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  • Next US Target is Iran

    Teams of US commandos have been operating inside Iran since last summer, selecting suspected weapons sites for possible air strikes. The New Yorker's award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh wrote yesterday that he was repeatedly told by US intelligence and military sources that "the next strategic target was Iran". President George W Bush has signed.. More

  • Iraqi Police Killed in Checkpoint Ambush

    Eight Iraqis, seven of them members of the Iraqi National Guard, have been killed in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint near the town of Baquba, medical and security sources say. Fifteen others were also wounded in the blast. It is not known how many were national guardsmen. The checkpoint at al-Nawar came under fire at 6am (0300 GMT), 15km south.. More

  • Taliban Prisoners in Afghanistan Freed

    US forces in Afghanistan on Sunday freed 81 Taliban prisoners from a jail at the Bagram air base, north of capital Kabul. An Afghan Supreme Court official had said earlier that the men were released from the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. However, the chief justice said the suspects never left Afghanistan. "They have been released from.. More

  • Sudan Groups Finalise Power-Sharing

    The Sudanese government and an alliance of opposition groups have reached a tentative agreement on the country's political future. Building on a peace accord already signed with southern rebels, the power-sharing deal struck by Khartoum and the SPLM rebel group to end 21 years of civil war allocates a proportion of seats in a new national government.. More

  • Spanish Basque Group ETA Agrees to Dialogue

    The armed Basque separatist group ETA has agreed to a proposal for political dialogue with the Spanish government put forward by its political wing. The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), which has waged a bloody three-decade campaign for a Basque homeland, said it was "wholly determined" to back proposals made by it political wing Batasuna to the central.. More

  • US Helicopter Goes Down in Mosul

    A US air force helicopter has been forced to make an emergency landing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a top army officer said. "A helicopter made an emergency landing. Whether it is engine failure or something else, we do not know yet," Lieutenant Colonel Michael Kurilla told reporters on Saturday. Another officer said the aircraft was an OH-58.. More

  • Sharon: Unlimited Israeli Operations in Gaza

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given orders for troops to carry out unlimited operations against Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip. "The current situation is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to continue," Sharon said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. "The Tsahal (army) and the security forces have received orders.. More

  • Babylon 'Ruined by American Soldiers'

    US-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological treasures. A British Museum report said US and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilisation and home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient.. More

  • Indian Forces Resume Srinagar Siege

    Two missing soldiers have been found dead as Indian forces tried for a second day to flush out fighters holed up in a sports complex in Indian-administered Kashmir. The bodies of the soldiers were retrieved by firefighters early on Sunday morning. The firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out minutes after a dawn operation against the fighters.. More

  • Palestinians Killed in Gaza as Abbas Takes Office

    Six Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers during an incursion in a neighbourhood on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, Aljazeera has learned. Medical sources said on Saturday that a Palestinian policeman and a civilian were among the dead. Earlier that day, Israeli occupation troopsmoved into the outskirts of Gaza.. More

  • Hundreds of Children Disappear in Aceh

    Crowds, eager for information of missing loved ones,form in the mornings outside the Indonesian military hospital in Banda Aceh. It is during this timethat hospital staff post updates of the hundreds of names of injured people being treated inside its sprawling compound. Ahmad Furquomudin is looking for two younger sisters who disappeared when.. More

  • Abu Ghraib Abuse Leader Found Guilty

    The US soldier who led a band of guards in abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison has been found guilty by a military court. Army Reservist Charles Graner stood at attention and looked straight ahead without any visible reaction as the 10-member jury read its verdict on Friday.He held his hands tightly clenched. Because the jury altered.. More

  • Thousands Evacuated in California as Dam Leaks

    About 2,500 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in Southern California on Friday when a 106-foot high dam began leaking after two weeks of rain. Officials declared a local emergency and issued flash flood warnings as they began releasing water from a reservoir at 10,000 cubic feet per second and worked to shore up the rupture in Prado.. More

  • Several Die in Gaza Crossing Attack

    At least six Israelis and three Palestinians have been killed in an explosion set off by Palestinian resistance fighters at a vital Gaza crossing, the Israeli military says. Fifteen people were also injured in the attack on the Karni crossing on Thursday, the biggest since Mahmud Abbas won Sunday's election to succeed Yasir Arafat as head of the.. More

  • Three US Soldiers Killed in Iraq

    Two US marines and a soldier have been killed in separate incidents in western and northern Iraq, the US military says. A statement from US marines basedin Falluja said on Friday that two marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed on Thursday "while conducting security and stability operations" in al-Anbar province in western.. More