2011年7月17日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


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

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows hundreds of waving their national flag as they rally in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Homs in June 2011. 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.(AFP/SANA/File)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

Two Iranian Kurdish rebels based in Iraq were killed during hours of clashes with Tehran's forces along the two countries' border, a rebel spokesman said on Sunday.(AFP/Safin Hamed)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

Thousands of pro-regime Syrians wave their national flag and portraits of President Bashar al-Assad during a rally in Damascus. 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.(AFP/Louai Beshara)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

The army is preparing to storm the eastern border town of Al-Bukamal, next to Iraq, where 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

A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows hundreds of waving their national flag as they rally in support of President Bashar al-Assad in Homs in June 2011. 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.(AFP/SANA/File)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

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.(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson)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.


Roadside bomb kills 2 in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 02:43 AM PDT

Country music artist Chely Wright sings a duet with Kid Rock while visiting U.S. troops in a helicopter hangar of Baghdad's international airport June 19, 2003. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenAP - Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb targeting a security patrol has killed one policeman and a passer-by in western Baghdad.


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