TEL AVIV, Jan.9–President Bush on Wednesday launched his first visit to Israel since becoming president, exchanging warm words of support with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and others as he began a final push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before leaving office next year.
Olmert told Bush the “bond between the state of Israel and United States […]
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Two Katyusha rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Monday night, an Israeli police spokesman said.
It’s the first time in more than six months that such a rocket has been fired from Lebanon into Israel.
Israeli munitions experts have examined the rockets, which landed in the northern city of Shlomi, police […]
JERUSALEM, Jan. 8–Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon struck a northern Israeli town overnight causing no injuries, an Israeli police spokesman said, the first such attacks by Lebanese militants in six months.
The attack came on the day before President Bush is scheduled to arrive in Israel in support of ongoing peace talks between Israeli and […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Turkish troops that entered Iraq early Tuesday have returned to the Turkish side of the border, according to Kurdish Regional Government spokesman Jamal Abdullah.
The troops crossed into northern Iraq apparently in pursuit of Kurdish rebels two days after the Turkish military launched an air and missile assault across the border.
Abdullah […]
Confronted by mounting U.S. and U.N. pressure, Iran has been steadily shifting its trade from West to East and, with the benefit of record high oil prices, is likely to be able to withstand the new U.S. sanctions, according to U.S., European and Iranian analysts.
China, a permanent member of the Security Council that can veto […]
WASHINGTON — For the second time in two months, President Bush announced sanctions against Myanmar to punish the military-run government and its backers for the recent violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Bush ordered the Treasury Department Friday to freeze the financial assets of additional members of the repressive military junta. He also acted to tighten controls […]
BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 — A veteran Washington Post special correspondent was shot to death Sunday in southwest Baghdad while on assignment, the first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war.
Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was reporting on the violence that has plagued Baghdad’s Sadiyah neighborhood Sunday afternoon when he was shot in […]
An injured Iraqi man and the families of three Iraqi civilians who were killed in the Sept. 16 shootings by Blackwater security contractors sued the company in federal court today, calling the incident a “massacre” and “senseless slaughter” that was the result of corporate policies in the war zone.
Attorneys for Talib Mutlaq Deewan, who was […]
BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombers targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaida in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people, authorities said.
At least 42 people were killed or found dead across Iraq.
The nearly simultaneous attacks in Beiji were the […]
Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday.
The China deal, not previously made public, has alarmed military analysts who note that Iraq’s […]
