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Islamabad - The chief of Pakistan's Air Force said on Tuesday his forces were fully capable of shooting down the pilotless US aircraft that have carried out more than 20 strikes on militants hideouts in country's tribal region over the last two months.
"As far as the capacity of the air force is concerned, it is ready for any...
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Israel sealed off the West Bank early Wednesday morning ahead of the Day of Atonement holiday, which begins Wednesday at sundown and lasts until Thursday.
The closure would be lifted on Friday morning, according to a security assessment, an Israeli military communique said.
The military also said it would "increase its...
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At least 12 people were killed Monday when Taliban militants and local tribesmen exchanged heavy gunfire in Pakistan's restive tribal district of Bajaur, security officials said.
The fighting started when an army of volunteers from the Salarzai tribe tried to set ablaze the houses of the insurgents, who have been fighting...
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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.
The statement referred to a...
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A Palestinian who was shot in the foot from close range during a protest in the West Bank last month, petitioned Israel's highest court Tuesday to demand the Israeli soldier who fired and his commander be charged with aggravated abuse.
The Palestinian, Ashraf Abu Rahmeh, 27, participated in a July 7 demonstration in the West Bank...
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Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah Wednesday to bid farewell to their most famous poet and the author of their declaration of independence.
Mahmoud Darwish died at a United States hospital on Friday following open heart surgery. He was 67.
His coffin arrived in a Jordanian helicopter from Amman at the headquarters of...
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Polish soldiers posted photos of dead Iraqis and Afghans on the internet, and the military now plans to ban private picture-taking on missions abroad, media reports said Wednesday. The photos showed dead soldiers and civilians, torn limbs and bloodied body parts, the Polska daily reported. Polish prosecutors are investigating...
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Iraqi and US teams negotiating a controversial
security pact have reached an initial agreement that states that US
troops will withdraw from Iraq between 2010 and 2011, the pro-
government Iraqi Al-Sabah newspaper reported Monday. The
newspaper reported that 'the Iraqi and American technical teams have
already reported the outcome...
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For a second day Wednesday Iraqi troops backed
by US forces continued a major offensive against the al-Qaeda terrorist
network in the restive Diyala province. The Iraqi government
has sent some 30,000 army and police forces to the province since it
announced its plan to launch the assault weeks ago. The offensive was launched...
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The death toll of attacks on Shiite pilgrims
in Baghdad carried out in quick succession by three female suicide
bombers on Monday rose to at least 25, while another suicide bombing
targeting crowds at a protest in Kirkuk caused seven fatalities.
An Iraqi military spokesman, Qasim Atta, confirmed that three women
wearing explosive...
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Lebanese Sunni leader Saad Hariri met Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Thursday during a rather
calm day in Iraq after a deadly explosion that took place north of the
capital the night before. According to the Voices of Iraq
(VOI) news agency, the Shiite Iraqi leader congratulated Hariri on the
formation of a...
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Israel Thursday began laying to rest the two
soldiers whose bodies were returned a day earlier as part of a prisoner
exchange deal with the Lebanese militant Shiite Hezbollah group.
Eldad Regev and Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser were abducted in a cross-border
Hezbollah raid on July 12 2006. The attack sparked a month-long war
between...
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Iraq hopes to take over full security
responsibilities in the country's 18 provinces by year-end, an Iraqi
official said Wednesday. 'This year will see Iraqi
authorities take over security control in all provinces. We aspire to
reach the 18th province before the end of the year,' Iraqi national
security advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubayie...
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Two suicide bombers killed 22 people and wound
57 others in an attack Tuesday at an army recruitment station in Diyala
province, officials said.
Medical workers said the two attackers detonated their explosive
vests about two minutes apart in the attack at the Saad military
barracks in Baquba, capital of the province.
Diyala,...
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US troops killed a former Iraqi army officer
in northern Iraq while twin bombings left six people injured in
volatile Diyala province where the search is on for three suspected
female suicide bombers, security officials said Tuesday. In
the northern Salahaddin province, a US force stormed Monday night the
house of an officer in...
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Fifteen people were killed and other 40 were wounded as a
result of another bomb attack carried out by a woman in central Baquba on
Sunday, Iraqi security officials reported.
The suicide bomber detonated the explosives hidden beneath
her black robe near a fortified courthouse and government outpost. Seven
policemen were killed...
