August, 2006

• 13 August

  Mideast powers hopeful about UN resolution

  AMMAN (AFP) — Key Middle East players were hopeful Saturday that a UN Security Council resolution would bring an end to the Lebanon conflict, even as Israel expanded its military offensive.

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• 13 August

  War paralyses Lebanon aid

  BEIRUT — Heavy fighting between Israel and Hizbollah fighters paralysed efforts to reach 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Saturday, aid workers said, despite a UN Security Council resolution to end the war.

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• 13 August

  Troops arrest 60 in Baghdad

  BAGHDAD (AP) — US forces raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an Al Qaeda cell blamed for a spate of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, the US military said Saturday.

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• 13 August

  US, Italy shipyards in lead to build new Iraqi navy

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — US and Italian shipyards are favoured to win tenders to build 19 ships and patrol boats for the fledgling Iraqi navy to enable it to take over security of Iraq’s vital off-shore oil terminals, a naval official said.

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• 13 August

  In Tyre, hope, scepticism that peace is near

  TYRE — The lights went out across Tyre Saturday for the first time since the war began, but finally there is a hint of optimism that the end may be in sight.

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• 13 August

  UN peacekeepers hold fast in southern Lebanon

  IBL EL SAQI, Lebanon — During Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, a Norwegian UN peacekeeper at a junction checkpoint stepped forward and hailed approaching Israeli military vehicles. He was gunned down on the spot.

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• 12 August

  Hizbollah fights Israeli push

  King discusses Lebanon crisis with Prodi, renews support for Siniora’s plan to end war MARJAYOUN (Reuters) — Hizbollah fighters fought Israeli troops who seized a key town in southeast Lebanon on Thursday, as the United States and France moved closer to a breakthrough in diplomatic efforts to end the four-week-old …

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• 12 August

  ‘Gaza toll in July highest since 2004’

  LAST MONTH WAS the deadliest in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, with Israel’s offensive against Palestinian fighters in the territory leading to a surge of killings, a Palestinian research group said on Thursday.

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• 12 August

  Suicide bomber kills 35 near Shiite shrine in Najaf

  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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• 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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