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The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West
Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continued their back-and-forth arrests
of top party leaders Friday, capping a week of detentions sparked by a
car explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed five Hamas militants and a
girl. Hamas blamed Fatah for the blast; Fatah said the explosion was due to...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged
Israel not to release jailed Hamas legislators as part of a deal to
free an Israeli soldier held in Gaza Strip, the Ha'aretz daily reported
Wednesday. According to the Israeli newspaper, Abbas even
threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) if Israel did
release them. It...
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 Pakistan’s
President Musharraf has sworn in his political enemy as Prime Minister on
Monday. The President administered the oath during a ceremony at his office in Islamabad, which was
broadcast live on television. As Yousaf Raza Gilani completed the oath, some
supporters chanted “Long Live Bhutto.”
In order...
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 The latest attacks carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of at least 20 Palestinians, including four children aged between 9 and 16. At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the fire exchange and five Israeli troops suffered minor wounds after tanks entered three areas in northern Gaza.The...
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 At least six Palestinian militants were killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in air strikes.Five of them died as the vehicle they were in was attacked from the air near the southern town of Khan Younis. All of them were reportedly senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip. Locals said they had just...
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Pakistani authorities said that a suicide bomb attack has
killed Saturday at least 18 people and wounded at least 25 people at an
election rally in northwestern Pakistan,
the Associated Press reports.
North West Frontier province, bordering Afghanistan, is
a region where Islamic extremists operate and has been the scene of...
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 Thousands of Palestinians continued to cross into Egypt for
the fourth consecutive day despite the authorities’ efforts to seal the border
with Gaza.
A United Nations report said more than 700.000 people from
the Hamas-ruled salient took advantage of the free passage and bought needed supplies
from the neighboring country over the...
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 Israel will intensify its actions against rocket attacks launched from
the Gaza Strip, Premier Ehud Olmert said Sunday, as an Israeli raid
into the central salient killed at least three people after militants
fired 42 mortars and 16 rockets at the Jewish state over the weekend.
The Israeli raid on the vicinity of the el-Bureij...
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 Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met
Thursday afternoon, in the shadow of a row over Israeli settlement
building which has prevented progress in two rounds of talks between
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.
An Israeli official said the two men would attempt to find "common
ground" in...
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 Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday ruled out Israeli
negotiations with Hamas, and dismissed as "pathetic and misleading" an
announcement by the Islamist group that it was prepared to discuss a
ceasefire with the Jewish state.
The ceasefire call by Hamas leader Ismail Haniya was nothing more
than "an attempt...
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 Israel and the Palestinians are due to end a seven-year freeze in their
peace process Wednesday with the formal launch of new negotiations.
A new, joint "steering committee" that will lead the negotiations,
announced by President George W Bush at last month's Middle East
conference in Annapolis, Maryland, is scheduled to...
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 Two separate predawn Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza Strip have
killed four Palestinian militants, the Hamas movement and the Israeli
military said Thursday morning.
In a statement to the media, the Islamist movement named two of the
fatalities as 25-year-old Shaher Abdel Karim and 22-year-old Imad Abu
T'ima, and said they...
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 Israel has to no choice but a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, but the
militant Hamas movement countered by calling for the Jewish state to be
wiped out by "armed resistance."
"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we
face a South...
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 According to a statement released on Thursday by officials,
Islamist militants killed at least 21 people in what may have been a suicide
attack on an army convoy in northwest Pakistan,
where a Taliban-style movement has taken root.
The blast in the Swat valley set fire to a truck laden with
ammunition a day after the military sent...
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 A Palestinian militant was killed on Thursday after an
Israeli missile struck near him. The attack took place a day 11 Palestinians
were killed during an Israeli raid into the coastal territory.
Residents said the missile attack killed one gunman and
wounded two others from the Islamic Jihad militant group. An Israeli...
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 Israel
comes under fire once again, this time resulting in over 3 dozen injured.
Two Gaza militant groups
claimed responsibility on Tuesday for bombing an Israeli army base in southern Israel with a
home made rocket.
Saraya al-Quds, armed wing of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War),
and Sallah el-Dein Brigades, armed wing of the...
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Israel is
one step away from leashing out a full offensive campaign against the Islamic
Jihad that now rules over the Gaza Strip because of the terror they have
brought to the quiet city of Sderot.
