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The military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement Saturday called on all armed Palestinian groups to capture Israeli soldiers.
"Capturing Israeli soldiers is an open option for all military wings of the Palestinian factions," the al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad movement said in a statement.
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 Seven NATO soldiers died after their helicopter was allegedly shot down by Taliban militants in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, the International Security Assistance Force announced.A Chinook CH-47 went down during a night operation near the city of Kajaki, five of the crew members and two other soldiers being killed on...
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 The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be properly investigated after the UN Security Council approved Wednesday the installment of a tribunal.Only ten of the fifteen member nations voted, as Russia, China, South Africa, Indonesia and Qatar decided to abstain. The five countries previously said that UN’s...
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 More than 20 insurgents have been killed Wednesday by
coalition and Afghan forces during operations carried out across the country,
military officials informed.
A compound in the eastern region of Afghanistan
in which alleged Taliban fighters were hiding was surrounded and attacked by
coalition and Afghan troops in the early...
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 Another Iraqi journalist was killed Wednesday in Iraq,
while a mortar attack left behind six dead and at least twenty wounded in the
central city of Fallujah.
Fallujah was under a siege of mortars, at least six people
being killed in the attack and dozens gravely wounded. A US
base located in the center of the Euphrates town...
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 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet met in the early hours of Wednesday to discuss what further actions should be taken in the Gaza Strip, as the conflict entered a third week. Many of the ministers composing the cabinet expressed their will to push forward with airstrikes and even attacks on Hamas political leaders,...
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 Sectarian violence rages on in Iraq’s
capital Baghdad, about fifty
civilians being killed Tuesday by two powerful explosions, the police informed.
The first incident occurred in a central market where a
suicide bomber detonated his deadly charge, taking at least 22 lives along with
his own, Iraqi media reported. More than 50 other...
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 Five men from the United
Kingdom were kidnapped in Baghdad
from the Iraqi Finance Ministry, British officials in the Middle
East country confirmed Tuesday.
About 40 men wearing camouflage uniforms, similar to the ones
wore by Iraqi police, blocked the street and abducted four bodyguards and their
client right under the eyes of...
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 What appeared to be the end of a bloody conflict was in fact
only a short period of lull in northern Lebanon,
as Fatah al-Islam militants and army troops renewed the fire exchange Tuesday
night.
The Lebanese military said the ceasefire was broken by the
Islamic militants, who opened fire at soldiers surrounding the Palestinian...
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 Heavy fire from the Gaza Strip on southern Israeli territories
continued for a third week, prompting the need for a meeting between the two
sides leaders Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas, who will meet next week on Thursday.
Abbas announced the meeting during his press conference...
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 Worried that violence could spread through to other Palestinian camps the Lebanese Government gave the Palestinian factions time to deal with the Fatah al-Islam group.The al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants have been battling the army around the Nahr al-Bared camp since May 20.About 27 militants, 33 soldiers and 27 civilians have been...
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 What Happened at the VMA 2008 Last Night?
The MTV Video Music Awards set its show last night. It seems that for its 25th anniversary, the VMA chose to back up Britney Spears’ comeback. And she did it! She won...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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