Lankan forces capture strategic area in LTTE stronghold

The Sri Lankan forces have intensified their campaign against rebel LTTE in last months. The government troops have made dramatic progress on the northern fronts, seizing a series of rebel bases and chunks of...

Sri Lanka fighting rages, at least 67 killed

Tamils have been fighting for a separate homeland for long time and even control some part of Sri Lanka close to sea coast. Fighting under LTTE tamil rebels have acquired government status and even have their...

FOX News Cameraman Helps Rescue Injured Marine From Insurgent Blast in Afghan...

A pretty amazing story that shows how journalists can be in life-threatening danger."A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb...

Hamas raids Fatah stronghold in Gaza, 20 Fatah men fleeing into Israel

08.02.08, 19:44 Israel time. News without Opinion. Hamas rulers are called 'the new Mongols'. " Islamist group' security forces raid stronghold of Fatah-allied Hilles clan in Gaza City. In retaliation,...

Al Qaeda out of Iraq

BigT's OPINION:"In a joint effort between the Iraqis and the Americans al Qaeda in Iraq has lost its last stronghold in the city of Mosul. Here, from the July 6th Edition of the (London) Times: "American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in...

Iraq army tightens grip on southern city

Things are improving in Iraq. The Iraqi government is gearing up to go into the southern city of Amara, which borders Iran. "Iraq's security forces tightened their grip on the southern city of Amara on Monday and...

Suicide Blast in Sri Lanka Kills 14

"A suicide bomber killed 14 people at an opening ceremony for a marathon Sunday, including a government minister who was nearing the starting line with a flag and a former Olympian. More than 90 others were...

Kenyan Demonstrators Clash With Police In Second Day of Protests

Adding more flames to the fire, a local television station published video of a Kenyan police officer allegedly killing a protester. According to one of my sources in Nairobi, the ethnic segregation has gotten so systemic in some parts of the country that bankers aren't being...

Kenyan Demonstrators Clash With Police In Second Day of Protests

Adding more flames to the fire, a local television station published video of a Kenyan police officer allegedly killing a protester. According to one of my sources in Nairobi, the ethnic segregation has gotten so systemic in some parts of the country that bankers aren't being...

Poisonous Spiders Attack Britain

They're not giant spiders, though, so that's some silver lining. "A Natural History Museum expert has warned that global warming is giving invasive poisonous spiders the chance to thrive in Britain. The false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, was first recorded in the UK in...

Mogadishu Turns Toward Chaos

Ethiopia invaded Somalia last December  to rid the land of the Islamic Courts Union, a group accused of harboring al-Qaeda  The Ethiopians thought they would be out in two weeks, replaced by an African...

Iraq: Girls' school attacked - 250 insurgents die as battle rages

"U.S.-backed Iraqi troops on Sunday attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival, and Iraqi officials estimated some 250 militants died in the daylong battle...

Troops get set for the final blow against [Somalian] Islamists

"Somali government forces supported by Ethiopian tanks and warplanes attacked retreating Islamic militias in their last stronghold yesterday. Leaders of the Union of Islamic Courts urged their followers to stand...

Somali PM: Suspects in '98 U.S. Embassy blast hiding in Islamic stronghold

"MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's prime minister said Sunday that the suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa are sheltering in the stronghold of his country's militant Islamic...

Curfews imposed after Saddam's execution

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein's neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. They went to bed as new video...

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