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CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Lebanese security officials say heavy fighting has erupted for a second time in the northern city of Tripoli. Officials say heavy machine gun fire and rockets are being used in battles between government supporters and opponents. The officials spoke on.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- A suicide bomber rammed his car into a Canadian military convoy near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan Monday, killing 35 civilians, officials said. The explosion also injured at least 25 people, including two Canadian soldiers, said Kandahar border poli.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 4, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least three other people and wounding five, Israeli rescue officials said. Police said there were two attackers, though only one.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jan 24, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Officials from Kenya's opposition party were behind attacks on members of the president's ethnic group and are planning more, Human Rights watch says. "We have evidence that ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violenc.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unspecified proposal about Iran's nuclear program at a private meeting with the country's supreme leader during a brief trip to Tehran, Iran's state news agency said Wednesday. Russian officials could not immediate.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

USA Today -- State Department officials did little to rein in private security guards who frequently shot at and sometimes killed innocent civilians in Iraq, according to a congressional report released Monday. In two incidents in which guards from Blackwater USA k.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Sep 22, 2007 @ 10:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, off.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

SF Gate -- U.S. officials scrambled to head off a potential crisis Monday after irate Iraqi authorities canceled the license of controversial U.S. security company Blackwater USA, whose guards are accused of shooting to death eight civilians while guarding a U.S. St.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Aug 31, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

SF Gate -- The Taliban freed the seven remaining South Koreans they were holding hostage in central Afghanistan on Thursday evening, Afghan officials announced. All of the hostages appeared to be in good condition. The release of the last hostages ended a six-wee.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

CBS News -- U.S. military officials say a group of eight Iranians, including at least one diplomat, were released by U.S. forces Wednesday after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their car. The U.S. says the Iranians, along with seven Iraqi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jul 8, 2007 @ 6:46pm neoform

FOX News -- The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners, officials said, in the government's latest gesture of support for moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the Hamas militant group. However, t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 10:10pm neoform

CNN -- Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza since March 12, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, a Palestinian source close to negotiations for his release said. The source and another Palestinian i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jun 24, 2007 @ 11:50am neoform

CNN -- Pakistani officials Sunday continued to search for survivors a day after heavy rains collapsed buildings and brought down power lines in Karachi, killing more than 230 people, provincial health and police officials said. The storm cut electricity to mo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 12:57pm neoform

Associated Press -- Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:13am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Senior officials in the PLO and Hamas were yesterday attempting to broker an end to the bloody siege of a Lebanese refugee camp, which began last week when the Lebanese army engaged members of Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-inspired group, after a bank robbe.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- More than 30 senior officials from the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been detained by Israeli forces in overnight raids in the West Bank. Those taken, mainly in Nablus, include the Palestinian education minister, three lawmakers and three mayor.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 12, 2007 @ 4:05am neoform

CNN -- An alleged plot by a group of Islamic extremists against U.S. facilities in Germany led officials to increase security last month, a senior federal official told CNN on Friday. While many U.S. and German officials were quick to say there has been no ne.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Washington Post -- Attacks in Iraq involving lethal weapons that U.S. officials say are made in Iran hit a record high last month, despite efforts to crack down on networks supplying the armor-piercing weapons known as explosively formed projectiles, according to a senior U.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:00pm neoform

SF Gate -- The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the U.S. troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of President Bush's top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be li.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

ABC News -- Shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there Wednesday, killing as many as 60 people, officials said. The gunmen began roaming Sunni neighborhoo.. Read More