Eurasia Press & News

US President George W. Bush acknowledged on Thursday his Iraq strategy had made only limited progress but put off considering a change of course in the unpopular war until a crucial September report.

King Abdullah on Thursday said the West should realise that in the absence of a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the world is headed towards decades of more violence and extremism.

The Lebanese army has continued shelling Fatah al-Islam positions in a refugee camp near Triopli as Katyusha rockets were fired at villages nearby.

Thousands have protested across Pakistan against a government raid on Islamabad’s Red Mosque that left more than 100 dead.  

On the night of July 6, Caucasian rebels carried out a hit-and-run raid on the Russian military garrison in Ingushetia. First reports of the incident came from the Ingushetiya.ru website.

Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Sydoruk has declared that “the operational situation in the North Caucasus will become increasingly hot.”

Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday, escalating their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, which owns a 70 percent stake in Dar Es Salaam bank, said on Wednesday that less than $1 million in cash was stolen in a raid on a Dar Es Salaam branch in Baghdad.

The White House is expected to present to Congress an interim report on the situation in Iraq, assessing the results of the major US troop “surge”.

In the first instalment of what I intended would be a short series of articles, I wrote that Oded Yinon’s 1982 study entitled “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” is the most detailed account so far of the Zionist mindset; how it works and how it aspires to manage …