2011年7月28日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Double bombing kills 12 outside bank in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:35 PM PDT

An Iraqi man inspects a destroyed liquor store after a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A double bombing Thursday struck an Iraqi bank in Saddam Hussein's hometown where policemen were picking up their paychecks, killing 12 and wounding 34 people, officials said.


Radical anti-US Iraqi cleric issues code of conduct (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:41 AM PDT

A supporter of Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr shouts slogans during a rally in April 2011. All followers of Sadr must sign a strict code of conduct after repeated complaints over rogue elements of his militia, a document seen by AFP showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - All followers of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr must sign a strict code of conduct after repeated complaints over rogue elements of his militia, a document seen by AFP showed Thursday.


Kuwait gets $1.06 bn in Iraqi reparation: UN (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:08 AM PDT

Kuwaitis file civil compensation cases against Iraq in 2000. The United Nations released $1.06 billion in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday in the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.(AFP/File/Raed Qutena)AFP - The United Nations released $1.06 billion in Iraqi compensation to Kuwait on Thursday in the latest payment of a war reparation scheme that began in 1994.


Twin bombings in Saddam hometown kill 12 (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:42 AM PDT

Iraqi anti-terror police stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A twin attack involving a car bomb and a suicide bombing in the northern city of Tikrit has killed at least 12 people and wounded 28, according to an Iraqi health official.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Twins blasts Thursday involving a car bomb and a suicide attack in Saddam Hussein's hometown in central Iraq killed 12 people near a bank and a market, as shoppers stocked up for Ramadan.


Jordan convicts mentor of Iraq's al-Qaida chief (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:15 AM PDT

A prison van carrying Sheik Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, is escorted by police vehicles to a military court in Amman, Jordan, Thursday July 28, 2011.  The military court on Thursday convicted the Palestinian-born mentor Iraq's slain al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on terrorism charges and sentenced him to five-years in prison. Isam Mohammed Taher al-Barqawi, better known as Sheik Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, was found guilty of 'plotting terrorism' and recruiting militants in Jordan to join the Taliban in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)AP - The mentor of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was convicted Thursday of aiding the Afghan Taliban and sentenced to five years in prison in Jordan.


Mother of Iraqi Kurdish leader dies of cancer (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 05:13 AM PDT

AP - Hamayel Khan, the mother of the president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, has died at the age of 85.

Blasts kill at least 15 in Iraq's Tikrit (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 04:02 AM PDT

A supporter of Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr shouts slogans during a rally in April 2011. All followers of Sadr must sign a strict code of conduct after repeated complaints over rogue elements of his militia, a document seen by AFP showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)Reuters - Two suicide bombers killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in Iraq's Tikrit city as police and soldiers were collecting their salaries at a local bank, police and hospital officials said on Thursday.


(AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:15 PM PDT

AP - Libyan rebel leadership council says its military commander has been killed.

UN pays out $1 billion from Iraqi oil fund (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:35 AM PDT

AP - A U.N. panel has approved more than $1 billion in compensation payments for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
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