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Israel Takes Fight to Gaza

Four Palestinians dead after Israeli tanks and planes battle enter chaotic strip

Associated Press Associated Press Jun 20, 07 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israeli aircraft and tanks attacked locations in Gaza today, killing four militants in their first assault on the strip since Hamas took over. An Israeli aerial strike targeted two rocket launchers in northern Gaza as tanks moved into southern Gaza, sparking a shootout that produced the four casualties. More »

More about:  Israel • Hamas • Palestine • Gaza • West Bank • Fatah • militant • ceasefire • rocket attacks • Mahmoud Zahar • aerial attacks

Militant Website Says It Has Video of Troop Abduction

Two GIs remain missing after ambush in Iraq

Associated Press Associated Press Jun 4, 07 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A militant Islamic website says it will release a video showing the capture last month of three American soldiers. The video shows the kidnapping as well as the ID cards of the two soldiers who are still missing, says an organization that monitors militant websites. The third soldier was later found dead in the Euphrates River. More »

More about:  Iraq war • Internet • al-Qaeda • kidnapping • US Army • militant • Islamic militants • video • missing soldiers • Euphrates • Alex Jimenez

Abductors Release Video
of Kidnapped BBC Reporter

Journalist in captivity since March 12

BBC BBC Jun 1, 07 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a video posted on the Internet today, a captured BBC reporter says he is in good health and has been well treated. It is unclear when the footage of a beleaguered-looking Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped in Gaza City March 12, was taken. Toward the end of the footage, Johnston says "to my family" before his audio cuts off. More »

More about:  al-Qaeda • kidnapping • Palestine • militant • reporter • BBC • Alan Johnston • Army of Islam • Gaza City

Turkey Menaces Kurds

Buildup along border makes U.S., Iraq nervous

Associated Press Associated Press Jun 1, 07 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Turkish troops and tanks amassing along the border with Iraq are ready to go after Kurdish separatist guerrillas as soon as they get the order, the country's top general said yesterday. The US, Iraq and the EU are all urging Turkey not to launch the offensive, which could destabilize Northern Iraq. More »

More about:  Iraq • Middle East • Turkey • Kurds • militant • Kurdistan • PKK • guerrilla

US Rushes to
Aid Lebanon

Troops surround refugee camp, prepare siege or incursion to rout out militants

CNN CNN May 25, 07 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US has rushed military aid to Beruit, as the Lebanese army continues to battle Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp. The first shipment arrived today. Condoleeza Rice expressed support for Lebanon's government, if not confidence: "I certainly hope that the Lebanese government will be able to deal with these extremists," Rice said. More »

More Violence Looms in Lebanon

Palestinians enraged at Lebanese troops threaten uprising

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) May 25, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Clashes between the Lebanese Army and a Palestinian militant group could spread throughout Lebanon, politicians, diplomats and refugees tell the Guardian . Anger is building among Palestinians  over civilian casualties from shelling of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp during clashes with Fatah al-Islam militants last week. More »

More about:  Palestine • Syria • Lebanon • refugee • militant • Fatah al Islam • Nahr al Bared • Lebanese Army

Bombing Rocks Turkish Capital

Ankara attack may prompt move against Kurdish militants on Iraqi border

New York Times New York Times May 23, 07 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosion shocked the Turkish capital yesterday, killing six and injuring at least 100 in a busy marketplace. The bombing comes at a delicate time for the country, the New York Times observes, as Parliament clash with the governing party over the place of Islam in the secular democracy. More »

More about:  terrorism • Turkey • bombing • Kurds • militant • Kurdistan • secularism • Kurdish Militants • Ankara

Taliban Video
Shows Young Boy Beheading Prisoner

Preteen appears to execute Pakistani militant; international outcry follows

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Apr 25, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - International outrage is building over a Taliban video in which a preteen boy appears to behead a prisoner. The Guardian reports that the boy, who "appears no older than 12," denounces the man, a Pakistani militant, as an "American spy" in a high-pitched voice before apparently using a long knife to execute him. More »

More about:  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • human rights • war crimes • militant • beheading

Mosque Raid Ignites Baghdad Battle

Residents backed militants in Sunni stronghold

New York Times New York Times Apr 11, 07 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi soldiers who raided a Baghdad mosque during worship set off an all-day battle yesterday the New York Times calls the most sustained fighting since the start of the new security plan. US troops and Iraqi soldiers fought Sunni militants joined by residents in the largely Sunni Ineighborhood of Fadhil. More »

More about:  Iraq • Baghdad • Sunni • violence • militant

Tribesmen Turn on Al-Qaeda

BBC BBC Mar 21, 07 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifty people, including a group of children stranded aboard a school bus, have been killed in fighting between al-Qaeda terrorists and local tribesmen in one of Pakistan’s lawless regions on the border with Afghanistan. Taliban leaders, who have ties to both groups, are trying to broker a truce, according to this report by the BBC. More »

More about:  Pakistan • Afghanistan • al-Qaeda • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • militant • Waziristan • Pashtun

A Generation Is Lost to Violence

Palestinians coming of age have no jobs, no hopes, no agenda but resistance

New York Times New York Times Mar 12, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The generation of Palestinians now coming of age—and 56.4 percent of the population is under 19—have no hopes for peace, only of a lifetime of “resistance.”  Growing up through two intifadas, they are isolated from the world, divided amongst themselves, and surrounded by violence, reports Steven Erlanger. The struggling West Bank economy offers few jobs and the only non-Palestinians they see are gun-toting Israeli soldiers. Resistance groups Fatah and Hamas are recruiting--and competing--aggressively. "We’re pushed all the time to be more political, more militant, more religious, more extreme,” says a 20-year-old student .  "Now, there is no politics, no talks," says a 46-year-old ambulance driver, "so the sacrifices of the youth are wasted and empty." More »

More about:  Israel • children • Palestine • Middle East • American troops • violence • West Bank • militant • gun violence

Militants Burn Houses in
Mixed Areas

New tactic forces out Iraqis who don't endorse radical agenda

New York Times New York Times Mar 12, 07 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sunni extremists burned houses in a mixed city 60 miles from Baghdad over the weekend, a new tactic in the campaign to drive out citizens who don't support a sectarian agenda. Attackers burned as many as 100 homes, both Sunni and Shiite, in an apparent effort to destroy mixed neighborhoods and force allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq. More »

More about:  Iraq • Sunni • violence • militant • Islamic State of Iraq

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