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TEHRAN — Iran unveiled a long-range unmanned bomber on Sunday, the latest in a series of announcements about new Iranian military advances as tensions rise over Tehran’s nuclear program. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a ceremony to mark Iran’s Defense Industry Day,...
BAGHDAD — An American soldier was killed in Iraq’s southernmost province on Sunday, marking the first American fatality since the military declared last week that the last combat unit had pulled out of the country, the military said. The military withdrawal under way is supposed to bring...
(CNN) -- A U.S. soldier was killed in southern Iraq on Sunday, while a round of bombings in Baghdad killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded wounded 23 more, Iraqi authorities and the U.S. military reported. The American was killed in an "indirect fire attack," a term used to...
GAZA CITY — Colognes by Hugo Boss, Dunhill and Givenchy line the shelves of the cosmetics shop. One of the two women’s clothing stores features a window mannequin in a hot pink T-shirt and low-slung jeans. In the supermarket freezer is Nestlé ice cream and on its shelves are salty...
For Laura Fattal, one of the mothers of the three American hikers held in an Iranian prison without trial for more than a year, the hardest thing is the silence. She writes to him daily, and believes the letters get through. But her son, Josh Fattal, isn't allowed to write back. "We are sick to our...
- The 22-member Arab League on Sunday expressed "deep concern" over Israel's position on direct peace talks with the Palestinians due to resume in Washington next month. A statement by the Cairo-based pan-Arab group said the organisation "expresses deep concern over the explanation given by Israel...
- It would take "a complete failure" of the Iraqi security forces for the US to resume combat operations there, the top American commander in Iraq said as the final US fighting forces prepared to leave the country. With a major military milestone in sight, Gen. Ray Odierno said in interviews...
