2011年7月18日星期一

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Iran controls 3 Kurdish rebel camps in Iraq: Guards (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:26 AM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga militiamen play volleyball at a camps in the Qandil Mountains on the Iraq-Iran border in 2006. Iran has taken AFP - Iran has taken "full control" of three camps of an Iranian Kurdish rebel movement inside neighbouring Iraq, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards told the official IRNA news agency on Monday.


Iraq eyes U.S. trainers, not troops, after 2011 (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraq wants the United States to supply several thousand trainers for its military but is unlikely to ask Washington to extend its troop presence beyond a year-end deadline, Iraqi security and political sources say.

Report: Iranians seize Kurdish bases in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 04:56 AM PDT

AP - Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the state news agency reported Monday.

Iraq MPs discuss plans to downsize government (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:41 AM PDT

Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki (front-R) poses for a a group picture with his new cabinet during a parliamentary session in Baghdad on December 21, 2010 as lawmakers gave the new government a vote of confidence and adopted a 43-point programme aimed at liberalising the economy and fighting terrorism. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Iraqi MPs discussed plans on Monday to reduce the cabinet, following criticism that the months-old national unity government has been stuck in paralysis as it tries to rebuild the war-battered country.


US military: American soldier dies in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:17 AM PDT

U.S. soldiers participate in a patrol in Iraq. Brain injuries sustained on the battlefield and the gridiron of American football likely boost the risk of dementia later in life, according to two studies.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AP - The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in Iraq in a noncombat incident.


Iraqi PM in Beijing to meet with Chinese leaders (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT

AP - Iraq's prime minister is in Beijing on his first official visit to China.
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