2010年7月31日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq death toll in July highest in more than two years (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 01:18 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers are deployed while reopening al-Jumhuri street by Shorja market in the center of Baghdad. The number of people killed as a result of violence in Iraq in July was the highest figure since May 2008, according to government figures released on Saturday.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures released on Saturday.


Italian group says executions on the rise in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, an Italian anti-death penalty group said Saturday, reporting that the number of the country's executions rose dramatically last year.

Roadside bomb kills 3 Iraqi soldiers, bystander (AP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:05 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces patrol a street in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers responding to an earlier blast Saturday in an area south of Baghdad, officials said. One bystander was also killed.


Iraq arrests two over deadly Baghdad attacks (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 07:19 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers are deployed while reopening al-Jumhuri street by Shorja market in the centre of Baghdad on July 31. Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on Saturday.


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