Over the last 7 years, the rockets launched by the fanatics have killed at
least 12 people.
Things are really getting out of...
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 The Lebanese army resumed its bombardment on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, two soldiers being reported dead on Saturday.The al-Qaeda inspired militants responded with Katyusha rockets, at least three such projectiles being launched during the morning hours. No casualties were reported, the rockets...
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 The Israeli army announced one of its soldiers was shot dead Thursday during a fire exchange with Palestinian gunmen in central Gaza, two other troopers being wounded.Hamas, the ruling Sunni Islamist organization in Gaza, said fighters from its armed wing detonated explosive devices and then opened fire on Israeli troops on the central...
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 Lebanese troops began shelling remaining Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp early Thursday, three soldiers being killed during intense fire exchange.Several members of the al-Qaeda inspired terrorist group refused to surrender, prompting the army to renew artillery fire against them. Militants sniped down a...
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 According to media reports release on Monday, Israel is pressing Hamas to accept a prisoners exchange that would secure the freedom of long-time captive Corporal Gilad Shalit.Hamas continues to refuse negotiations with Israel and that is why the proposal came through Egyptian mediators, but was allegedly turned down.Israeli Prime...
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 Militants holed up inside the Red Mosque are pushing the patience of Pakistan’s government, as President Pervez Musharraf said they have only two choices: capitulation or death.The leader said his government will not make any compromise and is determined to end this conflict started Tuesday. “The Lal Masjid administration has damaged the...
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 BBC’s correspondent flew back to Britain on Saturday after being held captive for almost four months by members of the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam, Israeli media reported.Three days after being released, Johnston decided to return in Scotland for some peace and quiet with his family.Wednesday, he was freed by the...
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 A new attempt to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was reported Friday, after several anti-aircraft rockets were fired at his airplane shortly after it took off from a military base.The perpetrators weren’t identified, but the launchers and casings were recovered by security forces shortly after the attack in Rawalpindi, a...
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 At least eight persons were killed Thursday in heavy clashes between Israeli troops and militants in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli army vehicles entered Gaza.Witnesses and Hamas confirmed seven Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members were killed, while a civilian was caught in the cross fire and shot dead. At least eight other Palestinians...
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 Explosions are becoming a common event for the daily routine in Iraq, Tuesday recording another blast that took two lives in the northern city of Kirkuk.The savage explosion occurred in a central neighbourhood of Kirkuk near a gas station, two Iraqis being killed and at least 19 injured, Iraqi media reported Tuesday.According to local...
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 Hamas continues with its actions that would bring order in Gaza, announcing Monday the arrest of a spokesman for the group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston after a fire exchange in Gaza City.Khatab al-Maqdifi, spokesman for the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam was injured after a gunbattle erupted when Hamas members tried to...
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 After withdrawing its ground troops from Nablus on Friday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, six people reportedly being killed.The Gaza Strip was rattled Saturday by Israeli missiles targeting Palestinian militants, as the Israeli military reported the six fatalities were militants belonging to the...
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 Lebanese forces opened fire on a group of Palestinian demonstrators that tried to pass through a check point towards the Nahr al-Bared camp on Friday, two people being killed and 20 wounded.The incident occurred in northern Lebanon near the Bedawi camp, where thousands of Palestinians took shelter from the screaming bullets and mortars...
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 It seems the guns are never silent in Lebanon, as the military launched operations to root out militancy near the northern town of Qalamoun, killing six alleged members of the radical Islamist group Fatah al-Islam Thursday.The Lebanese forces didn’t report any casualties, two soldiers being lightly injured in the fire exchange. According...
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 Israel decided it was time to make its move and early Wednesday numerous troops entered the Gaza Strip through the south and north, clashing with Palestinian militants that reportedly lost six fighters in the skirmishes.Local sources informed that a young male was also killed in the fire exchange, while the eight victim was a Hamas...
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 Lebanese security forces had to deal with a spontaneous conflict erupted Saturday night in Tripoli, where ten persons were killed and a dozen injured.The skirmish started when militants unprovoked opened fire on a Lebanese army patrol, killing one soldier and wounding another, as a local source informed. The gunmen took shelter in a...
