2011年4月17日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Police fire on demonstrators in Iraq; 35 wounded (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 01:43 PM PDT

Demonstrators rally in Paris earlier this month against deadly incidents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, which houses around 3,500 opponents of the clerical regime in Iran. Iranian rebels who lost 34 members in a clash with the Iraqi army at the base have been barred from burying the dead at a cemetery inside their base, spokesmen for both sides have said.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AP - Iraqi police opened fire Sunday on stone-throwing crowds protesting government corruption in Iraq's northern Kurdish region. At least 35 people were wounded, some of them by gunfire, a doctor said.


Boehner visits Iraq, assures support for mission (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 01:34 PM PDT

Reuters - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner visited Iraq over the weekend to express U.S. commitment to the country's postwar success, despite a rancorous Washington budget debate over spending cuts.

Protesters and police clash in northern Iraq, 35 wounded (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Reuters - At least 35 people were wounded, including seven policemen, in clashes between protesters and security forces in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimaniya Sunday, police and hospital sources said.

31 hurt in Iraq clashes with protesters (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 12:01 PM PDT

People shout slogans and wave a flag of Iraq during the weekly friday demonstration to denounce corruption, unemployment and poor public services in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on April 15. Thirty-one people were injured, seven of them by live bullets, as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Sunday, a medical official said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Thirty-one people were injured, seven of them by live bullets, as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Sunday, a medical official said.


Iraqi army bars burials at Iran rebel camp (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:33 AM PDT

Demonstrators rally in Paris earlier this month against deadly incidents at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, which houses around 3,500 opponents of the clerical regime in Iran. Iranian rebels who lost 34 members in a clash with the Iraqi army at the base have been barred from burying the dead at a cemetery inside their base, spokesmen for both sides have said.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AFP - Iraq-based Iranian rebels who lost 34 members in a clash with the Iraqi army this month were barred from burying the dead at a cemetery inside their base, spokesmen for both sides said on Sunday.


After US pullback, Iraq envoys are more vulnerable (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:26 AM PDT

In this March 23, 2011 photo, U.S. troops stand guard outside a local journalists' union office in Basra, Iraq. As the U.S. tries to move from invading power to normal diplomatic partner and the last American troops obligated to be gone by year's end, the protection of American diplomats will fall almost entirely to private contractors and Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Make no mistake, Mazin al-Nazeni hates Americans. Soldiers, diplomats, oilmen — the militant leader in Basra, Iraq's second largest city, considers all of them to be Enemy No. 1.


Top US Republican impressed by progress in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 11:15 AM PDT

US House Speaker John Boehner, pictured on April 15, on a visit to Baghdad, hailed Iraq's march toward self-governance by year's end, praising it as AFP - US House Speaker John Boehner, on a visit to Baghdad, hailed Iraq's march toward self-governance by year's end, praising it as "a different country" from the violence-ridden recent past.


UN calls for Iraqi probe of attack on Iranian opposition group (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 08:12 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations has called on Iraq to hold an independent investigation into the killings of 34 people at an Iranian opposition base after Iraqi authorities who authorized an April 8 raid on the camp suggested that the group might have executed its own members.

Gunmen, bombs kill six in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2011 05:30 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman on patrol in Baghdad. Bombs and gunmen killed six people in Iraq on Sunday, four of them from the same family, according to security sources.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Bombs and gunmen killed six people in Iraq on Sunday, four of them from the same family, security sources said.


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