Sunday, September 5, 2010
Israel: 3 Israeli raids on Gaza Strip, 2 killed and 3 injured
Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured.
The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza on Saturday after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the border.
The flare-up of violence on the Israel-Gaza border came just two days after the relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the US.
Israeli aircraft reportedly struck targets including smuggling tunnels running under the border with Egypt at Rafah.
The two Palestinians were killed when one of the tunnels collapsed. Three others were wounded.
A raid also struck a former base of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Israel: 13 Gaza terror groups join together to launch attacks on Israel in reaction to relaunched peace talks
Thirteen Gaza militant groups have joined forces to launch a wave of attacks against Israel, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Hamas reportedly announced after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas launched peace talks that the 13 groups would step up “more effective attacks” against Israel.
When asked if the renewed attacks would include suicide bombings, the Hamas spokesman reportedly answered: “All options are open.”
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
United States of America: USA President Barack Obama says it’s time to turn the page on Iraq, combat mission is over
USA President Barack Obama has announced that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq is over. The president said Tuesday America’s new mission is to advise and assist Iraq’s security forces.
Seven-and-a-half years after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Obama thanked the troops for their service and announced that their combat mission has concluded. “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country,” he said.
In only the second Oval Office address of his presidency since taking office, Mr. Obama did not declare victory, but said the move to a new mission is underway. “Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it is time to turn the page,” the president said.
Israel: 4 israelis shot dead by terrorists of Brigade Ezzedin al-Qassam in West Bank
Four israelis were killed on Tuesday night when gunmen opened fire on their car at the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, in the West Bank.
The attack occurred around 7:30 P.M. on Route 60, when shots were fired at a private vehicle near the Bani Naim junction, south of Kiryat Arba. Preliminary reports showed the gunmen approached the vehicle and shot the victims multiple times at point-blank range.
Magen David Adom reported that the victims were two men aged 25 and 40 and two women, also aged 25 and 40, one of whom was pregnant.
The victims were all residents of the settlement of Beit Hagai in the southern Hebron Hills.
Hamas’ military wing has claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes just a day before the White House effort to re-launch Mideast peace talks.
A statement from the armed wing of Hamas, a group that opposes any dialogue with Israel, said the “Qassam Brigades announces its full responsibility for the heroic operation in Hebron”.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Lebanon: 3 killed in clashes between shiite islamist group Hezbollah e al-Ahbash sunni faction
Three men were killed in Beirut on Tuesday in clashes between supporters of Shiite group Hizbullah and a Sunni faction, Al-Ahbash, security sources said.
Mohammad Fawaz, a Hizbullah official, his aide Munzer Hadi and Fawez Omeirat from Al-Ahbash were killed in clashes sparked by a fight between a supporter of Hizbullah and another from Al-Ahbash in the mixed Sunni-Shiite Beirut neighborhood of Burj Abi Haidar in Beirut.
But late on Tuesday Hizbullah and Al-Ahbash issued a joint statement following a meeting at the offices of the Lebanese Army Intelligence Unit in Beirut saying the clash was “an isolated one and does not carry any political and sectarian undertones.”
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Yemen: Thousands flee from city of Loder in south Yemen, fights between soldiers and islamist group called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Nearly 80,000 people have fled the southern Yemen city of Loder where clashes between al-Qaeda-linked fighters and government forces has killed dozens of people.
Suspected al-Qaeda fighters have also fled the embattled city, following an assault by government forces in which dozens have died, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Civilians began leaving the town in the restive Abyan province on Friday amid an army bombing campaign against suspected al-Qaeda targets.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Lebanon: Abdul Rahman Awadh terrorist leader of Fatah al-Islam killed by lebanese army
Lebanese troops on Saturday killed two Islamic militants including a head of the al-Qaida-inspired Fatah al-Islam which fought the army three years ago, a military spokesman said.
“Abdul Rahman Awadh, one of the key leaders of Fatah al-Islam,” was killed along with another militant known as Abu Bakr during clashes in the eastern Bekaa Valley region, the spokesman said.
A judicial source said Abu Bakr was Awadh’s key deputy who provided military training to members of the shadowy group said to be inspired by al-Qaida.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Winds of war between Israel and Lebanon, 5 killed in northern border clashes
Exchange of fire between IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and LAF (Lebanese Armed Forces) troops prompts Israel and Lebanon to cite violations of UN Resolution 1701; IDF says it gave UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) notice of plans to cross fence for maintenance work.
One IDF soldier was killed and another critcially wounded during an exchange of fire with Lebanese forces on the northern border on Tuesday. Netanya-resident Lt.-Col. Dov Harari, 45, a reserves battalion commander, died in the clashes. Captain Ezra Lakia, from the village of Harif, was said to be critically injured.
On the Lebanese side at least four were killed, three soldiers and one journalist, according to a Lebanese security official.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Yemen: al-Houthi rebels free 200 captured soldiers in Amran province
Yemeni rebels freed on Wednesday 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, a mediator said.
“The Houthi rebels freed soldiers captured” during fighting in the al-Amishiya region of the northern province of Amran, said the mediator.
AFP confirmed this from tribal sources close to the rebels.
On Tuesday, a military official said the Houthis had captured 200 soldiers,” which he said belong to the 72nd Regiment of the army’s Republican Guards.”
Monday, July 26, 2010
Yemen: Ceasefire is agreed by tribe al Aziz backed by the Government and al-Houthi rebels after 60 died in fighting
Tribal mediators succeeded yesterday in brokering a ceasefire between al-Houthi rebels and a tribe (al Aziz) backed by the government after days of heavy fighting in the north killed more than 60 people.
Mohammed Abdulsalam, a al-Houthi spokesman, said the ceasefire was reached after the mediation of tribal chieftains.
“The ceasefire is stable and the mediation committee is in the region, but we need a mediator who has the ability to exercise pressure and monitor the ceasefire on the ground,” Mr Abdulsalam said. He did not have details on the agreement.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Iran: Ahmadinejad against Usa and Russia “They are preparing a war scenario in Iran”
Iran president accuses americans to attack “once or two countries” in Middle East friends of Tehran regime.
And russian president Medvedev to have become “spokesman” of Usa strategy. “But iranian nation will break their propaganda”.
Ahmadinejad attacks Usa and Russia, first accused to prepare war against “one or two countries of Middle East”, the second to have become accomplice. Even though iranian president, quoted by Mehr agency, doesn’t talk of a direct attack to his country, it would be of one “scenario of war against Iran”, a “copycat” prepared by americans that provides to “attack one or two countries in Middle East friends of Iran with help of Sionists to weaken the determination of iranian nation.
But iranian nation - affirmed Ahmadinejad - will shatter hundreds of staged propaganda like this”.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Yemen: 49 killed in clashes between army and tribes against al-Houthi rebels
Local sources from Amran governorate revealed that fighting between Houthi rebels and government-backed tribes over the past four days have left at least 49 people dead. However, the rebels’ spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, told local media that 20 of al-Houthi affiliates were killed by the army and not by tribesmen.
Confrontations were taking place in Al-Amsheyah, in the northern Amran governorate, where the tribe of MP Sheikh Sagheer Aziz is allegedly besieged by the al-Houthi affiliates.
