Russian media reported a clash to have taken place on Friday morning between a group of Mujahideen and a local pro-Russian gang, “Vostok”. The Mujahideen attacked the munafiqs (apostates) in the area of Vedeno. The invaders claimed only one of their terrorists wounded and, somehow not very convincing, one Mujahid …

Nine US occupation troops have been killed in Afghanistan. A US tank came under Taliban attack last night, September 6, near the town of Dahrawut in Uruzgan province, as a result of which six American occupiers were killed and three others were wounded.

Mujahiden Destroy 2 US Armored vehicles in Iraq, Terminating All Troops Onboard  Iraqi Mujahideen fighters ambushed two US armored vehicles in Tall ‘Afar, west of al-Mawsil in northern Iraq early on Thursday morning, September 7, 2006. 

US and Iraqi puppet troops clashed with Iranian army forces in the border area near the town of al-Mandali in Diyala Province on Thursday, September 7, 2006. 

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon put on a boisterous show Thursday — with a low-flying passenger jet circling the capital — to celebrate the end of Israel’s air blockade.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The United States formally handed over control of Iraq’s new military to Prime Minister Nuri Maliki’s government on Thursday just as rebels unleashed a fresh wave of deadly bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces.

BERLIN (Reuters) — Iran has failed to meet a UN Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment, six world powers agreed on Thursday, but there was growing opposition to US calls for sanctions.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) — A sea of white-clothed mourners laid Sudanese editor Mohammad Taha to rest on Thursday after he was kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men, raising fears of a new brand of extreme violence in Sudan.

BEIRUT — Abu Abbas, a car dealer from south Lebanon, has ready answers to the litmus-test question which has traditionally split his country down the middle — whether it should opt out of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli President Moshe Katsav was being grilled by police Thursday for a fourth time over mounting allegations of sexual harassment in a spiralling scandal that threatens to end his career.