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The Syria-North Korea ‘connection’

Tuesday, 18 September 2007   By Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News Nearly two weeks on from Israel‘s incursion into Syrian airspace, the mystery surrounding the operation shows little sign of disappearing. Israel has kept up a careful policy of silence over the accusations Press reports suggest strongly that the …

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Assad sets conference conditions

Monday, 1 October 2007     Mr Assad talks to BBC Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his government will not attend a Middle East peace conference unless Syria‘s concerns are addressed. President Assad told the BBC that this meant primarily the return of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel …

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Israel admits air strike on Syria

  Tuesday, 2 October 2007       It is still not known why Israel carried out the strike or what was hit Israel has confirmed that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military installation last month. Syria accused Israel at the time but Israeli officials refused to …

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‘Al-Qaeda figure’ killed in Iraq

Friday, 28 September 2007     The US military said Abu Osama al-Tunisi was a “key loss” to al-Qaeda A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military reports. Gen Joseph Anderson said the death of Abu Osama …

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Turkey-Iraq agree security pact

Friday, 28 September 2007     Turkish and Iraqi interior ministers ironed out most of their differences Iraq and Turkey have signed a security agreement aimed at curbing the activities of the Turkish Kurdish separatist group, the PKK. However, the final agreement does not include a key Turkish proposal that …

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Radical Syrian cleric ‘shot dead’

A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, his aides have said. Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al-Qaqaa was shot several times by a gunman as he left the Imam Mosque after Friday prayers. The gunman tried …

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‘Al-Qaeda figure’ killed in Iraq

Friday, 28 September 2007     The US military said Abu Osama al-Tunisi was a “key loss” to al-Qaeda A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military reports. Gen Joseph Anderson said the death of Abu Osama …

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Iraqi Christians Forced to Flee Homes or Risk Death

  By James Palmer BAGHDAD – Newhouse News Service — Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies left to decompose along the road in their southern Dora neighborhood. They accepted the criminal gangs that roamed the area, searching for targets to kidnap. And neither the utility failures nor …

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Assyriska tillbaka där solen skiner

   Sweden- Sodertalije — Regnet började falla mot slutet av matchen. Men ändå, när domaren blåste av var Assyriska på en plats där det känns som om solen skiner – nämligen superettan. Publiken hade sedan länge jublat och sjungit vilt. Speakern hade bett folk stanna på läktaren och meddelat att …

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Radical Syrian cleric ‘shot dead’

Saturday, 29 September 2007   A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, his aides have said. Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al-Qaqaa was shot several times by a gunman as he left the Imam Mosque after …

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