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  • Kosovo: NATO Sends Troop Reinforcements As Mosques in Serbia Burnt

    KFOR peacekeeping troops dressed in riot gear have blocked a group of ethnic Albanians from reaching a Serb village. Ethnic tensions have spilled over into bloody violence, and now the NATO-led force has called for back-up in a bid to calm the situation. They used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. At least 22 people have been killed.. More

  • Georgian Crisis Defused

    Georgia's economic blockade on its rebel region of Adzharia is being lifted after crisis talks. "From midnight tonight, we are lifting the blockade," said President Mikhail Saakashvili. "The questions that led to our misunderstanding have been resolved." The president met the Adzharian leader, Aslan Abashidze, whom he earlier accused of hindering.. More

  • US Casualties Mount ahead of Anniversary

    Two US soldiers were killed on Thursday morning and six others wounded near Baghdad as Iraqi rescuers completed the task of digging up the dead from a devastating car bomb. A US marine was also killed while three others were wounded in western Iraq, according to military officials. No more details were immediately available. The US army said of Wednesday.. More

  • Israel Kills 6 Palestinians in Gaza Missile Strikes

    Israel killed four Palestinians in two missile strikes into a Gaza refugee camp Wednesday, pursuing what it called a relentless offensive against Palestinians after two bombers struck a strategic Ashdod port. Israeli military action against Palestinians unfolded Tuesday when three helicopter missiles hit the house of an Islamic Jihad commander in.. More

  • Many Killed in Central Baghdad Blast

    A powerful blast has ripped through a Baghdad hotel and neighbouring buildings, including an office of Iraqi intelligence, killing at least 27 people. Several bodies were being pulled out of the rubble of the Mount Lebanon Hotel, a small hotel used mainly by Iraqis and Arabs, in the Karrada district. Up to 41 people have been injured in the explosion... More

  • Seven Killed, more than 250 Injured in Kosovo Ethnic Clashes

    Seven people were killed and more than 250 were injured as battles with firearms, hand grenades, rocks and fists erupted between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo after three Albanian children were pushed into a fast-flowing river and drowned. Eleven French soldiers in the multinational NATO force in Kosovo known as KFOR were injured, three of.. More

  • Georgian President Says Adzharia Standoff will be Resolved Peacefully

    Residents of Georgia's Black Sea region of Adzharia fear the worst as the standoff continues between the local leadership and the central government. At the main crossing on Georgia's internal border with Adzharia, military patrols have been stepped up. In the regional capital Batumi, a curfew has been imposed, and Russian armored personnel carriers.. More

  • At Least Two Palestinians Killed by Israeli Troops

    An Israeli helicopter has fired three missiles into a house in a neighbourhood in Gaza City, killing at least two people. At least 11 other people were wounded in the raid on Tuesday, three of them seriously, Aljazeera correspondent in Gaza, Hiba Akila said. Two children were among the injured when three rockets slammed into a house close to Al-Shati.. More

  • Two Germans, Two Iraqis Killed South of Baghdad

    Two Germans working on a water-supply project south of Baghdad were shot dead Tuesday. They were killed in an attack Tuesday on the outskirts of the town of Mussayab, some 70 kilometers south of Baghdad, said Dr. Jamal Kadhim, head of the emergency department at Mussayab General Hospital. Their Iraqi driver and a police officer were also killed, and.. More

  • Israeli Troops Raid Gaza

    Some Israeli tanks early Tuesday morning moved into Gaza City from the south, witnesses said, hours before Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to meet with the political-security cabinet to discuss responses to the Ashdod Port bombing two days earlier, in which 10 Israelis were killed. According to press reports, soldiers surrounded an abandoned building,.. More

  • Twenty-Six Guantanamo Detainees Freed

    Twenty-six detainees were released in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday after being transferred from a US military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Pentagon officials said those released included 23 Afghans and three Pakistanis. "They no longer were deemed a threat and they no longer had intelligence value," said Major Michael Shavers,.. More

  • Aristide Arrives in Jamaica, Haiti Incensed

    Haitian ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide arrived in Jamaica, provoking the ire of authorities in Haiti who froze ties with the neighboring nation and warned the visit could fuel violence in Port-au-Prince, where US forces suffered their first casualty overnight. Jamaican authorities declined to say where Aristide and his wife Mildred went after.. More

  • Three Americans Killed in Mosul as Spain Vows to Bring Home Troops

    Three Americans were shot dead and two wounded in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Monday. They were traveling in one car on the eastern side of the city when they were attacked, The AP reported. Meanwhile, at least one US soldier killed and about 20 others wounded in less than 48 hours during operations west.. More

  • Israeli Helicopters Hit Gaza Targets

    Israeli attack helicopters fired at least 10 missiles at a metal foundry and other targets around Gaza City early on Monday, Palestinian witnesses said. It was not known what other targets were hit and there were no immediate reports of casualties in the early morning air strikes. But much of northern Gaza was plunged into darkness as the missiles.. More

  • Civil War Looms over Stand-Off in Georgia

    President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia threatened a separatist leader in the west of the country with an economic blockade last night as tensions in the country rose dangerously. The threat came after militiamen loyal to Aslan Abashidze, who controls the region of Adjara, stopped a presidential convoy entering their territory by firing shots in.. More