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NAJAF (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 120 on Thursday near one of Shiite holiest sites, the Imam Ali shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf. An Iraqi Sunni insurgent group said it had carried out the attack, the bloodiest since …
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August, 2006
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12 August
UK says foils ‘mass murder’ plane bomb plot
‘This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation’ — Bush LONDON (AP) — British authorities said they averted “mass murder†in the skies by thwarting an alleged plot to blow up passenger planes …
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12 August
Lebanon hospitals cut off, running out of supplies
BEIRUT — Hospitals were running out of food, fuel and other supplies in southern Lebanon on Thursday and aid groups said fighting and a ban on movement meant they could not reach thousands trapped in the area.
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12 August
MSF to defy Israeli ban on vehicles in south
BEIRUT (AFP) — The medical relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced Thursday that it would defy an Israeli threat to bomb any vehicle moving south of Lebanon’s Litani River, an area that includes the port city of Tyre.
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12 August
Hizbollah tactics put Israelis on closer footing
YAROUN — They move on foot by moonlight. They set up hilltop sniper nests and lookouts. They hit enemy forces at vulnerable points and then quietly retreat.
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12 August
International trial unlikely for Jewish state, fighters
AMSTERDAM — Both Israel and Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon have been accused of war crimes during four weeks of conflict, but they are unlikely to go on trial anywhere but the court of public opinion.
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12 August
1,500 died violently in Baghdad last month, officials say
BAGHDAD (AP) — About 1,500 people died violently last month in Baghdad — many shot execution-style by sectarian death squads, Iraqi officials said.
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10 August
Israel expands war as Nasrallah tells Arabs to leave Haifa
ISRAEL ON Wednesday expanded its ground offensive in Lebanon, and Hizbollah’s leader vowed to turn southern Lebanon into a graveyard for Israeli troops and unleash more rockets on the city of Haifa.
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10 August
Blow to pride of Jewish state’s army
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Four weeks into an offensive that has failed to stop Hizbollah rocket attacks, the Israeli military has changed a top commander of its Lebanon war effort in a blow to the pride of the Jewish state’s army.
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10 August
Body count highlights Iraq bloodshed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Almost 2,000 bodies were taken to Baghdad’s morgue in July, the highest tally in five months of rising sectarian bloodshed which has forced the United States to boost troop levels in the capital to head off a civil war.
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