2014年5月17日星期六

Yahoo! News: Iraq

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Iraq


Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to leave Syria

Posted: 17 May 2014 10:53 AM PDT

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings which were destroyed from a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, May. 17, 2014. The United Nations chief has condemned a cut in water supplies in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo that he said has deprived at least 2.5 million people of access to potable water. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman on Saturday urged Hezbollah to withdraw its forces from Syria to avoid future repercussions on the tiny Arab state that suffered through 15 years of its own civil war.


Bombing north of capital kills 5 people in Iraq

Posted: 17 May 2014 04:02 AM PDT

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say a bombing at an outdoor market north of the capital, Baghdad, has killed five people.


Today in History

Posted: 16 May 2014 09:00 PM PDT

Today is Saturday, May 17, the 137th day of 2014. There are 228 days left in the year.
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