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Seven years after the attacks on New York and Washington, the event that sparked off the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, many Afghans say life is no better and some say its worse.
Following the...
South Korea said today it would go ahead with its troop deployment
to Iraq, despite a threat from an Islamic group to behead a South
Korean hostage unless the plan is scrapped.
Main weekly Muslim prayers in the holy city of Najaf were scrapped
yesterday for the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein after
scuffles between rival Shiite factions, as bombs wounded four...
Moqtada Sadr's month-long uprising took a double battering Friday
as Najaf's Shiite religious establishment told the rebel cleric's
militiamen to go home and US troops killed eight of them.
The US army confirmed yesterday that former Iraqi defense minister
Sultan Hashem Ahmad was in US custody and hailed his surrender as
proof that the old regime of Saddam Hussein was "gone forever".
With the Iraq war moving from battlefield to negotiating table, the
UN Security Council met Friday for initial discussion of a draft
resolution which would lift sanctions against Iraq.
A group of 59 Iraqi officers returned to Baghdad after spending
more than 15 years as prisoners of war in Iran, reported the Arab
information radio broadcast of the U.S. army on Tuesday.
The Pentagon put more big pieces of its US military buildup against
Iraq into play last week: thousands of the army's elite 101st
Airborne Division flew to the region, a sixth aircraft carrier was...