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  • Carnage in Baghdad: Cruise Missile Kills Dozens of Civilians

    Arabic-language television stations said Friday that more than 50 Iraqis have been killed in an air raid on a marketplace in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Al-Jazeera's correspondent said 51 Iraqis had been killed and 49 injured in the market in the Shula neighbourhood of Baghdad. "An Iraqi official told us that the search is still going on for those trapped.. More

  • Syria Dismisses U.S. Accusations on Iraq Supplies

    Syria dismissed U.S. accusations on Friday that military supplies were being shipped from the country to Iraq, saying Washington was trying to divert attention from "war crimes" committed against Iraqi civilians. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday that shipments of equipment, such as night-vision goggles, had been crossing into Iraq from.. More

  • Israeli-Palestinian Confrontations Pick up Following Iraq War Lull

    A Palestinian activist died in an Israeli occupation army raid in the West Bank and rockets were fired at Israel, in a renewed flare-up of intifadha, uprising for independence, confrontations after a lull of several days since war broke out in Iraq.On the diplomatic front, Israel showed satisfaction with US President George W. Bush's announcement that.. More

  • Iraq Says Bombs Kill 26 in Najaf, Seven in Baghdad

    Iraq said on Friday that U.S.- British bombing killed 26 civilians overnight in the central city of Najaf and another seven in Baghdad. Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said the raids also wounded 60 people in Najaf, and 92 in the capital. He told a Baghdad news conference that 116 people had died and 695 had been injured in the southern.. More

  • Blair and Annan Discuss Iraq and Middle East

    British Prime Minister Tony Blair and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan discussed the humanitarian emergency caused by the US and British invasion of Iraq . In an interview on BBC radio after his meeting with Annan, Blair said he favoured the formation by the United Nations of a representative government in post-war Iraq. "Now what we need to do.. More

  • US Congress recommends fasting, prayer in wars on Iraq

    Lawmakers passed a resolution urging the president to set aside a day of fasting and prayer for divine protection of US troops in Iraq and a population threatened by iraqi regime."A day of fasting and prayer is needed to secure the blessings and protection of Providence for the people of the United States and our Armed Forces during the conflict.. More

  • Iraqi DM Expects Baghdad to be Encircled in Five to 10 Days; Rumsfeld Rejects any Ceasefire Idea

    Iraq's defense minister said the real battle for Baghdad will be on its streets, and that the regime will prolong the war as long as possible. "The enemy must come inside Baghdad, and that will be its grave," said Defense Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed. "We feel that this war must be prolonged so the enemy pays a high price," he said at a news conference.. More

  • Kurd Guerrillas Seize Iraqi Positions

    Kurdish guerrillas have moved into frontline positions abandoned by Iraqi troops in northern Iraq. The move comes shortly after hundreds of American troops parachuted into northern Iraq in what the Pentagon said was the start a northern front. The Iraqi Government forces left positions west of the Kurdish-held town of Chamchamal, which defend approaches.. More

  • Two More Palestinians Killed as Bush Renews Promise to Publish Peace 'Roadmap'

    Israeli occupation forces killed two members of the Palestinian security services in the Gaza Strip, while US President George W. Bush repeated his promise to publish a long-awaited "roadmap" for Middle East peace. Iyad Khalil Fayad and Ihab Jarras were killed during an Israeli raid on the town of Beit Hanun that left another 15 Palestinians wounded,.. More

  • Iraq Accuses U.S. of Targeting Civilians

    Iraq's health minister Thursday said 36 Iraqi civilians were killed and 215 wounded in U.S. air strikes on Baghdad a day earlier, and he accused the United States and Britain of deliberately targeting civilians to break the Iraqi people's will."They are targeting the human beings in Iraq to decrease their morale," Omeed Medhat Mubarak said. "They are.. More

  • Coalition to Intensify Attacks on Iraq

    With sandstorms finally ended and a new front opened in the north, U.S. commanders said Thursday they would swiftly intensify attacks on Iraqi forces. In the south, British troops destroyed 14 Iraqi tanks trying to break out of the besieged city of Basra. In Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq , 1,000 paratroopers from the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade.. More

  • Assad: US, Britain to Fail to Impose Control in Iraq

    Syria said on Thursday that the U.S.-led war would fail to wrest control of the whole of Iraq and would draw popular resistance across the Arab world. In a front-page interview with Lebanon's as-Safir daily, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Washington's attitude towards Syria was constantly shifting as its interests changed. "The United States.. More

  • Two Palestinians Shot Dead During Israeli Incursion into Gaza

    Two members of the Palestinian security services were shot dead by occupation troops during an Israeli incursion into the northern Gaza Strip , Palestinian medical sources said. The two were identified as Iyad Khalil Fayad, 30, and Ihab Jarras, 21, killed during a raid into Beit Hanun which left another 15 Palestinians injured, two of them seriously,.. More

  • Iraqi Forces Destroy US Tanks Near Najaf; US Sends More Troops to Iraq

    Invasion troops fought a fierce battle with Iraqi resistance forces on Wednesday for control of a bridge over the Euphrates River close to the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, a U.S. military officer monitoring the clash said. He said an unspecified number of U.S. tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles had been destroyed by Iraqis armed with rocket propelled.. More

  • Arab Countries Urge U.N. Security Council to Seek a Way to End the U.S.-led War Against Iraq

    Arab and non-aligned nations demanded an end to the U.S.-led war against Iraq and called on the U.N. Security Council to break its silence and find a way to return to peaceful methods for disarming Saddam Hussein. Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened Wednesday's council meeting by expressing regret that efforts to avert war had failed. He said the warring.. More