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 A four-year-old Palestinian girl was killed
and her mother wounded in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. The Israel army
confirmed it carried out an air strike in the area, saying it targeted a group
of militants. Apparently, the bomb missed its target and landed near a house,
security forces said.
“The air force conducted a...
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The International Atomic Energy Agency began on Monday a five-day
meeting in Vienna to discuss Iran's controversial nuclear
activities, as well as suspicions that Syria secretly might have tried to build
a nuclear reactor.
The meeting takes place a week after the United Nations agency
released a report containing suspicions that...
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 The International Atomic Energy report
issued in Vienna said Tehran is holding back information on
high-explosives testing relating to its nuclear programme and it should provide
more information on its missile-related activities, Reuters reported.
“I think right now the Iranians have a lot
of explaining to do about the IAEA...
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The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) asserted yesterday that the purposes of Iran's
research into the development of nuclear weapons were still not clear enough and needed
further investigation. The report consisted of a review of eighteen documents regarding nuke plans that Tehran has.
Although...
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 A suicide bomber blew up a truck with four
tons of explosives, which was parked on the Palestinian side of the Erez
Crossing. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bomb attack, which could
be heard for miles away and blew out windows in the nearby Israeli border
community of Netiv Ha'Asara. A militant was killed in the suicide...
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 US Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who is to
lead US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, says that diplomacy is the
best option with Iran.
The US
must work on developing more diplomatic and economic tactics to pressure
Teheran to abandon its nuclear program and must retain military strike options
as a “last resort.” He said...
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 An American soldier used the Quran for target practice,
determining Army Major General Jeffery Hammond, the commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad, to publicly
apologize.
The occurence wasn’t disclosed until recently, although it
happened May 9.
The desecrated copy of the Muslim holy book was found by
Iraqi police at a small...
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 The man captured Thursday in the northern city of Mosul is not the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, a senior US military official said on Friday, after several Iraqi officials announced that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, was captured.The US military said there were “no operational reports” to confirm the announcement made...
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 An Islamist commander who was one of al Qaeda’s top members in Somalia was killed in an overnight American air strike; Aden Hashi Ayro was killed Thursday morning, according to American and Somali officials. The spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia, Sheik Muqtar Robow, said the strike killed Aden Hashi Ayro, another commander and...
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 The trial of Tariq Aziz, one of the best-known faces of
executed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein regime, is scheduled to begin on
Tuesday, AFP reports. Aziz and other seven defendants are accused overseeing
the execution of 42 merchants from Baghdad
in 1992.
According to an Iraqi official close to the court, the trial
would...
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Pakistan’s
army on Monday test-fired a long-rage, nuclear-capable ballistic missile, AFP
reports. The military said this was the second test since the weekend, as
Pakistani scientists and engineers also test-fired a missile on Saturday,
following a similar test in February last year.
The Army Strategic Force Command (ASF)...
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 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Khalid Meshaal, an exiled leader of Hamas, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk met again on Saturday morning. Carter, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, went to Syria to talk with leaders of the militant group Hamas and the unusual visit was considered a study mission and a part of U.S.'s...
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 At least 49 people were killed and others were wounded when
a suicide bomber struck a funeral for a tribal leader in northern Iraq on Thursday.
The bomber blew himself up in the Sunni village
of Bu Mohammed, near the city of Baquba, north of the capital, Baghdad, officials said.
The strike appears to be the latest assault to...
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 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered Friday a freeze
on raids against Shiite militants, after the leader of the militia claimed that
the arrests continued even after he demanded fighters to put their weapons
down. Shiite leader’s Muqtada al-Sadr Mahdi Army militia fought government soldiers
in the southern city of Basra and...
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 Iraqi authorities extended a siege in Baghdad for an indefinite time in order to
block clashes between Iraqi security officers and Shiite militants. However,
the violence seems to continue, as Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demanded his
loyalists not to surrender, mocking Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who ordered
them to lay down...
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 Shiite militiamen and Iraqi security forces fought for a
second day in the southern city of Basra
on Wednesday, waving rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and injuring three
Americans and an Iraqi, officials claimed. The explosions could be heard every
10 or 15 minutes.
The authorities ordered sieges across southern Iraq in...
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 Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militiamen Tuesday in the
southern city of Basra,
leaving at least 18 people dead and 40 hurt. Most of them are reported as civilians.
The violence began as Iraqi troops and police officers
carried out an operation against al-Sadr's militia, according to President
Jalal Taliban’s...
