BAGHDAD, 13 August 2004 — US troops backed by tanks and aircraft seized the heart of the city of Najaf yesterday after fierce clashes with a Shiite militia. In the southern town of Kut, scores died... Full Story
BAGHDAD, 13 August 2004 — Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr ended an uprising he led earlier this year with a truce, but this time he seems poised for a final showdown. US Marines launched an offensive
WASHINGTON, 13 August 2004 — Editors at The Washington Post acknowledge they underplayed stories questioning President Bush’s claims of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the months leading up to
SANAA, 13 August 2004 — Yemeni Army troops have tightened the noose on a rebel preacher and his supporters in rugged northern mountains where they were nearing “their last breath”, the deputy chief
WASHINGTON, 13 August 2004 — The US government, which has held Yaser Esam Hamdi incommunicado in a Navy brig for two years without charges, much of the time without a lawyer, indicated Wednesday that
MANAMA, 13 August 2004 — Families of US Navy staff will not be allowed back to Bahrain because of regional security concerns, despite Washington dropping a travel warning, a US Navy official said yesterday. Washington
RAFAH, Gaza Strip, 13 August 2004 — Israeli Army bulldozers demolished 15 houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah near the Egyptian border early yesterday, Palestinian security sources said.
BEIRUT, 13 August 2004 — Kidnappers in Iraq released five Syrian truck drivers yesterday after holding them for three days, but without their trucks and merchandise, Lebanese security services said.
TEHRAN, 13 August 2004 — Iran yesterday condemned the US “atrocities” in Iraq where American troops backed by Iraqi soldiers were locked in a deadly showdown with Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s militia.
KHARTOUM, 13 August 2004 — The UN envoy to Sudan has tried to ease the pressure on Khartoum after a flurry of indictments of the government’s failure to end the crisis in Darfur drew irate reactions
ALGIERS, 13 August 2004 — An Algerian judge on Wednesday rejected an appeal by one of the country’s leading newspaper editors jailed for the illegal transfer of money in a case human rights groups
NEW DELHI, 13 August 2004 — India will carry out its first execution in 15 years tomorrow after the Supreme Court rejected Dhananjoy Chatterjee’s last-gasp appeal to escape the gallows for raping and
ISLAMABAD, 13 August 2004 — Pakistan has beefed up security ahead of Independence Day celebrations amid fears of a backlash to an Al-Qaeda crackdown which has netted top operatives in the throes of
MANILA, 13 August 2004 - Vice President Noli de Castro's appointment as presidential adviser for Overseas Filipino Workers should be seen as a plus for OFWs, migrant workers advocates said yesterday. At
ZAMBOANGA CITY, 13 August 2004 — More than 1,000 houses in Palawan province went up in smokes yesterday when a man tired of his illness set himself on fire, officials and radio reports said. A
