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ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal belt captured three US military choppers while they were being shipped in a dismantled state from Peshawar to Jalalabad in Afghanistan and sold one of the helicopters for several hundred thousand dollars, a ...

How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva ...

SEASON two of the smash hit show Prince of Poets aired live on Abu Dhabi TV Friday night with the first seven poets of the competition taking the stage drawing a mix of audience applauses and judges’ criticism for their ...

TEHRAN: Iran has withdrawn around $75 billion from Europe to prevent the assets from being blocked under threatened new sanctions over Tehran’s disputed nuclear ambitions, an Iranian weekly said. Western powers are warning the Islamic Republic of more ...

"Omar, a 69-year-old refugee from Baghdad, said he will die a 'slow death' if assistance is stopped. He and his family have depended on food and medical assistance since they fled to Syria in 2006." – UNHCR, May 2008. ...

THE EU and US have offered incentives to Syria to persuade the country into reconsidering its ties with Iran and Hezbollah, reports say. The Israeli Ynet news website reported on Sunday that the United States and ...

A US strike in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 11 Pakistani troops was 'legitimate' and 'self-defense', the Pentagon says. "Although it is early, every indication we have is that it was a legitimate strike in self-defense against ...

CANADA has apologized for forcing more than 100,000 aboriginal children to attend Christian boarding schools to assimilate them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in Parliament in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoolchildren on Wednesday, the ...

KING Abdullah of Saudi Arabia says the Bush administration's approach to Iran and the country's nuclear program has been 'wrong'. In a Tuesday meeting with chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani in Jeddah, King Abdullah ...

KABUL: Extremist unrest left five Afghan policemen and nearly two dozen Taleban fighters dead Monday, officials said, as Britain reached the grim landmark of 100 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Military aircraft from the Nato force were called in overnight after ...

ISRAEL has reportedly started to set up an 'Iran Command' within its air force as part of preparations for a possible war against Iran. According to reports by unnamed Israeli military sources, the regime's air force ...

SAUDI Arabian leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until their customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices. During Bush's second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, Saudi ...

THE official death toll from the massive May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan province continued to mount yesterday, even though reports from the most heavily devastated regions have not yet emerged. The quake, centered in a mountainous area near Sichuan’s ...

KAMPALA: The 35th Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will be held here between June 18-20, attended by foreign ministers and businesspeople from Muslim countries. The conference will be preceded by a business forum on June 16-18 at ...

FIERCE armed conflicts have erupted in Beirut between the supporters of the pro-western government and the Hezbollah-led opposition. The clashes broke out after people staged demonstrations in Beirut to protest Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's government over the ...

ISLAMIC workers say an overnight U.S. airstrike blasted a remote area of central Somalia hours after armed civilians met there, but no one was hurt. The U.S. military denies the report. Two Islamic insurgents say they heard airplanes overnight ...

THE dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia has been revealed in a groundbreaking new Amnesty International report. First-hand testimony from scores of traumatized survivors of the conflict is included in the report, which ...

FIGHTING is escalating in Afghanistan as weather conditions improve for combat operations by both the US-NATO occupation force and the Afghan guerillas fighting to drive them from the country. The 2,300 troops of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which ...

IN its efforts to be more engaged in the Somali issue, the Secretary General of the OIC, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, is sending a delegation to the concerned neighboring countries Yemen and Djibouti to examine the Somali internal conflict and ways ...

A FRONT-page article in Monday’s New York Times provides some insight into the barbaric treatment of immigrants held in US custody. After obtaining a government list through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Times investigated the circumstances surrounding a ...