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 Benazir Bhutto’s aide Yousaf Raza Gilani was elected on
Monday by Pakistan’s
Parliament as the country’s new Prime Minister.
55 year-old Gilani, member of the Pakistan’s People ’s Party
(PPP), received 264 votes in the 342-seat lower house of parliament, while his
opponent from a party loyalist to President Pervez Musharaff...
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 Four U.S.
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
on Sunday, bringing the overall American toll in the Iraq war to 4,000. The roadside
bomb exploded next to the four troops’ vehicle in southern Baghdad,
causing their death and injuring another soldier, the U.S. military
reports.
The U.S.-protected Green Zone...
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 Two Palestinian militants were killed and four wounded in an
explosion at a beachfront facility of the militant Hamas organization in
southern Gaza City, witnesses and Palestinian doctors
said on Thursday.
Security officials claim the explosion was probably caused
by a “work accident” which led to premature detonation of...
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 U.S. President George Bush marked the fifth anniversary of
the U.S invasion of Iraq
with a speech to an audience at the Pentagon Defense
Department, defending the conflict as one that was necessary.
“Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right
decision—and this is a fight America
can and must win,” claimed Bush in a...
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 A new scientific review of medical studies on the chronic Gulf
War syndrome finds a strong association between the illness suffered by many
veterans and the exposure to a group of chemicals known as acetyl cholinesterase
inhibitors. According to a recent study, it appears that the chemicals were discovered
in pesticides used around...
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 Five American foot soldiers went on Monday on their last patrol. They were killed in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad in another suicide bomb attack, the military officials said.The soldiers were patrolling when a militant approached them and detonated the explosive-laden vest he was wearing. Four soldiers died at the...
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 Israeli police released the identity of the gunman who shot the eight students inside the library of a well-known religious school in Jerusalem, The New York Times wrote on its Web site.The gunman’s name was released the same day the families of the eight students killed in the attack attended the funerals of their children. The man...
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 At least eight people were killed and 10 other were wounded on Thursday as a Palestinian militant opened fire inside a renowned Jewish religious school in Jerusalem. The shooting was labeled as a “slaughterhouse" by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka emergency service according to Reuters. He made that statement after...
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 Despite intense peace efforts, the violence in Israel and Gaza persists. Two Palestinian militants were killed on Tuesday by an Israeli air strike, Reuters wrote on its Web site. One of the victims was a rocket squad member according to militant and medical sources. The strikes determined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend...
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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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 The death sentence of Ali Hassan al-Majid, a.k.a. “Chemical Ali”, was backed by Iraq’s Presidential Council.Al-Majid got hit above mentioned nickname for his role in the 1988 campaign of genocide against the Kurds living in Iraq. During that period, Al-Majid, who is one of Saddam Hussein’s cousins, played an important role in gassing...
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 After urging Ankara to end it military operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates got an answer from his Turkish counterpart, although it may not be the one he had hoped for.Gates’ counterpart, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said that Turkey’s assault on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...
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 A deadly rocket strike carried out on Tuesday in a Pakistani town near the border with Afghanistan killed several people.The reports show that most of those killed in the blast were possibly seminarians or militants.The death toll of the rocket strike varies from one source to another. The BBC said eight people were killed by the...
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 During an Israeli army raid carried out early Thursday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city, two Palestinian gunmen were killed in a fire exchange in Nablus according to the local hospital officials.Several other Palestinians were killed in the Israeli air strikes.The sound of gun fire broke the silence of...
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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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 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to ask Turkey’s military leaders to halt their operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible.Gates stated his intention ahead of the visit he will make in Ankara. He added that the Turkish military operation against the Kurdish PKK must not last longer than a week or two.The death toll of the...
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The Kurdish rebels living in the mountainous areas of
northern Iraq
expressed their opposition towards the Turkish raid Sunday, vowing to defend
themselves against the Turkish shelling and aerial bombardments, Reuters
reports.
The Kurds said that the Turkish troops target their
villages. Last Thursday Turkey
initiated a ground...
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Fiji embarrassed visiting New Zealand with a 2-0 win in Oceania's final World Cup qualifier on Wednesday night.
It was the New Zealanders' first defeat after five wins in the Oceania Nations Cup had already qualified them for the Confederations Cup in South Africa in June 2009 and a World Cup playoff against an Asian team later next...
