2011年4月16日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Maliki tells US's Boehner Iraqi troops are ready (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Speaker of the House John Boehner, pictured on April 14, was in Baghdad on Saturday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Iraqi forces were capable of maintaining security in the country, during talks with Boehner in Baghdad on Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Iraqi forces were capable of maintaining security in the country during talks with US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in Baghdad on Saturday.


UN calls for immediate probe into Iran camp raid (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:21 PM PDT

People hold pictures on April 9 in Paris as they demonstrate against the deadly incidents at Ashraf. The UN called on Baghdad to immediately start an independent inquiry into a raid on an Iranian opposition camp that left 34 dead, after expressing AFP - The UN called on Iraq to immediately start an independent inquiry into a raid on an Iranian opposition camp that left 34 dead, after expressing "deep concern" over the incident on Saturday.


Iraq may ditch $57 million of food ration cooking oil (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Reuters - About $57 million worth of cooking oil once destined for Iraq's national food ration program may be fed to animals because it was left outdoors for three years and passed its expiry date for human consumption.

Iran: Could the MEK Be Evicted from Camp Ashraf by Iraqi Military? (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - As Baghdad's ties with Tehran warm up, a community of defiant Iranian dissidents has become an irritant -- and a focus of confrontation

Iraqi immigrant who ran over daughter gets 34 yrs. (AP)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:28 PM PDT

AP - An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced Friday to 34 1/2 years in an Arizona prison for running over and killing his 20-year-old daughter because she became too Westernized.

U.N. rights chief urges probe of deaths at Iraqi camp (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 07:10 PM PDT

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looks on before the Special Session of the Human Rights Council on Reuters - The U.N. human rights chief called on Friday for an independent investigation into the deaths of 34 people at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq after Iraqi security forces moved against it last week.


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