TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- As reported by the January 12 New York Times, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that George W. Bush authorized the raid of the Iranian liaison office in Erbil, Iraq, and that the raid was part of a broad military offensive against Iran ordered by Bush …

RAMALLAH — A three-way meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is set to take place in the coming weeks.

A convoy of US vehicles from Kuwait arrives Monday in Basra, 550km south of Baghdad. The first additional US troops, who will take part in a major new security plan in Baghdad, arrived in Baghdad, General George Casey, the US commander in Iraq, said (Reuters photo by Atef Hassan)