Dozens were killed in bombs and shooting attacks across Iraq Monday morning, mid-way through the Ramadan holiday. Most of the 13 attacks targeted government forces, but the deadliest targeted civilians during morning rush-hour. The current toll stands at 74 killed, 247 wounded, according to Iraqi officials. The bombing in Kut, in central Iraq, killed 34 [...]
Libya Rebels Tout Capture of Zawiya: Is This Rebels’ Latest Failed Offensive? | Tripoli deceptively close in latest rebel offensive
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Twenty five people are dead and a thirty seven more are wounded after a methodic assault on an Afghan governor’s compound. Parwan governor Abdul Basir Salangi was the target of the assault, and while the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, rumors are circulating that some of the motivation had to do with a personal [...]
Palestinian MP Confirms UN Security Council Statehood Vote in September | US veto stands in way of potential statehood
The Obama administration’s plan to pour $65 million into Egypt this year, supposedly to help organize new political parties, has sparked a powerful backlash from the interim military government, Islamist parties and even some reform-minded activists. Groups taking American money are seen as agents of a foreign government and Egyptians are loath to allow another American puppet rule [...]
US, Hamas Reach Deal, Gaza Aid to Restart | Independent auditors to be used for NGOs
A Taliban fighter has given the first account of how his unit fired two “opportunist” rocket-propelled grenades that brought down a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 38 elite American and Afghan troops in the deadliest attack of NATO’s 10-year campaign. His version of events agrees with NATO’s, and since NATO reportedly killed two others in [...]
Pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq will improve the security situation there, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi claimed Sunday, days after Iraqi leaders agreed to negotiate a possible post-2011 occupation. Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim and one of two vice presidents whose positions are largely ceremonial, said a continued American military presence in Iraq would be “a problem, not [...]
Report: Al-Shabab’s Mogadishu ‘Exit’ Part of Growing Internal Rift | Militant faction’s moderate, hawkish wings increasingly at odds