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Kabul (dpa) - A suicide car bomber targeted a foreign military convoy Thursday in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing more than 20 civilians and one US soldier, officials said.
The death toll in the blast - which came a day after a tanker truck bombing in southern Afghanistan killed six people - had risen throughout...
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Military police with the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon arrested two terrorist suspects in the northern Lebanese refugee camp of Beddawi following a clash inside the chantytown, Palestinian sources said Friday.
According to the sources the two suspects were arrested after a major clash and were identified as Nader...
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Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
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China on Friday launched its Shenzhou VII manned space mission carrying three astronauts whose main task was to complete the country's first spacewalk.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province at 9:10 pm (1310 GMT) on board a Long March-2F carrier rocket.
The scheduled three-to-four-day...
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Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday officially endorsed the premiership of Somchai Wongsawat, the brother-in-law of coup-ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The Thai parliament voted 298 to 163 in favour of Somchai's nomination as prime minister on Wednesday but under Thailand's constitutional monarchy the...
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Seven US soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US army said Thursday.
The Chinook helicopter, which had been en route from Kuwait to the military base in Balad north of Baghdad, had not come under fire and the crash appeared to have been an accident, the army said in a...
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Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
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Four Russian navy ships will participate in joint exercises with Venezuela in the Caribbean this year, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
The Russian statement came after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the arrival of Russian ships on national television Sunday, saying they would dock in the South American...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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No one expected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas, which ended Tuesday, to result in a breakthrough in the peace process, so no one was disappointed.
A breakthrough is always possible in the peace negotiations, which resumed around the turn of the year, after a seven-year...
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Baghdad (dpa) - Two suicide bombers were among three terrorists killed Wednesday in a clash with US forces northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military said.
One of the bombers was shot dead and the other detonated his explosives as the troops approached, killing himself but causing no other casualties, the military...
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A United Nations investigative team has found that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in a US-led coalition air raid in western Afghanistan last week, the top UN envoy in the country said Tuesday.
The team "found convincing evidence, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses and others that some 90 civilians were...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
In an emergency meeting of the Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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Polish and US officials planned to sign a deal Wednesday to station US missile interceptors in Poland, fuelling conflict with Russia in a region once dominated by Moscow.
Poland agreed last week to host part of the US missile shield in return for military aid, including a battery of Patriot air defence missiles in Poland, capping more...
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Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
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Wednesday's military coup in the north-western African nation of Mauritania divided opinions Thursday, with demonstrations staged both for and against ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
The bigger rally supported the coup, with thousands of people calling on the new ruling military junta to "save" the country's...
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A former leader of Colombia's largest rebel
group has been charged in connection with the kidnapping of three US
contractors who were rescued from the Colombian jungle last month, the
US Justice Department announced Monday. Heli Mejia Mendoza,
known by the alias Martin Sombra, could face up to 60 years in prison
after being...
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Ecuador has formally notified the United
States that it must vacate a base used to combat drug trafficking when
the lease expires next year, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Ecuadorian officials informed the US embassy of the plans, which
have long been a pledge by President Rafael Correa despite objections
from surrounding...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 Having war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic finally detained,
Serbia
is being urged to catch its fugitive wartime military chief Ratko Mladic, also
sought for genocide.
According to AFP, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said in Singapore during an Asian tour that the Serbs were progressing and
“making a step forward in...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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 Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, aged 46, was freed last week together with 14 other hostages after being held in captivity for six years by Columbian Marxist guerillas. The perpetrators were allegedly tricked into handing them over to military staff disguised as autonomous organization workers.Even now, the...
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At least two people were killed and 11 injured
Wednesday by a bomb that hit a police checkpoint in Fallujah, the once
hotbed of Sunni insurgency in west Iraq, according to police.
The bomb struck a police checkpoint in the centre of Fallujah, 45
kilometres west of Baghdad, police sources told the Voices of Iraq news
agency. ...
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At least 15 people were killed Sunday,
including two children, and 22 injured, one of them a Kurdish
politician, in separate attacks in Iraq, security sources said.
In north-east Baghdad, a car bomb rocked the Shiite Shaab district, killing six people and injuring 14, police said.
The explosion, in front of the mortuary of the...
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Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed a lawsuit against United States military contractors, accusing
them of torture while they were detained at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad
in 2003 and 2004.
The men were
released without any charge and have brought individual lawsuits in four
different United States
courts: Seattle,...
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