Thousands of mourners, attending funeral services Monday (June 11th) for three Turkish soldiers, condemned the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organisation and called for the government’s resignation.
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13 June
Iran arming Taliban, increasingly isolated: U.S.
PARIS (Reuters) – Iran is arming the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of fuelling insurrection around the Middle East and misjudging the international mood.
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U.S. talks with Iran were futile: Iraqi paper
NCRI – In an article on Thursday, June 7th, Iraqi newspaper Al-Iraq-el-Yom stated: Experience has proved that behind Iranian regime’s propaganda, there always hides some serious and vicious weakness and no one should be tricked by it.
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‘Iraqis are being shot everyday by Iranian bullets’
NCRI – On Friday, June 8th, in an interview with the Iraqi television Al-Mostagheleh, politician Ghasem Barisom said: Iraqis are being killed every day with Iranian bullets. Iranian regime does not observe any political principle and is only after its own gains in Iraq.
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13 June
Mullahs’ long arm reached U.S. Eastern shore
An alarming series of arrests by the FBI alerted everyone wondering how far the arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its subordinate Quds Force can extend.
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Iran to make US ‘regret’ detention of Iranians — FM
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran will make the United States “regret†its detention of five Iranians in Iraq since early this year, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday.
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13 June
Egypt may execute convicted bombers soon — activists
CAIRO (Reuters) — Egypt may soon execute three men sentenced to die for bombings that killed at least 34 people in the Sinai resort town of Taba in 2004, human rights activists said on Tuesday.
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Security Council concerned arms flowing from Syria to Lebanon
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN Security Council gave strong backing to the Lebanese government’s fight against gunmen holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp and reiterated its “deep concern” about mounting evidence that arms are being smuggled across the border from Syria.
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13 June
Turkish PM signals opposition to Iraq attack
ANKARA (AFP) — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday indicated he would resist calls from the influential military for an incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there.
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13 June
Suspected Sunni fighters bomb 3 key bridges in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Suspected Sunni insurgents bombed and badly damaged a span over the main north-south highway leading from Baghdad on Tuesday — the third bridge attack in as many days in an apparent campaign against key transportation arteries.
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