2010年12月5日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Qatar royal killed in car crash in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:23 PM PST

Reuters - A member of the Qatari royal family was killed in a car accident during a hunting trip in Iraq's western Anbar province Sunday, a provincial official said.

Iraqi school for Roma is basic, but gives hope (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:21 PM PST

Iraqi gypsy children attend a class in the first mobile school for gypsies sponsored by the Ministry of Education in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, in November 2010. It might look modest, but the tent that acts as a class room and the car that doubles as an office are, for the Roma who attend lessons there, the first school of its kind in Iraqi Kurdistan.(AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed)AFP - It might look modest, but the tent that acts as a class room and the car that doubles as an office are, for the Roma who attend lessons there, the first school of its kind in Iraqi Kurdistan.


More foreign fighters seen slipping back into Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 10:46 AM PST

Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, right, stands next to a television display showing a recording of six alleged foreign fighters in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.  Al-Moussawi says security forces are on the lookout for six foreign fighters who helped launch horrific attacks this year that killed more than 140 people. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Intelligence officials say foreign fighters have been slipping back into Iraq in larger numbers recently and may have been behind some of the most devastating attacks this year, reviving a threat the U.S. military believed had been almost entirely eradicated.


Iran 'dominant player' in Iraq politics: leaked memo (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:47 AM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during a meeting in October 2010.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - Tehran is a "dominant player" in Iraq using "all means of diplomacy, intelligence and economy" to get a pro-Iranian regime there, leaked US diplomatic cables published by Le Monde newspaper Sunday said.


Iraqi FM adamant over Aziz death penalty (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:22 AM PST

Former Iraqi deputy premier Tareq Aziz testifies during the trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has rebuffed a call for clemency against execution for Aziz that was made by his visiting Italian counterpart Franco Frattini(AFP/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Sunday rebuffed a call for clemency against execution for Saddam-era minister Tareq Aziz that was made by his visiting Italian counterpart Franco Frattini.


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