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 The Lebanese army reported the death of four more troopers Saturday, one being killed by enemy fire, three others dying while defusing an explosive device.Clashes between military forces and Fatah al-Islam militants cloaking inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp led to the death of another soldier, who was gunned down by snipers.Three...
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 Lebanese troops are running the last mile in their conflict with Fatah al-Islam militants hiding inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, as a few bullets and artillery shells screeched through the air Friday.The Lebanese Defence Ministry announced the offensive’s end Thursday, but soldiers near the camp continued to fire at positions...
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 Fighting continues in northern Lebanon, as the army moved in on Fatah al-Islam positions on Tuesday with the price of two lives.The two soldiers were killed during night fire exchange in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, where al-Qaeda inspired militants are holed up, the Lebanese army informed. Heavy artillery fire again...
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 The Lebanese army is continuing its fight with Fatah al-Islam militants in northern Lebanon, three soldiers being killed Monday near the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.The three troopers were killed when they tried to defuse some mines planted in the vicinity of the Palestinian refugee camp, army reports informed Monday.Meanwhile, heavy fire...
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 Northern Lebanon continues to be hitched by artillery blasts, as the Lebanese army continued Saturday its heavy fire on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared.Most of the artillery fire was directed at positions held by militants in the northern part of Nahr al-Bared, destroying buildings and...
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 The conflict in northern Lebanon continues to claim lives, four more soldier being killed Friday as they were trying to disarm explosive devices placed in a building inside the Nahr al-Bared camp.Four members of the Lebanese army bomb squad entered a building seized from Fatah al-Islam militants with the goal of dismantling the explosive...
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 The fierce conflict that erupted last month near Tripoli between Lebanese troops and Fatah al-Islam militants claimed more lives on Monday, as two workers of the international humanitarian movement were killed at the Nahr al-Bared camp entrance.The Lebanese army vehemently denied any implication in the unfortunate incident, saying the...
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 Israel’s government is determined to put an end to the barrage of Qassam rockets consequently fired on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. Thus, the operations targeting militants and leaders of the Islamist movement have began on ground and continued by air. Monday, a convoy of the Israeli military...
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 A staggering fact was discovered recently by the Lebanese security,
who revealed that Fatah al-Islam militants were planning a lethal wave of
suicide attacks in Beirut and its vicinities.
The news that shattered Lebanon
appeared Sunday in a newspaper, An-Nahar and was based on the information
obtained by the Lebanese army, who...
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 The historical feud between Palestinians and Israelis could be
ended, at least in the Gaza Strip, as the Hamas movement announced Saturday.
The Islamist organization conditioned a truce to the ending of
Israeli attacks on its leaders and facilities located in Gaza.
Both southern Israel
and Gaza Strip have been riddled by rockets...
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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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 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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 An apparent peace returned to northern Lebanon
after a week of turmoil and gunfights, while government officials try to find a
solution to the crisis.
It looks like the government wants the Islamist militants who
gunned-down several soldiers and allegedly started the week-long clashes. A
military siege has been ruled out, a...
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 The armed wing of Hamas threatened to slay the abducted
caporal Gilad Shalit if Israeli airstrikes continue in the Gaza Strip and any
of their leaders will be killed.
"Israel
can forget about Shalit, if leading members of Hamas die," a Hamas spokesperson
said.
Caporal Gilad Shalit of the Israeli Armed Corps was...
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 Hundreds of Qassam missiles launched from the Gaza Strip caused panic among the residents of southern Israeli territories, thousand fleeing the ravaged regions.In response, Israel initiated several airstrikes against Hamas key positions and leaders, as the battle moved on the ground Thursday, 33 Hamas officials being arrested in the West...
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 About 15,000 Palestinians fled the crowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp (about 40,000 refugees) on Wednesday after a fragile truce stopped the fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni Islamist militant group.The al Qaeda-inspired militants took up residence in the camp last year with the declared intention of fighting...
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 Fighting between Lebanese forces and Islamist militants continue to make victims in both sides, more than 70 people being killed in the past 48 hours, army officials reported.In the middle of the fire exchange lies the refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, thousands of Palestinian refugees living in the settlement. Members of the Fatah al-Islam...
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 During his cabinet meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military will continue its airstrikes against Hamas positions with even more intensity, if the Islamist group doesn't cease fire. "If the measured steps we are taking, in the political and military sphere, do not bring about the desired calm, we will be forced to...
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