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CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Petraeus' testimony marks his second time before Congress since he took over the Iraq war effort in early 2007. The four-star general also meets with Bush to advise on a possible delay in drawing down American forces below the 140,000-troop level for the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Iraqi security forces say a large explosion demolished a building in the southern city of Basra. At least three militants were killed and four were wounded. British military spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says it's not clear what caused Monday's blast but.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 3, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Most Israeli tanks and troops pulled out of northern Gaza early Monday, and an Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed that the military was ending its five-day offensive operation. The attacks targeted Palestinian militants who launched dozens of rocke.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 11, 2007 @ 10:03pm neoform

New York Times -- The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send marines instead to Afghanistan, to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior military and Pentagon officials. The idea by the Marine Corps commandant would ef.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 10:15am neoform

MSNBC -- A little more than a month ago, with the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaching and fears of a new al Qaeda attack rising, some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought they had found one of the world’s two most wanted men just where they last saw t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Myanmar's security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday. A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Forei.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 7:41pm neoform

afp.google.com -- Britain was prepared to withdraw its forces from the southern Iraqi city of Basra in April, but held off for five months after the United States asked it to stay, Britain's military commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Monday. Speaking t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:09am neoform

Washington Post -- The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 2:33pm neoform

CNN -- Pakistan's armed forces killed at least 35 militants in North Waziristan on Monday, two days after President Bush said he was "troubled" by reports al Qaeda was gaining strength in Pakistani tribal areas. The deaths, in fighting that was still under way,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jul 22, 2007 @ 5:31am neoform

CNN -- Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue a group of South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says. "Afghan forces and international troops have launched a join.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 11:23am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Ghazi was killed on Tuesday night after Pakistani forces laid siege to the mosque for more than a week. His body was being taken for burial in his home village in Punjab province, an interior ministry official said. Send us your viewsAt least three.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 4:44pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The leader of an al-Qaeda umbrella group in Iraq, who was thought to have beeen killed by US forces, has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shias in Iraq within two months. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- A radical cleric seized by security forces in Pakistan on Thursday urged armed militants still holed up inside a mosque besieged by government troops to end a two-day standoff. Cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz made the appeal on state-run TV shortly after he was.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 10:35am neoform

BBC News -- Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but were vigorously repelled, the BBC has learned. The incident took place before Iran successfully seized 15 British sailors and Marines in March. The lessons from t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:31pm neoform

Washington Post -- A detainee found dead in his cell at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. forces before fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to military hearing records. Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al-Amri had been i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 11:22pm neoform

BBC News -- Iran says it has uncovered several spy networks run by the US and its allies - the occupying forces in Iraq. The intelligence ministry said it had "succeeded in uncovering, identifying and striking blows" at infiltrators organised by those forces. T.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 7:44am neoform

BBC News -- Palestinian gunmen from militant group Hamas have attacked pro-Fatah forces near the Gaza-Israel border, killing at least eight people, reports say. Pro-Fatah security officials described the attack as a major Hamas ambush on a Presidential Guards trai.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 1, 2007 @ 11:13am neoform

Washington Post -- The deaths of more than 100 American troops in April made it the deadliest month so far this year for U.S. forces in Iraq, underscoring the growing exposure of Americans as thousands of reinforcements arrive for an 11-week-old offensive to tame sectarian.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 12:25pm neoform

Bloomberg -- Iranian-made arms bound for the Taliban were intercepted by coalition forces in Afghanistan within the past month, General Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today. U.S. and coalition forces seized mortars and explosives in Ka.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 8:32am neoform

BBC News -- Fighting has resumed in Somalia, a day after 16 people died during clashes between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents. A BBC correspondent in Mogadishu says four people have died in the fighting in the north and south of the city. Thi.. Read More