Hizb owns responsibility Nine soldiers of Army’s Rashtriya Rifles were killed and 21 injured some of them critically, when freedom fighters triggered a powerful car bomb near Mughal Garden at Nishat in Srinagar on Friday.

NEW YORK — Numbers and words, words and numbers, repeated so many times they begin to lose meaning. A suicide car bomber rams a military checkpoint. Police find 28 bullet-riddled bodies in shallow graves. A man walks into a restaurant and blows himself up.

BAGHDAD — The new Iraq is still a place where violence reigns and ethnic and sectarian divisions are growing deeper one year after the handover of sovereignty by the US-led occupation. On the bright side, 8.5 million Iraqis voted in the watershed January election and the political process appears to …