KABUL (Reuters) – NATO troops in Afghanistan and Pakistani soldiers together killed a number of militants along the rugged border, the NATO force said on Tuesday, in a rare show of close cross-border military cooperation.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Four Iraqi men are suing U.S. military contractors who they say tortured them while they were detained in Abu Ghraib prison, according to lawsuits being filed at U.S. federal courts on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10 billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.

The Estonian delegation headed by the country’s President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has left a forum for Finno-Ugric nations in protest at comments made by the Chairman of Russian Duma’s (Parliament’s) International Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev, who said that Estonia’s ethnic policies are “unprincipled”.

For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …

According to earlier reports, 6 people were injured. All of the victims of the explosions in Gagry are locals, Echo of Moscow (“Ekho Moskvy”) reported.

After the Command of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate released the report about the successful operation in the village of Elistanzhi, the sources of the Russian invaders came up with their own “version” of the special night operation by the Mujahideen, as usual.

Ringleader of Chechen pro-Russian accomplices (murtadin/apostates) has launched another turn of the informational campaign against his rival puppet, Sulim Yamadayev. It was reported that Kadyrov’s TV showed a film, in which ringleader of the Vostok (“East”) gang is declared a murderer, a kidnapper and a criminal.

Sources inside anti-Zyazikov opposition reported referring to the locals that a combat clash took place at 4 AM on the outskirts of the village of Dolakovo. The locals reported that they heard intense submachine gun fire and blasts.

Source inside the Headquarters of Eastern Front of the Caucasus Emirate Armed Forces reported that early morning of Jumada Al-Akhirah 25, 1429 (June 29, 2008), units of Commander (Amir) Hussein (Commander of the Shali Sector of Eastern Front of the Caucasus Armed Forces) entered the village of Elistanzhi (Vedeno Dsitrict …