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CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- An Iranian official says the government wants the United States to stop its "savage attacks" in Iraq before its envoys hold more talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, Iran's Fars News Agency reported. "Under the current circumstances and given the U.S. wid.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 4, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A bomb planted on a car carrying an Interior Ministry official exploded Sunday, killing the official and wounding two police officers who were accompanying him, a ministry official said. Lt. Col. Mohammed Ibrahim worked in National Police Affairs, the off.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A suicide bomber riding a bicycle Monday killed at least 24 Iraqi police officers and recruits at an Iraqi police base in Baquba, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. The blast also wounded 17 people, the official said. Local health officials put.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Taliban militants were expected to release seven remaining South Korean hostages Thursday, bringing to an end a six-week drama that saw two captives executed by the kidnappers, a South Korean official said. South Korean presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

FOX News -- A bomb hit a U.N. peacekeeping force patrol on a coastal road in southern Lebanon on Monday, a Lebanese security official said, the second such attack targeting the force in less than a month. The bomb struck the convoy as it was driving through the vi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 9:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- A progress report on Iraq will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad has not met any of its targets for political, economic and other reform, speeding up the Bush administration's reckoning on what to do next, a U.S. official said Monday... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- A car bomb ripped through a crowded square in the capital Tuesday, killing at least 41 people and wounding 124 others, an Interior Ministry official said. The bomb erupted about 2 p.m. in Khalani Square, near a Shiite mosque, the official said. Seve.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

CNN -- Fighting between Palestinian factions is worse than ever and can produce no winner, a senior Palestinian official said Tuesday. Saeb Erakat spoke as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held emergency meetings and weighed options, including pu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

SF Gate -- The U.S. military announced Tuesday that 10 American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day, making May the deadliest month for U.S. troops in 2 1/2 years, as insurgents continued attacks on official and civilian targets. Gunmen dressed in police.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Eight U.S. troops were killed Monday in an attack in Iraq's Diyala province, a U.S. military official said. The official said that a Kiowa helicopter was shot down between Baquba and Muqdadiya with small arms, killing the chopper's two pilots. A qui.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- Iran may delay its plan to release the only woman among 15 captured Royal Navy crew because of the UK's "incorrect attitude", an official has said. Iran's insistence the group was in its waters last Friday saw the UK release GPS evidence to back up its.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 10:25pm neoform

ABC News -- The U.S. Navy is offering a huge show of military might near the location where Iran seized 15 British sailors and marines five days ago, in what is seen as a clear effort to send a message to Iran, a senior military official told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:14pm neoform

CBS News -- Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said. Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 12:49pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- An official British inquiry into the friendly fire disaster in Iraq which killed Lance Corporal Matty Hull of the Household Cavalry contains scathing criticism of the actions of the American pilots and ground crew involved, it emerged yesterday. As the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 18, 2007 @ 10:01am mrmdc

BBC News -- Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC's Newsnight programme... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 9:29am neoform

CBC -- A Taliban official has confirmed a top military commander with close ties to Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was killed in an air strike on Dec. 19, according to a report out of Pakistan... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Dec 1, 2006 @ 8:05am neoform

ABC News -- U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munit.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 26, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A senior UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with the international aid effort for victims of Cyclone Nargis is improving. Kathleen Cravero of the UN Development Programme told the BBC that visas had become more easily av.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The Iraqi government hopes to end military operations in Iraq's southern city of Basra before the end of the week, a government official told CNN on Monday. Sami al-Askari -- a spokesman for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki -- said the operation targeting "o.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 15, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- The FBI is warning of possible threats to Jewish targets in the United States, following the car bombing death of a Hezbollah leader in Syria, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been instructed.. Read More