2011年8月19日星期五

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Panetta sees progress on keeping some U.S. troops in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 02:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday he thinks progress has been made in talks with Baghdad on maintaining some U.S. military presence in Iraq after the end-of-year deadline for withdrawing American forces.

Turkey strikes Kurdish rebels in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Turkish warplanes and artillery pounded Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq for a second night, hours after the rebels mounted attacks on security forces in southeastern Turkey.

Turkish air force attacks rebel targets in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 03:25 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Turkish Presidency Press Service, President Abdullah Gul, center, chairs a National Security Council meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 5th from left, Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel, 5th right, ministers and top military commanders, two days after Kurdish rebels killed 8 Turkish soldiers at the Turkey-Iraq border, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Murat Cetinmuhurdar, Presidential Palace Press Office, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Turkey's air force attacked 28 suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Friday, in a second day of cross-border strikes in retaliation for stepped up attacks by the guerrillas.


Feds bust Iraqi-Mexican drug operation in Calif. (AP)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 06:22 PM PDT

AP - Federal officials said Thursday they've busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico's most powerful cartel and members of an Iraqi immigrant community in the U.S. who were caught selling illegal drugs, assault rifles, grenades and homemade explosives.

California Iraqi-Mexican crime ring busted, police say (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Police in southern California have arrested 60 people and broken up an Iraqi criminal ring accused of selling drugs, machine guns and improvised bombs out of an immigrant social club, authorities said on Thursday.
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