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  • Iranian officer 'seized in Iraq'

    US-led forces in Iraq say they have arrested an Iranian officer operating in the north of the country. They say the man was a member of the Quds Force - an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards - and was detained in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya. "This individual has been involved in transporting improvised explosive devices," the American.. More

  • New al-Qaida video released

    Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released Thursday, the latest in a series put out by Al-Qaida. The video came days after Osama bin Laden released two messages to mark the Sept. 11 anniversary — including his first new appearance in.. More

  • Iran's Ahmadinejad denied visit to Trade Centre

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been denied a request to visit the World Trade Centre site of the September 11 attacks, New York police said on Wednesday. Ahmadinejad, who regularly accuses the United States of arrogance in his speeches, had asked to visit the site while in New York for the United Nations General Assembly this month. "The.. More

  • UN warns Israel over 'enemy' Gaza

    The UN has urged Israel to reconsider its decision to declare the Gaza Strip as an "enemy entity", warning that cutting vital services would violate international law. The Israeli move to cut off the power, water and fuel supplies on which Gaza is almost entirely dependent was backed by the United States on Wednesday. The Israeli prime minister's.. More

  • Lebanese MP killed in car bombing

    An anti-Syrian Lebanese MP has been killed in an apparent car bomb attack in a mainly Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Antoine Ghanim, a member of the Maronite Phalange party, and at least six others died when his car exploded in the eastern Sin al-Fil district. The blast also damaged several nearby buildings and set four cars alight... More

  • Iran issues Israel attack warning

    Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian soil first, military officials say. The deputy commander of Iran's air force said that in the "unlikely event" of an Israeli attack, Tehran could respond with air and missile raids. Israel's foreign ministry said the comments were alarming and showed that the international.. More

  • Turkish PM urges end to scarf ban

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the lifting of a ban on women wearing headscarves at state universities. Mr Erdogan told the UK's Financial Times the ban was depriving some women of the right to higher education. The PM's Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its landslide election victory.. More

  • US diplomats grounded in Iraq row

    The US has suspended all road journeys by its diplomats in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. This follows an incident in which at least eight Iraqis died when security guards from the US firm Blackwater opened fire in a busy Baghdad square. Blackwater has a contract to guard all US State Department employees in.. More

  • Powerful storm whips eastern China

    Typhoon Wipha has hit China's coast south of Shanghai, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transportation disruptions. But fears the storm could be the worst to hit eastern China in several years appeared to be easing with the typhoon fast losing power as it moved over land on Wednesday. The meteorological bureau in Zhejiang province,.. More

  • Top Khmer Rouge leader detained

    Police in Cambodia have arrested the most senior surviving member of the notorious Khmer Rouge regime, as part of a UN-backed genocide investigation. Nuon Chea was flown from his jungle home to the capital, Phnom Penh, to appear before Cambodian and foreign jurists in a special genocide tribunal. The 82-year-old was second-in-command to Khmer.. More

  • Somali troops attack radio station

    Somali transitional government forces have laid siege to an independent radio station in Mogadishu for several hours. Shabelle reporters said soldiers deliberately targeted their office, firing shots through the windows. One of the radio administrators, Jaffar Muhammad Kuukay, is quoted as saying that bullets damaged equipment and injured at least.. More

  • 'Israeli warplanes raid' Lebanon

    Israeli warplanes have flown at low altitude over southern Lebanon in defiance of a United Nations resolution, reports from Beirut say. The fighter jets allegedly caused sonic booms as they flew over the cities of Sidon and Tyre, as well as the towns of Bint Jbeil and Marjayoun. Israel has so far made no comment on the Lebanese claims. Israel.. More

  • Musharraf to 'quit army if elected'

    General Pervez Musharraf will resign as army chief if he wins re-election as Pakistan's president, a government lawyer has said. The announcement made in the supreme court on Tuesday was the first clear official statement that Musharraf plans to contest the upcoming election while in uniform, then relinquish it afterward. His current presidential.. More

  • US vows Blackwater killings probe

    The US has vowed to investigate a deadly Iraqi civilian shooting after the Iraqi government ordered Blackwater USA, the main American security firm in the country, to get out over the killings. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, telephoned Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, to express regret at the loss of life and promised that the.. More

  • Bodies of Pakistani troops found

    Tribal armed men have killed at least 16 Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan province, intelligence sources said. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad quoted Pakistani security sources as saying the bodies discovered on Tuesday had been decapitated. The soldiers, including commandos, were believed to have been killed on Sunday night. An intelligence.. More