Eurasia Press & News
GAZA – Israeli forces killed six Palestinians on Wednesday, including three members of a Gaza family in a botched air strike, a day after Palestinians said some of the worst violence in months could harm peace moves.
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January, 2008
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16 January
Abbas speaks to Hamas official after Gaza killings
GAZA – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called a leader of rival Hamas on Wednesday to commiserate on the killing of his son by Israeli forces, Hamas said, the first such contact since a Palestinian factional schism last year.
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16 January
U.N. sees Iraq progress despite misgivings
BAGHDADÂ – The United Nations envoy to Baghdad said on Wednesday he would present a positive picture of progress in Iraq in a report to the Security Council despite earlier having serious misgivings about reconciliation efforts.
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16 January
FACTBOX: Military and civilian deaths in Iraq
Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq and Iraqi civilians killed in attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in March, 2003: U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: United States 3,926
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16 January
Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: military
BAGHDAD – Three U.S. soldiers were killed by small arms fire during operations in Iraq’s northern Salahuddin province on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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16 January
Rifts widen on U.S.-British Afghanistan tactics
LONDON – Behind stepped-up commitments from the United States and Britain, stark differences are emerging between the two biggest powers operating in Afghanistan about how best to tackle the Taliban and al-Qaeda threat.
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16 January
NATO tensions surface as Gates faults Afghan forces
BRUSSELS – Tensions among key allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.
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16 January
Iraq launches major security operation for Ashura
KERBALA, Iraq – Thousands of Shi’ites gathered in Kerbala on Wednesday for the biggest religious ceremony in the Iraqi holy city since gunbattles between rival factions forced a mass exodus of pilgrims last August.
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16 January
No prisoner swap after Israeli attacks: Meshaal
DAMASCUSÂ – Hamas said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks that killed more than 20 Palestinians in the last two days have dashed prospects for a prisoners’ exchange deal involving an Israeli soldier held by the group.
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16 January
UK’s Ashdown accepts job as U.N. Afghan envoy: source
BRUSSELSÂ – British politician and former soldier Paddy Ashdown has agreed to become the United Nations’ envoy to Afghanistan, a source close to negotiations on the post said on Wednesday.
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