KHARDALI (Reuters) — Lebanese troops deployed in south Lebanon on Thursday, linking up with UN peacekeepers to take control of Hizbollah strongholds as Israeli forces pulled back after their 34-day war with the fighters.

  Iran’s state television today said the military would launch a series of large-scale exercises on August 19. State television quoted army deputy commander General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani as saying that the upcoming maneuvers “aim at introducing Iran’s new defensive

Rafiq Qori Kamoluddin, the prominent ethnic Uzbek religious leader who was killed during a security raid in southern Kyrgyzstan on August 6, is not the first imam to have been targeted by law-enforcement agencies in the region. Several other Uzbek imams have been persecuted before. But he is the first …

August 17, 2006 — The Moscow city court has sentenced the former head of security at the bankrupt oil firm Yukos to 24 years in prison for a series of contract killings. Aleksei Pichugin is already serving a 20-year sentence on charges of organizing several murders,

 Rome/Brussels: The European Commission said yesterday it was closely following Russian gas monopoly Gazprom’s cooperation deal with Algeria’s Sonatrach after Italy said it could lead to higher gas prices in Europe.

Comment on Dr Fereydun Hilmi’s article: SOS – Is there anyone out there! Tuesday, August 15, 2006, KurdishMedia.com

Comment on the article: The GDP of Kurdistan, Tuesday, August 15, 2006, KurdishMedia.com, By Nergiz Duhoki

London (KurdishMedia.com) 15 August 2006: The PUK security forces Asayish is still searching for the participants of the protest of the town of Derbendixan (aka Darbandikhan) of the 7th August, reported local media on Monday.

Amed-Kurdistan (KurdishMedia.com) 15 August 2006: Osman Baydemir is the mayor of Amed (Diyarbakir), the largest city in northern (Turkish) Kurdistan. A veteran human rights activist and lawyer by training, Mr. Baydemir is a representative of the Democratic Society Party (DTP). He is perhaps the most prominent Kurdish politician in Turkey,

On 21 August 2006, Klawrojna is taking charge of a massive and collective protest to be held in front of the Federal Iraqi Embassy in the heart of Washington D.C.