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Gaddafi vows to defeat fighters, NATO
Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi
Fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has vowed that he will continue resisting and will defeat revolutionaries that control most of the country as well as NATO forces.
Gaddafi, whose whereabouts remain unknown, made the remarks in a phone call to Syria’s Arrari Television station on Thursday, Reuters reported.
The defiant dictator...
US drone shot down in Somalia
American Predator drone firing two Hellfire missiles.
Local fighters say they have shot down a suspected United States operated aerial vehicle in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu. Press TV reported.
Al-Shabaab fighters say the drone crashed into the sea after it was hit near the lower Shabelle region in Merka town, located south of the capital.
The fighters...
Libya: Gaddafi’s army of mercenaries face backlash
A Libyan rebel points his rifle at a man accused of being a mercenary fighting for Muammar Gaddafi.
Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged.
Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the...
Sarkozy wants to attack Iran
It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran.
“Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that...
Turkish Navy to Escort Aid Ships to Gaza
A recent Haaretz report says that Turkish officials told Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli ‘bullying’. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview with public television that “There is no risk of a naval confrontation, I don’t think for a moment that...
Muammar Gaddafi urges followers to turn Libya ‘into a hell’
Muammar Gaddafi has issued a statement condemning rebels as collaborators.
A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as ‘traitors’, and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to ‘collaborators’.
A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has issued his latest apocalyptic statement, urging his surrounded followers to “keep fighting” and promising to...
Colin Powell says Cheney fears trial as war criminal
Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq.
An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’
Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney,...
China delivers jolt to U.S. Middle East influence
Sets up collision course over issue of Palestinian statehood.
In a further jolt to U.S. influence in the Middle East, China is expected to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood when the 66th United Nations General Assembly takes up the issue next month, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Chinese President Hu Jintao told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
Canada tries to force Russia out of the Arctic
Russian Flag on Lomonosov Ridge Arctic Seabed
Late last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spent four days in the Arctic. Flying around military bases in the northern provinces of Canada Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest Territories has become a tradition over the years of his stay in power. The current Prime Minister has been in power for six years, and for the...
US has deadliest month in Afghan war
US soldiers in Afghanistan
August 2011 has become the deadliest month for US troops in the decade-long war in Afghanistan with 66 American soldiers killed in the month.
The figure, released by the Associated Press on Tuesday, eclipsed the earlier figure of 65 belonging to July 2010.
Most fatalities were those of an August 6 helicopter crash in which 30 US troops lost...
Anarchy in Tripoli puts every man for himself
A Libyan man reacts as a ferry from Tripoli carrying former Gaddafi notorius prison Abu Sleem political prisoners docks at the Benghazi main harbour on August 28, 2011
Libya’s rebels have tasted the victory and reject their opponents’ proposal to negotiate a peace treaty, making final arrangements to finish the war by storming Gaddafi’s native city of Sirte, while...
Gaddafi compound in Tripoli seized
Smoke rises following fighting at Bab Alzaziya in Tripoli August 23, 2011.
Libyan opposition forces say they took control of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in the capital city of Tripoli.
Opposition sources said the fighters entered Bab al-Aziziyah compound through its western entrance on Tuesday.
“Our forces are surrounding Bab al-Azizyah. There...
Gaddafi son allegedly killed, another flees rebel grip
Khamis Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis may have been killed, Reuters reported, citing Al Jazeera. Another son Mohammed, one of three Gaddafi sons captured by rebels Monday, has allegedly escaped house arrest with the help of loyalist fighters.
Two bodies have been found that could be those of Khamis and Gaddafi’s intelligence chief, Abdallah Senussi, Al Jazeera...
Hostilities snowball as Hamas calls off truce with Israel
The statement, aired on Hamas-controlled radio on early Saturday, said “There is no more truce with an enemy”.
Hamas has called off its truce with Tel-Aviv as Israel and Palestine continue hostilities into a third day. The Gaza Strip has been targeted by the Israeli air force in overnight raids.
“Aircraft targeted two terror tunnels and a weapons storage facility...
Uzi Dayan: Israel should prepare for war in Sinai desert
An Israeli military convoy along the Egyptian border.
The former head of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) urges military action by the regime in the Sinai Peninsula, following growing tensions with Egypt.
Uzi Dayan told Israel’s Channel 7 on Friday that Israeli military and security forces should prepare for a period different from the past in dealing...




















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