the 141st gets ready to leave the armory where some family members stayed behind to say good-bye to the Texas National Guard 72nd IBCT troops at the Houston Armory in Houston. The troops will train as a brigade in Fort Bliss in preparation for their nine month deployment to Iraq.  (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)AP - A car bomb tore through an open-air market west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, an Iraqi police official said.


Iraq car bomb kills seven at prayers (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Rubble litters the street following a car bomb blast in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah in July 2009. A car bomb outside a Sunni mosque in a town near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven people and wounded 29 on Tuesday around the time of evening prayers, doctors told AFP.(AFP/File/Saddam Hussein)AFP - A car bomb outside a Sunni mosque in a town near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah killed seven people and wounded 29 on Tuesday around the time of evening prayers, doctors told AFP.


Minibus bomb kills 9 in west Iraq: police (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

A wounded man is attended to by his relative after a suicide bomb attack at a funeral in Haditha, 190 km (120 miles) northwest of Baghdad October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Ali al-MashhdaniReuters - A minibus bomb exploded at a market in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 31, a local official said.


Turkish parliament extends mandate for Iraq strikes (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 09:47 AM PDT

Turkish soldiers patrol on a mountain on the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkey's parliament on Tuesday extended the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighbouring northern Iraq.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AFP - Turkey's parliament on Tuesday extended the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighbouring northern Iraq.


Iraq's top Shiite cleric casts doubt on Jan polls (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:44 AM PDT

Iraqi Shiite worshippers take part in Friday prayers in Karbala, March 2009. Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani warned the country's MPs that turnout in January's general election will suffer unless the vote is an open process.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani on Tuesday cast doubt over January's general election, warning MPs that turnout will suffer unless the vote is an open process.


Norwegian oil firm DNO says Iraq suspension lifted (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:39 AM PDT

File photo shows a Kurdish guard standing outside a drilling site of Norwegian oil company DNO in northern Iraq's Kurdish region. DNO announced Tuesday that the suspension of its operations in the Kurdish area of Iraq two weeks ago in a row over stock trading had been lifted.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Norwegian oil firm DNO announced Tuesday that the suspension of its operations in the Kurdish area of Iraq two weeks ago in a row over stock trading had been lifted.


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