2010年10月16日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraqi PM seeks neighbors' support to stay in power (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 12:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, July 29, 2010 file photo, an Iraqi solider inspects the scene of an attack on his checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. Members of the country's security forces were killed in coordinated attacks in Baghdad's Sunni district of Azamiyah. On Saturday, defense ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Askari sought to prove the Iraqi army's might by announcing the arrests of eight al-Qaida linked insurgents accused of plotting two Baghdad attacks in July and September that targeted security officials and military recruits. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister will travel to Iran and Jordan to seek support for his bid to win a second term more than seven months after national elections, an adviser said on Saturday.


Saddam-era firm now making music instead of bombs (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:39 AM PDT

An Iraqi man looks at electrical control panels exhibited at the 2010 Expo in the capital Baghdad on October 13. A string of companies created during the regime of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein have since transformed under an order of the post-invasion government of US diplomat Paul Bremer to turn military industries into civilian ones.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Before the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq's Al-Shaheed State Company used to make a blast, literally. Now it helps to produce music.


Seven Iraqis arrested in September army base attack (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 10:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi security forces arrested seven Iraqi al Qaeda militants involved in deadly assaults on a military base and a police checkpoint in Baghdad, the defense ministry said on Saturday.

Kuwait seizes eight Iraqi fishermen (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 05:17 AM PDT

Iraqi fishermen wait for the day's catch in the Shatt al-Arab waterway near the southern Iraqi city of Basra last November. Kuwaiti coastguards have arrested eight Iraqi fishermen for violating the emirate's territorial waters in the second such incident in a week, the interior ministry said on Saturday(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AFP - Kuwaiti coastguards have arrested eight Iraqi fishermen for violating the emirate's territorial waters in the second such incident in a week, the interior ministry said on Saturday.


Iraq PM to visit Iran as coalition talks hot up (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:53 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured on a visit to Syria on Wednesday, is to visit neighbouring Iran soon, a close aide said on Saturday.(AFP/File/Louai Beshara)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is fighting to keep his job after an inconclusive March 7 general election, is to visit neighbouring Iran soon, a close aide said on Saturday.


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