2010年8月18日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Last U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq: report (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:25 PM PDT

In this July 3, 2010 file photo, Iraqi truck drivers use hand signals to help guide a U.S. military mine-resistant armored vehicle (MRAP) onto a flat bed truck set to leave Iraq at a staging yard at Joint Base Balad, north of Baghdad, Iraq. Everything from helicopters to printer cartridges are being wrapped and stamped and shipped out of Iraq in one of the most monumental withdrawal operations the American military has ever carried out as U.S. forces flow out of the country. The move is reversing, over the course of months, a U.S. military presence that built up over seven years and dug in so deep it once seemed immovable. More than 400 bases are being closed down or handed over to the Iraqi military, some closer to small towns with elaborate dining facilities serving tacos and crab legs and gyms with rows of treadmills. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)Reuters - The last U.S. combat troops are leaving Iraq in a convoy to Kuwait, more than seven years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

Last US combat brigade pulls out of Iraq: US media (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:23 PM PDT

An Iraqi soldier is seen atop an armoured vehicle close to US troops near a military base in Baghdad. The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait almost seven and a half years after the US-led invasion, US media has reported.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The last US combat brigade pulled out of Iraq and crossed into Kuwait almost seven and a half years after the US-led invasion, US media has reported.

Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads home (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 05:20 PM PDT

In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jackie Vanover, from Spanaway, Wash. holds a hand-made message for his family, including his two-month-old daughter, Austin, after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. Staff Sgt. Vanover, of 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, is in the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)AP - As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos.

Lebanon militants: Leader slain en route to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:35 PM PDT

AP - An al-Qaida-inspired group says its leader and a top commander were heading to Iraq to join insurgents there when Lebanese security troops killed them over the weekend, according to a U.S. terror-monitoring firm.

Three farmers killed in central Iraq attack (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 12:25 PM PDT

An Iraqi man stands behind a shattered window at the scene of a fuel truck explosion in the Iraqi capital's Ur district, in which two people were killed and more than 20 wounded.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Three farmers were killed and leaflets pinned to their bodies Wednesday, warning against cooperation with American and Iraqi forces in a brutal act of intimidation as thousands of US troops leave.

New US ambassador to Iraq arrives in Baghdad (AFP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 10:42 AM PDT

James Jeffrey, the new US ambassador to Iraq, seen here in 2004, arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday and presented his diplomatic credentials to the conflict-torn nation's head of state, the US embassy said in a statement.(AFP/File/Gent Shkulaku)AFP - James Jeffrey, the new US ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday and presented his diplomatic credentials to the conflict-torn nation's head of state, the US embassy said in a statement.

Insurgents kill 5 govt employees around Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 08:22 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman inspects a vehicle damaged in a roadside bomb attack targeted a police patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A series of attacks and roadside bomb explosions killed five Iraqi government employees on Wednesday as insurgents maintain a steady campaign of attacks against the country's institutions and security forces just two weeks before the formal end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq.

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