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  • Iraqi Army and Militia Agree to Truce

    Iraqi authorities have agreed to a truce with a Shia militia and calm has been restored in the town of Diwaniyah after a battle which left at least 28 people dead, military officials say. An Iraqi army captain said the militia was withdrawing. "They started pulling out early this morning and they're still going," he said. Shops began to reopen in.. More

  • Bomber Strikes Nato-Afghan Convoy

    A car bomber has struck a convoy of Nato and Afghan troops, killing himself and one civilian, a day after a bomb blast at a market left 17 civilians dead and 47 wounded, officials say. Two other civilians were wounded in the attack on Tuesday. Colonel Sher Shah, who was in the convoy, said the bomber hit the convoy on the main road linking Kandahar.. More

  • Dozens Injured in Turkey Blasts

    Four separate blastsin Turkey's popular coastal region and the country's commercial capital, Istanbul, have injured at least 22 people. The state news agency reported that three blasts occurred near the southern coastal area of Marmaris early on Monday and another in Istanbul late on Sunday. The Istanbul blast was in a poor neighborhood of the Bagcilar.. More

  • Car Bomb Targets Iraq Interior Ministry

    A bomber in a car has blown himself up outside Iraq's interior ministry in Baghdad, killing 16 people in a bloody challenge to the prime minister's assertions that violence is on the decrease. Police sources put the toll at 16 with 35 wounded on Monday. Interior ministry sources said at least 10 people were killed and 28 wounded, citing casualties.. More

  • Annan launches Middle East tour

    Kofi Annan is due to discuss the deployment and role of a planned 15,000-strong peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon when he visits Beirut for the first time since the war there. Other issues are likely to include the lifting of an Israeli air and sea blockade of Lebanon, policing of the Lebanese-Syrian border to stop arms-smuggling and a possible.. More

  • Amnesty Says New Crisis in Darfur

    Amnesty Internationalhas saidon Monday that the Sudanese government is preparing a new offensive in Darfur against rebel factions who did not sign the May peace deal. On Monday Kate Gilmore, AI's executive deputy secretary-general, said: "Eyewitnesses in el-Fasher in North Darfur are telling us that Sudanese government military flights are flying.. More

  • Nasrallah Says He Did Not Want War

    The leader of Hezbollah has said that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers had he known that it would trigger such a war. Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and seized two more in a cross-border raid on July 12, provoking a fierce Israeli response resulting in 34 days of fierce fighting in Lebanon. "We did not.. More

  • Fox News Journalists Freed

    Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza have been freed, the television network says. Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American, and New Zealand-born cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36,were seized on August 14 by a previously unknown group called the Holy Jihad Brigades.After what was one of the longest detentions for foreign captives in Gaza, television images.. More

  • Iran Tests Long-Range Missile

    Iran has test-fired a long-range, radar-evading missile from a submarine in the Gulfas part of wider military exercises that began earlier this month. Iran state television said on Sunday that the Navy had test fired a Sagheb missile,which means piercing, but did not give the missile's range. "Minutes ago it was launched from a submarine in the Persian.. More

  • Reporters Caught in Israeli Air Strike

    Israeli forces have killed two Hamas members overnight in Gaza and wounded seven Palestinians, including two journalists in an air strike on a Reuters vehicle. The army said its invasion into the Shijaiya neighborhood was aimed at seeking out tunnels and explosives that could be used in attacks. Two fighters from the governing Hamas group were killed.. More

  • Blast Hits Iraq Government Newspaper

    At least two people have been killed and 20 woundedafter a car bomb was detonatedin theparkingarea of the state-owned Iraqi daily al-Sabah in Baghdad. The explosion took place atabout 9am (0500 GMT) on Sundayand destroyed nearly 20 cars owned by the newspaper's staff. The publication's offices were also partly damaged. Karim al-Rubaiya, head of.. More

  • Pakistan Imposes Curfew on Quetta

    The Pakistani government has imposed an indefinite curfew on the city of Quetta to quell violent protests that broke out after the army killed the leader of an armed Baluch nationalist movement. The curfew was imposed early on Sunday morning after protesters took to the streets of Quetta, the provincial capital, on hearing of the death Nawab Akbar.. More

  • EU Pledges 7,000 Troops for Lebanon

    European nations have pledged up to 7,000 troops for an expanded United Nations peacekeeping contingent in Lebanon. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, said the movecreated the backbone of a credible force, which could total up to 15,000 troops, even though EU officials warned it could be months before its full deployment. Annan called for the first.. More

  • Israel Injures Nine in Nablus Raid

    Israeli soldiers have shot and wounded nine Palestinians, including one seriously, during an operation in the West Bank town of Nablus. Adli Yaaish, head of the Nablus municipality, told Aljazeera that nine Palestinians wereinjured, threeby live bullets and sixby rubber-coated bullets in the raid at 1.30am on Saturday. Witnesses said soldiers fired.. More

  • Iran Launches New Nuclear Project

    The Iranian president has inaugurated a new phase in the Arak heavy-water reactor project; part of Iran's atomic program which the West fears is aimed at producing bombs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejadinaugurated the project and toured the site at Khondab, which is near Arak,190kmsouthwest of the capital Tehran. The plant's plutonium by-product could be used.. More