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  • Israeli Force Enters Gaza

    A small Israeli force has entered Gaza for the first time since the capture of one of its soldiers last week even asPalestinian groups setIsrael a deadline for the release ofprisoners. Tanks and armored vehicles crossed the northern Gaza border, along with a detachment of Israeli troops, to search for explosive devices and tunnels, militiary sources.. More

  • Saddam's Family on Wanted List

    The wife and daughter of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have been added toIraq's new list of most-wanted fugitives, authorities said on Sunday. The list includes Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the former Iraqi president's deputy and the highest ranking official stillat large,and the new head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Saddam's daughter,.. More

  • Iraqi Armed Groups Reject Maliki Plan

    Spokesmen for two of the major Iraqi armed groups have rejected the reconciliationinitiative of Iraq's prime minister. The two spoke to Aljazeera on Sunday live from Baghdad. Ibrahim al-Shammari, spokesman for the al-Jaish al-Islami (Islamic Army), said that the proposalby Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister,is far from being an "initiative for.. More

  • Israel Attacks Palestinian PM's Office

    An Israeli helicopter gunship has fired a missile at the Gaza City office ofthe Palestinian prime minister, setting it alight. Ismail Haniya was not in the office at the time of the attack which took place shortly before 2am on Sunday. Haniya visited the site of the air attack shortly afterwards and called on the international community to end Israel's.. More

  • Ethiopia Denies Somalia Incursion

    Ethiopia has denied that its troops crossed into Somalia on Saturday to protect the interim government seat of Baidoa from an attack by the powerful Islamists movement. A member of parliament in Somalia said that six armored vehicles from Ethiopia had moved into the Baidoa airport. A Somali intelligence source said the Ethiopian troops were in the.. More

  • British Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

    Two British soldiers have died in Afghanistan following an attack on their base in the southern Helmand province. The men died in Helmand's restive Sangin district, when the base was hit by rocket-propelled and small arms fire, Captain Drew Gibson, a UK military spokesman said on Sunday. Gibson said the base had been under attack by Taliban fighters.. More

  • Bin Laden Warns Iraqi Shia of Revenge

    Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader, has purportedly issued an internet message warning Iraqi Shia of retaliation if they continued to attack Sunnis. "It is not possible that many of the people of the south (Shia) violate, alongside America and its allies, [the Sunni cities of] Ramadi, Falluja, Mosul ... that their areas would be safe from retaliation.. More

  • Group Claims Deadly Baghdad Attack

    A previously unknown Iraqi Sunnigroup has claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast at a Baghdad market in which at least 62 people were killed, saying it was avenging Sunnis killed by ShiaMuslims. The explosion went off at a crowded market in the poor Shia district of Sadr City at about 10am and scorched many nearby cars. Sources at the interior.. More

  • Group Claims Second Israeli Soldier Held

    Palestinian fighters have kidnapped a second Israeli soldier andthreatenedto kill himunless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced overnight on Friday. In a statement received by AFP in Gaza City, the armed group, loosely affiliated to the Fatah movement,called for "the end of the Israeli.. More

  • US Offers $5 Million for al-Masri Tips

    The US is offering a reward of up to 5 million dollars to anyone providing information leading to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the alleged senior al-Qaeda leader in Iraq. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, on Friday authorized the reward under the Reward for Justice program, which has paid more than 62 million dollars to more than 40 people who have.. More

  • US Probes Rape and Murder of Iraqi

    The US military is investigating allegations that American soldiers may have raped an Iraqi woman and murdered her and three members of her family, including a child. Confirming another major investigation into alleged killing and abuse of Iraqi civilians by at least three US soldiers, one officer said the incident in March just south of Baghdad had.. More

  • Website Posts Bin Laden Audio Tape

    An audio tape purportedly of Osama bin Laden praising Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,the former leader of al -Qaeda in Iraq, has been posted on a website. According to the tape released on Friday, Bin Laden said: "The lion of jihad ... Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ... was killed in a US raid. We ask Allah to accept him as a martyr." The speaker sounded similar to previous.. More

  • One Dead in Israeli Raids on Gaza

    The Israeli military has carried out several overnight attacks on Gaza, leaving one Palestinian resistancefighter dead. A medical source said the man from Islamic Jihad died on Friday morning from injuries sustained in an overnight Israeli air raid over the southern Gaza Strip. Muhammad Abd al-Al was the first Palestinian to be killed during a massive.. More

  • Israel Hunts Down Hamas Leadership

    Israeli forces have rounded up dozens of Palestinian Cabinet ministers and lawmakers from Hamas, increasing pressure on militantsto release a captured Israeli soldier. Witnesses said on Thursday thattanks moved into northern Gaza, widening Israel's largest military operation in the year since it pulled out of the seaside territory. Adding to the.. More

  • Syria Condemns Israeli Warning Flights

    Israeli warplanes have flown over one ofthe Syrianpresident'spalaces to warnDamascus against supporting Palestinian fighters who abducted an Israeli soldier, the Israeli army says. AnIsraeli army spokeswoman said the planes early on Wednesday flew over Bashar al-Assad's palace near the city of Latakia, "because the Syrian leadership supports and harbours.. More