2012年1月15日星期日

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Gunmen storm Iraq compound, kill 7 police (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 11:02 AM PST

Asmar Abboud, 31, wounded in a bomb blast is treated at a hospital in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. A bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims on Saturday near the southern port city of Basra killed and wounded scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Iraqi security forces on Sunday battled gunmen who detonated a car bomb before blasting their way into a government compound and killing seven policemen in a one-time Sunni insurgent hotbed, police and local government officials said.


Ten dead in militant attack in Iraq's Ramadi (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 07:19 AM PST

Refugio Ocampo, 49, father of Itzcoatl Ocampo, the man suspected of killing homeless men in Southern California, talks about his son in Fullerton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Refugio is himself homeless and said that his son came back a changed man after serving with the Marines in Iraq, expressing disillusionment and becoming ever darker as he struggled to find his way as a civilian. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Reuters - Ten people were killed when gunmen wearing explosive belts stormed a police building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, police and provincial officials said.


Shiite pilgrims defy bombings in Iraq to mark Arbaeen (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims, intent on carrying out a commemoration denied to them here for decades, are defying ongoing bombings to converge on the holy city of Karbala.
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