TEHRAN — After eight years of often conciliatory diplomacy and a presidential election where resuming ties with the United States was floated as a real possibility, Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s victory has abruptly slammed the door on any immediate chance of making up with Washington, analysts say. The final say on the …

SHIRAT HAYAM, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers knocked down a row of abandoned buildings next to this seaside settlement on Sunday, clashing with Jewish settlers in the first military operation aimed at heading off opposition to Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. In a foretaste of what could …

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush will try to persuade sceptical Americans this week that the war in Iraq is winnable while shoring up his own weak approval ratings. Neither task will be easy. As part of a newly honed White House focus on Iraq, Bush will travel to an …

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday that American forces would not defeat Iraq’s rebels but would make way for Iraqis to put down an insurgency that could go on for a decade or more. His remarks came on another day of bloodshed on which three …

(The 18 th – 24th of June, 24th, 2005 ) Last week the fighters of the Chechen Military Forces made the fighting and diversion operations in the territory of the country suddenly active. Especially intensively fights and blowing ups of the invaders and their henchmen took place in the capital …

The Head of the External Subcommittee of the information Committee of the SDC-Madjlisul Shura of the ChRI Movladi Udugov answers the questions of the agency “Caucasus-center”. More than three months have passed since the murder of the President of the ChRI Aslan Mashadov. In Moscow they did not hide their …

Six Russian occupation soldiers and three puppet police have been killed in fighting in Chechnya, while another 11 members of the occupation security forces were wounded, according to a local puppet official. There were no independent estimates of Chechen casualties.

Spokesman of State Defense Council Majlis al-Shura of CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) reported to Kavkaz Center news agency that 21 invaders and national-traitors were killed during combat actions and sabotage operations of Mujahideen for the past two days.

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.