2011年12月4日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq

Postwar Marines: smaller, less focused on land war (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST

FILE - In this July 29, 2011, file photo Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos speaks with reporters about the Marine Corps need for the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, left, at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. With the Iraq war ending and an Afghanistan exit in sight, the Marine Corps is beginning a historic shift, returning to its roots as a seafaring force that will get smaller, lighter and, it hopes, less bogged down in land wars. Amos is eager for Marines to return to their traditional role as an expeditionary force, which they can do once the Iraq and Afghanistan missions are completed. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - With the Iraq war ending and an Afghanistan exit in sight, the Marine Corps is beginning a historic shift, returning to its roots as a seafaring force that will get smaller, lighter and, it hopes, less bogged down in land wars.

Father, son making bomb among dead in Iraq blasts (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:28 AM PST

FILE - In this March 30, 2009 file photo, U.S. marines from 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment prepare for a mission in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. With the Iraq war ending and an Afghanistan exit in sight, the Marine Corps is beginning a historic shift — a return to its roots as a seafaring force that will get smaller, lighter and, it hopes, less bogged down in land wars. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)AP - Iraqi officials say explosions have killed six people, including a father and son who were assembling a makeshift bomb that accidentally detonated inside their home.

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

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:01 PM 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.

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