BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iran has closed its five entry points with Iraq’s Kurdish region in protest against the U.S. military’s recent incarceration of an Iranian, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Monday.
One Iraqi official said the move will hurt the economy of the autonomous region, where there is heavy traffic over the Iraq-Iran border.
Jamal […]
An Islamist terrorist serving 20 years for a murderous bomb attack on a karaoke bar has broken out of jail in Indonesia.
Jasmin bin Kasau apparently used a rope to climb the walls as inmates were performing communal evening Ramadan prayers in Guning Sari prison on Sulawesi island.
A police spokesman said “negligence” by prison guards was […]
Ahead of his appearance this week at the United Nations, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview broadcast last night that Tehran has no need for a nuclear weapon and challenged claims that his country is arming Iraqi militants targeting U.S. troops.
Ahmadinejad also said that tensions between the United States and Iran, which have […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Riot police arrested dozens of opposition activists protesting against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday as Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed two legal challenges to his re-election bid.
However, the court was still weighing five other petitions arguing that Musharraf’s dual role as army chief and president is illegal and that he is […]
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A powerful blast ripped through Kosovo’s capital early Monday, killing two and injuring 10 others, officials said.
The explosion happened around 2:30 a.m. in a shopping mall in the center of Pristina. It was not immediately clear what was the target of the attack.
Police spokesman Veton Elshani said most of the […]
CBS/AP) Spending to cover the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan next year will total nearly $200 billion, according to a budget request the White House will take to Congress next week, making 2008 the most expensive year of those conflicts to date.
The news was first reported by the Los Angeles Times, which […]
The portion of Baghdad in which Iraqi security forces are in control with minimal help from the American military has grown only slightly in recent months, to just over 8 per cent, despite an overall decline in insurgent violence in the capital, a senior U.S. commander said.
Major General Joseph Fil, speaking to reporters at the […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police seized an explosive belt that was intended to be used in a Tel Aviv suicide bomb attack on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a police spokesman said on Saturday.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police raided an apartment in Israel’s commercial capital early on Saturday and arrested four people, including […]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sought increased backing on Sunday for efforts to impose peace and order in Afghanistan from representatives of key countries involved there.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and foreign ministers and U.N. envoys from 17 other nations gathered at U.N. headquarters in the latest of a series of meetings before […]
LIKE a seer of antiquity, Osama bin Laden has returned from the wilderness to cast his curse against the evildoers. America, he predicts, will fail in Iraq just as the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan. Capitalism and democracy are the worst form of “polytheism”, causing war, global warming, poverty and costly mortgages.
The solution to such […]
