2011年10月23日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Clinton to Iran: Don't misread departure from Iraq (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 04:08 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks to the international media during her visit to a hospital in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Clinton is at the tail end of a weeklong, seven-nation overseas trip that has already taken her to Malta, Libya, Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Iran should not misread the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as affecting the U.S. commitment to the fledgling democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.


Clinton warns Iran not to exploit U.S. Iraq pullout (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 08:08 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States pledged on Sunday to maintain a strong security relationship with Iraq for years to come despite the scheduled pullout of all U.S. troops and warned Iran not to try to exploit the situation.

Iraq can deal with Iran-backed militants: Panetta (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 07:10 AM PDT

Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro (L) shakes hands with his U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta before their bilateral meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, October 23, 2011. REUTERS/Murdani UsmanReuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed confidence Sunday that Iraq would be able to deal with any threat from Iran-backed militants, even after America completely withdraws its troops this year.


Costly Iraq war may mark shift in US approach (AP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2011 05:36 AM PDT

Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, left, shakes hands with his U.S. counterpart Leon Panetta during their bilateral meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Panetta will join 10 ASEAN defense ministers in a meeting beginning in Bali on Monday. Indonesia is Panetta’s first stop during his first official Asian tour, which will also include Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)AP - In the final days of the U.S. war in Iraq, the outlook for America's military entanglements is markedly different from the confusing, convulsive first days.


Conflicted Iraqis face future without US troops (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 11:37 PM PDT

Iraqis watch a broadcast of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that U.S. troops are leaving Iraq after nearly nine years of war because Baghdad rejected American demands that any U.S. military forces to stay would have to be shielded from prosecution or lawsuits. A day earlier, President Barack Obama had hailed the troops' withdrawal as the result of his commitment — promised shortly after taking office in 2009 — to end the war that he once described as 'dumb.'(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - For the first time in decades, Iraqis face a future on their own, with neither Saddam Hussein's iron fist nor the United States' military might to hold them together. This has been both their dream and nightmare: They wanted American troops (the occupiers) to go, but they wanted American troops (the protectors) to stay.


Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

Obama touts foreign policy successes in Iraq, Libya (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 07:47 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama sought on Saturday to cast himself as a strong leader on foreign policy, highlighting a pullout from Iraq and the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as success stories.

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