2011年7月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq bombs kill 8, dozens wounded (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Iraqi demonstrators burn boxes during clashes with security forces at an anti-government protest in the central city of Karbala in February 2011. Violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq killed eight Iraqis, including six Shiite Muslim pilgrims, and an American soldier on Friday, security officials said.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AFP - Violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq killed eight Iraqis, including six Shiite Muslim pilgrims, and an American soldier on Friday, security officials said.

Iraq says Kuwait began port project unilaterally (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:32 AM PDT

Iraqis look at a map showing the negative impact that the construction of the Mubarak port in Kuwait could have on Iraqi ports during a press conference in Baghdad on July 6. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday that Kuwait never officially informed Baghdad about a controversial port project, which his country says must be stopped.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday that Kuwait never officially informed Baghdad about a controversial port project, which his country says must be stopped.

US soldier killed in Iraq, the fourth this month (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:08 AM PDT

Soldiers with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment participate in a patrol on July 14 in Iskandariya, Babil Province, Iraq. An American soldier was killed, the fourth this month, days after Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said US troops had resumed attacks against Iran-backed militias that were behind the killings.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - An American soldier was killed on Friday, the fourth this month, days after Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said US troops had resumed attacks against Iran-backed militias that were behind the killings.

Baghdad's legendary Al-Rasheed hotel reopens (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:07 AM PDT

View of Baghdad's renowned Al-Rasheed hotel. Baghdad's renowned Al-Rasheed hotel reopened on Friday, the only luxury commercial lodging inside the Iraqi capital's Green Zone and a centrepiece of the country's drive to attract foreign investors.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Baghdad's renowned Al-Rasheed hotel reopened on Friday, the only luxury commercial lodging inside the Iraqi capital's Green Zone and a centrepiece of the country's drive to attract foreign investors.

Saddam half-brothers to be executed within a month (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT

A picture released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) shows Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan -- the half-brother of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein -- responding to questions from an Iraqi judge in 2005. Five Saddam-era officials, including two of his half-brothers, will be executed within a month after being handed over to Iraqi authorities by the US military.(AFP/File)AFP - Iraq will execute two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers within a month along with three other former regime figures, an official said on Friday after the five were handed over by the US military.

A Kurdish family's loss symbolizes northern Iraq's unmet promise (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:42 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Proud as he was of his youngest son, Zahd Mahmoud Qaradaxi never wanted him to become a martyr for democracy in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Bomb kills 2 pilgrims headed to Iraqi festival (AP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:35 AM PDT

Families of prisoners and missing persons chant anti-Iraqi government slogans while carrying pictures of their relatives during a protest at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 15, 2011. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)AP - A bomb hidden under a parked car exploded near Muslim pilgrims Friday, killing at least two and wounding four as they made their way to an annual Shiite religious festival in a holy city south of Iraq's capital.

US builders indicted in Iraq kickback scheme (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 06:35 AM PDT

Electrical wires lead to various apartment buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in January 2011. Three former US army engineers and two foreign contractors have been indicted for a kickback scheme connected to $50 million in building projects in Iraq, the US Justice Department said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AFP - Three former US army engineers and two foreign contractors have been indicted for a kickback scheme connected to $50 million in building projects in Iraq, the Justice Department said.

U.S. turns Saddam's half-brothers over to Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam Hussein's half brother and presidential adviser, appears before the Special Tribunal Investigative Judicial Committee in Iraq in this photograph released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal on June 26, 2005. REUTERS/STR NewReuters - The U.S. military has delivered two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers and his former defense minister into Iraqi custody along with nearly 200 other inmates at a Baghdad prison, a deputy justice minister said on Friday.

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