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Al Qaeda in Iraq said Wednesday that it would execute an Egyptian diplomat who was kidnapped in Baghdad four days ago, calling him a traitor to Islam and the representative of a country that is "allied to Jews and Christians," according to a statement posted on an Internet site associated with...

Head of the Caucasian Moslems Clerical Office Sheik ul-Islam Hajji Allahshukur Pashazade received a delegation comprising renowned religious figures – ayatollahs, theologists – led by Seyed Javad Shahristani...

German police arrested three Iraqi men Tuesday in raids on suspected backers of Iraqi militant group Ansar al-Islam, which the United States calls a major insurgent group allied to al Qaeda...

Congressman Joseph Crowley has commended the contribution of Specialist Uday Singh, the first Sikh American to die in the allied war in Iraq. Voicing his support for the Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1815) which provides authorization for funding to protect US service men and women, Crowley...

washingtonpost.com - Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in...

Reuters - Three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq were freed on Sunday after two months in captivity, one of the few security breakthroughs since insurgents launched an upsurge in deadly attacks last month...

washingtonpost.com - Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around."...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, May 8 -- Senior U.S. commanders say their view of the Iraqi insurgency has begun to shift, with higher priority being given to combating foreign fighters and Iraqi jihadists...

20, 30, 65. Killed! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Iraq, is on fire, democracy, dictatorship, foreign rule be damned. What George Bush needs to stop the carnage is a Made in India Rambo and his name is KPS Gill...

Reuters - The United States and Italy on Friday disagreed on the conclusions of a joint investigation into the killing of an Italian agent by U.S. troops in Iraq, further straining ties between the two allies...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 23 -- Violence is escalating sharply in Iraq after a period of relative calm that followed the January elections. Bombings, ambushes and kidnappings targeting Iraqis and foreigners, both troops and civilians, have surged this month while the new Iraqi...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Insurgents with a heat-seeking missile shot down a helicopter north of the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing all six American security contractors and five others on board, according to U.S. officials and insurgents...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 13 -- A distraught American hostage appeared on a television videotape with automatic weapons trained on his head Wednesday, a day that recalled the darker periods of Iraq's insurgency as bombs killed at least 14 people and U.S. Marines clashed with...

washingtonpost.com - GHARAF, Iraq -- Over the loudspeakers set up in this small town in a backwater of southern Iraq, the commands came in staccato bursts. "Forward!" a man clad in black shouted to the militiamen. "March!"...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 4 -- Insurgent groups led by foreigners and Iraqis asserted Monday that guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization was responsible for a major assault on Abu Ghraib prison Saturday that U.S. officers called one of the most sophisticated attacks of the...

Reuters - Iraq's parliament erupted in acrimony at only its second sitting on Tuesday and journalists were thrown out after legislators berated leaders for failing to agree on a new government, two months after elections...

Reuters - Insurgents assassinated a senior Iraqi army commander Friday and staged two suicide car bombings, killing 15 people, in violence that politicians fear may deepen if a new government is not formed soon...

washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, March 23 -- An Iraqi official said Wednesday that 85 insurgents were killed on Tuesday when Iraqi commandos, assisted by U.S. air and ground support, staged a midday attack on a suspected training camp in a rural area northwest of the capital...

Washington: An India-born Sikh teenager from California is among the women who are set to trade their makeup kits for an M-16 rifle so as to join the US ... http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=sparklers&item=2373

Washington, Mar 13: An India-born Sikh teenager from California is among the women who are set to trade their makeup kits for an M-16 rifle so as to join the ... http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=43163