Middle Orient News

BAGHDAD (AP) — US soldiers sent to reinforce security in Baghdad were seen for the first time on the streets of the capital Saturday as Iraqi police used loudspeakers to reassure people that the Americans were there to protect them. But at least 21 people were killed or found dead …

BEIRUT (AFP) — Hospitals treating thousands of wounded in Lebanon have fuel for only one more week and many will have to close if Israel keeps up a blockade on the country, the health minister warned on Saturday.

TYRE — Hussein Ali Ayoub was washing his face one morning in his border village of Maroun Ras in southern Lebanon when the ceiling suddenly collapsed.

JANDIRES, Syria — Grief and shock swept through this small, impoverished village in northwestern Syria Saturday as it buried 23 of its people who were killed when Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse just across the border in Lebanon.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Hizbollah’s sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the group’s deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel’s most advanced tanks.

DIYARBAKIR (AFP) — Turkey began Saturday building a major dam on the Tigris River, overriding fierce criticism that the project will devastate a millenia-old historic site and displace thousands of Kurds.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Months of bombings and shootings had left US soldiers of every rank in the army’s 502nd Infantry Regiment emotionally ragged and strained. They had lost dozens of their colleagues — more than most units.

Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Hassan Nasrollah has said that the Zionist regime has been caught off guard by Hezbullah resistance fighters on the battlefield, forcing the Zionist troopers to flee.

The US Central Intelligence Agency agents have visited Estonia within the framework of the November NATO summit due to take place in Riga, Latvia, daily SL Ohtuleht writes today. The CIA aircraft Boeing 737-300 with an identification number S0508 spent three days in the airport of Tallinn. 

Hizbollah fighters killed eight people in a rocket barrage on Israel and three Israeli soldiers in clashes in Lebanon on Thursday, the deadliest day of the war for Israel in 23 days of fighting. As world powers struggled to agree on a UN resolution to end the fighting, both sides …