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.
A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering a northwestern Pakistani town on Thursday, but guests escaped unhurt in the attack in a Taliban-troubled district, police said. Senior police official Mohammad Ayub told AFP it was a "miracle" that no one was wounded or killed in the bombing in Essakkhel village in Bannu district, which borders the Taliban strongholds of North and South Waziristan. "A young boy aged 13 or 14 blew himself up in the middle of guests who were visiting the... Read Full Story
An eight-day-old baby was among five people killed in separate attacks Tuesday in Iraq, including car bombs in Baghdad and bombings that struck two churches in the main northern city of Mosul. Three car bombs rocked Baghdad, killing four people in the fourth wave of coordinated attacks in as many months, and wounding 14 others. Baby Teba Saad Yunis was killed in the Mosul bombings, her father Saad Yunis told AFP. Earlier a medical official had said that the victim was a man. Five children... Read Full Story
Disarmed Iranian rebels and their families defied Iraqi police instructions on Tuesday to leave a camp near the border which the government has ordered closed, an AFP correspondent reported. Police toured the camp reminding residents over loudspeakers of the deadline set by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for their departure for alternative accommodation in southern Iraq but they refused to leave. Maliki wants the former fighters of the rebel People's Mujahedeen, which fought with Saddam... Read Full Story
US regional military commander General David Petraeus on Wednesday called Washington's fight against terrorism in Afghanistan "successful," even if Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has not been captured. "There has always been a significant focus of resources to get Bin Laden, and while he hasn't been caught, the effort has been successful in the overall fight against terrorism," said Petraeus, chief of US Central Command, speaking from Kabul to Fox News channel television. Petraeus said that... Read Full Story
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87. Montazeri was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution who fell out with the present leadership and was under house arrest for some years. "Hossein Ali Montazeri passed away in his home last night," the official IRNA news agency said in a report that did not mention his title. He lived in the holy Shi'ite Muslim city of Qom, south of Tehran. In... Read Full Story
US regional military commander General David Petraeus on Wednesday called Washington's fight against terrorism in Afghanistan "successful," even if Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has not been captured. "There has always been a significant focus of resources to get Bin Laden, and while he hasn't been caught, the effort has been successful in the overall fight against terrorism," said Petraeus, chief of US Central Command, speaking from Kabul to Fox News channel television. Petraeus said that... Read Full Story
Three car bombs struck the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday killing four people in the fourth wave of coordinated attacks in as many months, days after top ministers were quizzed in parliament over security. Fourteen people were wounded in the blasts, which came in quick succession during the height of the morning rush hour, an interior ministry official said. The first bomb exploded in a car park opposite the Iranian embassy around 7:30 am (0430 GMT), the second minutes later near the foreign... Read Full Story
A bomb attack has killed an Estonian soldier in Afghanistan, bringing to four the number of NATO personnel killed in the country's southern battlefield in 24 hours, the military said Wednesday. An improvised-explosive device (IED) killed the Estonian during a foot patrol Tuesday, said Captain Roy Hermkens, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Another IED killed a US soldier, while two British soldiers, together with two Afghan soldiers, were killed in... Read Full Story
As of Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, at least 856 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT. Of those, the military reports 661 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 71 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom... Read Full Story
Word began to spread at daybreak in the Sunni districts south of Baghdad: A top anti-insurgent fighter and three family members were slain overnight in their village. When the news reached the local sheik, he counted the number of men he had left. It was barely enough to fill the small mosque for the funeral. "We are losing ground," said Sheik Mustafa Kamil Shebib, a leader of an anti-insurgent Sunni militia that was once funded by the U.S. military. "We are becoming scared again." There is... Read Full Story
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