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MSNBC
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As the influx of U.S. troops gained momentum earlier this year, American officials have courted both Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders around the country, hoping they will help lead local drives against al-Qaida and other militants.
A similar effort saw..
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MSNBC
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The killing of the 11 family members did not take place and that is totally confirmed,” he said.
An American military spokesman said the United States was aware of the report about Tuesday’s shooting but had no immediate details. A manager at Rashe..
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Reuters
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Iran has access to evidence of U.S. support for terrorist groups in the Middle East, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, made the allegation in comments to visiting Turkish Foreig..
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BBC News
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Iran has responded defiantly to new sanctions imposed by the US targeting Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and three state-owned banks.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the sanctions were doomed to failure.
The US move came as a senior Americ..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US should set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq.
He was speaking during a live televised question-and-answer session with Russians covering both domestic and foreign policy issues.
Mr Putin said that whi..
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New York Times
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President Bush warned today that Iran would be raising the risk of a “World War III” if it came to possess nuclear weapons.
And he said he believed that Russia still wanted to stop Iran from developing such weapons.
Those comments, made during a..
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MSNBC
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The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the mos..
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USA Today
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The South Korean president signed a commitment with North Korea Thursday to seek a formal end to the Korean War, ending a historic three-day summit during which he was snubbed by his host and upstaged by a nuclear agreement 600 miles away in Beijing.
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MSNBC
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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..
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CNN
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Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war. "I think the administration, the president and the vice preside..
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USA Today
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a 7-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50% in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.
The comments came as relations between the U.S. and Iraq..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Russia today joined the chorus of concern at the possibility of war in Iran while conflicts continued in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At a news briefing in Moscow, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said: "We are worried by reports that there is ser..
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CNN
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Iran's foreign ministry criticized France on Monday for a blunt warning over the weekend that Europe must prepare for war if Tehran continues to flout international demands to stop producing nuclear fuel. "We hope that such statements are superficial and..
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USA Today
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After months of partisan stalemate, Congress and the rest of the nation finally heard the U.S. military commander in Iraq and the top U.S. diplomat there weigh in Monday on the increasingly fierce debate over whether to stay the course or begin a concerte..
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CNN
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Iraq's prime minister Monday touted his government's efforts in thwarting "sectarian war" and acknowledged that Iraqi troops are not yet ready to fully take over security duties from the U.S.-led coalition. "We have succeeded in preventing Iraq from going..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Two decades ago, General David Petraeus, the man charged with winning America's second war in Iraq, wrote a thesis for his PhD in international relations at Princeton.
Its 328 pages were an intense study of the legacies of a war that had stretched the..
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CBS News
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People of America," he says, "lend me your ears."
So says the most wanted man in the world, Osama bin Laden, appearing in a new videotape which has surfaced nearly six years after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
In it, he rails against Western co..
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BBC News
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Syria says its air defences have opened fire on Israeli war planes which had entered Syrian airspace.
The action took place "without causing human or material loss", according to the official Syrian news agency, SANA.
In a statement, Syria's Ministr..
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BBC News
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All sides have committed war crimes in Somalia's conflict this year, according to lobby group Human Rights Watch.
It says the worst abuses have been by Ethiopian soldiers, who are supporting the government against insurgents.
Ethiopians have often i..
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Alter Net
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Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Over the past several months The Nation has interviewed..
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