2010年6月18日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Son kills father who translated for US in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:16 PM PDT

Two US soldiers died in northern Iraq in recent days, the US military said in brief statements.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AP - An al-Qaida-linked insurgent shot and killed his own father as he slept in his bed Friday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. military, police said, a rare deadly attack on a close family member over allegations of collaborating with the enemy.


Seven Iraq troops killed near Syria border in new ties blow (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:46 PM PDT

A map locating an attack near Syria's border with Iraq. Unidentified gunmen killed seven Iraqi troops near the Syrian border on Friday, the provincial security spokesman said, in an action that could inflame security tensions between the two states.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Unidentified gunmen killed seven Iraqi troops near the Syrian border on Friday, the provincial security spokesman said, in an action that could inflame security tensions between the two states.


(AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:19 AM PDT

AP - Officials say insurgents killed 7 Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint ambush near the Syrian border.

UN probing Britain over Iraqi mistreatment claims (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 10:36 AM PDT

AP - The U.N. refugee agency said Friday it is investigating claims by Iraqi asylum seekers that they were mistreated by British officials before being deported back to Iraq.

Car bomb in Iraq's restive north kills 7, wounds 61 (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:20 AM PDT

An Army carry team loads into a transfer vehicle a transfer case containing the remains of Cpt. Michael P. Cassidy, Friday, June 18, 2010 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Cassidy, of Simpsonville, N.C. died while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)Reuters - A car bomb in a restive region of northern Iraq killed seven people and wounded 61 on Friday, police said, underscoring tensions simmering since an inconclusive March election.


Iraq car bombs kill six, wound 82 (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:56 AM PDT

A map locating the town of Baquba, north of the capital Baghdad. Two car bombs targeting a provincial councillor and a police officer north of Baghdad have killed six people and wounded 82, many of them women or children, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Francis Nallier)AFP - Two car bombs targeting a provincial councillor and a police officer north of Baghdad on Friday killed six people and wounded 82, many of them women or children, police said.


Top cleric warns Iraq leaders as deal hopes dim (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:24 AM PDT

An Iraqi man holds a picture of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani at a campaign rally in Baghdad, in March. Iraq's two main contenders to head a new government remain at odds, denting US hopes that a top envoy has advanced the prospects of a deal and drawing a warning from the top Shiite cleric.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's two main contenders to head a new government remained at odds Friday, denting US hopes that a top envoy had advanced the prospects of a deal and drawing a warning from the top Shiite cleric.


Top cleric warns Iraq leaders on coalition talks (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:40 AM PDT

An Iraqi man holds a picture of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani at a campaign rally in Baghdad, in March. Iraq's two main contenders to head a new government remain at odds, denting US hopes that a top envoy has advanced the prospects of a deal and drawing a warning from the top Shiite cleric.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's revered Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani threatened on Friday to intervene in protracted coalition talks if they do not produce a new government soon.


Iraqis expelled from Britain showed bruises: UN (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Iraqi refugees protest outside the United Nations' headquarters in Nicosia, in 2007. The UN refugee agency has said some of the 42 Iraqis who claimed they were forcibly returned from Britain a day ago are showing fresh bruises that could indicate possible mistreatment.(AFP/File/Alex Mita)AFP - The UN refugee agency said Friday that some of the 42 Iraqis who claimed they were forcibly returned from Britain a day ago showed fresh bruises that could indicate possible mistreatment.


Iraq car bomb leaves 32 wounded (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:39 AM PDT

A map locating the town of Baquba, north of the capital Baghdad. Two car bombs targeting a provincial councillor and a police officer north of Baghdad have killed six people and wounded 82, many of them women or children, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Francis Nallier)AFP - A car bomb targeting the house of an Iraqi police officer wounded 32 people, 20 of them women or children, in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Friday, a security spokesman said.


Turkey: May air raid killed 100 Kurdish rebels (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:28 AM PDT

A Turkish soldier patrols on a road near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkish soldiers on Wednesday crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels for the first time in two years and bombed targets across the border, killing four militants, the army said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Turkey's military said Friday it killed as many as 120 Kurdish rebels in an air raid on rebel hideouts in northern Iraq last month and a daylong incursion by elite commandos into Iraq this week.


100,000 Iraq refugees OKed for resettlement: UNHCR (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 11:29 PM PDT

File photo shows Iraqi refugees protesting outside the offices of the UN refugee agency in Damascus. UN High Commissioner for Refugees chief Antonio Guterres announced on Friday that the body has referred 100,000 Iraqi refugees in the Middle East for resettlement in third countries since 2007.(AFP/File/Louai Beshara)AFP - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief Antonio Guterres announced on Friday the body has referred 100,000 Iraqi refugees in the Middle East for resettlement in third countries since 2007.


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