2010年8月11日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US sticks to Iraq withdrawal timetable (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:34 PM PDT

Paratroopers leave a plane following a year-long tour in Iraq in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Despite warnings from Iraq's top officer, the United States has said its drawdown was AFP - Despite warnings from Iraq's top officer, the United States has said its drawdown was "on target" and suggested as few as "dozens" of US embassy troops might remain in Baghdad after 2011.

White House: US on track to end Iraq combat role (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:06 PM PDT

A U.S. Army soldier stands at the scene of a blast in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed several people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect a monthly state stipend for some of the country's poorest, police officials said. Violence across Iraq has spiked in the past month as the U.S. moved ahead with a major drawdown of its troops to be completed by the end of August, when only 50,000 will remain in the country.(AP Photo)AP - President Barack Obama is satisfied that the United States can safely end its combat role in Iraq at the end of this month and meet the deadline for removing all U.S. troops from the country by the end of 2011, White House officials said Wednesday.

U.S. upbeat on Iraq despite violence, deadlock (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:38 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. officials gave an upbeat assessment of the situation in Iraq on Wednesday, despite Iraqi politicians' failure to form a government five months after elections and a sharp rise in civilian deaths in July.

Top Iraqi officer warns US must stay past 2011 (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:40 PM PDT

An Iraqi policeman mans a checkpoint in Baghdad. Iraq's top army officer warned on Wednesday that a pullout of all US troops by the end of 2011 was premature as the White House insisted it was on track to end combat operations this month as planned.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's top army officer warned on Wednesday that a pullout of all US troops by the end of 2011 was premature as the White House insisted it was on track to end combat operations this month as planned.

US 'on target' to end Iraq combat mission this month (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 11:21 AM PDT

US soldiers stand next to Iraqi military police vehicles lined up at a US army Forward Operating Base (FOB) in July 2010. The US military presence in Iraq after the pullout of American forces in 2011 could be just AFP - The United States is on schedule to wrap up combat operations as planned on August 31 despite a recent flare-up in violence, the White House said on Wednesday.

Gunmen use kids to lure Iraqi soldiers into trap (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:13 AM PDT

A policeman directs traffic in central Baghdad August 9, 2010. Iraq is arming some of its traffic police in the capital with AK-47 assault rifles after two dozen of the AP - Gunmen burst into a house north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killed three people and then sent the surviving children to lure over soldiers from a nearby Iraqi army checkpoint, killing eight.

Ambassador hopeful Iraq will form government soon (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:03 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman mans a checkpoint in Baghdad. The country has yet to install its government and there is only five months to go until it holds legislative elections.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Wednesday that after five months of post-election "pushing and shoving" by Iraqi politicians, raising concerns about U.S. troop withdrawals, Baghdad may finally be headed to forming a new government.

Obama, national security team hold meeting on Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:26 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman mans a checkpoint in Baghdad. President Barack Obama convened his national security team Wednesday to discuss the situation in Iraq, with just three weeks to go before the official end of the US combat mission there.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - President Barack Obama convened his national security team Wednesday to discuss the situation in Iraq, with just three weeks to go before the official end of the US combat mission there.

Militant attack kills 8 Iraqi soldiers and 3 others (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:40 AM PDT

A policeman directs traffic in central Baghdad August 9, 2010. Iraq is arming some of its traffic police in the capital with AK-47 assault rifles after two dozen of the Reuters - An insurgent attack killed eight Iraqi soldiers and three other people at a house in northern Diyala province on Wednesday, police said, in the latest assault on Iraqi security forces as U.S. troops prepare to leave.

Iraq 'needs US military support until 2020' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 05:59 AM PDT

US soldiers stand next to Iraqi military police vehicles at the US army Forward Operating Base (FOB) Constitution West of Baghdad on July 29. The Iraqi army will require American support for another decade before it is ready to handle the country's security on its own, Iraq's army chief of staff told AFP on Wednesday.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The Iraqi army will require American support for another decade before it is ready to handle the country's security on its own, Iraq's army chief of staff told AFP on Wednesday.

Fire rages, flow stops on bombed Turkish pipeline (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:30 AM PDT

Reuters - Turkish fire-fighters on Wednesday battled to contain a raging fire on a pipeline carrying about a quarter of Iraq's crude oil exports, a day after an explosion blamed on Kurdish militants, officials said.

Obama to hold national security sitdown on Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:46 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama sits down Wednesday with his national security team to talk about Iraq.

Eight Iraqi soldiers killed in house bomb (AFP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:00 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman mans a checkpoint in Baghdad on August 11. Insurgents lured Iraqi troops into a booby-trapped house early Wednesday, killing eight soldiers in coordinated blasts that marked the start of Ramadan when violence typically peaks.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Insurgents early Wednesday lured Iraqi troops into a booby-trapped house in Diyala province which then exploded killing eight soldiers, an army officer told AFP.

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