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SOFIA (Reuters) — President George W. Bush said on Monday it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.
Read More »US said to be planning long-term presence in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House Sunday backed an eventual withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq after a report said detailed plans are afoot to retain a smaller military presence in the war-torn country for years.
Read More »11 dead as Hamas-Fateh truce collapses in Gaza factional violence
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Renewed Palestinian factional fighting killed 11 people on Monday in Gaza, where gunmen fired on government offices forcing ministers to interrupt a Cabinet meeting.
Read More »US toll tops 3,500, UK’s Brown visits Iraq
BAGHDAD (AFP) — US troop losses in Iraq topped 3,500 after a bridge bombing near Baghdad on Monday, as Britain’s visiting future prime minister rejected domestic calls for a probe into the war’s failings.
Read More »2 Red Cross workers killed at Lebanon camp
NAHR BARED (AFP) — Two Red Cross workers and three soldiers were killed on Monday around a besieged camp in northern Lebanon where the army has struggled to crush Islamist gunmen for the past three weeks.
Read More »Chaudhary gains momentum in legal battle with government
Pakistan’s suspended chief justice has won the first round in a lengthy legal battle with the government. The Supreme Court decided on Monday to consider his challenge against accusations of misconduct.
Read More »Innocent Palestinians kidnapped by Zionist occupants
A pre-dawn incursion by zionist occupants into the largest West Bank city of Nablus ended Monday morning with the arrest of six citizens from the city itself and the nearby Asker refugee camp.
Read More »General: Iran aids Karzai, maybe Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan – Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO’s top general here said Monday.
Read More »Iranian regime’s top Secret Order to Intensify Terrorist Attacks in Iraq
NCRI – In mid-June, the defense committee of Iranian regime’s Supreme National Security Council held meetings with some commanders of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
Read More »Iranian regime’s Attempts to Control Diala Province in Iraq
NCRI – In the past 4 years the mullahs’ regime has tried hard to impose its full control on the Iraqi Diala province which has 240 kilometers of common border with Iran and said to be the entrance to Baghdad. Using the Quds force the Iranian regime has mobilized its …
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