October, 2006

• 1 October

  Israel to quit Lebanon today

  BEIRUT (Agencies) — Israel plans to pull out the last of its troops from south Lebanon on Sunday in line with a UN resolution that ended a bloody war with Hizbollah, security sources in Israel said on Saturday. The sources said the aim would be to get the soldiers out …

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• 1 October

  Iraqi forces place Baghdad under curfew after plot suspect arrested

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after US troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital’s government compound with suicide car bombings. US troops arrested a security guard at the home of the leader of the main Sunni Arab political …

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• 1 October

  Air strike kills Palestinian fighter in southern Gaza Strip

  GAZA (Agencies) — An Israeli air strike killed one fighter and wounded three other Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Saturday, residents said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the strike was aimed at a vehicle used by fighters it accused of planning an attack against Israel.

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• 1 October

  Turkey’s Kurdish rebels declare ceasefire

  ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey’s rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday ordered a unilateral ceasefire effective October 1 in operations against the Turkish military. “The only path to resolve the region’s problems is through democratic dialogue, and to give life to a democratic and modern system that respects national or …

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• 1 October

  Children face perils of bomblets in Lebanon

  NABATIYAH  — From a hospital bed, 14-year-old Hassan tells how half his foot was blasted away by one of the million bomblets that Israel rained on south Lebanon during its war with Hizbollah. “I ran across a small object hidden in the vegetation,” the teenager says from his bed in …

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• 1 October

  UN experts seek sanctions against top Sudanese officials

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Qatar’s UN ambassador said a panel of experts had recommended that the Security Council impose sanctions on top Sudanese officials for violating peace efforts in Darfur, and strongly suggested that President Omar Bashir was among them.

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• 1 October

  Shiites flee reign of terror in mixed Iraqi city

  BAQUBA — As the death squads’ grim threats began to mount against Shiite families in the Mafraq neighbourhood of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, fewer and fewer people attended their local prayer hall. Soon, the only members of the embattled Shiite community to brave the narrow streets of this religiously-mixed quarter …

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September, 2006

• 30 September

  Al Qaeda in Iraq calls for help to attack US bases

  BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq called Thursday for explosives experts and nuclear scientists to join his group’s holy war and help attack US bases around the country. The audio message posted on the Internet came as at least 23 people were killed primarily in and …

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• 30 September

  EU, Iran fail to reach nuclear deal

  BERLIN (Reuters) — European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Thursday he had failed to reach a deal with the chief Iranian negotiator on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but said they would hold another round of talks soon. Several Western diplomats who were briefed on Solana’s talks with Larijani …

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• 30 September

  Olmert says hopes to meet Abbas, but rules out releasing prisoners

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he hopes to hold a long-delayed meeting with Mahmoud Abbas in the coming days, but ruled out releasing prisoners or offering other goodwill gestures to the Palestinian president until a captured Israeli soldier is freed.

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