2011年12月3日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


AP Interview: Iraq PM confident in post-US future (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicted Saturday that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence.


Rioters attack liquor stores in Iraqi Kurdistan (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST

Reuters - Rioters burned dozens of alcohol shops and damaged several hotels in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region after Friday prayers, prompting an attack a pro-Islamic party office, authorities and witnesses said Saturday.

As US leaves Iraq, AP men recall a war in pictures (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:20 AM PST

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - In this March 31, 2004 file photo, Iraqis chant anti-American slogans as charred bodies hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The photo has a great deal of significance to AP photojournalist Khalid Mohammed. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Burned bodies hanging from a bridge. A boy buried under rubble from a bombing. A father gunned down in front of his 7-year-old daughter. These were some of the harrowing images captured by three Iraqi photographers of The Associated Press who have covered the Iraq war since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.


Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:17 AM PST

AP - _U.S. deaths as of Nov. 30, 2011: 4,485.

Iraq PM: Green Zone bomb was assassination attempt (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that a bombing earlier this week inside Baghdad's Green Zone was an assassination attempt against him, but he defended the nation's armed forces and said the breach did not signal a deterioration in security.


(AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST

AP - Iraqi prime minister confirms that bombing in Green Zone was assassination attempt against him.
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