2010年10月12日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Condoleezza Rice admits mistakes, but not in memoir (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 04:42 PM PDT

Reuters - Condoleezza Rice admits the Bush administration made mistakes after the September 11 attacks but readers seeking her view on the decisions leading to the war in Iraq will find no such grist in her new memoir.

Iraq PM to visit Syria after year-long spat (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here in August 2010, is to visit Syria on Wednesday to mend ties after a year-long spat as he tries to win support for his bid to retain the premiership.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to visit Syria on Wednesday to mend ties after a year-long spat over a Baghdad bombing as he tries to win support for his bid to retain the premiership.


Saudi King, Ahmadinejad talk politics on phone (AFP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 11:50 AM PDT

The shadows of two Lebanese people are casted on a billboard bearing the image of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad installed on the airport highway in Beirut on October 6. Ahmadinejad and Saudi King Abdullah discussed regional affairs by telephone on Tuesday amid tensions over Iraqi and Lebanese politics and a Gulf arms buildup, the official SPA news agency said.(AFP/File/Joseph Eid)AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Saudi King Abdullah discussed regional affairs by telephone on Tuesday amid tensions over Iraqi and Lebanese politics and a Gulf arms buildup, the official SPA news agency said.


Iraq seeks diplomatic thaw with Syria (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 11:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 20, file photo, Iraqi policemen are seen at the site of a joint U.S-Iraqi raid that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, two top-ranking al-Qaida figures, about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit, Iraq. Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq has threatened to kidnap family members of Iraqi politicians and ministers unless the wife and children of its slain leader are released from prison. (AP Photo/File)AP - Iraq's prime minister is looking to strengthen relations with neighboring Syria — while burnishing his own credentials — in a visit Wednesday aimed at easing tension between the longtime rivals.


Turkey extends mandate to attack Kurds in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 10:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2009  file photo, former Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq combat veteran who was discharged under the U.S. military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, appears at an equality rally in Fresno, Calif.   A federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, ending the military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.   U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips declared the law unconstitutional after a two-week nonjury trial on the case in federal court in Riverside.  U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and could let Phillips' ruling stand. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)AP - Turkey's parliament has extended by a year the military's mandate to carry out operations against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq after a closed-door debate about the fight against the separatist guerrillas.


Court rejects appeal of 2 ejected from Bush event (AP)

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:43 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of two people who say they were kept from attending an appearance by then-President George W. Bush in Denver in 2005 because of their opposition to the war in Iraq.

Return to Baghdad: The Slowest Car Chase in History (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:15 PM PDT

Time.com - On his last day in Baghdad, an ex-U.S. soldier wandering the streets of the city is followed by suspicious-looking men

Return to Baghdad: A Near Kidnapping Outside Karrada (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 08:35 PM PDT

Time.com - After a surprisingly uneventful tour of Iraq, TIME's former bureau chief and a former U.S. soldier run into potential trouble

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