August, 2008

• 14 August

  Tories Hope for Better UK-Iran Ties

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Shadow Foreign Office Minister David Lidington hopes that a future Conservative government in Britain would lead to better relations between London and Tehran.

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• 14 August

  Bombs hit northern Iraq, forces expect more

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bombs in four parts of northern Iraq killed at least six people on Wednesday, and Iraqi forces said they expected more attacks as they pursue Sunni Arab militants in the volatile north.

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• 14 August

  Israeli forces shoot Syrian at border: army

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces shot and wounded an armed man who crossed from Syria into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Wednesday, the army said. Violence along the Israeli-Syrian border is rare and the army said the incident was reported to United Nations forces in the area.

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• 14 August

  Lebanon bomb kills 15 in attack on army

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – At least 15 people including nine soldiers were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday, according to security sources, in the deadliest attack on the army since a battle with al Qaeda-inspired militants last year.

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• 14 August

  Russian ship barred from NATO anti-terror patrol

  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO has barred a Russian ship from joining its multinational anti-terrorism patrol in the Mediterranean in apparent retaliation for Moscow’s military action against Georgia, a NATO diplomat said on Wednesday.

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• 14 August

  Rice welcomes Syria’s move on ties with Lebanon

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday welcomed as a “very good first step” Syria’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon at an ambassadorial level.

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• 14 August

  Missile strike kills nine militants in Pakistan

  WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least nine militants were killed in a missile strike on their training camp in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region, near the Afghan border, security officials and residents said on Wednesday.

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• 14 August

  Lebanon, Syria open diplomatic relations

  DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman agreed on Wednesday to establish diplomatic relations between their countries at ambassadorial level, a Syrian official said.

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• 14 August

  Three foreign female aid workers die in Afghan ambush

  KABUL (Reuters) – Suspected Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush on Wednesday, officials said, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years.

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• 13 August

  OPEC needs to drop outputs if demands decrease: Iran’s envoy

  TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi declared on Wednesday OPEC should drop outputs if global demands keep on declining.

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