2010年5月24日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Alaska soldier ordered to remove Facebook video (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 05:26 PM PDT

AP - An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for allegedly posting a video on his Facebook site showing Iraqi children being taunted.

Gunmen kill Iraqi who won parliamentary seat: police (Reuters)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:56 PM PDT

Reuters - Gunmen shot dead on Monday an Iraqi politician elected to parliament in March for the cross-sectarian Iraqiya coalition of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, police said.

US commander in Iraq nominated for new post: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:53 PM PDT

US Army General Ray Odierno, prepares to testify before the House Armed Services Committee in 2009. Odierno, the commander of US forces in Iraq, will step down in the fall to take up a new assignment, after playing a pivotal role in the Iraq war, the Pentagon said on Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The commander of US forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, will step down in the fall to take up a new assignment, after playing a pivotal role in the Iraq war, the Pentagon said on Monday.


Gunmen kill newly elected lawmaker in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT

US Army General Ray Odierno, prepares to testify before the House Armed Services Committee in 2009. Odierno, the commander of US forces in Iraq, will step down in the fall to take up a new assignment, after playing a pivotal role in the Iraq war, the Pentagon said on Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AP - Gunmen in northern Iraq killed a newly elected lawmaker from a Sunni-backed list that narrowly won Iraq's March elections, officials said, in a slaying certain to rattle the fragile political system.


More US troops in Afghanistan than Iraq, a first (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:46 PM PDT

AP - More U.S. forces are serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the Pentagon said Monday, a first since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and a reflection of the new primacy of the nine-year Afghan war.

Pro-Allawi MP gunned down in north Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 12:28 PM PDT

A convoy of vehicles carrying Iraqi policemen patrol with US Army vehicles in Mosul, in 2005. An Iraqi MP from the secular Iraqiya bloc of Iyad Allawi was assassinated on Monday in the restive northern city of Mosul, a doctor at the city's main hospital told AFP.(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - An Iraqi MP from ex-premier Iyad Allawi's bloc was assassinated on Monday, the first first such murder since elections more than two months ago which have still not resulted in a new government.


More US troops in Afghanistan than Iraq: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 11:34 AM PDT

US soldiers take position during a patrol in Ibrahim Khel village of Khost province on April 11. For the first time, more US forces are deployed in Afghanistan than Iraq, amid a buildup of American troops in the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Monday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - For the first time, more US forces are deployed in Afghanistan than Iraq, amid a buildup of American troops in the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Monday.


(AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 11:30 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials: Lawmaker from Sunni-backed list killed in drive-by shooting in northern Iraq.

US soldier dies in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 10:45 AM PDT

US Army General Ray Odierno, prepares to testify before the House Armed Services Committee in 2009. Odierno, the commander of US forces in Iraq, will step down in the fall to take up a new assignment, after playing a pivotal role in the Iraq war, the Pentagon said on Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in northern Iraq.


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