A handover ceremony was supposed to have taken place Saturday in Anbar's provincial capital, Ramadi. It was postponed because high winds and dust storms would have prevented top U.S. and Iraqi officials from flying in from Baghdad, 70 miles away. The U.S. military said Thursday's bombing did not cause the delay. The handover is without substance, the true handover happens when they leave Iraq," says Sheikh Hamid al-Zobaie, a member of Fallujah's city council who hails from one of eastern Anbar's most prominent tribes. The current number of U.S. troops in Iraq stands at about 146,000, of which roughly 35,000 serve in Anbar. This is expected to dip to around 142,000 by mid-July as some of the units sent during the surge in early 2007 including two [Anbar]-based Marine battalions, numberi...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb exploded Thursday at a hotel in the southern city of Basra as a British military patrol passed by, killing five Iraqi bystanders -- the latest in a series of attacks just before the anniversary of the start of the war. In Baghdad, rescue crews called off their search for survivors of Wednesday's bombing of another hotel just days before the anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The U.S. military confirmed Thursday the hotel attack was a suicide bombing and lowered the death toll to 17 civilians.
Families who lost loved ones in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 were relieved over news that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had been killed, and they expressed hope that his death would expose the truth about who was responsible for the killings. The bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killed 270 people, including 38 New Jersey residents. Gadhafi, Libya's dictator for 42 years, is believed to have played a key role in plotting the bombing. He was killed Thursday, two months after his government fell, as rebel fighters seized the city of Sirte, his hometown.
Libyan dissidents and relatives of those killed in the bombing of an airliner over Scotland in 1988 said Thursday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi's former foreign minister must be held accountable for his suspected role in acts of terrorism, despite his defection from the regime. Musa Kusa, who fled to Britain on Wednesday, has been linked by Western intelligence officials to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the bombing of UTA Flight 772 over Niger in 1989.
YORBA LINDA, Calif., July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, one of thirteen presidential libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration, will open to the public over 500,000 pages of textual materials, one hour of Dictabelt recordings, and an online exhibit focusing on the December 1972 bombing of North . When: Thursday, July 21, 2011
Pakistani leader alleges conspiracy to oust government ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's prime minister claimed Thursday there was a conspiracy to oust the country's civilian government, a sign of growing tension with the army over a secret memo sent to Washington earlier this year asking for help in averting a supposed military coup. The conflict between the army and the government intensified this week after the Supreme Court began a hearing into the scandal, which has already forced Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. to resign and also threatens the president. The political crisis comes as Pakistan is already facing a violent Taliban insurgency, a failing economy and severe tension with its most important ally, the U.S., over NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November. Russi...
U.S. soldiers die in bombing KABUL, Afghanistan - Nine NATO service members were killed Thursday in Afghanistan, including seven U.S. troops among eight who died when a powerful bomb exploded in a field where they were patrolling on foot, officials said.
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - Clashes between police and alleged militants left 10 more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 a day earlier. The bombing on Thursday near the central market of Vladikavkaz, the capital of the North Ossetia republic, was the most serious attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40 people.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "BENAZIR BHUTTO'S ASSASSINATION" 8:12 a.m. EDT APNewsAlert RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A party aid says Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was injured in a suicide attack and is now undergoing surgery. 8:29 a.m. EDT APNewsAlert FLASH RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) A party aid and a military official say Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died following a suicide bombing. 8:32 a.m. EDT BULLETIN RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said. In a microcosm, the daily and community newspapers of the Garden State present a wonderful opportunity to examine in vivid detail the rich history, the p...
JACKSON - Army Sgt. Eric C. Newman was decorated for his military service in Iraq. He gave his life in Afghanistan. The military says the 30-year-old soldier from Waynesboro in rural Southeast Mississippi died in a bombing Thursday in Akatzai Kalay, Afghanistan.
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