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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Iraqi parliament to vote on US pact Wednesday

Iraqis watch a session of parliament as it debates a U.S.-Iraqi security pact on television in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday. BAGHDAD - Iraq’s parliament will vote Wednesday on the proposed Iraq-U.S. security agreement that would allow...

Cleric’s supporters protest Iraq accord

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A towering statue of Saddam Hussein. A giant effigy of George W. Bush. Two targets, one central square in Baghdad. It was Saddam in...

Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - A bomb killed eight mourners at the funeral of a slain Shiite cleric Friday in northwestern Pakistan, triggering rioting and heightening...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Abbas reaches out to Israelis with peace ads

A newspaper reader displays a copy of an advert by the Palestinian Authority published in an Israeli newspaper, at a coffee shop in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took his case for a peace deal directly to ordinary Israelis...

US, Iraqis to transfer control of Diyala to Sunnis

BAGHDAD - The Shiite-led government has demanded control over U.S.-funded Sunni groups that revolted against al-Qaida in Iraq in Diyala province by January...

Israeli leaders make secret journey to Jordan

JERUSALEM - Israeli leaders made a secret journey to neighboring Jordan earlier this week, listening to pleas from King Abdullah II to avert a large-scale military...

US raid kills Iraqi blamed in 2004 reservist death

BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida in Iraq leader blamed in the 2004 abduction and murder of an Army reservist and other deadly attacks...

Settlers spray inflammatory graffiti on mosque

HEBRON, West Bank - Jewish settlers today spray-painted graffiti on a mosque slurring the Prophet Muhammad and defaced a Muslim cemetery, Israeli military officials...

Israeli stock market stopped after 11 percent drop

JERUSALEM - Stock exchange officials called off trading briefly at the Tel Aviv market after stock prices plunged 11 percent. The huge drop triggered an automatic...

Iraq parliament engulfed in protests over US pact

BAGHDAD - As opposition lawmakers shouted and pounded their desks in protest, Iraq’s parliament on Thursday resumed...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Barack Obama in new audio message

In a frame from a video provided by IntelCenter, posted on the Internet Thursday, April 13, 2006, al-Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri praises insurgents in Iraq. CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack...

Jerusalem police evict Palestinians from tent

JERUSALEM - Israeli police have evicted a Palestinian couple from a tent where they were living after the demolition of their...

Yemen wants Arab cooperation to fight piracy

CAIRO, Egypt - A senior Yemeni diplomat today called on Arab countries on the Red Sea to increase their cooperation to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa,...

Iraqi parliament’s debate on US pact disrupted

BAGHDAD - Lawmakers loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today disrupted a parliamentary debate ahead of a Nov. 24 vote on a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Iraqi parliament debates security pact

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, left, and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, shake hands after a signing ceremony for a security pact between the United States and Iraq in Baghdad on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. BAGHDAD - Iraqi lawmakers today began debate over a pact with the United States that will allow U.S. forces to remain...

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