2011年6月6日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iraq PM backs off firings on 100-day deadline (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:37 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in February 2011, signaled on Monday no ministers would be fired for poor performance, on the eve of the expiry of a 100-day deadline he set to force his cabinet to shape up.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - A 100-day deadline set by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki amid nationwide protests expires on Tuesday, though the premier has pulled back from a threat of major changes if ministers did not shape up.


Iraq PM backs off firings on eve of 100 days (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:18 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in February 2011, signaled on Monday no ministers would be fired for poor performance, on the eve of the expiry of a 100-day deadline he set to force his cabinet to shape up.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki signaled on Monday no ministers would be fired for poor performance, on the eve of the expiry of a 100-day deadline he set to force his cabinet to shape up.


Rocket barrage kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2007 file photo, the helmet, boots, dog tags and weapon belonging to fallen U.S. Army Spc. Brandon Smitherman from 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division are silhouetted as his comrades pay tribute at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security officials said Monday, June 6, 2011 that a rocket attack has killed five American troops in Iraq. Earlier, the U.S. military said in a brief statement that five troops were killed but gave no additional details about where the incident occurred or how they died. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo/File)AP - Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad — the largest, single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.


Iraq tries to recover fleeing bank chief (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Iraq is using legal and diplomatic means to bring back the chief of a state-owned bank under investigation for financial irregularities, a top official said on Monday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in February 2011, himself has intervened in a bid to secure the return of Hussein al-Uzri, chief of Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI), after he fled to Lebanon following the allegations.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq is using legal and diplomatic means to bring back the chief of a state-owned bank under investigation for financial irregularities, a top official said on Monday.


Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq rocket attack (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Five U.S. service members were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq on Monday, in the worst single toll for American troops in the country for at least two years, the U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.

Attacks kill five US soldiers, 20 Iraqis (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT

An Iraqi policeman patrols in Baghdad in March 2011, after an hours-long shootout with gunmen that left 58 dead the day before at the provincial council building in Tikrit. Fresh attacks have killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than two years, just months before all of them must withdraw.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Attacks killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis on Monday, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than two years, just months before all of them must withdraw.


Five U.S. troops killed in Iraq attack (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Five U.S. service members were killed in a rocket attack in Iraq on Monday in the worst single toll for American troops in the country in at least two years, the U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.

(AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:47 AM PDT

AP - Syria says it lost "intermittent" control of area where armed men attacked forces, killing 120.

Five American soldiers killed in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:55 AM PDT

Map locating Tikrit and Baghdad, where at least 21 people have been killed in five seperate attacks.(AFP/Graphic/Laurence Saubadu)AFP - Five American soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Monday, the deadliest day for US troops there in more than two years, with just months to go before all US forces must withdraw from Iraq completely.


Sixteen killed in Iraq attacks (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:09 AM PDT

Iraqi anti-terror police guard a checkpoint in Baghdad. Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq has killed 16 people, including 12 struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Violence in Baghdad and central Iraq on Monday killed 16 people, including 12 struck by a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, officials said.


Suicide car bomber kills 13 in Saddam's hometown (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:52 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, pictured in February 2011, signaled on Monday no ministers would be fired for poor performance, on the eve of the expiry of a 100-day deadline he set to force his cabinet to shape up.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)Reuters - At least 13 people were killed and 15 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car in Iraq's central city of Tikrit on Monday, the second attack in three days in the hometown of the late Saddam Hussein, officials said.


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