2011年3月16日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,439 (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:38 PM PDT

AP - As of Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at least 4,439 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Marine in Iraq war crime case seeks clemency (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:25 PM PDT

AP - A lawyer for a Marine convicted of murder in a major Iraq war crime case asked the Navy on Wednesday to grant his client clemency, arguing that freedom is warranted because of an error during the 2007 trial.

US diplomat: Budget fight threatens Iraq gains (AP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:48 AM PDT

An Iraqi woman reacts while protesters chant slogans during a protest in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 16, 2011. More than 200 employees of Basra customs directorate took part in a protest in front of Basra customs building, demanding the dismissal of the director general of Basra customs because they claimed he is a military man and has no experience in customs affairs. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Eight years of work to stabilize Iraq could go to waste if Congress guts funding to train Iraqi police forces after U.S. combat troops leave the country, a senior diplomat said Wednesday.


Iraq criticises Bahrain intervention; Sadrists march (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday criticized military intervention by Sunni Arab neighbors in Bahrain, and followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad.

Iraq's Aziz gets life sentence over Shiite murders (AFP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz, pictured in 2006, received a life sentence on Wednesday for his role in the 1980s killing of Shiite officials, a judicial spokesman said.(AFP/POOL/File/Marco Di Lauro)AFP - Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz received a life sentence on Wednesday for his role in the 1980s killing of Shiite officials, a judicial spokesman said.


Fellow Shiites rally behind Bahrain protesters (AFP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 07:23 AM PDT

Iraqi Shiites hold up the Bahraini flag as they protest in Sadr City, as they protests against the violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni dynasty in the Bahraini capital Manama.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - From Iran to Saudi Arabia and through the Iraqi city of Najaf, Shiites in the Middle East rallied Wednesday behind Shiite protesters in Bahrain against a violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni dynasty.


Iraq bomb kills mother and newborn, wounds 33 (AFP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:10 AM PDT

Iraqi fire fighters douse the flames following a car bomb that ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Kirkuk. Iraqi police have said a car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk, killing a mother and her newborn baby and wounding 33 other people.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing a mother and her newborn baby and wounding 33 other people, police said.


Iraq Shiite authority condemns Bahrain crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:27 AM PDT

Iraqi Shiite cleric Basheer al-Najafi, seen here in 2010, has condemned a deadly government crackdown on mainly Shiite protesters in Bahrain. The Shiite cleric said the violence must stop immediately.(AFP/File/Qassem Zein)AFP - A leading Iraq-based Shiite Muslim authority on Wednesday condemned a deadly government crackdown on mainly Shiite protesters in Bahrain, saying the violence must stop immediately.


Woman killed, 22 wounded by Iraq car bomb (AFP)

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 12:38 AM PDT

File picture shows Iraqi soldiers parading in Kirkuk. A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in the restive northern city of Kirkuk Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 22, with a woman and baby among casualties, police and a doctor said.(AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd outside a hospital in Iraq's restive northern city of Kirkuk Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 22, with a woman and baby among casualties, police and a doctor said.


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