2010年5月31日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iranian ambassador: No deal on US hikers (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 05:45 PM PDT

A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (L-R) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal waiting to meet their mothers for the first time since their arrest, in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 20. Two of the three US hikers held in Iran for nearly a year on spying charges were engaged in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, their mothers said Monday.(AFP/PRESS TV)AP - The Iranian ambassador in Baghdad said the recent release of two Iranians from Iraqi custody is not an indication of any impending deal to free three Americans held by Tehran on spying charges.


US troops in Afghanistan, Iraq mark Memorial Day (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT

A U.S soldier observes a moment of silence during a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the main U.S. base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. The U.S. military death toll in the Afghan conflict reached the 1,000 mark on May 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation's war dead.


On Memorial Day in Iraq, reflections on a war winding down (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 31 May 2010 12:37 PM PDT

US soldiers salute during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 31, 2010. Memorial Day commemorates US men and women who died while in the military service. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)McClatchy Newspapers - CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — With heads bowed beneath a palace dome still etched with the initials of Saddam Hussein, dozens of U.S. service members paid tribute Monday to Americans killed in action not only in Iraq, but also in Afghanistan and in wars of the past.


Iraq arrests two over Baghdad hotel bombs (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi security forces said on Monday they had arrested two suspected al Qaeda militants for the January bombing of three Baghdad hotels in which 36 people died.

Honoring the dead: US saves war memorials in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 30 May 2010 07:09 PM PDT

U.S. soldiers pray during a Memorial Day ceremony at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 31, 2010. Memorial Day commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - In words etched in stone, painted on concrete barriers, scribbled on hospital walls with magic markers, American troops in Iraq have followed a tradition as old as war itself: honoring their dead.


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