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Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad

Baghdad :: Iraq | about 2 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by vishnughimire

By HAMZA HENDAWI The Associated Press Friday, November 21, 2008; 8:08 AM BAGHDAD -- Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis...

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15 Years Boy thrown under train for writing love letter

Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | about 10 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by HUSAIN.SAYED

15 Years Boy thrown under train for writing love letter Patna (INDIA): A teenage boy was thrashed, paraded through the streets with his head shaved and then thrown under a train for daring to write a love letter to a...

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Turkey, U.S., Iraq agree on PKK actions

Baghdad :: Iraq | about 15 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: Middle East Security News

Turkish, Iraqi and U.S. officials met in Baghdad to address security concerns pertaining to the outlaw Kurdistan Workers' Party. The trilateral meeting addressed security risks posed by PKK, a militant separatist group operating in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and...

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Hamas man killed in Gaza by explosion.

Amman :: Jordan | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by aarana

One of its militants had been killed in a "Jihadist mission," a phrase used in the past to refer to an accidental explosion. An explosion in the Gaza Strip killed a member of the Hamas Islamist group on Thursday. Gunmen...

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UK hostages on Saudi tanker named

Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by vishnughimire

The families of two British crew men held by pirates aboard a hijacked Saudi Arabian oil tanker said they hoped the men would be "home safely very soon". Peter French and James Grady are on the Sirius Star, a supertanker...

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IAEA still probing Syria bomb

Aleppo :: Syria | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Source: News 24

The comments were included in a restricted report, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. The United States claims that the site, known alternatively as either al-Kibar or Dair Alzour, which was razed to the ground by Israeli planes...

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'Sons of Iraq' move hailed a success

Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by vishnughimire

By Andrew North BBC News, Baghdad Thousands of members of local militias set up by the Americans to provide neighbourhood security and fight against al-Qaeda's Iraq franchise are now being paid by the Iraqi government - a key test of...

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US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria

Damascus :: Syria | 25 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by cooldiponline

DAMASCUS, Syria – U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq , killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression." A U.S. military official...

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Iraq: Christian families flee Mosul in fear of attacks

Mosul :: Iraq | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by peoplestalk

Mosul, 10 Oct. (AKI) - At least 75 Christian families have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul fearing a wave of attacks that have recently targeted members of the religious minority. "Twenty-five Christian families left their houses in Mosul...

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Syrians hold funerals for people killed in US raid

Şūrān :: Syria | 25 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Posted by news24hours

SUKKARIYEH, Syria – Families in this Iraqi border village prepared to hold funerals Monday for eight people they say were killed when the U.S. military launched a rare attack in Syrian territory. Clergy washed the bodies as angry residents chanted,...

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