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  • Symbolic Return of Spanish Troops from Iraq

    A first contingent of Spanish troops has arrived back home following the government's announcement of its withdrawal from Iraq. These soldiers were scheduled to return today, but have been replaced by a smaller group who are charged with organising the logistics of the pull out. There were emotional scenes at the airport as the soldiers were reunited.. More

  • Many Die in Attack on Iraqi Detention Centre

    Twenty-one people have been killed and about a 100 wounded when mortar rounds hit a detention facility in Baghdad, a senior US occupation military spokesman said. Deputy director Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday that the rounds slammed into the Baghdad Confinement Facility administered by the US-led occupation.. More

  • Israel Kills Five Palestinians During Raid

    Five Palestinians were shot dead Tuesday by Israeli fire during a raid to the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanon. Mutasam Rafiq Nassir, 18, was killed in after he was hit by bullets in the head. Another Palestinian died afternoon of wounds he sustained a few hours earlier when Israeli forces stormed al-Nada residential buildings, west of Beit.. More

  • Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever

    Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration.. More

  • Honduras to Withdraw Troops from Iraq

    President Ricardo Maduro announced late Monday that the 368 Honduran troops in Iraq would be withdrawn as soon as possible, saying they have accomplished the mission assigned them by the United Nations. "Today I have spoken with the members of the coalition and other friendly countries, and have decided to withdraw the Honduran troops in Iraq," Maduro.. More

  • US Soldiers Kill Iraqi TV Employees as Bush Names His Ambassador to Baghdad

    American soldiers killed two employees of U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya on Monday and injured a third in the central city of Samara, the station reported. Correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh were killed. Cameraman Bassem Kamel was injured "after American forces opened fire on them while they were performing their duty,".. More

  • Hamas Leader Seeks Arab-Muslim Pact Vs Israel-U.S.

    Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal on Monday called for an Arab and Muslim alliance to defeat the United States and Israel. "Our battle is with two sides, one of them is the strongest power in the world, the United States, and the second is the strongest power in the region (Israel)," he told hundreds of people at the al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee.. More

  • Zapatero Orders Spanish Troop Pull-Out

    Peace activists have reacted with jubilation to news that Spanish troops will be out of Iraq, perhaps within weeks. Spain's Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made the announcement just a day after he was sworn in. He fulfils a campaign pledge but the US had hoped he might change his mind. This was not to be. "This morning after.. More

  • EU Maintains Chinese Arms Embargo

    The European Union has told Beijing there will be no early lifting of its arms trade embargo on China. The ban was imposed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. France had pushed to end the ban, but most EU states said there must first be clear evidence of an improvement in Beijing's human rights practices... More

  • Rantisi Buried as Israel Vows more Killing

    Ignoring international condemnation of Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi's assassination, an Israeli cabinet minister has promised similar attacks in the future. Gideon Ezra named Hamas' political bureau chief Khalid Mishal as the next target on Sunday, barely seconds after Dr al-Rantisi's funeral procession got underway and before he was buried. The Israeli.. More

  • At Least 10 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Clashes

    Ten US troops including at least five US marines in Iraq were killed in clashes and attacks in various parts of the country, the US Army reported Sunday. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, five marines were killed and nine injured Saturday in an intense 14-hour battle with nearly 300 Iraqi fighters near the border town of Husaybah. It addedd.. More

  • Israel Assassinates Abdel-Aziz Al Rantissi

    An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza City killed top Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz Al Rantissi last night. Two of his bodyguards were also killed when two missiles were fired. Al Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader in the Palestinian group's Gaza Strip stronghold, had been rushed to a Gaza City hospital in critical condition after he had been wounded.. More

  • Japanese Captives are Released

    Iraqis freed two Japanese hostages unharmed yesterday, a day after Iraqi resistance fighters released a videotape of a kidnapped US soldier and offered to swap him for prisoners detained by Americans. Iraq's Interior Ministry announced yesterday that it would set up a committee to deal with the mounting spate of kidnappings. Aid worker Nobutaka Watanabe,.. More

  • Iraq Said Spark for UN Kosovo Police Fight, 3 Die

    Two Americans and a Jordanian were shot dead in Kosovo Saturday when emotions over Iraq apparently boiled over into a gunbattle between members of the U.N. law enforcement mission. U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said two U.S. police officers and a Jordanian were killed and 10 Americans and one Austrian wounded in the shooting. The lethal firefight.. More

  • Israel Assassinates Abdel Aziz Rantissi in Gaza Strip

    Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car Saturday evening. The attack took place a block from Rantisi's house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. Two other people were killed in the strike, witnesses said. Rantissi was the newly-appointed head of Hamas in Gaza.. More