Middle Orient

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — With his political fortunes plummeting after the summer’s war in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scrambling to shore up his rickety coalition by courting a hardline party that favours redrawing Israel’s borders to exclude Arab citizens.

BAGHDAD (AP) — A witness in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial testified that the ousted leader’s agents ran a human trafficking ring that sold his sister and other Kurdish women in the 1980s. Defence lawyers and one of Saddam’s co-defendants on Wednesday immediately challenged the charge as hearsay based on a …

Addressing an open session of the parliament here on Wednesday, Haddad Adel also praised solidarity of the different political groups and movements in the face of the nuclear issue, and said that the nuclear approvals of the Islamic Consultative Assembly speak the nation’s word.

Two months after the Zionist war against Lebanon the war ministry of the illegal entity called Israel announced that 450 Zionist soldiers had been permanently handicapped during the aggression on the famed freedom-loving movement, the Hezbollah, the IRIB reported.   Zionist sources announced that differences among Zionist entity’s officials on how …

An American navy medic revealed Friday how seven marines dragged an Iraqi civilian from his home and shot him in cold blood before covering up the brutal slaying.

The United States Army and Marines are finishing work on a new counterinsurgency doctrine that draws on the hard-learned lessons from Iraq and makes the welfare and protection of civilians a bedrock element of military strategy.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister on Monday announced a new plan aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shiite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the country for months.

BAGHDAD — A 30,000 per cent increase in the murder rate would overwhelm the best equipped detectives, but Lieutenant Colonel Amir of CSI Baghdad refuses to despair.

SANAA (AFP) — Four French nationals kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen two weeks ago have been freed and are well, state-owned news agency Saba said Monday.

RABAT (Reuters) — Morocco’s once secretive socialists have launched a mass membership drive to boost their chances at polls next year in which their message of secular modernity faces a challenge from resurgent Islamists.