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  • British Helicopter Shot Down in Iraq

    A British military helicopter was brought down in Basra on Saturday, killing at least four people aboard and sparking clashes between troops and youths chanting militia slogans and hurling petrol bombs, officials said. Fire fighters said they had found four charred bodies in the wreckage. The helicopter burst into flames on impact and a thick cloud.. More

  • GCC Seeks Iran Nuclear Guarantees

    Gulf Arab leaders have called on Iran to do more to show it was not trying to obtain an atom bomb, thereby saving the region from another war. Gulf Arab countries, wary of Iran’s power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, share US concern about the prospect of Iran having a nuclear bomb but fear another military conflict in the region after the 2003.. More

  • Serb FM Eyes Sackings over Mladic

    Serbia-Montenegro's foreign minister has called for top security officials to be dismissed over their failure to detain war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic. Vuk Draskovic made the comments in an interview with Serbian newspaper Blic. He said his country's position was "more than grave" after the EU suspended talks because of the failure to deliver Gen.. More

  • 10 US Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Crash

    A U.S. helicopter crashed while on combat operations inAfghanistan, killing all 10 American soldiers and crew on board, the military said on Saturday. The CH-47 Chinook crashed late on Friday near Asadabad, the capital of the mountainous eastern province of Kunar. Taliban fighters claimed they shot down the helicopter but the U.S. military said.. More

  • At Least 5 Palestinians Killed in Fresh Israeli Air Strike

    At least five Palestinians have been killed in Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said the strike on Friday targeted a camp used by the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an umbrella group of activists often blamed for firing makeshift rockets into Israel. The air strike scattered body parts and left pools of blood in a field just metres away from.. More

  • Two Italian Soldiers Killed in Kabul Blast

    Two Italian soldiers were killed and four others wounded when their convoy was hit by a road bomb in Kabul on Friday, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kabul said. "They were on a patrol in Kabul and were attacked by an IED (improvised explosive device)," a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "Four were injured.. More

  • Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst

    Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment. "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern,.. More

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Taxi Driver as PM Blames US for Salary Block

    Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian taxi driver in the West Bank. Reuters reports Palestinian medics and witnesses as saying that Israeli patrol opened fire on Daraghmeh after he drove off a major road connecting the West Bank city of Nablus and the northern part of the occupied territory. Mr. Daraghmeh was trying to reach his village.. More

  • Fifth Bird Flu Fatality in Egypt

    The Egyptian health ministry has reported that a fifth person has died of bird flu. The 27-year-old woman, from Minufiya in northern Egypt, was infected with the deadly H5N1 virus by her domestic poultry flock. She is the 13th person in Egypt to have been infected. The country's first human case was reported in mid-March. In the Middle East, the.. More

  • Main Darfur Rebels Accept Peace Deal

    The largest faction of Darfur rebels has agreedto sign a peace deal with the Sudanese government despite reservations, African Union mediators say. Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for the AU, said that Minni Arcua Minnawi, the leader of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) leader was ready to endorse the agreement. "It's done. Minni is going to sign. He.. More

  • Hikmatyar Vows Allegiance to Bin Laden

    Aljazeera has aired a video in which a former member of the Afghan government has accused Iran of backing the US in the Afghan conflict. Qalbud-Deen Hikmatyar, the leader and founder of the Hizbi Islami political party, also said he was ready to fight alongside Osama bin Laden and blamed the ongoing conflicts in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan on US.. More

  • Many Iraqis Killed in US Bombing

    At least 13 people have died in an air assault by US forces in the Iraqi city ofRamadi just an hour after a bomber killed nine people outside a Baghdad court. Ali al-Ubaidi, a medic at the Ramadihospital said: "US planes bombed a house in the Aziziya area of Ramadi city centre, killing 13 civilians." Four others were wounded, he added. The US military.. More

  • US Judge Confirms Moussaoui Life Term

    A US judge has formally sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison without possibility of release over the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. This comes one day after a jury spared his life and rejected US government arguments that Moussaoui, 37,should be executed. "God curse America," Moussaoui said just before Leonie Brinkema,.. More

  • Afghan Officials Come under Attack

    The governor of an Afghanistan province has escaped an apparent assassination attempt, while a judge has been shot and killed. No casualties were caused by Wednesday's assassination attempt in which a bomb was planted in a vehicle timed to go off as the governor arrived at work. Police chief Abdul Basir Salangi said he believed the bomb had been planted.. More

  • Dozens Killed in New Iraqi Violence

    An unidentified bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police force in the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing at least six people, doctors said on Wednesday. At least 25 people were also wounded. No further details were immediately available. Also, fourteen male bodies with bullet holes and showing signs of torture.. More