June 5, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) — At least eight Turkish paramilitary police were killed when Kurdish rebels attacked their headquarters in eastern Turkey on Monday, security sources said, in the worst attack of its kind in a year.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
CAMP ANACONDA (Reuters) — The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said on Monday it was too early to judge whether a Baghdad security crackdown was successful because the last of five extra brigades had yet to be deployed.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli and Palestinian peace groups are staging demonstrations this week to protest at 40 years of Israeli occupation following the 1967 war that changed the shape of the Middle East.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
GAZA (Agencies) — The Hamas-led Palestinian government endorsed on Monday President Mahmoud Abbas’ proposal for a ceasefire between fighters and Israel, a Cabinet spokesman said.
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June 5, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
SIDON (AFP) — Deadly firefights in a Palestinian camp in south Lebanon and a bus bombing in the capital opened new fronts for the army on Monday as it battles to crush an Al Qaeda-inspired group in a 16-day standoff in the north of the country.
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June 5, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Palestina, Palestina News
At least eight Palestinian Muslims were rounded up by the invaders and occupant troops in a number of raids in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Qalqilia, and Ramallah in the early hours of Monday morning.
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June 5, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Turkish Military has threatened to conduct cross-border operation into northern Iraq, against both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
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June 5, 2007 Afghanistan, Afghanistan News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
US military judges have thrown out cases against two Guantanamo inmates, casting doubt on future tribunals for the 380 detainees at the prison.
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June 5, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Puppet President Pervez Musharraf on Monday imposed fresh curbs on the electronic media in the second such move within three days, sparking protests from journalists, politicians and lawyers.
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June 5, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
An Iraqi insurgent group says it has killed two missing American soldiers who they said had been captured alive.
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