2012年7月28日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Syria resurrects 'mother of all' catchphrase

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT

FILE - This January 1991 file photo shows Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad. A Syrian newspaper on Saturday, July 28, 2012, used a banner headline to proclaim a high-stakes fight for the city of Aleppo in the country's 17-month-old uprising It's the mother of all catchphrases.


Gunmen kill five Iraqi women from same family

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:37 PM PDT

Iraqi police commandos secure an area outside the city of SamarraGunmen shot dead a women, her three daughters and her daughter-in-law in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday evening, security and medical officials said.


Assad has many generals to fight Syrian rebels

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on July 19, 2012, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Fahd Jassem al-Freij, Syria's new Defense Minister, in Damascus, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime received last week the worst blow since the country's crisis began 17 months ago in what many thought would quickly bring the Assad family four-decade dynasty to an end but the government appears to have absorbed the shock of the explosion that killed four top security officials and it's on the offensive again. (AP Photo/SANA, File)The Syrian regime appears to have absorbed the shock it suffered in the heaviest blow against it yet in Syria's 17-month-old upheaval — a bombing that killed four top aides.


Radical Muslims plan opening ceremony protest outside park

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:25 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of British Islamists said they had received permission to stage a protest on Friday outside the London Olympic Park to denounce what they called the evil of the Games. The group, led by some of Britain's most prominent Islamist figures, said they would gather outside the gates to the park in Stratford before the opening ceremony to condemn Britain and other countries they accuse of persecuting Muslims. They aim to attract the attention of 60,000 spectators due to attend the ceremony in the main Olympic stadium that officially opens the Games at 9 p.m. ...

UN faces major obstacles if Assad falls from power

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:02 AM PDT

Senior officials looking into the role the U.N. could play in Syria if Bashar Assad falls from power face major obstacles, including a bitter division among world powers and the absence of an opposition leader.

Hitting PKK in Syria 'dangerous for Turkey'

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 08:15 AM PDT

The PKK took up its armed struggle for a Kurdish territory in southeastern Turkey in 1984Turkey this week cranked up its already-heated rhetoric against Kurdish militants in northern Syria, saying it would not hesitate to go after PKK fighters, just as it has in northern Iraq.


Iran and Syria make energy deals amid crisis

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:23 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian and Syrian officials entered into agreements this week on energy and water supply, Iranian news agencies reported, signaling continued cooperation between the two countries as the Syrian government battles an uprising within its borders. A Syrian economic delegation has been touring Iran this week, and signed deals with Iranian officials on electricity exports from Iran to Syria, Fars news agency said on Friday. ...

Radical Muslims abandon protest outside Olympic Park

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:10 AM PDT

Police respond with a massive show of force to a group of protestors outside the Olympic Park ahead of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games in Stratford, east LondonLONDON (Reuters) - A group of British Islamists called off a protest planned for outside the London Olympic Park on Friday and organisers said police had told them not to go ahead. The group, led by some of Britain's most prominent Islamist figures, had intended to gather outside the gates to the park ahead of the opening ceremony to denounce what they called the evil of the Games. Police said that as it was a standing protest, not a march, the group was not required to obtain permission, but organiser Mizanur Rahman said police had made it clear to him that the protest should not go ahead. ...


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