2010年10月27日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Russia appeals to Iraq to not execute Aziz (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Russia called on Iraq on Wednesday not to carry out the death sentence on Tareq Aziz on humanitarian grounds, its foreign ministry said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,426 (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 01:57 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, at least 4,426 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Iraq governor suspended for alleged Baath party affiliation (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 09:56 AM PDT

Ballots boxes from different cities in the northern Salaheddin province are opened at an electoral center in the northern city of Tikrit, in 2009. The governor of Saddam Hussein's native province has been suspended for membership of the executed Iraqi dictator's now outlawed Baath party, a vetting body said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Mahmud Saleh)AFP - The governor of Saddam Hussein's native province has been suspended for membership of the executed Iraqi dictator's now outlawed Baath party, a vetting body said on Wednesday.


Russia calls for 'clemency' for Iraq's Tareq Aziz (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 08:22 AM PDT

Russia's foreign ministry has called for AFP - Russia's foreign ministry on Wednesday called for "clemency" for former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz after he was sentenced to death by hanging for murder and crimes against humanity.


Afghanistan: Can Iraq-Style Militias Tackle the Taliban? (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 06:35 AM PDT

Time.com - The less-than-sterling record of the Afghan army is leading U.S. commanders to press an Iraqi-militia model on Kabul. But Afghanistan is a very different country

Baghdad bombs kill 3 in scattered violence (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:32 AM PDT

Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a roadside bomb, which exploded in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Iraqi police say a bombing at a checkpoint near the headquarters of a Sunni foundation in north Baghdad has killed security guards. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A bomb blast Wednesday near a Sunni religious organization killed two security guards, police and hospital officials said.


Iraq court sentences Tareq Aziz to death (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:37 PM PDT

Iraq's supreme criminal court has found Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz, seen here in 2004, guilty of AFP - Iraq's supreme criminal court found Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz guilty of "deliberate murder and crimes against humanity", sentencing to death the long-time international face of the Saddam Hussein regime.


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