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  • Israelis kill Senior Palestinian Jihad Resistance Leader in Gaza

    Israeli helicopter gunships killed a senior resistance leader of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza City, as violence also took the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank. Mohammed al-Hindi, a top Jihad political leader, named the dead man as 50-year-old Mohammed al-Zatma whose car was hit and destroyed by two missiles in Al-Nasser,.. More

  • Senior Iraqi Shiite leader killed in Najaf

    Pro-Western Iraqi Shiite leader Abdul Majid al-Khoei was assassinated in the holy city of Najaf in central Iraq , the cleric's London-based group, the al-Khoei Foundation, said. Details were sketchy, but it appeared that al-Khoei was stabbed to death by a large number of attackers in a mosque in Najaf, and that at least two other people were injured... More

  • Baghdad Resistance Bombing Kills at Least one US Invasion Soldier, Ministries on Fire

    A resistance bombing in downtown Baghdad killed at least one US invasion soldier, after marines came under heavy fire from pro-regime pockets of resistance. "It happened north of here," Major Matt Baker of the US Marines told AFP at the Palestine Hotel in the heart of the city where the foreign press is staying. A US military source said the attack.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Men Kill Two Israelis in W. Bank

    Two Palestinian resistance men killed two Israelis in the West Bank's Jordan Valley before being shot dead on Thursday in a fresh surge of Middle East violence ahead of an anticipated U.S.-led peace drive.Details of the attack near the Jewish settlement of Bekaot in the northern West Bank were sketchy, but Israeli security sources said eight other Israelis.. More

  • Unrest Grows, Looting Surges in Baghdad

    Looting surged and buildings were set on fire across Baghdad on Thursday as U.S. invasion troops focused on fighting pockets of resistance instead of keeping order. Tens of thousands of people - young and old, men and women - roamed the city, looking for plunder, with American forces making no effort to stop them. Many of the looters moved into the.. More

  • US Troops Come Under Fire in West Baghdad

    Bands of non-Iraqi Arab fighters are reported to be putting up heavy resistance to the US military presence in Baghdad with fierce clashes reported in the western half of the Iraqi capital. Reuters correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis saw several explosions as US planes swooped over the Mansur district in west Baghdad. He said Arab fighters were in control.. More

  • Coalition Pounds Iraqi City of Tikrit

    U.S. and British air strikes pounded Iraqi forces Wednesday in the northern city of Tikrit, the next focus of the war now that U.S. troops have largely secured Baghdad. Special operations forces also were "softening the battlefield" before any U.S. ground troops move into the hometown of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the presumed hideout for his supporters,.. More

  • Russia Denies Saddam Sheltering in Baghdad Embassy; Rumsfeld Says Iraqi Leaders Fleeing to Syria

    Russia denied on Wednesday (April 9) Arab and Western media reportsthat Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was sheltering in the compound of itsembassy in Baghdad. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told Russian stateTelevision in Moscow the statement was "not in any way true," andcalled it "another attempt to place our embassy in Baghdad under.. More

  • US Stops Short of Announcing Victory

    United States-led forces have defeated the Iraqi military and now control much of Baghdad. The Special Republican Guard and irregular troops are however resisting the invading troops in parts of the city. Lieutenant General Buford Blount, commander of the Third Infantry Division on Wednesday said only irregular forces such as Fedayeen and Baath Party.. More

  • Israel kills 12 in Gaza, Bomb rocks Palestinian school, as German FM Meets Arafat

    The Israeli occupation army killed 12 Palestinians, among them several children, in a controversial air strike on a Hamas activist leader and a foray into a Gaza town, and an extreme right-wing Jewish group claimed responsibility for a blast in a West Bank school that injured 29 Palestinian pupils. As the Palestinians slammed a late Tuesday Israeli.. More

  • Leader: Kurdish-U.S. Forces Seize Hilltop

    U.S. special operations troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters seized a strategic hilltop near the northern Iraqi-held city of Mosul early Wednesday, a senior Kurdish leader said. The area called Maqloub had been heavily defended by Iraqi forces and served as a hub for air defenses against coalition air strikes as well as a munitions center, said Hoshyar.. More

  • Bomb at West Bank School Injures 20

    A bomb exploded in a West Bank high school on Wednesday, injuring at least 20 students, three of them seriously, police said. A student at the school in Jaba, a village outside Jenin, was playing with a bomb before it exploded, police said. It was unclear how large the bomb was or whether the student brought it or found it. The Israeli occupation army.. More

  • Iraqis Loot in Baghdad

    Iraqis went on looting rampages, as vestiges of President Saddam Hussein's authority seemed to be disappearing. As U.S. forces moved through one neighborhood after another, crowds of Baghdad residents seized the chance to plunder military installations and government buildings, making off with computers, bookshelves, tables, even Iraqi jeeps. Among.. More

  • US Beginning to Consolidate Position in Baghdad

    With US troops expanding their grip on the Iraqi capital in the face of sporadic but at times fierce resistance, hospitals are buckling under the pressure of treating the wounded.The International Committee of the Red Cross says at least one hospital in Mahmoudiya, a southern suburb of Baghdad, was "no longer capable of dealing with the influx of injured.. More

  • US F-15E Jet Downed over Iraq; Pilots Missing- Amid Reports US Forces Tightening Grip on Baghdad

    The Pentagon said late Tuesday that two US airmen were missing after their F-15E jet fighter went down over Iraq on Sunday. It was the second US warplane lost over Iraq in two days, following the announcement that an A-10 Thunderbolt strike aircraft had crashed Tuesday after apparently being hit by a surface-to-air missile over Baghdad. General Buford.. More