2011年2月21日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Al-Qaida figure believed killed in US drone strike (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:37 AM PST

A stockbroker sits in a booth as he looks at the share prices during a trading session inside the trading hall of the Karachi Stock Exchange on February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Athar HussainAP - An Iraqi al-Qaida operative was believed to be one of 15 militants killed in two U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.


Parliament stops work to listen to Iraqis' gripes (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:34 AM PST

Residents protest to demand for better basic services in Baghdad February 19, 2011. REUTERS/Ali al-MashhdaniReuters - Iraq's parliament has suspended work for a week and sent lawmakers to their home areas to help soothe rising anger over corruption, food shortages and poor services, the speaker of parliament said on Monday.


Suicide car bomber kills 12 north of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 06:57 AM PST

Security forces inspect a destroyed television station in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Gunmen burst into a Kurdish television station in northern Iraq on Sunday, shooting up the equipment and setting fire to the building, possibly in retaliation for footage they aired earlier in the week of a deadly protest, station officials said. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)AP - A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb Monday at a police station north of Baghdad, killing at least 12 police officers, police and health officials said.


Iraq moves to head off demos as protester killed (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:45 AM PST

An Iraqi man shows the palms of his hands that read AFP - Iraq scrambled to head off further protests on Monday by cutting politicians' pay and ramping up support for the needy after a teenage demonstrator was killed at a rally in the country's north.


(AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 06:26 AM PST

AP - State TV: Egypt's top prosecutor requests freeze of assets of ousted president Mubarak, family.

Iraq suicide car bomb kills 10 police (AFP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:15 AM PST

File photo of Iraqi police commandos standing guard in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad. A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker in the central Iraqi city of Samarra killed 10 policemen and wounded 16 others on Monday morning, police said.(AFP/File)AFP - A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker in the central Iraqi city of Samarra killed 10 policemen and wounded 16 others on Monday morning, police said.


The Egypt Revolution's Coming Face-Off (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 07:40 PM PST

The Daily Beast - Post-Mubarak, the country is experiencing a historic moment of unity, but it is entering an unstable period that could leave Egypt a stable democracy, like Turkey, or a chaotic nightmare, like Iraq. Stephen Kinzer on the looming clash between the protesters and the military.
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