2011年10月20日星期四

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Bombings in eastern Baghdad kill 3 (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Members of the Iraqi parliamentary bloc backing anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hold a news conference in Baghdad October 20, 2011. Iraqi lawmakers backing anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Thursday they would disrupt the power-sharing government if it concludes any deal to keep U.S forces in Iraq after 2011. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud  (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT POLITICS)AP - Iraqi officials say a triple bombing in the capital has killed at least three people.


Turkey uses large offensive against Kurdish rebels (AP)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 07:45 AM PDT

Thousands of high school students and citizens march in the streets of the Turkish capital, Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 to denounce the killing of 24 soldiers by Kurdish rebels, as the military pressed ahead with its air and ground offensive against the insurgents across the Iraqi border.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - About 10,000 elite Turkish soldiers took part in a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey and across the border in Iraq on Thursday, making it the nation's largest attack on the insurgents in more than three years, the military said.


Marine says no to prison release to witness birth (AP)

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:44 PM PDT

AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine convicted of murder in an Iraq war crime has turned down an offer to be released from prison to attend the birth of his second child.
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