ASSCOIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says a team of medical professionals is evaluating the wounded at an Iranian exile camp north of Baghdad where two days of clashes with Iraqi police left at least seven dead. The military said Friday in a statement that the medical team evacuated the most seriously wounded…
Month: July 2009
US to investigate Iraqi raid on Iranian camp
The Christian Science Monitor The violent raid on Camp Ashraf Tuesday is seen as an assertion of Iraqi sovereignty – and of Iran’s growing influence on its neighbor. Washington – The US is investigating a raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp of thousands of Iranian dissidents in northern Iraq earlier this week that…
Iraq Mounts Attack on Iranian Dissidents
CBS NEWS No Longer Protected by U.S. Forces, Iranian Camp within Iraqi Borders Brutally Sieged – With Iran’s Approval (CBS) – When the U.S. began turning over security to the Iraqis, it stopped protecting some valuable allies – thousands of Iranian exiles living in Iraq. Left alone, their camp outside Baghdad is now under attack….
Clashes continue at Iranian exile camp in Iraq
DPA Baghdad/Tehran – Clashes continued for the second day on Wednesday between Iraqi security forces and an armed exiled Iranian opposition group, leaving at least eight people killed and 455 injured. Although some Iraqi government officials denied any deaths in the clashes, Abdel-Nasser al-Mahdawi, governor of Iraq’s northeastern Diyala province, told reporters earlier on Wednesday…
Iraq says 11 dead in Iran camp as Amnesty seeks probe
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BAQUBA, Iraq — Eleven residents of a camp housing Iran’s main exiled opposition movement have died since Iraqi forces stormed the site, a local Iraqi security official said on Thursday. The toll was revealed as Amnesty International called for a probe into “apparent excessive use of force” by Iraqi forces when they…