2010年12月12日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Car bomb kills 13 and wounds dozens in Iraq's Ramadi (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

Security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, December 12, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A suicide car bomber killed 13 people and wounded dozens near government buildings in the mainly Sunni Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, police and hospital sources said.


US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 10:17 AM PST

AP - Army Sgt. David J. Luff Jr.

Iraq insurgents kidnap senior policeman's relative (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 08:42 AM PST

US troops patrol the streets of the ethnically-divided Iraqi city of Kirkuk, north of the capital Baghdad. Insurgents kidnapped the sister-in-law of a top Kurdish policeman in an apparent bid to release jailed detainees in the ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk, police said.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Insurgents kidnapped the sister-in-law of a top Kurdish policeman in an apparent bid to release jailed detainees in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said on Sunday.


Six police among 14 killed in Iraq suicide attacks (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 07:50 AM PST

Iraqi security forces survey the damage at the scene of a suicide attack in the western city of Ramadi. Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint in Ramadi and a Shiite Muslim procession in central Iraq killed up to 14 people, including six policemen and a journalist.(AFP/Azhar Shallal)AFP - Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint and a Shiite Muslim procession in western and central Iraq killed up to 14 people on Sunday, including six policemen and a journalist.


Hamza Hendawi named AP's Cairo bureau chief (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 05:51 AM PST

AP - Veteran journalist Hamza Hendawi, who reported for The Associated Press from Baghdad during the 2003 U.S. invasion and then chronicled Iraq's bitter struggle through insurgency and sectarian conflict to elected government, has been named chief of bureau in Cairo responsible for coverage of Egypt, Libya and Sudan.

Iraqi officials say 17 killed in suicide bombing (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2010 05:28 AM PST

Iraqi security forces inspect a crater caused by a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. A suicide bomber blew up his car Sunday outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing and wounding scores of people, including women and elderly people waiting to collect welfare checks, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - A suicide bomber blew up his car Sunday outside government offices west of the Iraqi capital, killing 17 people, including women and elderly people waiting to collect welfare checks, officials said.


6 police among 8 killed in Iraq suicide attack (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 11:59 PM PST

File picture shows an Iraqi soldier on duty in a street in the western city of Ramadi. Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint and a Shiite Muslim procession in western and central Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including six policemen, police and a doctor said.(AFP/File/Azhar Shallal)AFP - A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives in the centre of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Sunday, killing eight people including six policemen, police and a doctor said.


Iraqi Kurdish leader urges self-determination (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 02:27 AM PST

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, pictured on November 8, has called for the right to self-determination of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which could lead to a breakup of the country.(AFP/File/Safin Hamed)AFP - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani called on Saturday for the right to self-determination of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which could lead to a breakup of the country.


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