2009年12月15日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Lawmakers urge Obama to halt relocation of Iran dissidents (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

Members of the Iranian oppposition group People's Mujahedeen, which fought with Saddam Hussein's regime against Iran in the 1980-88 war, and their relatives demonstrate against a decision to move them at Camp Ashraf, where they were installed by Saddam's regime 80 kms (50 miles) north of Baghdad in 1985.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - US lawmakers Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to stop the Iraqi government's forced relocation of Iranian dissidents from a border camp that has been closed down.


Iranian dissident group defies order to leave Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 12:51 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - CAMP ASHRAF, Iraq — An Iranian dissident group vowed Tuesday not to abandon its besieged camp north of Baghdad despite an Iraqi military ultimatum to pull up stakes or face an eviction that could turn bloody.

Gulf brushes off Iraq oil threat, nears joint currency (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 10:59 AM PST

An engineer is pictured at the Barjisiya oilfield in Zubair One, southwest of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, in February 2009. Gulf states on Tuesday brushed off mounting economic threats including Iraq's plans to massively boost oil output as they strode towards launching their own single currency.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Gulf states on Tuesday brushed off mounting economic threats including Iraq's plans to massively boost oil output as they strode towards launching their own single currency.


Baby among five killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 10:34 AM PST

Iraqi policemen inspect burnt vehicles at the site of an explosion near the ministry for emigres and displaced persons in Baghdad. An eight-day-old baby was among five people killed in separate attacks Tuesday in Iraq, including car bombs in Baghdad and bombings that struck two churches in the main northern city of Mosul.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An eight-day-old baby was among five people killed in separate attacks Tuesday in Iraq, including car bombs in Baghdad and bombings that struck two churches in the main northern city of Mosul.


Iran ex-rebels defy police orders to quit Iraq camp (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:48 AM PST

Members of the Iranian oppposition group People's Mujahedeen, which fought with Saddam Hussein's regime against Iran in the 1980-88 war, and their relatives demonstrate against a decision to move them at Camp Ashraf, where they were installed by Saddam's regime 80 kms (50 miles) north of Baghdad in 1985.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Disarmed Iranian rebels and their families defied Iraqi police instructions on Tuesday for them to leave a border camp the government has ordered closed, an AFP correspondent reported.


Explosions in 2 major Iraq cities kill 9 people (AP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 09:27 AM PST

An Iraqi man walks through debris at the scene of last Tuesday's massive bomb attack near the new Finance Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. The U.S. military says it warned Iraqi officials about possible attacks in Baghdad the same day that bombers struck government sites in the country's capital last week. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A barrage of bombings killed nine people in two of Iraq's largest cities Tuesday, stoking Iraqis' anger that insurgents continue to slip past security forces amid looming national elections and the U.S. military's planned exit.


Iraqi Kurds voice anger at Turkish party ban (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 06:34 AM PST

Iraqi Kurdish supporters of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) shout slogans during a protest in Arbil against a Turkish court's ban on the party. Iraqi Kurds have slammed a Turkish court's ban on the main Turkish Kurdish political party and said it hopes the decision will not derail Ankara's efforts to end a Kurdish rebellion that has repeatedly spilled over the border.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraqi Kurds on Tuesday slammed a Turkish court's ban on the main Turkish Kurdish political party and said it hoped the decision would not derail Ankara's efforts to end a Kurdish rebellion that has repeatedly spilled over the border.


Gulf 'not threatened' by Iraq's oil output plans (AFP)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 06:22 AM PST

An engineer is pictured at the Barjisiya oilfield in Zubair One, southwest of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, in February. Gulf states have brushed off mounting economic threats including Iraq's plans to massively boost oil output as they stride towards launching their own single currency.(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Energy-rich states of the Gulf Cooperation Council do not feel threatened by Iraq's plans to massively expand its oil production, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Tuesday.


Bombs kill eight in Baghdad, northern Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:23 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier stands guard at the site of a car bomb attack in central Baghdad December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Thaier Al-SudaniReuters - At least eight people were killed on Tuesday in a series of car bombs targeting morning commuters in Baghdad's government district and churches in northern Iraq, police said.


(AP)

Posted: 14 Dec 2009 09:15 PM PST

AP - Iraqi police say four killed, multiple wounded in series of car bombs outside Green Zone.
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