2010年5月6日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Va. military jury finds Navy SEAL not guilty (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT

AP - A military jury in Virginia found a Navy SEAL not guilty Thursday on charges of punching a suspected Iraqi terrorist.

Sunni-backed party in Iraq warns of sectarianism (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:18 PM PDT

An Iraqi Army soldier inspects a destroyed house which was used by insurgents as a workshop to manufacture bombs, and was destroyed yesterday while they were preparing a bomb in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Thursday, May 6, 2010. The explosion killed two. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Sunni-backed alliance that got the most votes in Iraq's election warned Thursday against the rise of sectarian politics after two religious Shiite blocs joined together to try to form a government.


Iraq says Kuwait reparations are unsustainable (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:43 AM PDT

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani speaks during a press conference in Baghdad. Iraq cannot sustain its reparations payments to Kuwait for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion, which it says are the highest paid by any country in history, Shahristani said Thursday.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq cannot sustain its reparations payments to Kuwait for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion, which it says are the highest paid by any country in history, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said Thursday.


Iraqi Airways chief released by British court: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Director General of Iraqi Airways, Kifah Hassan Jabbar, leaves the High Court in central London, on April 30. A British court released Jabbar on Thursday and allowed him to return home, Iraq's transport ministry said in the latest twist in a legal nightmare for the airline.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - A British court released the head of Iraqi Airways on Thursday and allowed him to return home, Iraq's transport ministry said in the latest twist in a legal nightmare for the airline.


Iraqi Kurdish journalist kidnapped and killed (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:34 AM PDT

The family of a Kurdish journalist and student who was kidnapped and killed mourn over his body during his funeral, just hours after his corpse was found in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil. Sardasht Osman, a final-year English student at Salaheddin University in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, was found dead early in the morning in the restive northern city of Mosul.(AFP/Safin Hamed)AFP - The family of a Kurdish journalist and student who was kidnapped and killed held his funeral on Thursday, hours after his corpse was found.


Kurds vow to back Shiite coalition choice for PM (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:21 AM PDT

Iraq's main Kurdish political bloc will accept the candidate for prime minister chosen by the new Shiite coalition of incumbent premier Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in March 2010.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraq's main Kurdish political bloc will accept the candidate for prime minister chosen by the new Shiite coalition of incumbent premier Nuri al-Maliki, a top official said on Thursday.


Kuwait says finds Gulf War mass grave of Iraq troops (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Kuwaiti authorities have found a mass grave of 55 Iraqi soldiers killed in the 1991 Gulf War, the state news agency KUNA said Thursday.

Iraq announces date for gas fields auction (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:23 AM PDT

An Iraqi engineer at the Naher al-Umran gas refinery in 2009. Iraq has invited international energy firms to submit bids for a September 1 auction of three of its gas fields, in the war-torn country's third major attempt to develop its oil and gas sector.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Iraq on Thursday invited international energy firms to submit bids in a September 1 auction of three gas fields, in a third major tender aimed at developing the war-torn state's oil and gas sectors.


Iraqi govt resolves oil row with Kurds (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:18 AM PDT

An engineer at the Tawke oil refinery in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan. Iraqi oil minister says Baghdad has resolved its oil dispute with the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An oil dispute between Iraq and the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan has been resolved, the central government's oil minister said in Baghdad on Thursday.


Iraq: Moving Toward a New Government, More Instability (Time.com)

Posted: 05 May 2010 10:35 PM PDT

Time.com - A new Shi'ite political pact could break the post election deadlock and form a new government, but shutting out the Sunnis may stoke new violence

After Iraq election, Shiite parties announce alliance to form next government (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 May 2010 12:51 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq’s two main Shiite parties brought the country a step toward a new religious-based government by forming an alliance just four seats short of a parliamentary majority. The agreement between the two parties raised fears that Sunnis could once again be cut out of power, sparking a return to sectarian violence.

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