2011年7月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

US forces pursue Iraq Shiite insurgents: Panetta (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta looks out the window of a Blackhawk helicopter as he flys over Baghdad. American forces are pursuing Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq, Panetta said in Baghdad on Monday as US deaths spike nearly a year after US troops formally ended combat operations.(AFP/POOL/Paul J. Richards)AFP - American forces are pursuing Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said in Baghdad on Monday as US deaths spike nearly a year after US troops formally ended combat operations.

1 of Iraq's 3 vice presidents resigns (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 01:01 PM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) and Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin fly in a Blackhawk helicopter over Baghdad. American forces are pursuing Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq, Panetta said in Baghdad on Monday as US deaths spike nearly a year after US troops formally ended combat operations.(AFP/POOL/Paul J. Richards)AP - One of Iraq's three vice presidents resigned Monday in an apparent attempt to distance himself from what is seen as an increasingly dysfunctional government.

U.S. may act unilaterally vs Iran-armed Iraq militias (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 12:11 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (not pictured) speaks with the new U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the presidential palace in Kabul, July 9, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad Massoud/PoolReuters - The United States will take unilateral action when needed to deal with the threat to American troops in Iraq from Shi'ite militias armed by Iran, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Monday.

Iranian weapons allegedly used against US troops (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, 4th right,, has lunch with 10 junior enlisted soldiers during his visit to Camp Victory in Baghdad, on Monday July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/ Paul J. Richards, Pool)AP - A blunt and frustrated U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed exasperation Monday with Iraqi indecision on whether it wants U.S. troops to stay next year. He threatened stronger U.S. action to stop Iranian-supplied weapons from killing Americans as they prepare to depart.

Iran denies US claims it armed Iraq rebels (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:24 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers remarks to the troops as he visits Camp Victory in Baghdad. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected accusations by Panetta that Iran had armed rebels in neighbouring Iraq.(AFP/POOL/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected accusations by US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that Iran had armed rebels in neighbouring Iraq.

Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad.

Panetta makes 9/11 gaffe in Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:31 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers remarks to the troops as he visits Camp Victory in Baghdad. Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman.(AFP/POOL/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman.

Iran threatens to attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:04 AM PDT

AP - An Iranian military official on Monday threatened to attack bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran threatens to attack rebels across Iraq border (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 04:39 AM PDT

The Iran-Iraq border post of Haj Omran is seen in 2007. Tehran AFP - Tehran "reserves the right" to attack the bases of an Iranian Kurdish separatist group across the Iraq border, the official IRNA news agency quoted an army official as saying on Monday.

US forces 'still attacking Iraq Shiite insurgents' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:52 AM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, right, chats with his US Generals Anthony Rock, left, and Lloyd Austin during a visit to Baghdad. Three rockets slammed into Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Monday, wounding a woman and her three children, security officials said, as Panetta began the second day of his visit.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)AFP - US forces are carrying out operations against Shiite insurgents, almost a year after the military announced a formal end to its combat operations in Iraq, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.

Iraqis who fled to Syria for safety now returning (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 02:56 AM PDT

Between 300,000 and one million Iraqis are estimated to have fled to Syria following the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussain and triggered an insurgency and Shiite-Sunni bloodletting.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - When his six-year-old son was killed in a 2006 Baghdad gun battle, Seif Rashid decided to flee with his family to Syria, but the deadly unrest there forced him to return to Iraq last month.

(AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 06:23 AM PDT

AP - Witnesses say Syrian protesters attack US embassy compound in Damascus, cause damage

Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 09:01 PM PDT

In this June 20, 2011 photo, Alaa Jassim, a member of the library restoration staff, works on a damaged document at the Iraq National Library and Archives in Baghdad. A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion and now stored at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Md., near Washington, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq.

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