June 3, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
CIZRE, Turkey (AP) — The top commander of the Kurdish rebel group PKK said his forces would resist any Turkish military incursion aimed at destroying rebel bases in northern Iraq, a news agency reported Saturday.
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June 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
NABLUS (Reuters) — Israeli undercover forces killed a Palestinian shopkeeper and wounded his brother on Saturday during an apparent attempt to shoot two gunmen in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security officials said.
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June 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a local Al Qaeda leader in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday, police said, as fighting between rival Sunni factions undermined the insurgency.
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June 3, 2007 Islamic World News, Islamic-World, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora repeated a warning on Saturday to Islamist gunmen holed up in a northern refugee camp that they must surrender or be crushed, as intense fighting continued to rage.
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June 3, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
The Lebanese army has continued to shell the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as Fatah al-Islam fighters hiding inside vow to fight to the last man. Â
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June 3, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News, Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
In Israel, there is “no effective barrier – not legal and certainly not ethical – that stands in the way of using torture,” concluded a recent report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI).
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June 3, 2007 Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Ukraine’s presidential representative in the Constitutional Court has been elected chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), the body’s press service head said Saturday.
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June 3, 2007 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Indian troops, in their ongoing acts of state-terrorism, martyred 51 Kashmiris, including two custodial deaths and one child in the outgoing month of May in occupied Kashmir.Â
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June 3, 2007 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News, Palestina, Palestina News
Lebanon’s prime minister has issued a new warning to Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp, after a day of intense fighting with troops.
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June 3, 2007 Iran, Iran News
(CNN) — The United States was using some of the four Iranian-Americans detained by Tehran to meddle in Iranian affairs and is trying to cover it up, Tehran’s security chief charged Saturday.
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