2011年7月20日星期三

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Hezbollah commander could be transferred in days (AP)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 01:11 PM PDT

AP - A Hezbollah commander held in Baghdad by the U.S. military and considered a threat to American troops could be transferred soon to Iraqi authorities, and U.S. security officials worry he could escape or even be freed.

Analysis: Legal safeguards for U.S. troops key to an Iraq deal (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Legal safeguards for U.S. troops could become a major stumbling block to any potential deal with Iraq to keep some American forces in the country beyond a year-end withdrawal deadline.

After Baghdad's violence, young Iraqi tackles new test: freshman year (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:15 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Growing up poor in war-ravaged Baghdad made Amal an expert at overcoming adversity. But during her first year at college â€" far from home in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq and overwhelmed by loneliness and academic rigors â€" Amal thought she had met her match.

Iraqi torture victim's tale reveals nation's darker side (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Jul 2011 11:12 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Ali was always the least troublesome Methboub son, a dutiful member of the Iraqi family whose saga the Monitor has chronicled since 2002. So his arrest and imprisonment shocked matriarch Karima Selman Methboub and her children, beginning one of the darkest periods for a Baghdad household that has resiliently survived every other aspect of Iraq's long war.
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