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MSNBC
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Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region.
In a 46-page question-and-answer doc..
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BBC News
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The president of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq has said his people will defend themselves if Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels based in the region.
Massoud Barzani rejected accusations that his government provided cover for Kurdish Workers Party (PKK..
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BBC News
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Camps for those displaced by fighting in Sudan's Darfur region are almost full, the UN says.
Several camps are having to turn away new groups of refugees, a report for UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says.
More than 80..
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FOX News
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Britain said Friday it would send additional troops to southern Afghanistan in response to NATO's call to bolster forces in the region. Defense Minister Des Browne confirmed the deployment in a statement late Friday — two days after Prime Minister To..
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Bloomberg
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A U.S. aircraft carrier battle group led by the USS John C. Stennis arrived in the Persian Gulf region as part of a buildup of forces amid heightened tension with Iran. The nuclear-powered Stennis, sent by President George W. Bush last month, arrived i..
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Independent
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France yesterday defended recent fighter jet raids on towns bordering Sudan's Darfur region by claiming the aggressive action was aimed at preventing regional chaos...
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MSNBC
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A missile struck a house in a Pakistani region known as being a safe haven for al-Qaida early on Thursday, killing 10 suspected militants including foreigners, intelligence officials and residents said.
The attack took place near Kaloosha village in th..
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BBC News
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Two employees of Pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted in the country's restive north-western region abutting the Afghan border, police say.
The technicians went missing on the same day as Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizud..
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BBC News
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Arab groups in Sudan's Darfur region could start their own rebellion, a leading think-tank has warned.
Some Arab communities felt they had been used by Sudan's government, says the International Crisis Group (ICG).
The ICG report also criticised the..
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MSNBC
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that the continued flow of weapons, suicide bombers and terrorism funding into his country would result in "disastrous consequences" for the region and the world.
Al-Maliki..
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CNN
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Saber-rattling in the Middle East has been growing, with Israeli air strikes over Syria at the beginning of the month and France's Foreign Minister talking of war with Iran, but behind the scenes there are fear of a new arms race in the region. In a deal..
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FOX News
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Gunmen kidnapped an oil-industry worker as he traveled to work Friday in Nigeria's southern oil region, police said.
The man, an American, was snatched from his car shortly after dawn in the oil city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State Police Commissioner F..
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Al Jazeera
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UN officials have said that the expanded Darfur force will consist of between 17,500 and 19,600 troops, in addition to more than 6,000 police who will help maintain security in the region's displaced person camps where allegations of rape and other abuses..
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USA Today
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From south and north, Iraq's Kurdish region felt pressure from two sides Saturday, as saboteurs bombed a vital bridge link to Baghdad, and Turkish troops stood arrayed to the north for a possible cross-border strike, a move Iraq's prime minister warned ag..
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BBC News
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The two main rebel groups in eastern Ethiopia say their forces have killed dozens of Ethiopian soldiers in joint operations in May in the Ogaden region.
But senior Ethiopian official Bereket Simon said their claims were untrue and just an attempt to ge..
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CNN
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American troops were on the hunt in a volatile region south of Baghdad for three members of a U.S.-led military patrol, who went missing after an insurgent attack Saturday that killed five others.
The U.S. military said attackers struck the team of sev..
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Al Jazeera
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The deal comes amid fears that the bloodshed in Sudan's western Darfur region is increasingly spilling over the border into Chad.
Chad says Janjawid fighters, operating in Sudan's Darfur region, regularly mount raids into Chad, attacking civilians...
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USA Today
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The No. 2 U.S. diplomat arrived in Sudan as part of an international push to convince the government to accept a U.N. peacekeeping force in the violence wracked Darfur region.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte's visit Thursday came as the..
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BBC News
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Four foreign hostages abducted in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta region within the last month have been freed.
A BBC correspondent says the sudden release of the British oil worker, Dutch security manager and two Lebanese construction workers was a sur..
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CNN
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Gunmen seized two foreign workers Monday in Nigeria's southern oil-producing region, officials said.
The attackers snatched the unidentified men from their work compound in southern Bayelsa state, said Goodnews Igali, a government negotiator in the reg..
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