2010年8月26日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Marine's defense to seek dismissal of Haditha case (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:44 PM PDT

AP - Lawyers for a Marine sergeant whose squad killed 24 Iraqis said Thursday they are preparing a motion that will seek to have the case dismissed because the Marine Corps retired his military attorney.

US poised to end Iraq combat mission as bloodshed spikes (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:20 PM PDT

US troops patrol the streets of the ethnically-divided Iraqi city of Kirkuk. US forces are set to end their combat mission in Iraq within days despite an upsurge in deadly attacks that has raised doubts about the conflict-torn country's ability to defend itself against insurgents.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - US forces are set to end their combat mission in Iraq within days despite an upsurge in deadly attacks that has raised doubts about the conflict-torn country's ability to defend itself against insurgents.

US leaves behind murky picture in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:05 PM PDT

An Iraqi policeman guards a mobile checkpoint in central Baghdad following more than a dozen car bombs targeting Iraqi police. US combat troops pulling out of Iraq can claim the ouster of a brutal dictator as a clear success but otherwise leave behind unresolved questions about democracy, terror and neighboring Iran's power.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - US combat troops pulling out of Iraq can claim the ouster of a brutal dictator as a clear success but otherwise leave behind unresolved questions about democracy, terror and neighboring Iran's power.

US soldiers relieved to depart Iraq, proud of accomplishment (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT

US soldiers from the 4th Stryker Brigade, second infantry division that pulled out of Iraq earlier this week, call their families at Camp Virginia in the Kuwaiti desert, 70 kms (43 miles) morthwest of Kuwait City, on August 21. David Feltner, a soldier in the last US combat brigade to pull out of Iraq, can't wait to return home and hug his bride-to-be.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)AFP - David Feltner, a soldier in the last US combat brigade to pull out of Iraq, can't wait to return home and hug his bride-to-be.

Iraq combat phase ends, but U.S. might stay past 2011 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:53 PM PDT

U.S. Army Spc. Clayton Joy hugs his sons Peyton, 3, left, and Austin, 2, right, as other soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team move to greet their family and friends in the early hours of Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 at a homecoming at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. The soldiers are part of the last brigade of combat troops which are now leaving Iraq, and heading home as part of the U.S. drawdown of forces. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially comes to an end Tuesday, 2,722 days after American-led troops stormed across the border from Kuwait. The remaining 49,000 U.S. troops are supposed to depart by the end of next year.

Obama Iraq speech to signal shift to Afghan focus (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:43 PM PDT

An Afghan boy passes American soldiers on a joint patrol with the Afghan Army, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. Soldiers in Zhari operate in a district which is the birthplace of the Taliban movement, and holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with a support network providing them with explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - With his Oval Office speech Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will signal a shift in America's focus from the Iraq War to the war in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Thursday.

Iraq Attacks: Insurgency Rises As U.S. Troops Pull Out (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Time.com - Will the Iraqi insurgency's return force U.S. non-combat forces to take up arms?

Iraqis who fought view U.S. exit with mixed feelings (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:33 PM PDT

A view of devastation in Falluja, scene of some of the fiercest battles of the Iraq war, west of Baghdad, December 21, 2004. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovReuters - Sunni fighter Abu Mujahid lost a leg battling U.S. Marines in the Iraqi city of Falluja, scene of some of the fiercest battles of the Iraq war.

'Five rebels, two guards' killed in Iran clashes (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:56 AM PDT

Loaded trucks cross the Iranian-Iraqi border at the Kurdistan crossing point of Bashmakh, Iraq, in 2007. Five rebels and two members of the Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes in Iran's Kordestan province near the Iraqi border, government newspaper Iran reported on Thursday.(AFP/File/Thibauld Malterre)AFP - Five rebels and two members of the Revolutionary Guards have been killed in clashes in Iran's Kordestan province near the Iraqi border, government newspaper Iran reported on Thursday.

Six Iraqi fighters killed in Qaeda attack: police (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:05 AM PDT

Armed Sahwa or AFP - Six members of a Sunni Arab militia that sided with US forces against Al-Qaeda during Iraq's insurgency were killed on Thursday, in the latest revenge attack against them, police said.

'Sons of Iraq' feel betrayed by motherland (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:03 AM PDT

Armed Sahwa or AFP - The Sunni Arab militiamen who sided with American soldiers against Al-Qaeda during Iraq's brutal insurgency fear the exit of thousands of US troops will herald a surge in bloody revenge attacks against them.

Iraq's bric-a-brac man wary of US troop departure (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 07:43 AM PDT

Workers sort military vehicle tyres bought from a US military base before selling them at a junk market in the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit on August 24. Qahtan Karim buys all manner of disused items for peanuts from the nearby American base, then sells them at the empty lot just outside Tikrit, an irony in that the central city is the hometown of the late dictator Saddam Hussein.(AFP/Mahmud Saleh)AFP - While some Iraqis cannot wait for US troops to leave their country, Qahtan Karim wants them to stay for a simple reason -- they provide him with a thriving business.

Police: 6 Sunni fighters killed in ambush in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:31 AM PDT

Map locates Muqdadiyah, Iraq, where insurgents killed Sunni militiaAP - Insurgents killed six members of a government-allied Sunni militia in an ambush northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, police said, offering no respite to a nation still reeling from a spate of attacks on police and soldiers a day earlier that left at least 56 dead.

Bombing spree doesn't shake Mullen's faith in Iraq security forces (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:48 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Despite a wave of attacks by Iraqi insurgents Wednesday morning that killed at least 45 people, America's top military officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, says he remains confident in Iraqi security forces as the US prepares to end its combat mission there.

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