Posts Tagged ‘Middle East’

Barak admits Gaza truce success

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Israel’s defence minister says an invasion of Gaza would not stop rocket attacks and a recent truce has been as success.

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Olmert vow to quit raises peace doubts

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, appearing at his Jerusalem resident on Wednesday, announces that he will resign in September.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s decision to resign amid corruption allegations and his own plummeting popularity has intensified doubts about Israel’s prospects for reaching regional peace deals.

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Suicide blast targets Pakistani police

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Pakistani policemen help injured colleagues after a suicide attack in Islamabad on July 6, 2008, near the Red Mosque. At least five policemen were killed in an apparent suicide bombing targeting a police contingent deployed at the security of a religious gathering in the Pakistani capital, police said.   AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)A suicide attacker detonated explosives near a police station in Pakistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, mostly police officers, and wounding dozens more, officials said.


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Afghan officials: U.S. missiles killed civilians

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

An injured Afghan boy is put on a stretcher at a hospital in Jalalabad city, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 6, 2008 after he allegedly got injured by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul. Chief government official Haji Amishah Gul in the Deh Bala district says villagers have reported between 30 and 35 people walking in a group toward a wedding have been killed in a coalition bombing. Up to 10 people were wounded. Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.

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Baghdad car bomb kills six

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

A car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 14 other people in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

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One year on, Pakistan marks Red Mosque siege

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Thousands of Islamists gathered Sunday in Pakistan’s capital to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly military crackdown on the radical Red Mosque.

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United Arab Emirates cancels Iraq debt

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The United Arab Emirates canceled all its Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad by naming a new ambassador.

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U.N.: Afghan civilian deaths skyrocket

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Afghan solders are seen during a patrolling on the out skirts of the city of Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday June 29, 2008.  NATO and Afghan forces recaptured the Arghandab district from Taliban militants recently. The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior U.N. official said Sunday.

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Israel OKs Hezbollah prisoner swap

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

JERUSALEM - JUNE 29:  (ISRAEL OUT) Karnit Goldwasser, wife of captured Israeli soldier Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser, who along with Eldan Regev is being held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, walks out of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office after his cabinet voted to approve a prisoner swap with Hezbollah on June 29, 2008 outside Olmert's office in Jerusalem. The Israeli cabinet approved a German-mediated deal to swap Regev and Goldwasser, who were captured by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid in July 2006, for 5 Lebanese being held in Israeli jails as well as the bodies of dead Hezbollah militia from the military campaign that Israel launched in a failed attempt to get the two reservists back.  (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)The Israeli government agreed Sunday to free a Lebanese gunman convicted in one of the grisliest attacks in the country’s history in exchange for the bodies of two soldiers killed by Hezbollah guerrillas.


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Pakistan forces widen drive against militants

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Paramilitary soldiers patrol during an operation near Bara, a town in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border June 29, 2008. Security forces have secured an area in Pakistan's Khyber region, through which a main supply route passes into Afghanistan, a day after launching an offensive to push back militants threatening Peshawar.  REUTERS/Mohammad Shahkar (PAKISTAN)Paramilitary troops returned Sunday to posts they had abandoned months ago in the Khyber region as Pakistani forces widened their offensive against militants in the volatile tribal area along the Afghan border, an official said.


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