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  • Israeli Occupation forces Kill 5 in Gaza, W. Bank

    Israeli occupation forces killed four Palestinians in a raid by tanks and helicopter gunships on a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday, witnesses and hospital officials said. They said a helicopter missile strike killed three unarmed civilians and occupation troops shot dead a 24-year-old gunman. In the West Bank town of Qalqilya,.. More

  • Reports: Invasion Forces Less Than 50 Kms of Baghdad; 11 Bodies of US Invasion Soldiers Found

    US invasion forces are less than 50 kms from Baghdad after a "dramtic" surge towards the Iraqi capital, a Sky News reporter with the troops said on Wednesday. This report came after US officials described a battle with the elite Republican Guard in Karbala as "the biggest fight of the war". In Baghdad, Saddam Hussein has chaired a meeting with his.. More

  • U.S. Planes Pound Iraqi Front Line in North

    U.S. B-52 warplanes bombed the Iraqi front line between the town of Dohuk and the city of Mosul in the north of the country on Wednesday. U.S. warplanes have been targeting Mosul and the northern oil hub of Kirkuk in recent days as Washington slowly moves troops into the region to open a new front in its ground war on Iraq , which has been waged mainly.. More

  • Powell Seeks Restraints on Turkish Forces

    The United States and Turkey agreed Wednesday on an "early warning" system to avert friction between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds. The agreement, worked out by Secretary of State Colin Powell and a Turkish leader, was designed to reduce any likelihood of Turkey moving military forces into northern Iraq . At a joint news conference, Foreign Minister Abdullah.. More

  • Americans Claim Seizing Key Bridge over Tigris River as More Targets Bombed in & around Baghdad

    US Marines claim to have seized a key bridge over the Tigris river in central Iraq and have taken control of the main highway from Kut to Baghdad, media reports said Wednesday. "That's the last big bridge we needed" for an advance on Baghdad, a senior Marine officer told a Reuters correspondent near Kut. A US army officer said today's action is a major.. More

  • Scores of Iraqis Killed During Heavy Bombardments; Iraq Brings Reinforcements to Defend Baghdad

    Thirty-three people, including women and children, died and 310 were wounded in a bombing on the outskirts of the farming town of Hilla, 80 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, local hospital director Murtada Abbas told AFP. He was speaking at the Hilla hospital where a large number of children lay wounded under blankets on the floor due.. More

  • Saddam Message Says Victory Within Reach

    Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said in a message read by a television announcer on Wednesday that he could scent victory, saying Iraq had so far launched less than a third of its forces against U.S.-led invaders. "Victory is within our reach... we have used only one third of our army or even less while the criminals have used up all of the forces they.. More

  • Powell Seeks Turkish Deal to Stay Out of N. Iraq

    US Secretary of State Colin Powell will seek Turkey's agreement on Wednesday not to send any large force into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq for fear it could undermine the U.S.-led war against Baghdad. The United States is concerned any large-scale Turkish incursion could stir conflict with the Kurds and creates a "war within a war" that could damage.. More

  • US Invasion Troops Kill Seven Civilians, Clash With Iraq's Republican Guard

    US invasion troops killed several Iraqi civilians after opening fire on a vehicle containing women and children at a checkpoint in southern Iraq , a US military spokesman said.The shooting occurred at a checkpoint manned by invasion soldiers from the US Army's Third Infantry Division at Najaf, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday afternoon,.. More

  • Powell Seeks to Rebuild Turkey Ties After Iraq Wrangle

    US Secretary of State Colin Powell was to arrive in Turkey later Tuesday for talks aimed at reviving the key relationship between Washington and Ankara, hurt by a succession of rows over the war against Iraq . Powell will "make sure that nobody gets the wrong impression we're angry with each other. He's not bringing money, he's not going to bang.. More

  • Arab States Mull New Grouping After Iraq War: Diplomats

    Some Arab states are mulling the creation of a new regional grouping adapted to the post-Iraq war situation, which would exclude some current Arab League members, Arab diplomats revealed. The new gathering would be a sub-group of theArab League, and not a replacement for the 22-member Cairo-based pan-Arab organisation, they said. The League celebrated.. More

  • Iraq Reports Fierce Fighting at Nassiriya

    Iraq said its resistance army was battling U.S.-led invasion forces inside Nassiriya and on the city outskirts on Tuesday, inflicting heavy casualties. An Iraqi military spokesman speaking on television at almost 2 a.m. local time stressed the fighting was still going on. "The blood of the enemy is flowing profusely," said the unidentified spokesman... More

  • Arab Nations Press UN Assembly to Weigh in on Iraq

    After falling short in the Security Council, Arab envoys decided on Monday to seek an emergency session of the 191-nation U.N. General Assembly to revive their campaign for an immediate end to the war in Iraq. "The point of the request is to save the lives of Iraqi civilians," one Arab diplomat said. "We will ask for a cease-fire and a return to peaceful.. More

  • Israelis Destroy Family House of Resistance Bomber

    Israeli occupation soldiers early Tuesday destroyed the house of relatives of the resistance bomber who blew himself up in the Israeli city of Netanya this week, wounding dozens, Palestinians said. The bomber, identified by the resistance Islamic Jihad group as Rami Ghanem, 20, set off explosives strapped to his body at a sidewalk cafe in the seaside.. More

  • Iraqi FM Says no City has Fallen to Coalition

    Iraq's foreign minister confidently predicted Monday that Iraqi forces would defeat American and British forces and said only surrender would save coalition troops from the "holocaust" the Iraqi people are preparing for them. "Every day that passes the United States and Britain are sinking deeper in the mud of defeat. ... Those two states have no choice.. More