TimeLine Layout

July, 2008

  • 28 July

    Turkish military says hit 12 PKK targets in N.Iraq

    ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s military said on Sunday its fighter jets hit 12 Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq’s Qandil region in an operation that started at midnight.

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  • 28 July

    Tensions surge after Gaza bombings

    JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Hamas and Fatah carried out tit-for-tat arrests of each other’s followers on Sunday after deadly Gaza bomb attacks fuelled tension between the Palestinian factions.

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  • 28 July

    Abbas condemns Gaza violence, favors dialogue

    CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected accusations by Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers that his Fatah movement was behind a deadly bomb attack that killed five Hamas gunmen and a girl in Gaza two days ago.

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  • 28 July

    FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

    (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1045 GMT on Sunday. FALLUJA – A bomb wounded Zeki al-Mohammedi, a member of the Anbar provincial council and head of the Falluja branch of the Iraqi Islamic Party, and killed two of his bodyguards in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) …

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  • 28 July

    NATO air raid kills dozens of Taliban: governor

    KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Khost, the provincial governor said.

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  • 28 July

    FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

    (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 4:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday: KHOST – NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday following an attack by the militants on a government building in southeastern Khost province near the border with Pakistan, the provincial governor …

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  • 28 July

    Bosnia threatened with break-up, Ashdown says

    LONDON (Reuters) – Bosnia is closer to breaking up than at any time since its 1992-95 war and the European Union must do more to prevent its division, former international peace overseer Paddy Ashdown said.

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  • 28 July

    Hamas, militant group clash in Gaza Strip violence

    GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces clashed with gunmen from the Army of Islam, an al Qaeda-inspired group, in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, part of a security crackdown following a surge in internal violence.

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  • 25 July

    Afghan family devastated by suicide blast

    KABUL (Reuters) – Abdul Wahid was asleep in England when he received a panicked phone call. “Buy a plane ticket and hurry to Kabul!” his brother’s voice said.

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  • 25 July

    Blasts at Gaza cafe, politician’s house: Hamas

    GAZA (Reuters) – Bomb blasts rocked a cafe and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago.

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