BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police launched a major security operation in northeastern Diyala province on Tuesday in the latest move by the government to stamp its authority over militants.
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Pakistan, India trade fire in Kashmir for over 16 hours
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Indian and Pakistani troops traded more fire in the disputed Kashmir region on Tuesday, following a 16-hour clash, military officials said, making it the worst violation of a 2003 ceasefire.
Read More »Karadzic supporters gather, appeal drags on
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hardline nationalists gathered to show their support for war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday, while Serbian authorities and his legal team played a cat-and-mouse game over his extradition.
Read More »Afghans say time for Pakistani action on militants
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan said on Tuesday that after the Pakistani prime minister made a commitment to U.S. President George W. Bush to secure the border with Afghanistan, it was now time for Pakistan to take action.
Read More »Cyprus peace talks offer “best chance” of deal: U.N.
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Peace talks on ethnically- divided Cyprus this September offer possibly the best chance in years for a deal that has been eluding the island for decades, a senior United Nations envoy said on Tuesday.
Read More »Seven Bosnian Serbs jailed over Srebrenica killings
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to prison terms ranging from 38 to 42 years on Tuesday for taking part in the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Read More »Security forces hold virtually all Iraq: Petraeus
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi and U.S. forces now control virtually all of Iraq and Baghdad’s troops might be able to take on security responsibility for the whole country by the end of 2009, the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Monday.
Read More »Pakistani militants take hostage 30 police, troops
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pro-Taliban militants attacked a security post and took up to 30 hostages on Tuesday in Pakistan’s Swat valley, a day after insurgents killed three army intelligence staffers, officials said.
Read More »Al Qaeda chemist killed in U.S. strike: Pakistani agents
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – An al Qaeda chemical and biological weapons expert named Abu Khabab al-Masri was killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said a day after the attack.
Read More »FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan
(Reuters) – A British soldier was shot dead while on foot patrol in the southern Nad Ali district of Helmand province on Monday, the British Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
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