2010年5月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq drawdown on schedule, Pentagon says (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Reuters - The Pentagon said on Tuesday the U.S. drawdown from Iraq was on schedule despite this week's deadly bombings and persistent political uncertainty.

Pace of US drawdown from Iraq on schedule: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:58 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad. The Pentagon said Tuesday the pace of a drawdown of US troops from Iraq was on schedule and had not been pushed back because of violence or delays in forming a new Iraqi government.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - The Pentagon said Tuesday the pace of a drawdown of US troops from Iraq was on schedule and had not been pushed back because of violence or delays in forming a new Iraqi government.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,397 (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:22 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at least 4,397 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

TIME Interview: Allawi on Iraqi Election Chaos, Violence (Time.com)

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Even as Iraq is buffeted by violence, no government has emerged from the March 7 elections. Ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vents in an interview with TIME

APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:35 PM PDT

Police and civil defence gather at the site of a bus explosion in Iskandiriyah, 50kms south of Baghdad. Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence after insurgents killed 110 people in a devastating wave of attacks in five cities the previous day, Iraq's bloodiest this year.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AP - American commanders, worried about increased violence in the wake of Iraq's inconclusive elections, are now reconsidering the pace of a major troop pullout this summer, U.S. officials said Tuesday.


Attacks show al-Qaida in Iraq still powerful (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:00 PM PDT

An Iraqi Army soldier searches a man in the Shiite city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Iraqi forces beefed up checkpoints, conducted house-to-house searches and rifled through cars Tuesday looking for suspects behind a devastating string of attacks across the country that killed 119 people a day earlier. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - A flurry of attacks blamed on al-Qaida defied claims by the U.S. and Iraq that they dealt the militants a severe blow by killing their two leaders last month.


After Iraq attacks, security forces describe hardships at Baghdad checkpoints (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 May 2010 11:56 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The day after militants in Iraq launched coordinated pre-dawn attacks on Baghdad checkpoints, federal police and Iraqi soldiers who work at some of those checkpoints described their fear of attack and a lack of basic support they believe is weakening security.

Some of the recent attacks in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 11:17 AM PDT

AP - A look at recent major attacks in Iraq:

Iraqi security forces say politicians were behind Iraq attacks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 May 2010 11:16 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi security forces and citizens were on edge Tuesday after a string of attacks that has raised fears of instability and sparked accusations that the government has become too consumed with forming a coalition to be able to protect its citizens.

Iraqi forces 'negligent' after attacks kill 110 (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 07:25 AM PDT

Iraqi police man a checkpoint in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence after insurgents killed 110 people in a devastating wave of attacks in five cities the previous day, Iraq's bloodiest this year.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - Iraqi security forces faced charges of negligence on Tuesday after a devastating series of attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 110 people a day earlier in the country's bloodiest violence this year.


Emirates to add Baghdad route (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 07:14 AM PDT

AP - Emirates says it will begin flights to Baghdad in July as the latest carrier to add routes to Iraq as the nation struggles to recover from war.

Iran border guards arrest Iraqi fishermen: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 06:15 AM PDT

An Iraqi fisherman sorts through his catch. Iranian border guards arrested nine Iraqi fishermen in Iranian waters in the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in recent days, the Fars news agency reported.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iranian border guards arrested nine Iraqi fishermen in Iranian waters in the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in recent days, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.


Iraq squatter camp population on the rise: UN (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:51 AM PDT

An Iraqi man lifts his children off the ground as he walks across open sewage and rubbish in a squatter camp in the northern Hurriyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, 2008. The number of Iraqis who have fled their homes that are reduced to living in squatter camps has increased by 25 percent in the past year, a senior UN diplomat told AFP.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - The number of Iraqis who have fled their homes that are reduced to living in squatter camps has increased by 25 percent in the past year, a senior UN diplomat told AFP on Tuesday.


Iran detained 12 Iraqi fishermen, some freed: report (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2010 04:36 AM PDT

Reuters - Iranian coast guards detained 12 Iraqi fishermen who they say illegally entered the Islamic Republic's waters, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday, adding three of them were later freed.

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