IN A BOLD BLOW to Iraqi hopes for peace, suspected Al Qaeda bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra’s revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, adding new provocation to old wounds a year after the mosque’s golden dome was destroyed.
Read More »Car bombing kills anti-Syrian lawmaker, 9 others in Beirut
A POWERFUL CAR bomb killed anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Walid Eido and nine other people on Wednesday in an attack his colleagues blamed on Damascus, Reuters reported.
Read More »Human Rights group demands international tribunal for Kashmir
In occupied Kashmir, the Srinagar based Human Rights group, Coalition of Civil Society has demanded formation of an International Tribunal for War Crimes to investigate into the gross human rights violations by the Indian armed forces.
Read More »Bomb Blast Kills Lawmaker in Lebanon
A bomb ripped through a vocal anti-Syrian lawmaker’s car near the popular waterfront in the Lebanese capital Wednesday, killing him and nine other people in the latest assassination of a Lebanese opponent of Damascus.
Read More »Blast hits key Iraq Shia shrine
The two minarets of the al-Askari shrine in Iraq, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, have been destroyed by two explosions.
Read More »Palestinian fighting ‘will burn all of us,’ official says
GAZA CITY (CNN) — Rival factions killed more than two dozen people Tuesday in bitter fighting that has left Gaza sliding into chaos, Palestinian officials said.
Read More »40 Fatah men cross into Egypt, fleeing Gaza fighting
RAFAH, Egypt, June 13 (Reuters) – About 40 Palestinian security men affiliated to Fatah fled to Egypt on Wednesday to escape violence in the Gaza Strip while dozens of Palestinians massed at the closed border, Egyptian officials said.
Read More »Hamas meets Egyptian mediators in Gaza, to meet Fatah later
GAZA, June 13 (Xinhua) — Egyptian security mediators started a meeting with Hamas officials in Gaza city on Wednesday afternoon as the movement continued battles against rival Fatah.
Read More »Egyptian-led peaceful rally under fire in Gaza, two killed
GAZA, June 13 (Xinhua) — A peaceful rally held in Gaza City under the call of an Egyptian mediating delegation was under fire on Wednesday afternoon, left two Palestinian civilians dead and 17 others wounded, witnesses and paramedics said.
Read More »Mubarak probes with Jordanian King regional, bilateral issues
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday held a session of talks with visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II at the presidential palace on the latest developments in the regional and bilateral relations.
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