June, 2008

• 12 June

  Britain pledges $1.17 billion in Afghan aid

  PARIS (Reuters) – Britain will provide about 600 million pounds ($1.17 billion) in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan through 2012/2013, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday. “In the period up to 2012/13, the U.K. will be committing about 600 million pounds to the Afghan reconstruction effort,” Miliband told reporters …

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• 12 June

  Israeli troops kill Gaza militant: medics

  GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed one Palestinian militant near a border crossing with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday, medical workers said. Gunmen from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, and another militant group attacked an Israeli army position near the Erez …

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• 9 June

  Iran, Iraq review expansion of defense cooperation

  Visiting Iraqi Defense Minister Lieutenant General Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim Obeidi conferred on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar on expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries.

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• 9 June

  Ahmadinejad: Iraq should successfully overcome sensitive situation

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that he hopes the Iraqi government, by relying on the prudence of its government and unity among its ethnic leaders and political wings, will successfully overcome the present sensitive situation.

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• 8 June

  Ringleaders of Russian structures and their accomplices blown up

  The sources of the Russian invaders reported that Friday night Jumada Al-Akhirah 2, 1429 (June 6, 2008) near the village of Eha-Borze (Assinovskaya) a sabotage unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) ambushed a motorcade of the ringleader of the pro-Russian gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, where a …

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• 8 June

  Punitive raids against Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan

  Representatives of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan reported that in the afternoon on June 5 an armed unit of Azerbaijani police raided a house of Chechen refugees, which they have been renting for a long time, and took away a 60-year-old man, the head of the household, an invalid with the …

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• 8 June

  Vehicle of ringleader of puppet police gang blown up

  The sources of Russian invaders reported that a car with ringleader of the gang called Sunzha District Police, Shamil Kutsayev, was blown up in Sunzha District of the Province of Ichkeria on Friday. The incident occurred on the Caucasus Motorway (“Kavkaz”) near the Assinovskaya-Sernovodsk intersection. The Murtad (apostate) and two …

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• 8 June

  Opposition starts protest rally

  After it became known that the first session of the parliament of the new convocation would take place June 7, The United Opposition of Georgia is now going to start a protest rally at the building of the supreme legislative body of Georgia on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi tonight at …

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• 8 June

  Georgia ready for ceasefire with Abkhazia

  The US is offering to set up a joint Abkhaz-Georgian police force with international trainers; it could be an international police force, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew J. Bryza said. At the same time Mr. Bryza said, “Perhaps we need to make some …

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• 8 June

  Mothers of Beslan demand that Putin gets prosecuted and interrogated

  The Voice of Beslan will file a claim with Russia’s Office of Prosecutor General with the request to interrogate former president of the Russian Federation, current prime minister Vladimir Putin as a witness of the mass murder of children in the school in Beslan in September 2004.

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