2010年6月24日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Hiker moms 'shocked' by story on children's arrest (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:32 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of undated file photos released by freethehikers.org shows, from left Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd. (AP Photo/freethehikers.org, File)  NO SALESAP - The mothers of three American hikers held in Iran on suspicion of espionage said Thursday they hope a report that their children were arrested on the Iraqi side of the border will help lead to their release.


Attacks targeting Iraqi forces kill at least 10 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 01:38 PM PDT

Army Sgt. Ted Wade, who was hit by an explosive in Iraq that caused him traumatic brain injury and severed his right arm, gives his wife Sarah Wade a kiss, after she spoke at the dedication ceremony of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - A spate of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and their allies killed at least 10 people on Thursday, half in suicide bombings in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.


Iran nabbed US hikers on Iraqi side of border: report (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 11:42 AM PDT

L-R: Detained US hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal during a meeting with their mothers in Tehran in May 2010. The three US hikers being held in Iran after allegedly straying into their country in 2009 were actually detained by Iranian police on the Iraqi side of the border, The Nation magazine reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)AFP - The three US hikers being held in Iran after allegedly straying into their country in 2009 were actually detained by Iranian police on the Iraqi side of the border, The Nation magazine reported Thursday.


Iraq through the eyes of a tree healer (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:02 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Jawad Kadhim rides his rusty bicycle through Baghdad neighborhoods that have been transformed by violence, sealed off by concrete blast walls and emptied of their once close-knit inhabitants.

Five killed as suicide bombers target Iraq troops and police (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 04:12 AM PDT

Army Sgt. Ted Wade, who was hit by an explosive in Iraq that caused him traumatic brain injury and severed his right arm, gives his wife Sarah Wade a kiss, after she spoke at the dedication ceremony of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Reuters - Three suicide bombers killed five police and army personnel and wounded nine others in two separate attacks in Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Thursday, security officials said.


Suicide bombers kill five as 12 die in Iraq unrest (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:51 AM PDT

An Iraqi police commando inspects the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed four policemen in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, in one of a series of attacks around the country that claimed a total of 11 lives.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Three suicide bombers killed four police and a soldier in separate attacks in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul on Thursday, as violence claimed a total of 12 lives nationwide, police said.


Shi'ite rifts threaten to prolong Iraq government delay (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 03:41 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's main Shi'ite-led blocs are facing serious problems in deciding on a candidate for prime minister, straining their alliance and threatening to prolong the delay in forming a government, party officials said.

Yemen holds German, Iraqi in attack on British envoy (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 02:48 AM PDT

Yemeni soldiers man a checkpoint in Sanaa on February 4. Yemeni authorities are questioning a German, an Iraqi and two Yemenis in connection with a failed suicide attack on the British ambassador in Sanaa in April, the ministry of defence website has said.(AFP/File/Mohamed Huwais)AFP - Yemeni authorities are questioning a German, an Iraqi and two Yemenis in connection with a failed suicide attack on the British ambassador in Sanaa, the ministry of defence website said on Thursday.


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