Yahoo! News: Iraq

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest (AP)
Syrian troops descend on restive border town (AP)
Two Kurds, Iran Guard killed on Iraq border (AFP)
30 reported killed in clashes in Syria (AFP)
Syria army 'readies operations' near Iraq border (AFP)
Syria forces besiege town after defections: residents (Reuters)
Iraqi doctor freed after $500,000 ransom (AFP)
Roadside bomb kills 2 in Baghdad (AP)

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 12:10 PM PDT

AP - Syrian troops flown in on helicopters descend on an eastern town near the Iraqi border where scores of soldiers defected to join the four-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. Assad has unleashed military and security forces on rebellious towns across the country to crush the unrest, but the uprising has been building steadily.

Syrian troops descend on restive border town (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 09:31 AM PDT

AP - Syrian troops flown in on helicopters descended on an eastern town near the Iraqi border Sunday where scores of soldiers defected to join the four-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad, witnesses and activists said.

Two Kurds, Iran Guard killed on Iraq border (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 07:50 AM PDT

AFP - At least two Iranian Kurdish rebels and one member of Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed during clashes along the Islamic Republic's border with Iraq, the two sides said on Sunday.

30 reported killed in clashes in Syria (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 02:07 PM PDT

AFP - At least 30 people were killed in 24 hours in the central Syrian city of Homs in clashes between supporters and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a human rights activist said on Sunday.

Syria army 'readies operations' near Iraq border (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 06:57 AM PDT

AFP - The army is preparing to storm the eastern border town of Al-Bukamal, next to Iraq, where "armed groups" have created an "explosive" situation," Al-Watan newspaper reported on Sunday.

Syria forces besiege town after defections: residents (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Syrian tanks surrounded a town near the border with Iraq's Sunni heartland on Sunday after thousands of people, emboldened by defections among security forces, took to the streets there denouncing President Bashar al-Assad, residents said.

Iraqi doctor freed after $500,000 ransom (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 05:54 AM PDT

AFP - An Iraqi paediatrician was released by militants after his family paid a half-million dollar ransom, a senior police officer in the ethnically divided northern city of Kirkuk said on Sunday.