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Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US court allows suit against contractor in Abu Ghraib (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 01:08 PM PDT

The L3 Communications sign is seen outside their Reston offices in Virginia in 2009. A US court has given approval for a lawsuit to proceed from 72 Iraqi nationals against L3 Communications accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - A US court has given approval for a lawsuit to proceed from 72 Iraqi nationals against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Roadside bomb in Iraq kills 5 members of family (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:44 AM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted on it on July 26 in Miami, Florida. A US soldier accused of leaking military video footage from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan has been transferred to a US military jail, the US Defense Department said on Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

With US drawdown in Iraq, shift from joint ops to training (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:01 AM PDT

A US soldier stands on an Iraqi military police vehicle at the US army Forward Operating Base (FOB) Constitution West of Baghdad on July 29. AFP - US and Iraqi military police slowly comb a strip of dirt road west of Baghdad, looking for tell-tale signs of hidden improvised explosive devices.

UK former deputy PM doubted Iraq WMD intelligence (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:34 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's deputy prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq said on Friday he had doubts about intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, describing some of it as "tittle tattle."

UK's Iraq inquiry may recall witnesses (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 04:19 AM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted on it on July 26 in Miami, Florida. A US soldier accused of leaking military video footage from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan has been transferred to a US military jail, the US Defense Department said on Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - Britain's Iraq inquiry says it may recall witnesses to offer new testimony — which could see ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair return to face the panel.

Iraqi minister hurt, two Britons killed in Jordan accident (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:49 AM PDT

Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi, pictured here in December 2007, was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two Britons, police said.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two British women, police said.

Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Spain's National Court has re-opened its case against three U.S. troops implicated in a 2003 attack on Baghdad's Hotel Palestine that killed two journalists

Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:59 PM PDT

An Iraqi solider inspects the scene of an attack on his checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Militants Thursday killed a number of Iraq's security forces with a combination of shootings and roadside bombs that was a bitter demonstration of the dangers Iraqi forces still face.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.

Gunmen and bombs kill at least 12 in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:46 AM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted on it on July 26 in Miami, Florida. A US soldier accused of leaking military video footage from Iraq and suspected in the release of thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan has been transferred to a US military jail, the US Defense Department said on Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)Reuters - Attackers killed at least 12 people and wounded 31 in a series of shootings and explosions across Iraq on Thursday, security and hospital sources said.

Lack of Iraq government 'embarrassing': FM (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:38 AM PDT

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari speaks to an AFP reporter in Baghdad. The lack of a government nearly five months on from parliamentary elections is AFP - The lack of a government in Iraq nearly five months after general elections is "embarrassing" and is impeding any long-term decision-making, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Thursday.

16 dead, 14 wounded in Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:02 AM PDT

An Iraqi police officer mans a road block in Baghdad. Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Sixteen people, including nine security force members, were killed and 14 wounded on Thursday in a string of attacks in the Iraqi capital's Sunni district of Al-Adhamiyah, the interior ministry said.

Biden bets on no explosion of violence in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 07:25 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden, seen here in Washington, DC on July 14, said in an interview aired Thursday he would bet AFP - Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview aired Thursday he would bet "everything" that there would be no explosion of sectarian violence when US combat troops leave Iraq next month.

(AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:27 AM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials say 7 members of the security forces were killed in Baghdad attacks.

Spain court seeks U.S. troops arrest for Iraq killing (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT

Undated file TV grab of Spanish TV cameraman Jose Couso, 37, who was working for Spanish TV channel Tele5, was killed along with Reuters TV cameraman Taras Protsyuk in Baghdad April 8, 2003. REUTERS/HO/Tele5Reuters - A Spanish High Court judge ordered on Thursday the arrest and extradition of three U.S. soldiers for killing a Spanish television cameraman during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Kuwait gets $650 mln in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 04:52 AM PDT

Fire fighting crew work on a blown-out well damaged by retreating Iraqi soldiers in Al-Ahmadi oil field in southern Kuwait, 1991. The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AFP - The United Nations released 650 million dollars in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday, the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.

Spain reissues US troop warrants over Iraq death (AP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 04:07 AM PDT

AP - A Madrid judge reissued arrest warrants Thursday for three U.S. servicemen over the death of a Spanish journalist killed by American tank fire in Iraq in 2003.

Retrial of Hassan killer adjourned over missing defendant (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:12 AM PDT

The retrial of an Iraqi man convicted of killing British aid worker Margaret Hassan, seen here in 2004, was adjourned again because the imprisoned defendant could not be found.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The retrial of an Iraqi man convicted of killing British aid worker Margaret Hassan was adjourned again on Thursday because the imprisoned defendant could not be found, a court official said.

Nepal lifts ban on travel to Iraq to save jobs (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:31 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers search a truck at a checkpoint in Baghdad, 2008. Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AFP - Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country, the employment ministry said on Thursday.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claims TV office bombing (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:07 PM PDT

Policemen and rescue workers gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Saad ShalashReuters - The Iraqi arm of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack this week on the Baghdad office of satellite television channel Al Arabiya, and warned of further strikes on media targets.

Al-Qaeda group claim Al-Arabiya TV bombing in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:14 PM PDT

Soldiers seal off a street following a suicide car bomb targetting the offices of Al-Arabiya TV in central Baghdad. An Al-Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed four people, US monitors have said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - An Al-Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for this week's deadly car bomb attack on Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad that killed four people, US monitors have said.

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