2010年8月24日星期二

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,416 (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:23 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at least 4,416 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

US troops in Iraq fall below Obama's 50,000 mark (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers attend a training session with US troops on using US-made M1A battle tanks at the military base of Basmayah. US troop numbers in Iraq fell below 50,000 on Tuesday, a week ahead of an official end to America's combat mission, as a poll cast doubt on the timing of the pullout and warned of negative consequences.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US troop numbers in Iraq fell below 50,000 on Tuesday, a week ahead of an official end to America's combat mission, as a poll cast doubt on the timing of the pullout and warned of negative consequences.

Remaining US troops still face danger in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:52 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 20, 2010, trucks transport U.S. military Humvees, MRAPs and other vehicles recently arrived from Iraq at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by President Barack Obama, the American military said in a statement Tuesday. The number is a watershed — American forces will no longer conduct combat operations in the country but are instead to train Iraqi troops and help with counterterrorism operations, if asked for by the Iraqis. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Lt. Ryan Alexander stands thigh-deep in a dark grove of reeds and palm trees, hunting for rockets. Officially, the U.S. combat role in Iraq is ending this month, but Alexander and his platoon are under orders to keep insurgents from using the south Baghdad field as a hiding place for Katyushas.

Iraq unrest kills six (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers attend a training session with US troops using US-made M1A battle tanks at the Iraqi military base of Basmayah, 15 kms southeast of Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed two policemen and a civilian at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Tuesday, while three other people died from violence elsewhere in the country, security officials said.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A suicide bomber killed two policemen and a civilian at a checkpoint in central Iraq on Tuesday, while three other people died from violence elsewhere in the country, security officials said.

Obama to mark end of combat mission in major Iraq speech (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 11:20 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama, seen here on August 5, is to give a major speech to mark the end of American combat operations in Iraq on August 31, the White House said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - US President Barack Obama is to give a major speech to mark the end of American combat operations in Iraq on August 31, the White House said Tuesday.

White House: Troop cut 'remarkable achievement' (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 09:58 AM PDT

John Brennan, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, left, accompanied by Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton, speaks during a news conference in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The Obama administration asked Friday that the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 be returned to a Scottish prison. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The U.S. troop drawdown in Iraq is a "truly remarkable achievement" and demonstrates President Barack Obama's commitment to responsibly ending the drawn-out conflict, the White House said Tuesday.

U.S. troops in Iraq below 50,000 as combat ends (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:54 AM 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)Reuters - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had cut its troops in Iraq to below 50,000 before an August 31 deadline set by President Barack Obama as he seeks to keep a promise to end the war.

Obama to make major Iraq speech on Aug 31: W.House (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 08:38 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama will make a major address on Iraq on August 31, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday.

Qaeda says responsible for attacks on Iraq judges (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:34 AM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate on Tuesday claimed responsibility for recent attacks on Iraqi judges, saying it was retaliating against death sentences being given to Sunni prisoners.

Five oil workers killed in armed robbery (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:05 AM PDT

Fire flames rise from a petroleum well at an oil refinery in Iraq. Gunmen disguised as Iraqi soldiers killed five oil workers transporting salaries and stole almost 400,000 dollars (316,500 euros), the head of security for the state-owned oil company said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Gunmen disguised as Iraqi soldiers killed five oil workers transporting salaries and stole almost 400,000 dollars (316,500 euros), the head of security for the state-owned oil company said Tuesday.

Al-Qaeda claims attacks on Iraqi judges: SITE (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:02 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen stop cars for security checks in central Baghdad, August 17. Al-Qaeda has claimed it was behind bomb attacks on judges in Iraq, saying they were carried out to avenge death sentences being handed down to Sunnis in Shiite prisons, a US monitoring group said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Al-Qaeda has claimed it was behind bomb attacks on judges in Iraq, saying they were carried out to avenge death sentences being handed down to Sunnis in Shiite prisons, a US monitoring group said Tuesday.

Iraq's banks urge privatisation of state lenders (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:10 PM PDT

File photo shows an Iraqi security guard standing close to a branch of a bank in the country's capital, Baghdad. Iraq's privately-owned banks have called for the country's state-owned lenders to be privatised to break up a near monopoly in lending by politicians whose actions remain stuck in the Saddam-era.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Iraq's privately-owned banks have called for the country's state-owned lenders to be privatised to break up a near monopoly in lending by politicians whose actions remain stuck in the Saddam-era.

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