Whether it is a civil war, insurgent violence, an unjust war, or a war on terror - no one argues that there is a "war" in Iraq. Track the latest news and share opinions about what should be done to curb violence.
Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it will keep up air strikes against Yemeni rebels until they pull back from its borders, as Iran warned against regional intervention in the conflict. "We are not going to stop the bombing until the Huthis retreat tens of kilometres (miles) inside their border," Deputy Defence Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan said on a visit to troops in the southwestern province of Jizan. He appeared to confirm reports by Shiite Zaidi rebels that Saudi warplanes continued to... Read Full Story
SANAA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would continue its offensive against Yemeni rebels unless they retreated well away from its borders, after insurgents said they had seized more territory near the world's largest oil exporter. Saudi Arabia is getting increasingly drawn into a conflict to its south between the Yemeni government and Shi'ite Muslim rebels, which Riyadh fears could weaken the kingdom's stability. "We will not stop the air strikes until they retreat tens of... Read Full Story
A suicide car bomb ripped through a packed shopping street in Pakistan's northwest town of Charsadda on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people and wounding around 30, officials said. The suicide bomber detonated a vehicle in the heart of the small market town, on a road lined with juice shops and women's clothing stores, the third bomb attack in three consecutive days in northwest Pakistan, police said. "We have received 18 dead bodies, three of them are children, more than 25 were injured... Read Full Story
Iraq has arrested 73 people suspected of playing a direct role in two massive bombs that killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Tuesday. They are suspected of working on the orders of the outlawed Baath party of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and included members of Al-Qaeda, Maliki told reporters in Baghdad. He said he had personally scrutinised transcripts of interviews with those arrested in connection with the attacks at the justice... Read Full Story
Babylon, Sinbad, the Garden of Eden -- war-scarred Iraq touted its attractions for tourists Tuesday, as it sent a delegation to a major industry fair for the first time in decade. Iraqi tourism officials said "very few pockets" of the country remain dangerous, more than six years after the controversial US-led invasion which ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. But the complications of travel to and from Baghdad were underlined when the Iraqi officials were delayed reaching the World Travel... Read Full Story
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula. The Saudi move comes as Iran, the region's dominant Shiite power accused by the Arabs of backing the rebels, warned neighboring countries not to interfere in Yemen's internal affairs. The adviser said Saudi warships had been ordered to search any suspected... Read Full Story
An oil dispute between Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad is unlikely to be resolved by the elections on January 21, 2010, the autonomous region's leader said Tuesday. "I do not think the differences between our autonomous region and the federal government will be resolved by the elections," Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani told members of the European parliament in Brussels. "I don't think that can be done in coming months," he said. Last month, Iraqi Kurdistan... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday. Baghdad's Arab-led government and ethnic Kurds controlling a semi-autonomous northern enclave are battling over issues of wealth and power as the nation tries to thrash out tricky constitutional issues after the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein. "Before we... Read Full Story
The bodies of six British soldiers, including five who were shot dead by a "rogue" policeman in Afghanistan, were on Tuesday flown home to be buried. The coffins of Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Guardsman Jimmy Major and Sergeant Matthew Telford of the Grenadier Guards were flown back to RAF Lyneham alongside those of Corporal Steven Boote and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith. All five were killed last Tuesday when an Afghan policeman turned his weapon on them in the southern Helmand province... Read Full Story
A commander of an Al-Qaeda-linked group warned Islam's majority Sunnis that the Shiites and Iran pose a greater "danger" to their religion than Jews or Christians, a US monitoring group said on Tuesday. "We call on the nation ... to stand by (Sunnis) with whatever means they can against the danger of Iran and those who follow (the Shiite) faith in the region," Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Rashid of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in an audio recording carried by SITE Intelligence... Read Full Story
