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Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup warned Thursday that declining public support threatened to undermine the Afghan campaign, and was more damaging to troop morale than Taliban insurgents. Stirrup also reiterated that a key to success was establishing good governance and battling corruption in Afghanistan. "The mission is achievable and at last we have a properly resourced plan to deliver the strategy," Stirrup said in his annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute in London. "Our... Read Full Story
On December 1, 2009 it was announced that the Iranian-backed, breakaway Sadrist group, the League of the Righteous, had ended its talks with Baghdad and would not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The cited reason was that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to release the League’s leader Qais Khazali who is being held by the Americans at Camp Cropper outside of Baghdad. At the beginning of August 2009 Maliki met with members of the League and said that they had renounced... Read Full Story
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December 4, 2009 by hussnain news under Pakistan News
RAWALPINDI: Officials have confirmed ten casualties in firing and blasts hit a mosque close to army headquarters here Friday, reported ARY NEWS.
Many security personnel were also among dead while 45 people were wounded when armed men attacked a mosque, the channel said.
According to details, the attackers entered the... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD: Roadside Bomb in Iraq, 3 killed Policemen , A roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, police said.
The blast targeted the patrol of emergency forces in al-Khadra area of central Kirkuk.
The wounded were taken to Kirkuk health office for treatment.
Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, is a city disputed by Arabs, ethnic Kurds and Turkman, and violence there is common... Read Full Story
A Saudi soldier has been killed in clashes with Yemeni Shiite rebels at the border between the two countries, Saudi media reported on Thursday. Issa Madkhali, a member of the naval forces, died on Tuesday in a gunfight with the Zaidi rebels, also known as Huthis, in Jebal al-Dukhan, a mountainous area straddling Saudi Arabi and Yemen, the daily Al-Hayat reported. The death brings to six the number of Saudi soldiers killed in military operations against the rebels, in addition to four... Read Full Story
President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday sought to allay fears in Baghdad that a dramatic upping of the war effort in Afghanistan would come at the expense of its Iraq commitment. Just hours before Obama was to announce a surge of 30,000 more troops to the Afghanistan, the White House said Vice President Joe Biden had called Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a bid to assuage Iraqi concerns. "The Vice President stressed that US actions to reinforce Afghanistan will not come at the... Read Full Story
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said the Swiss referendum banning the building of new minarets was an invitation for Al-Qaeda to launch attacks in Europe, the official news agency JANA reported on Sunday. "They pretend they are 'fighting Al-Qaeda and terrorism' whereas in fact they have just rendered it the greatest service," he said, referring to Switzerland with disdain as "the mafia of the world." On November 29, more than 57 percent of Swiss voters approved a rightwing motion to ban... Read Full Story
Iraq's general election in January was thrown into doubt on Monday when the war-torn country's presidential council demanded a greater say for minorities and nationals living abroad. President Jalal Talabani told AFP he wants parliament to change the electoral law governing the vote so that the number of seats set aside for minorities, including Christians, and Iraqi expatriates will be tripled. "The presidential council asked the parliament to increase the percentage of seats for minorities... Read Full Story
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president Wednesday said he had vetoed part of an election law over the allocation of seats to displaced Iraqis, throwing fresh doubt over plans for general elections in January. Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, part of a presidential council that has veto power over legislation, said he objected to Article One of the law approved by parliament this month because it did not give a voice to Iraqis abroad. "I have delivered my letter of objection to... Read Full Story
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