Eurasia Press & News
According to Kavkaz Center’s three Mujahideen were martyred (inshaAllah) in a hostile incident on 8 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (16.03.2008) in Vedeno district of Wilayah Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate.
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Fierce gun battle takes place in Urus-Martan district
Kavkaz Center’s source from Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate reported about an ambush of a group of murtadin and kuffar made by a mobile team of near the village of Olhazar-Kotar (Alhazurovo) on 13 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1429 (20 March 2008).
Read More »Cheney in Afghanistan to back government
KABUL, Afghanistan – Vice President Dick Cheney met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday to discuss ways the country’s fragile government as it faces rising threats from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.
Read More »Kuwait dissolves parliament, sets May election
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s ruler dissolved parliament and set an election for May 17 on Wednesday after a political crisis that delayed economic reforms forced the oil exporting state’s government to resign.
Read More »Neighbors’ Kosovo recognition deals blow to Serbia
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s neighbors in Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria dealt a blow to the Serb campaign to overturn Kosovo’s month-old independence on Wednesday by announcing they would recognize the new republic.
Read More »U.N. police return to tense Kosovo Serb stronghold
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – U.N. police in Kosovo returned to the Serb stronghold of north Mitrovica on Wednesday with heavy NATO support, having pulled out two days ago after deadly riots by Serbs opposed to secession.
Read More »Trial of Iraq fighter suspects opens in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – Six French men and one Algerian went on trial in Paris on Wednesday accused of involvement in a network smuggling Islamist fighters to Iraq.
Read More »Saudi clerics back death fatwa for liberal writers
RIYADH (Reuters) – A group of Saudi clerics has come out in support of a colleague who issued a fatwa saying two writers deserve to die if they did not retract views that he said made them apostates.
Read More »Hamas, Fatah far apart as Yemen tries to mediate
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas voiced willingness on Wednesday to talk to Fatah as part of a Yemeni reconciliation initiative but said the secular faction must drop its demand the Islamist group first give up control of the Gaza Strip.
Read More »Small bomb explodes in Yemen market
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – A small bomb exploded in a market in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Wednesday but caused no casualties, witnesses said, a day after three mortars hit a school near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa.
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