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  • Israeli, Palestinian Officials Meet, One Palestinian Shot Dead in Gaza

    Israel will pull its troops out of some areas of the Gaza Strip and hand over security to Palestinian officials as part of an effort to revive peace moves badly damaged by a week of bloody violence, an Israeli official said Sunday. Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli defense ministry official, presented Israel's withdrawal plan to Palestinian security chief.. More

  • Arab League Secretary General Issues Warning on Israeli Terrorism

    Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa on Saturday night issued a warning on the continuation of the Israeli state-sponsored terrorism against Palestinian leaders, arguing, "any action is followed by a reaction." In the AL communique, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his administration received a copy of which here at IRNA's Damascus bureau,.. More

  • Anti-government Protests in Iran Ease After Violence

    Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of central Tehran for the fifth straight night of anti-regime protests Saturday, but the overwhelming presence of police and pro-government militia resulted in muted demonstrations that passed off largely without incident. Only limited, sporadic clashes were reported around the Tehran university campus, the.. More

  • Moves to Reform Libya's Socialist-based Economy

    Tripoli, Lybia -- Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has sacked his prime minister and replaced him with an economist, following moves to reform the country's socialist-based economy. Prime Minister Mubarak Abdallah al-Shamikh will be replaced by former economy and trade minister Shokri Ghanem. Colonel Gaddafi has recently proposed the wholesale.. More

  • U.S. Accused of Killing Iraqi Civilians

    Gathered in tents, Iraqi villagers wailed and recited Islamic verses Saturday to mourn a 70-year-old farmer, three of his sons and another relative which were killed by U.S. forces in their hunt for Saddam Hussein loyalists. Though the military gave no comment on the civilian deaths, the shootings fueled growing anger over what Iraqis describe as insensitive.. More

  • Israel, Palestinians Set to Resume Talks

    Israel offered to withdraw troops from parts of the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians expressed readiness to take up security control as the two sides headed into new talks Saturday to patch up a U.S.-backed peace plan after a week of violence. Meanwhile, the first contingent of U.S. monitors who were to supervise implementation of the "road map" peace.. More

  • Afghan Attacks Rise on Foreign Forces

    An unidentified attackers in eastern Afghanistan fired rockets at a U.S. base Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks against American forces. Three rockets were fired at the U.S. base in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, U.S. military spokesman Col. Rodney Davis said. The rockets missed, as scores of others have over the past year, and.. More

  • At Least One Palestinian Killed in Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza

    Israel killed a Hamas member and wounded dozens of other Palestinians in two helicopter strikes on Gaza City, while at the same time reportedly offering a truce with Palestinian militants. Among the 26 wounded were eight children under the age of 10, said medical sources, as helicopter gunships fired missiles at the car of the member of the radical.. More

  • Gunfire in Tehran as Pro-Government Militiamen Attack Protesters

    Automatic gunfire echoed in the Iranian capital early Saturday as hundreds of pro-government followers, some armed with Kalashnikov rifles, attacked groups of people demonstrating against clerical rule. In the most serious violence since the U.S.-applauded pro-democracy protests began four days ago, witnesses also reported seeing hard-line vigilantes.. More

  • US Soldiers Provoking Muslims by Entering into a Mosque

    Some 1,500 people protested after Muslim weekly prayers in Baghdad against the entry of US soldiers into a Sunni mosque overnight. "Don't violate mosques," said one of the banners raised by the protesters, who were led by the prayer leaders, or imams, of the capital's three major mosques. One protester said the troops entered Abu Huthaifa Al-Yaman.. More

  • Hamas Member Dies in Gaza Missile Attack

    Despite appeals to break a cycle of attack and counterattack, Israel broadened its campaign against leaders of some Palestinian gropus Friday, saying it will go after political as well as military leaders who target Israel with terrorism. In new strikes against Hamas targets Friday - the sixth and seventh attacks in four days - Israel killed an operative.. More

  • Clampdown Deters Iran Protests

    The Iranian capital, Tehran, has seen a third night of student protests against the Islamic authorities - but only a few hundred demonstrators turned out. A heavy security presence made it difficult for large crowds to mass as they did on previous nights, and students were mainly confined to areas near university residences. Police blocked roads.. More

  • Seven Palestinians Killed as Israel, Hamas Head for All-out War

    Israeli helicopters killed seven Palestinians, including a senior Hamas member, his wife and infant daughter, as Israel and the Islamic group Hamas dropped any pretense of peace and declared all-out war. Palestinian medical sources said more than 30 other people were wounded in the fifth Israeli helicopter raid in Gaza in three days, including an attempt.. More

  • US Helicopter Shot Down, Several Iraqis Killed in Western Iraq

    A U.S. helicopter gunship was shot down in western Iraq on Thursday, just hours after U.S. fighter jets bombed what they said was "a terrorist training camp" in central Iraq. The incidents came as U.S. ground troops wound up a massive sweep in a Sunni Muslim enclave north of Baghdad, aimed at routing out the organizers of attacks on occupation forces... More

  • Annan Warns Against "Annual Routine" of Giving US Troops Immunity from ICC

    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan warned the UN Security Council against repeatedly giving US peacekeeping troops immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Speaking before a vote on a resolution to renew a one-year exemption demanded by the United States, he said the council would undermine its own authority as well as.. More