A U.S. plane launched an airstrike Sunday against a building used by Al Qaeda in Iraq, killing two militants, the U.S. military said. A car bomb exploded near the U.S. consulate in Kirkuk, killing two Iraqis and wounding seven others, Iraqi police said. Four suspects were detained after the air attack, which took place southwest of Baghdad against extremists who had been staging mortar attacks on civilians, a U.S. statement said.U.S. troops tracked the militants to a building and "coalition aircraft successfully executed the strike," the statement said.The blast in Kirkuk near the consulate late Saturday was the seventh car bombing this month in the northern city, where tensions are rising among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen over control of the area's vast oil wealth....
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Editor - 09:10:00 07-30-06
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 Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid |
| More than 40 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a building near the southern Lebanese town of Qana, reports say. Initial accounts say families had been sheltering in the basement of the site, w.. full News |
Editor - 00:53:00 07-30-06
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| Lebanese casualties held in mass grave |
| A dozen exhausted hospital workers buried 32 bodies in a shallow mass grave yesterday, a temporary resting spot for casualties of weeks of Israeli bombardment. No mourners were at the grave site, a dusty indu.. full News |
Editor - 00:46:00 07-30-06
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| After talk of crushing Hezbollah, Israel seems to lower expectations |
| At the start of this war, Israeli leaders talked with some confidence of crushing Hezbollah. Now they seem ready to settle for pushing the guerrillas a few miles back from the Israeli border. Why the about-face.. full News |
Editor - 00:38:00 07-30-06
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| U.N. peacekeepers injured by Israeli airstrike Post in southern Lebanon hit, official says; Syria-Lebanon crossing closed |
| Two Indian soldiers with the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon were wounded and their observation post damaged by an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, a U.N. spokesman said. Milos Strugar, spokesman for .. full News |
Editor - 00:31:00 07-30-06
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| ANALYSIS: Israel failing to give U.S. the military cards it needs |
| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the figure leading the strategy of changing the situation in Lebanon, not Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or Defense Minister Amir Peretz. She has so far managed to withst.. full News |
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