2011年7月30日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Iraq says it will buy 36 US fighter jets (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says his country will purchase 36 fighter jets from the United States, doubling the number Iraq was previously planning to buy. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Saturday, July 30, 2011, in Baghdad that Iraq needs to be able to protect its sovereignty. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he was reviving a stalled deal to buy multi-million-dollar fighter jets from the United States and affirmed the need for American trainers to help Iraqi forces operate and maintain the 36 F-16s.

Tribal sheikh among three killed in US-Iraq raid (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:31 AM PDT

Iraqi soldiers stand as an Iraqi MI-17 helicopters flies over the Basmaya base, south of Baghdad in April 2011. A US-Iraqi raid north of Baghdad on Saturday killed a tribal sheikh and two of his family members, police said, as local leaders condemned what they branded a AFP - A US-Iraqi raid north of Baghdad on Saturday killed a tribal sheikh and two of his family members, police said, as local leaders condemned what they branded a "massacre" of civilians.

Iraq says to buy 36 F-16 fighters from U.S (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his government would buy 36 F-16 fighters from the United States, doubling the number it had initially planned to purchase to strengthen its weak air defenses.

Iraq less safe than a year ago: US watchdog (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT

Iraqis walk through the rubble of a liquor store that was targetted in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on July 28. Iraq is a less safe place than it was one year ago as security continues to deteriorate, an American watchdog warned on Saturday, just months ahead of a US withdrawal from the country.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraq is a less safe place than it was one year ago as security deteriorates, an American watchdog warned on Saturday, just months ahead of a US withdrawal from the country.

Iraq PM pushes US training mission, F-16 deal (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:48 AM PDT

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet takes off from the Hatzerim air force base last month. Iraq will ask for future defence contracts to include provision for training, bypassing MPs to allow some US soldiers to stay past a year-end pullout deadline, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.(AFP/Jack Guez)AFP - Iraq will ask for future defence contracts to include provision for training, bypassing MPs to allow some US soldiers to stay past a year-end pullout deadline, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Saturday.

Iraq slims unity cabinet to 32 posts from 46 (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made a rare appearance at Iraq's parliament on Saturday to push for slashing the size of a national unity government that critics charge with inaction.(AFP/Andy Wong)AFP - MPs slashed the size of Iraq's national unity cabinet by a third on Saturday after a visit to parliament by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who has called for his bloated government to be slimmed down.

US review finds Iraq deadlier now than a year ago (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 04:22 AM 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 - Frequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Saturday.

Syrian troops intensify raids ahead of Ramadan (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2011 12:28 PM PDT

Syrian protesters carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and national flags, shout pro-government slogans in front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut, Sunday, July 24, 2011. Attached on the car are pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left. Nearly 2,000 supporters of Assad gathered outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut carrying a giant Syrian flag. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - Syrian troops opened fire on people throwing stones to stop a convoy from advancing toward an eastern oil hub, killing as many as three people Saturday, activists said, as government forces intensified a pre-Ramadan crackdown against protests calling for President Bashar Assad's ouster.

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