June, 2008

• 13 June

  Tajikistan Urges Iran’s Membership in SCO

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has called on the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to accept Iran’s membership bid.

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• 12 June

  Afghanistan conference to raise cash and set strategy

  PARIS (Reuters) – Ministers will pledge funds for Afghanistan and review their development strategy for the fragile Central Asian state at a donors conference which got underway in Paris on Thursday. More than six years after U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime that sheltered al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, …

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• 12 June

  FACTBOX: Breakdown of troop numbers in Afghanistan

  (Reuters) – Afghanistan meets international donors on Thursday in Paris, where President Hamid Karzai will ask for $50 billion to fund a development plan that his government has drawn up. Here is a breakdown of current national deployments within the 40-nation NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which …

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• 12 June

  Britain pledges $1.17 billion in Afghan aid

  PARIS (Reuters) – Britain will provide about 600 million pounds ($1.17 billion) in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan through 2012/2013, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday. “In the period up to 2012/13, the U.K. will be committing about 600 million pounds to the Afghan reconstruction effort,” Miliband told reporters …

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• 12 June

  Israeli troops kill Gaza militant: medics

  GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed one Palestinian militant near a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical workers said. Gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, and another militant group attacked an Israeli army position near the Erez …

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• 9 June

  Iran, Iraq review expansion of defense cooperation

  Visiting Iraqi Defense Minister Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi conferred on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar on expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries.

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• 9 June

  Ahmadinejad: Iraq should successfully overcome sensitive situation

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he hopes the Iraqi government, by relying on the prudence of its government and unity among its ethnic leaders and political wings, will successfully overcome the present sensitive situation.

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• 8 June

  Ringleaders of Russian structures and their accomplices blown up

  The sources of the Russian invaders reported that Friday night Jumada Al-Akhirah 2, 1429 (June 6, 2008) near the village of Eha-Borze (Assinovskaya) a sabotage unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) ambushed a motorcade of the ringleader of the pro-Russian gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, where a …

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• 8 June

  Punitive raids against Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan

  Representatives of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan reported that in the afternoon on June 5 an armed unit of Azerbaijani police raided a house of Chechen refugees, which they have been renting for a long time, and took away a 60-year-old man, the head of the household, an invalid with the …

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• 8 June

  Vehicle of ringleader of puppet police gang blown up

  The sources of Russian invaders reported that a car with ringleader of the gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, was blown up in Sunzha District of the Province of Ichkeria on Friday. The incident occurred on the Caucasus Motorway (“Kavkaz”) near the Assinovskaya-Sernovodsk intersection. The Murtad (apostate) and two …

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