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"Everyone is running away," Beirut resident Imad said on Friday as Hizbullah gunmen roamed the streets of the Lebanese capital, in the grip of deadly gunbattles between feuding Sunni and Shiite factions. Opposition Shiite militants have seized control of swathes of west Beirut, including Sunni...
Published: Friday, 16 May, 2008 @ 1:08 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Aley - Lebanon's Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt made a quick tour of Shouifat, Aley and Baisour on Friday to "pacify" the Shouf mountain residents and express condolences to the family of victims in the latest violence The...
Turkey's state-run news agency says a soldier has been killed in a land mine explosion near the border with Iraq. The Anatolia news agency says a soldier was also wounded in the explosion Friday in Hakkari province, where troops have been battling autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels. The agency says...
Sources in the Prime Minister's Bureau estimated Friday that the United States may act against Iran before President George W. Bush's term is over, Army Radio reported. The sources said that in the closed door meetings between Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the two discussed the...
The Palestinian Hamas movement said on Friday it will send a delegation to Egypt to discuss a proposed truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as a rocket fired from Gaza damaged a synagogue and another hit a kindergarten in the southern Israeli city of Sderot overnight. "Hamas will send a
