2011年9月25日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Explosions kill 10 people in holy city in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT

A man inspects the scene of a bomb attack in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. A series of blasts hit a Shiite holy city in Iraq on Sunday, killing and wounding scores of people, police and hospital officials said. (AP Photo / Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Back-to-back bomb blasts ripped through one of the holiest cities in Shiite Islam Sunday, killing at least 10 people in a community still reeling from a deadly bus hijacking earlier this month that left Iraq's Shiites again feeling hunted.


Four blasts kill 17 in Iraq's Kerbala (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:38 AM PDT

Residents look at burnt motorbikes at the site of multiple bomb attacks in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Mushtaq MuhammedReuters - Four successive blasts hit the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more outside a local government building in an attack officials blamed on al Qaeda affiliates.


Iraq tries to quell tensions over pilgrim killings (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's government tried to defuse tensions on Saturday over the killing of 22 mainly Shi'ite pilgrims in the Sunni Anbar province, meeting tribal leaders and releasing men suspected of carrying out the attack.

`Next Iranian move' awaited on jailed Americans (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:37 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 file photo, US hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal, attend their trail in Iran. An Iranian court on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, set bail of $500,000 each for two American men arrested more than two years ago and convicted on spy-related charges, clearing the way for their release a year after a similar bail-for-freedom arrangement for the third member of the group, their defense attorney said. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - An international effort to free two Americans jailed in Tehran as spies is "waiting for the next Iranian move" on whether its hard-line judiciary will clear the way for payment of $1 million in exchange for their release, Iraq's foreign minister said Friday.


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