KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up alongside a bus in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 11 victims including policemen and civilians, Afghan officials said. It was the second such attack in the capital in four days.
The front of the bus was blown apart by the blast at the start of […]
UK troops in Basra are to be cut by 1,000 by the end of the year, Gordon Brown has said on his first visit to Iraq since becoming prime minister.
Mr Brown also confirmed Basra province could be handed over to full Iraqi control within the next two months.
Britain currently has about 5,500 troops stationed at […]
After the controversial appearance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University last week, an Iranian university yesterday invited President Bush to travel to Iran and speak on campus about a range of issues, including the Holocaust, terrorism, human rights and U.S. foreign policy, the Fars News Agency reported yesterday.
The invitation from Ferdowsi University in the […]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday rejected his nation’s participation in U.S.-brokered talks on Middle East peace unless issues critical to Damascus, such as the Golan Heights, are included.
Syria’s first high-level statement on the peace talks, planned for next month, may be an attempt to widen discussions aimed largely at a deal between Israel and the […]
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari has met Burma’s military leaders and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, diplomatic sources say.
Mr Gambari is attempting to mediate between the junta and the opposition, and end a bloody crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests.
The sources said Mr Gambari almost certainly met senior general Than Shwe.
Ms Suu Kyi’s National League […]
Reconstruction work will begin next month on a revered shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra blown up in the current conflict, UN cultural body Unesco says.
The al-Askari shrine, one of Iraq’s most sacred Shia sites, was partly destroyed in two attacks over two years by suspected Sunni militants.
Thousands have died in sectarian violence triggered […]
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell told Congress last week that a May wiretap that targeted Iraqi insurgents was delayed for 12 hours by attempts to comply with onerous surveillance laws, which slowed an effort to locate three U.S. soldiers who had been captured south of Baghdad.
But new details released this week portray a more […]
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, said Tuesday that he considered the dispute over his country’s nuclear program “closed” and that Iran would disregard the resolutions of the Security Council, which he said was dominated by “arrogant powers.”
In a rambling and defiant 40-minute speech to the opening session of the […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs in northern Iraq targeting police and a local tribal leader killed 12 people on Wednesday, police and local officials said.
A suicide car bomber killed five people and wounded nine in an attack targeting Sheikh Kanan al-Juhaimur, a tribal leader near the town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq.
Sinjar mayor Dakheel […]
everal thousand Burmese monks and other protesters have begun new marches in Rangoon despite a bloody crackdown by police at the city’s holiest shrine.
Police beat and arrested demonstrators at Shwedagon Pagoda and warning shots were fired at another site as a ninth day of marching got under way.
One march started for the city centre while […]
