2010年6月10日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US to close base near camp housing Iranian exiles (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 01:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo made on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen at a rally in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Iraq's two largest Shiite political blocs have named their new alliance in a first official step toward cementing its chance to set up the next government. Negotiator and lawmaker Khaled Attia said Thursday June 10 that the deal between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition and the conservative Shiite Iraqi National Alliance will be called the 'United Alliance.' (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani,File)AP - The U.S. military will relinquish control of a base near a compound housing an Iranian opposition group next month, a move that will close a chapter on one of the most intractable issues in U.S.-Iraqi relations.


Iraqi Shi'ite blocs announce merger (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 01:21 PM PDT

An armed member of Baghdad council squad aims his rifle during a culling campaign in Baghdad June 9, 2010. A new kind of death squad is roaming the streets of Baghdad, killers packing hunting rifles and poisoned meat. Their prey: the estimated 1 million stray dogs that multiplied in the Iraqi capital as violence paralysed public services following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Picture taken June 9, 2010. To match Reuters Life! IRAQ-DOGS/   REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY)Reuters - Iraq's two main Shi'ite electoral blocs said on Thursday they would unite under a new name, National Alliance, but they have yet to resolve their differences over their choice for prime minister.


Five killed in Baghdad suicide bombing (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 12:03 PM PDT

A German Shepard sniffs a car for explosives at a makeshift checkpoint during a demonstration in Baghdad in February 2010. A suicide bomber killed three members of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia and two soldiers in west Baghdad on Thursday, a spokesman said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - A suicide bomber killed three members of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia and two soldiers in west Baghdad on Thursday, a spokesman said.


US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 11:55 AM PDT

AP - Army Maj. Ronald W. Culver

Car bomb in Baghdad kills 4 (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 11:10 AM PDT

A German Shepard sniffs a car for explosives at a makeshift checkpoint during a demonstration in Baghdad in February 2010. A suicide bomber killed three members of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia and two soldiers in west Baghdad on Thursday, a spokesman said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)Reuters - A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol Thursday in a mainly Sunni district of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 10, an Interior Ministry source said.


US military sees no sign of Iranian incursion in Iraqi north (AFP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 08:21 AM PDT

A Kurdish rebel from Pejak (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) walks through a mountain encampment in Qandil in northern Iraq in 2008. The US military said Thursday it had no evidence to substantiate a report that Iranian troops have been building a small fort on Iraqi territory since crossing the border in pursuit of Kurdish rebels(AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - The US military said Thursday it had no evidence to substantiate a report that Iranian troops have been building a small fort on Iraqi territory since crossing the border in pursuit of Kurdish rebels.


Iran protests bigger threat than Iraq war: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 06:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran's post-election protests one year ago posed a bigger threat to the Islamic Republic than the devastating 1980s war with Iraq, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying Thursday.

UNHCR says some 60 Iraqis sent home from Europe (AP)

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 03:43 AM PDT

AP - Some 60 Iraqis who failed to gain asylum have been deported from several European countries and sent back to Baghdad despite concerns the situation is still too dangerous for their return, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.
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