2011年4月25日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Kurd officers killed in clash with Iraqi forces (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:26 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers stand guard at the site of armed clashes between Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish forces in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk. Two Kurdish security officers died and four other people were wounded in armed clashes between Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish forces in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk Monday, officials said.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Two Kurdish security officers died and four other people were wounded in armed clashes between Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish forces in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk Monday, officials said.


Three Turks kidnapped in Iraq released: army (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:26 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers patrol a street on the outskirts of Kirkuk in 2007. Three Turkish workers who were kidnapped in mid-February in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk were released on Monday after being held by a Sunni militant group, security officials said.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)AFP - Three Turkish workers who were kidnapped in mid-February in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk were released on Monday after being held by a Sunni militant group, security officials said.


Taliban tunnel: Five prison escapes in Iraq, Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:15 AM PDT

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Iraq oil exports bring in record income (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:57 AM PDT

A man walks close to a flare at the North Rumaila oil field, in southern Iraq on January 19, 2010. Rising oil prices combined with a third consecutive month of exports in excess of two million barrels per day (bpd) to bring in record income for Iraq in March, the oil ministry said.(AFP/File/Essam -al-Sudani)AFP - Rising oil prices combined with a third consecutive month of exports in excess of two million barrels per day (bpd) to bring in record income for Iraq in March, the oil ministry said on Monday.


Iraq plans new oil and gas field auction in January (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Iraqi Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi speaks to the press in Baghdad on Monday to announce that Iraq is to auction 12 gas and oil fields to foreign companies in January 2012.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq will auction 12 oil and gas exploration blocs to foreign firms in January 2012, the fourth opening of its energy sector since Saddam Hussein's fall, Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi said on Monday.


Iraq has more than 14,000 people missing: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen stop a driver to search his vehicle at a checkpoint in Baghdad on April 24. More than 14,000 people have disappeared in Iraq since 2003, an official said, revealing for the first time the numbers who have gone missing in the violent aftermath of the US-led invasion.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AFP - More than 14,000 people have disappeared in Iraq since 2003, an official said on Monday, revealing for the first time the numbers who have gone missing in the violent aftermath of the US-led invasion.


Iran, Iraq sign extradition deal (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 06:05 AM PDT

Members of the Iranian oppposition group People's Mujahedeen, which fought with Saddam Hussein's regime against Iran in the 1980-88 war, and their relatives demonstrate against a decision to move them at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad. Iran and Iraq have signed an accord to extradite AFP - Iran and Iraq have signed an accord to extradite "convicts and criminals" wanted by the two neighbours, state television's website and newspapers reported on Monday.


Iran, Iraq sign extradition accord (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran and Iraq have signed an extradition agreement, the latest step in warming relations between the former warring neighbors, but Baghdad denied it would be used to repatriate exiled militants to Iran.
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